2012 Schedule

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"Energy and Global Health on a Sick Planet"

(Preliminary Schedule)

Friday Oct 5
3:00	Welcome & Opening Comments. Prof. Jerry Schnoor Director CGRER UI Orientation: The meaning of energy. View "Washing Machine" (Hans Roling, 15 minutes)
3:30	Keynote: "Balancing Global Energy Needs with Health and Environment Needs" Prof. Tracy Bach, JD Vermont Law School
4:00	Audience Interaction
4:15	First Plenary: "Exploring Health Risks of Key Global Energy Sources Using A Life Cycle Analysis" Moderator: Dr. Maureen McCue Coal’s Assault on Human Health - Dr. Alan Lockwood Health Risks Nuclear Life Cycle - Dr. Jeff Patterson Fracking for Natural Gas & Health - Dr. Poune Saberi
5:15	Audience Interaction Q & A
6:00	Dinner & Table Talk
7:00	Begin viewing "YERT" (Edited to 90 minutes, break twice for discussion)
9:00	Conclude day
Saturday Oct 6
9:00	Plenary Panel #2: "Driving Poor Health--Hidden Actors in the Global Energy Scramble" Moderator: TBA Militarism: Energy Security or Energy Sink - Greg Foster, National Defense U Consumption & Materials Economy: Energy Base - Bret Clark PhD Sociologist NC Industrial Agriculture Addicted to Energy - Denise O’Brien, Iowa Farmer, Global Women's rights activist
10:00	Audience Interaction Q & A
10:30	Break
10:45	Plenary Panel #3: "Energy Inequity: Invisible, Vulnerable and Powerless Victims" Moderator: Prof Anne Wallis Women’s Work & Health in 3rd World Kitchens - Dr. R. Balasubramaniam The “Resource Curse:” Health Impacts on Indigenous Peoples Around the World - Elsa Johnson, Native American Humanitarian / Environmental Advocate The World’s Children, Growing Up Sick - Dr. Yolanda Whyte
11:45	Audience Interaction Q & A
12:15	Lunch, provided
1:15	Colloquium #1 Case Studies: Perspectives on Energy from the Global South: How do India, China, various African Countries line up? Exploring some local solutions to local challenges: Micro credit to generate small scale power - Hemali Batra, others TBA Cooking (developing smokeless chulas, etc.) - Craig Just, Sharon Sanghez, Allison Kindig Storing captured energy in novel arrangements (methane digesters, etc.) - Emily Monroe Lindsay Fox, others TBA Hydropower Dams Potentials & Realities for Populations & Environments. - Dr. Balu and others TBA
2:00	Move to Second Breakout
2:15	Colloquium #2 Case Studies: Challenging the Energy Status Quo in the US & Iowa Coal in Iowa - Dr. McCue, Zach Carter. Student Sierra Club, Ingrid Belding Iowa PSR Petroleum, Electric Vehicles, Mass Transit - Prof. Tyler Priest (new history faculty who worked on gulf oil spill) Others TBA Iowa’s Biomass - Myth & Reality - Prof. Jerry Schnoor Director CGRER UI Industry, Energy and Health in Muscatine - Jessica Brackett ED CLAM Updates from Japan’s Fukushima Disaster Reflections in Iowa - Dr. John Rachow
3:00	Break
3:15	Reports from Breakouts (5 minute summaries of high points discussed in each)
4:00	Plenary Panel #4 "Back to the Future–Assessing Obstacles, and Myths tethering humanity to dangerous, dirty, unhealthy energy sources." Moderator: Lisa Skemp The Baseload Myth, Breaking Free - Arjun Makhijani Founder Director IEER The Idealized World for Nuclear Power--India? - Dr. R. Balasubramaniam "Balu"
4:45	Audience Interaction Q & A
5:00	Adjourn for Day
Sunday Oct 7
9:30	2nd Keynote: Energy Solutions--Constraining Impacts, Improving Global Health: Lessons from Germany and elsewhere. Arne Jungjohann, Director for the Environment and Global Dialogue Program, Heinrich Boell Foundation
10:00	Audience Interaction Q & A
10:15	Plenary Panel #5 "Transitioning to Iowa’s Future: Finding Energy Balance to Secure the Present and Save the Future–Getting from Here to There in Time and in Good Health" Moderator: Prof Chris Squier Iowa’s Sunny Resources - Tim Dwight I-Solar & Barry Shear CEO Eagle Point Solar Energy Plan For a Healthy Iowa: Creating the roadmap, Finding the Resources, Creating Consensus - Senators Rob Hogg and Joe Bolkcom
11:15	Audience Interaction Q & A
11:30	Colloquium #3: Solutions for Iowa and Beyond Student panel re. Some of the solutions they are working on in Iowa and globally. - Prof. Craig Just, Louis Livingstone; Stephanie Lane The Vision: Renewable Energy Jobs 2020 - Senators Rob Hogg & Joe Bolkcom, Zach Carter and Ingrid Belding Turning on the Sun in Iowa - Tim Dwight & Barry Shear Capturing More of Iowa’s Wind - Rick Olesen and Dr. Maureen McCue
12:25	Reconvene for final comments from breakouts and audience.
12:45	Conference Concludes. Adjourn

Principle Goal for Each Plenary:
1. Explore the Life Cycle & Highlight Hidden Health Impacts of Common Forms of Energy
2. Challenge the Assumptions Underlying Needs for Ever More Energy
3. Uncover Those Bearing a Disproportionate Burden of Illness for Modern Energy Choices
4. Identify Roadblocks to Moving from Dirty to Cleaner Energy Sources
5. Outline A Roadmap to Cleaner Healthier Sources of Energy for Iowa and Elsewhere

Principle Goal for Each Symposium of Case Studies:
1. Explore Some of the Energy Lessons/Solutions to be Learned from the Global South
2. Who is Challenging What Energy Arrangements Where With What Success
3. Learning from and Building on Existing Successes

(?) = Unconfirmed Speakers or Participants

2012 Schedule

"Energy and Global Health on a Sick Planet"

Friday Oct 5

Saturday Oct 6

Sunday Oct 7