Weston Roundtable Archives

Fall 2011

September 15
Using Risk Mapping to Predict Environmental Hazards
ADRIAN TREVES, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Director, Carnivore Coexistence Lab, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
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September 22
Sustainability of Natural Fibers and Dyes: Myth and Reality
MAJID SARMADI, Rothermal Bascom Professor, Design Studies Department, School of Human Ecology; and Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Materials Science Graduate Program, UW-Madison Department of
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October 20
Four Decades of Multi-year Targets in Energy Policy: Aspirations or Credible Commitments?
GREGORY NEMET, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and La Follette School of Public Affairs, UW-Madison
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October 27
Student Solutions for Sustainability
PANEL DISCUSSION
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October 31
Confronting Complexity: Rethinking the Role of Public Attitudes in Sustainable Energy Change
ELISABETH GRAFFY, Visiting Researcher, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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November 10
ENERGY: A Geo-centered Perspective
J. CARLOS SANTAMARINA, Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair and Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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November 17
Internal Combustion Engines, Fuels and Sustainability
DAVID E. FOSTER, Phil and Jean Myers Professor Engine Research Center UW College of Engineering
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December 01
Regenerative Infrastructure Development
TERESA M. ADAMS, Professor and Director, National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison
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Spring 2012

January 11
Regenerative Infrastructure Development
TERESA M. ADAMS, Professor and Director, National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison
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January 26
Automating Demand Response with OpenADR: Communications, End-Use Loads, and an Advanced Integrated Grid
MARY ANN PIETTE, Director, Demand Response Research Center Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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February 09
INFLUX: Moving Toward the Ability to Conduct Regional and Global Scale Accounting of Greenhouse Gases
PAUL SHEPSON, Professor, Analytic and Atmospheric Chemistry, Purdue University
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February 16
Sustainable bioenergy in Wisconsin: farm-level feasibility
CAROL BARFORD, Research Scientist and Interim Director, SAGE
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February 23
Risk, Time, Policy Design, and Other Lessons of Real Biofuels Policy
MICHAEL O'HARE, Professor of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley
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March 08
New Approaches to Transforming Wind, Rain and Fire into Electricity – Making a Smarter, Cleaner, Efficient Grid
RICHARD O'NEILL, Chief Economic Advisor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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March 15
Big History: Earth, Life and Sustainability
RAGHU MURTUGUDDE, Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
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March 22
Sustainability - I am an Engineer; I Need a Definition
MICHAEL DORAN, Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michael Doran Techknowledge LLC
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March 29
Africa's Malarial Landscape - History, Complexity, and Silver Bullets
JAMES MCCANN, Professor of History, African Studies Center, Boston University
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April 12
Electricity Market Reform and the Green Agenda
WILLIAM W. HOGAN, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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April 26
International Climate Negotiations After Durban
ANDREW LIGHT, Director, International Climate Policy Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C. and Director, Center for Global Ethics, George Mason University
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May 03
Plumbing Code or Land Use Policy?
JAMES A. LAGRO, JR., Professor, Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, UW-Madison
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May 10
Germany's Energy Future - Greening an Export Nation
ANDREAS KRAEMER, Director and CEO, Ecologic Institute, Berlin; Chairman, Ecologic Institute, Washington DC
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