9:00 AM - Exhibit Tables Open & Welcoming
Exhibitors include: Interfaith Power & Light, Honest Weight Food Coop, Pine Bush Discovery Center, Old Songs, NYPIRG, UAlbany Students for Sustainability, Workforce Development Institute and the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation
10:00 AM - Session 1: Go on a Carbon Diet
Roundtable Discussion on Your Carbon Footprint. Learn how to calculate your carbon footprint, the importance of reducing it and ways you can lower it.
Panelists include:
- Rick Tuers, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
- Jodi Smits Anderson, DASNY
- Professor George Robinson, SUNY Albany Biology
- Professor Andrei Lapenas, SUNY Albany Geography & Planning
- Mary Ellen Mallia, Director of Environmental Sustainability
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12:00 PM - Key Note Speaker - Alan Belensz, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Office of Climate Change
The live webcast will be delivered in the Assembly Hall. Mr. Belensz's engaging presentation will be on Climate Change and the New Energy Economy - The Challenge of Our Generation.
Webcast Instructions:
1) User enter www.atv.basknick.com/sustain.html
2) After the page is loaded click on the shaded icon to begin streaming. No additional steps are required.
3) After the webcast finishes there will be a link to the survey where viewers can rate their experience and ask questions.
1:00 PM - Session 2: Stop the Drip!
Water Footprint workshop hosted by Kathy Macri, Interagency Policy Coordinator and Corporate Sustainability Officer, New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation (NYSEFC)
2:00 PM - Session 3: The Green Economy
Panel Discussion on green jobs hosted by Penny Hill, Regional Director at the Workforce Development Institute.
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