Focus the Nation at CSU

January 30-31, 2008
www.focusthenation.org

Wednesday January 30
  • 9:00am
    1. Show Me the Money: Economics and Climate Change
      - James Pritchett, Agricultural and Resource Economics
      - Tom Dean, Management and Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program

    2. Learning to Survive and Thrive (Learning about Sustainability)
      - Bill Timpson, Education
      - Brian Dunbar, Construction Management and Institute for the Built Environment

  • 10:00am
    1. Bigfoot Walks! (What Size is Your Carbon Footprint?)
      - Shane Bondi, English
      - Mark Easter, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

    2. Hot Poems, Cool Paintings, and the Treasures of Antiquity
      - Ellie Moseman, Art
      - John Calderazzo, English

  • 11:00am
    1. National Security, Peak Oil, and Climate Change
      - Bill Doe, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands
      - Kyle Saunders, Political Science

    2. What Should We Do? The Ethics of Climate Change
      - Holmes Rolston, Philosophy
      - Phil Cafaro, Philosophy

  • 12:00pm
    1. Tiny Molecules that Change the World: The Science of Climate Change
      - Scott Denning, Atmospheric Science and Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes

  • 1:00pm
    1. Why Should I Care? How Climate Change Will Affect Humans?
      - Lori Peek, Sociology

  • 2:00pm
    1. Who's in Charge? Making Policy and Working with People
      - Michele Betsill, Political Science
      - Nancy Banman, Social Work

    2. Green Beer, Green Business
      - Nicolas Theisen, New Belgium Brewery
      - Kathy Collier, Climate Wise Program, City of Fort Collins

  • 3:00pm
    1. Engines for Change: Envirofit
      - Paul Hudnut, Management and Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program
      - Ron Bills, CEO of Envirofit

    2. Changing the Climate of Belief
      - Mandy Kotzman, biologist and writer
      - Tom Wood, Philosophy

  • 4:00pm
    1. Forests and Grasslands: Beetles, Fire, Drought, Growth Spurts?
      - Dan Binkley, Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship
      - Julia Klein, Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship

    2. Dumpster Diving and Other Fun Ways to Save the Earth
      - Laura Pritchett, writer and editor
      - Tim Vaughan, geologist
      - Other contributors to forthcoming Gleanings book

  • 6-7:00pm
    1. The 2% Solution: National Webcast with Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green jobs pioneer Van Jones, actor/clean energy advocate Edward Norton, and student leaders

Thursday January 31
  • 9:30am
    1. Right Here, Right Now: Local Programs and Policies
      - John Armstrong, Fort Collins Natural Resources Department
      - Lyn Kathlene, Colorado Institute of Public Policy
      - Lucinda Smith, Fort Collins Natural Resources Department

    2. Green, Clean Living: Where We Live and Work
      - Brian Dunbar, Institute for the Built Environment and Construction Management
      - Shelley Kawamura, Institute for the Built Environment and Construction Management

  • 11:00am
    1. Independence Day: Alternative Energies
      - Anthony Rappe, Chemistry
      - Dan Bihn, Bihn Systems and Fort Collins Electric Board
      - Mike Bowman, 25x25 and Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance

    2. Tiny Molecules that Change the World: The Science of Climate Change
      - Scott Denning, Atmospheric Science and Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes

  • 12:30pm
    1. Talking with the Unconvinced, Sorting through the Evidence
      - John Gross, National Park Service
      - Scott Denning, Atmospheric Science and Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes
      - Marilee Long, Journalism and Technical Communication

  • 2:00pm
    1. What a Changing Climate Is Doing to Plants and Animals and Their Ecology
      - Alan Knapp, Biology

    2. Campuses on Carbon Diets
      - Carol Dollard, Facilities Management, CSU
      - Mike Spearnak, Poudre School District

  • 3:00pm
    1. The Political and the Personal: What We Can Do
      - Michele Betsill, Political Science
      - Rodger Ames, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes

    2. Student Activism: Do Something!
      - Members of FACT (on fair trade)
      - Focus the Nation Team (on this event)

...plus ongoing displays and conversations in the Art and Sunken Lounges,
Lory Student Center, First Floor, and at Morgan Library

What Government Can Do

  • Part 1: Thursday evening, 7-9, Yates Hall 104
    - Tom Plant, Director, Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation
    - Lakshman Guruswamy, Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Security, University of Colorado
    - Betsey Markey, Candidate for Congress, 4th Congressional District

  • Part 2: Friday afternoon, 3-5, Eddy Hall 212
    - John Kefalas and Randy Fischer, State Representatives
    - Steve Johnson and Bob Bacon, State Senators