What We Can Do About Climate Change Climate Action Days took place February 4 & 5, 2009 at Colorado State University Photos of the event. A very special thanks goes to ARC Science for bringing their OmniGlobe as seen in some of the photos. Apple users running MacOSX 10.4 or later must install Microsoft's Silverlight software in order to view the streaming videos. Once installed, restart your browser first. Silverlight.2.0.pkg.sitx (7MB) Wednesday February 4 10:00am LSC 228: Toward a Carbon-Neutral Campus 3MB PDF, streaming video Carol Dollard & Sheela Backen, Facilities Management LSC 224-226: 3-D Earth--Our Planet through Space & Time Andrew Warnock, Center for Science, Mathematics, & Technology Education 11:00am LSC 228: Cool Art in the Hot Zone--Artists Respond to Climate Change 78MB PDF, streaming video Lynne Hull, Fort Collins environmental artist LSC 224-226: Mapping the Air--What We're Doing with Climate Modeling at CSU Ian Baker, Atmospheric Science 12:00pm Featured Speaker LSC 228 A Fast and Effective Rx for Climate Change--Green Building and Sustainable Development streaming video Brian Dunbar, Executive Director, Institute for Built Environment 1:00pm LSC 228: Developing Climates: How Will Africa Fare? streaming video Lara Prihodko & Niall Hanan, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) LSC 230: Economic Growth or the Flourishing of Life: Our Ethical Choice in the 21st Century slideshow, Word doc Phil Cafaro, Philosophy 2:00pm LSC 228: Heated Words? How We Talk about Climate Change 1MB PDF, streaming video Martin Carcasson, Communications Studies How We Talk about Climate Change--What works, what doesn't, and what might work! 1MB PDF Jes Thompson, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources LSC 230: Get in the Know--Finding Information on the Science & Business of Climate Change website Allison Level & Louise Feldmann, CSU Libraries 3:00pm Featured Speaker LSC 228: The Climate of Home--What's Happening in Colorado & the Southwest 7MB PDF, streaming video Tom Easley, Director of Programs, Rocky Mountain Climate Organization Thursday February 5 9:30am LSC 228: Climate Change & Rangelands--Implications, Adaptations, & Opportunities 2MB PDF, streaming video Marshall Frasier, Agriculture and Resource Economics Climate Change & Rangelands -- Responses and Management 2MB PDF Jack Morgan, USDA Adapting to Climate Chnage on the Tibetan Plateau 1MB PDF Julia Klein, Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship 11:00am LSC 228: Alternative Energies Panel Earth, Wind, and Fire--Finding Alternative Energy at CSU 6MB PDF, streaming video Organized by Andrew Warnock, Chief of Staff, CSU Clean Energy Supercluster Surface Area Architectures for Lithium-ion Batteries 9MB PDF Amy Prieto, Chemistry Dept, CSU LSC 230: The Power of Community Climate Action 7MB PDF Michele Betsill, Political Science, Lucinda Smith, City of Fort Collins Community Gardening Climate Initiative 1MB PDF Paul Hendricks Research on a Community Climate Challenge for Fort Collins 6MB PDF Tyler Ruggles, Colorado College 12:30pm Featured Speaker LSC 228 The National Scene--Impacts, Mitigation, Adaptation streaming video Dennis Ojima, NREL & Heinz Center for Science, Economics, & the Environment 2:00pm LSC 228: The Joys of Carbon Dieting--Workshop streaming video Mark Easter, NREL (It's helpful but not necessary to bring recent utility bills.) 3:30pm LSC 228: Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture and Forestry: Looking for Solutions 9MB PDF streaming video Stephen Ogle, Jill Baron, NREL African Pastoral Decision Making Under Changing Climates 7MB PDF Randy Boone, NREL Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: Why are they So Difficult to Predict? 1MB PDF Matthew Wallenstein, NREL LSC 230: On the Lighter Side--The Climate Dating Game Organized by Connie Uliasz, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology 7:00pm Keynote Speaker North Ballroom: Solutions to the Climate/Energy Problem streaming video Scott Denning, Atmospheric Science Also visit the Morgan Library for a display of books on global climate change.