[Vision2020] ICIE Tidbits: Practical Paths: Climate Change and Beyond

[Debbie Gray]

From: Vickie Winkel
[mailto:Vickie.Winkel at irp.idaho.gov]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: ICIE Tidbits: Practical Paths: Climate Change
and Beyond

Idaho Council on Industry and the Environment
 
The Idaho Council On Industry & Environment and the
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality present:
Practical Paths, 2007:  Climate Change & Beyond,
October 30 & 31, 2007,  Airport Holiday Inn, Boise,
Idaho

Registration form follows the agenda. 

The purpose of this workshop is to examine climate
change in the Northwest.  We want to review historical
climate change; look at data; review climate
predictions; discuss what we can expect in the future;
examine changes we could make to adapt to climate
change.   

Tuesday, October 30
9:15      Welcome:  Becky Johnstone, President of ICIE
 
9:30      Opening Remarks:     Toni Hardesty,
Director, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
10:00 am         Climate Change 101
What is climate change:  Professor Von Walden,
University of  Idaho 
History of climate change science and emerging public
policy:  Jeff King, NWPCC 
Carbon dioxide footprint of the NW power system:  Jeff
King, NWPCC
12-1:30 pm Lunch:     Global Carbon Impact:  David
Gustafson, Senior Science Fellow,  Monsanto Company
 
1:30-2:30         Agriculture
                        Different crops:  Juliet
Windes, University of Idaho   
                        Carbon sequestration in
agriculture:  Tony Bennett, Idaho Soil Conservation
Commission, State Advisory Committee for Carbon
Sequestration   
 
2:30-3:30          Water
                        Forecasting runoff, need for
additional storage:  John Fazio-NWPCC                 
                     
                        Incorporating climate change
into water supply investigations:  Pat McGrane, U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation  
                        Water supply in a changing
climate:  Dan Keppen, Family Farm Alliance
                       
3:30-5:00         Forestry: Adaptive management on
forest lands
                        Jay O’Laughlin, Director,
Policy Analysis Group, University of Idaho  
                        Steve Guernsey, General
Manager, Western Pacific Timber (invited)
                        Tiny Furman , Idaho Department
of Lands
                        Pete Johnston, Woody Biomass
Utilization Partnership             
                       
Wednesday, October 31
8:30                  Opening remarks
8:45-10            Power production & manufacturing
                        Alternate ways to think about
carbon sources and uses:  Steven Aumeier, Director of
Energy Systems & Technologies Division, Idaho National
Laboratory
                        Clean coal technology: 
Mitchell J. Hart, Mountain Island Energy Holdings, LLC
                        Techniques for reducing the
carbon footprint in manufacturing:  David Hawk, Energy
Analysis & Answers Consulting  
 
10-11:00          Transportation
                        The role of ethanol:  Robert
M. Neilson, Department Manager, Biofuels & Renewable
Energy Technologies, Idaho National Laboratory  
                        More efficient movement of
traffic, role of public transportation:  Barbara
Gilliland, Parametrix   
 
11-12 noon      Construction: 
                        Building codes:  Ken Baker, K
Energy Consulting
                      Energy efficiency:  Curt
Nichols, Program Manager, Idaho Power Company  

12-1 pm Lunch   The Ins and Out’s of Carbon Trading: 
Sian Mooney, Professor of Economics, Boise State
University

1-2:30 pm   Carbon sequestration:
                   Big Sky Carbon Sequestration
Partnership:  Susan Capalbo, Montana State University
                                 Regulatory Issues: 
Linda Jones, Holland & Hart 

2:30-4 pm        Wrap-up:  The roles of federal,
state, and local government, private sector, and NGO’s
in adapting to climate change:  Toni Hardesty, IDEQ
(invited);  Beth Baird, City of Boise; David Hawk,
Energy Analysis & Answers Consulting; Linda Jones,
Holland & Hart, David Gustafson, Monsanto Company;
Will Whelan, The Nature Conservancy.

4:00      Adjourn

SPONSORS ( 10-4-07 ):   IDEQ, NWPCC-Idaho Office,
Monsanto Companyu, Holland & Hart, JR Simplot,
Potlatch, Tetra Tech, Port of Lewiston, Idaho Water
Association, Bank of the Cascades.

 

 REGISTRATION:  Print form and mail to ICIE, PO Box
255, Boise, Idaho  83701 or Fax to ICIE-208-336-8663

Name:

Company:

Address

City, State, Zip Code

Phone, Fax & E-mail

Cost:  Before October 26th   $50.00
At the Door:  $75.00

Check:  ___________Visa _______or Mastercard ________
Name on Card:
Account  No.
Expiration Date:
*****

Patricia Barclay
Idaho Council on Industry and the Environment
P.O. Box 255
Boise, ID  83701
Phone:  208-336-8508 * Fax: 208-336-8663
patbarclay at icie.org 



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