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Sustainable Communities Salon Series - Infrastructure: Energy and Water

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Start time: Thu, Aug 09, 2007 16:00
 
End time: Thu, Aug 09, 2007 18:00
 
Type: Other
 
Contact name: Lucas Patzek
 
Contact email: lucas [at] greencenturyinstitute.org
 
Address: 305 Main Street
Green Building Exchange
Redwood City, California 94063
United States
 

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Green Century Institute is launching a Salon Series around the idea of Sustainable Communities. We begin our series with a salon on Infrastructure: Energy and Water.

There will be three presentations (listed below) followed by a question and answer period. The presentations will be a maximum of 20 minutes each to encourage a lengthy dialogue between the speakers and attendees.

Recommended donation of $10. Refreshments will be provided.

Human Energy Needs
Tad Patzek
Professor of Geoengineering at U.C. Berkeley. He is an Editor for Transport of Porous Media, and an Associate Editor of Energy Tribune. He is also an active participant in the global debate on biofuels and their environmental and social impacts. Patzek is a coauthor of some 200 papers and reports, and is currently writing four books.

Solar Energy
Ron Swenson
Co-founder of both ElectroRoof and SolaREvolution. In 1998, he co-founded EcoSage, a private educational services company, creating SolarQuest, a solar-powered satellite-based information systems in remote areas of the world in conjunction with productivity-centered service learning. He is a director of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, USA and a former director of American Solar Energy Society.

 

People and Water
Ray Seed

Geotechnical Professor at U.C. Berkeley. Independent Levee Investigation Team leader for the assessment of the New Orleans levee failures during Hurricane Katrina.



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