Contact: Bobbie Klein,
303-735-3751
Roberta.Klein@colorado.edu
Annie Scott, 303-735-4939
Oct. 20, 2008
CU Panels On Climate Change, Energy Linked To 2008 Election
Year
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Initiative and the Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research are co-sponsoring free, campus panel
discussions and lectures this fall on climate change and global energy
to coincide with the 2008 presidential election.
A panel titled "Do We Need a 'Manhattan/Apollo Project' to Solve the
Energy/Climate Problem?" will take place on Oct. 30 from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150 on the CU-Boulder campus.
The panel will address whether greater use of renewable energy
technologies will lead to climate stabilization, or whether the nation
needs a large-scale investment in new energy research and development
like the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb and NASA's
Apollo Project that sent a man to the moon. Pay parking for the event is
available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark, located on Euclid Avenue off of
Broadway east of CU-Boulder's University Memorial Center.
Panelists will include Rad Byerly Jr. of the Cooperative Institute
for Research in Environmental Science's Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research; Craig Cox of the Interwest Energy Alliance;
Chuck Kutscher of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Gregory F.
Nemet of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of
Wisconsin; and Pete Geddes of the Foundation for Research on Economics
and the Environment. Paul Komor of the CU-Boulder Renewable and
Sustainable Energy Initiative will moderate the discussion.
On Nov. 17 Professor Daniel Kammen, founding director of the
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of
California, Berkeley will give a keynote address titled "Policy Advice
for the New President." The address will take place from 8:45 to 10:30
a.m. in UMC room 235. The event will be followed by a panel discussion,
which will include Tom Weimer, Republican chief of staff for the House
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and other
Washington, D.C., political veterans.
The Nov. 17 keynote address and panel discussion, which is free and
open to the public, opens an all-day research symposium on energy and
climate that requires registration. For more information about the
research symposium visit http://ei.colorado.edu/2008
_symposium. For more information about the fall lecture series
visit http:/
/sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/outreach/ecc_series.html.
CIRES is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
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