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Transportation Options in a Greenhouse: Alternative Strategies to Lowering Our Carbon Footprint
May 20, 2008, 11:30AM-1:30PM
Saint Paul RiverCentre
175 West Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, MN
This seminar will be held in conjunction with the 19th Annual CTS Transportation Research Conference. The cost to attend this luncheon seminar is $30.
Stephen H. Schneider, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, will highlight incentives to bring about a transition to cleaner transportation, along with promising technology and policy options being pursued by other states and countries. He will also compare the transportation sector with the industry and building sectors to predict how much can feasibly be done.
For more information or to register, contact Sara Van Essendelft at 612-624-3708 or cceconf5@umn.edu.
Little Earth Solar Panel Dedication
May 22, 2008, 3:00PM
Cedar Field
2495 18th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN
You're invited to a community celebration and feast to dedicate the first solar panel installation at Little Earth. Join Little Earth of United Tribes, Honor the Earth, RREAL, Fresh Energy, White Earth Land Recovery Project, Minnesota Green Communities, and Green for All to mark the first step in building a sustainable community powered by renewable energy. Featuring Van Jones, president and founder of Green for All, and Winona LaDuke, executive director of Honor the Earth.
Learn about green jobs and how solar and wind power can create a healthier future for our generation and generations to come. Enjoy indigenous food and music.
For more information, contact Honor the Earth at 612-879-7529 or valerie@honorearth.org.
19th Annual Energy Fair
Midwest Renewable Energy Association
June 20-22, 2008
ReNew the Earth Institute
7558 Deer Road
Custer, WI
Since its inception in 1990, the Energy Fair has shown 190,000 fairgoers how to change the world while having fun. Each summer the Fair transforms rural Custer, Wisconsin into the global hot spot for renewable energy education. The Energy Fair is the world¹s largest renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable living educational event of its kind. Please join us this year!
The Energy Fair features hundreds of workshops and exhibits all emphasizing clean energy & sustainable living and is fun for the whole family. In 2007, the Energy Fair hosted over 19,500 attendees.
For more information, visit www.the-mrea.org or contact Kirsten Olson at kirsten@the-mrea.org.
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