“Making the Green Economy Work”
Duke University's Inaugural Winter Forum January 10 – 12, 2010 Durham, North Carolina
DRAFT AGENDA
Sunday January 10th ~ 5:30pm – Reception, Hall of Science, LSRC Welcome by Steve Nowicki, Dean of Undergraduate Education & Tim Profeta, Faculty Director 6:15pm - Dinner – seated in small breakout groups - Blue Express Cafe Faculty/student introductions, discussion and perhaps homework amongst small groups 7:15pm- Love Auditorium, LSRC Chad Holliday, speaker, “Envisioning the Green Economy” Perhaps Governor Bev Perdue and David Orr can join as well.
Monday January 11th The Freeman Center ~ 8:45-9:30am – Breakfast 9:30 - 10:15 – Session I – “Identifying the Green Economy” Faculty leads – Jim Salzman, Jonathan Wiener Interdisciplinary Faculty Panel Jim, Jonathan, Norman, Gale Boyd, Erika Weinthal, Bob Clemen and others, with extended Q&A. This will be a grounding session – Nuts and Bolts - Why the current economy isn't Green Identifying the challenges - Factors leading to current status and options moving forward – part of the challenge of developing green economy is the history of the economy, and part of the challenge is the expectation of green economy. Personal choice is part of the reason why we are where we are. 10:15 – Exercise - facilitated envisioning scenarios - 1/2 break-out groups will envision how to evolve from current day. The other 1/2 envision a green economy on a blank sheet. Reconvene to compare differences. 12:00 – Exercise Debrief and Box Lunches for full group
1:00 – Session II – Lessons from Copenhagen Faculty leads, Brian Murray and Tim Profeta 1:00 - Speaker TBD (Joe Aldy?). Blogging done ahead of time from Copenhagen. Introduce students to the history leading up to Copenhagen, the key issues negotiated there, the outcome of the negotiations, the path forward, and what it could mean for the economy for the future. 1:45 - Exercise - Model UN Can we videoconference anyone in from overseas to discuss reactions to Copenhagen? Breakout into country groups - US, EU, China, India, Brazil or Indonesia, low-lying island countries, other developing countries - to evaluate perspectives on how negotiations worked for them, or not. Faculty participants include Tim, Brian, Erika Weinthal, and Jonathan Wiener. 4:30 - Debrief and Break 5:45 - Dinner / Social - Include interactive contest for green tech ideas, complete w/judges and small award – or something else engaging and fun such as student videos/photos/poetry.
Tuesday January 12th
The Freeman Center ~ 8:45-9:30 - Breakfast - local food 9:30 – Session III “Enabling the Green Economy” Faculty Leads – Joe Knight, Gary Gereffi Expert panel – individuals TBD Changing the environmental throughput of the economy will require a change in technology, infrastructure, investment flow and behavioral norms. Provide overview of energy needs of the future – talk about diverse power sources which could meet our needs. Deep-dive with wind power technologies in break-out session. Wind is a convenient topic thru which to explore the nature of trade offs, and to see that there are limitations to every technology. 10:15 – Queue up the Exercise 1 hour breakout in 5 or so groups to discuss dimension of green power, ex. wind – identify critical factors to overcome and recommend approaches. Dimensions for discussion: energy performance (technology), environmental dimension (carbon displacement/noise/aesthetics/manufacturing), policy (incentives/disincentives), economics (risk/value chain/externalities), and logistics (material development, tooling, transportation).
12:00 – All-group Debrief and Lunch - local food
1:00 - presentation by the Global Advisors on global opportunities at and through Duke
(QEP document indicates this is to take place)
1:20 – Session IV – Pursuing the Green Economy; Acting Locally Faculty lead, Deb Gallagher with Gale Boyd and Bill Brown Expert panel of folks involved with local green culture – local entrepreneurs and alumni who are making the green economy work. This afternoon session will be speed-networking event. Engineer the event so that students get to sit at all tables – career services can help us with this. Have representatives from local government, venture capital firms, new green companies and established companies who have new sustainability departments/directors. *Throughout the event we will offer informal networking opportunities in addition to this Tuesday afternoon session. We hope alumni and other individuals associated with the green economy will address our students throughout the two days, introduce themselves, and be open to questions and conversations with Winter Forum participants. 4:45 - 5:45 Close with Reception at Smart House
** Follow- up: community service / active learning later in semester - group discussions may continue with small groups. Tavey Capps will take the lead on this – offer students a menu of options.