Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America

A day of discovering what you can do now to make a difference and help create a better world for our children. Native Healing ceremony, break-out sessions, keynote speaker Barry J. Hanson from 1:00-3:00pm, panel discussion, and eco fair. Please go to http://www.uwsuper.edu/wb/ir/focus/ for details.

Focus the Nation Presenters Schedule. Each break-out session will be in a different room.


9:00-9:30am:

Dave Dumke: Lowering Your Carbon Footprint By Eating Locally Grown Food

Dr. Richard Stewart: Global Warming's Effect on the Shipping Industry

Sean Hancock:The Single Biggest Source of Energy is Conservation

Dr. Jerry Hembd: The Sustainable Twin Ports Early Adopters Project



9:30-10:00am:

David Hopkins: Youth Leadership and Young Farmers for Sustainable Agriculture

Dr. Shevaun Stocker: Packaging the Picture of Environmentalism: It's All in the Frame

Janet Jennings: Global Warming Resources at the Superior Public Library and Beyond

Dr. Maureen Salzer: Storytelling and Environmental Ethics in Leopold’s "A Sand County Almanac" and Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth"


10:00-10:30am:

Jim Naus/Ellen Sandbeck:Stop Throwing That Away! Vermicomposting:How-To

Jeri Schwerin:Climate Change Effects on Streams and Wetlands in the Lake Superior Watershed

Heather Kahler: Using Mathematics to Combat Erosion in West Africa

Dr. Gloria Toivola: The Politics of Garbage



10:30-11:00

Dr. Martha Einerson: Spinning Mother Earth: Climate Change vs. Global Warming

Matt TenEyck/Dr. Mary Balcer: Global Warming's Effect on Lake Superior

Dr. Greg Moore: The Environmental Platforms of the Candidates for US President

Dr. Arne Vainio, M.D.: Waste Vegetable Oil: An Alternative Fuel



11:00-11:30

Charlie Glazman: A Renewable Energy History of the Wisconsin Technical College System

Dr. Erin Aldrige: Music as a Social Commentary on Environmental Action and Problems

Yvonne Rutford: Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Scott Vesterstein: Container Gardening: Grow Your Own, Eat Healthier and Reduce GHG Emmissions


11:30-Noon

Dr. Marshall Johnson: Normal Institutions and Pathological Environments: Cancer Just Looks like Growth

Dr. Giancarlo Panagia: The Economic Cost of Combating Global Climate Change

Focus The Nation Eco Fair from 9:00am to 3:00pm. Visit booths of local groups and businesses to find out practical ways to live green!

ECO FAIR Participants
Clean Water Action Alliance
Container Gardening
Duluth Community Gardens
ECO – Environmentally Conscious Options
Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education
Fond du Lac Natural Resources Office
Focus on Energy
Green Mercantile
Green Slow Moving Vehicles
Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory
Jes Durfee Glass
Lake Superior Farming
Lake Superior Research Institute
Lake Superior Slow Food
Laverme’s Worms (Indoor Composting)
Minnesota Sea Grant
Positive Energy Outdoor (ed)Ventures
Sensaria Natural Body Products
Spirit Lake Native Products
Waste Vegetable Oil-Powered Car (outside)
Whole Foods Coop
SWARM (Students for Wise and Accountable Resource Management)