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UPWIND DOWNWIND CONFERENCE 2010: Air Knows No Boundaries

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HAMILTON GREEN SOLUTIONS MARKETPLACE

Hamilton Convention Centre

1 SUMMERS LANE, HAMILTON, ON

 

The Conference kicks off to the public on Sunday Feb 21st, 2010 with the FREE Marketplace

 

 

Hamilton Green Solutions Marketplace

2 Days

FREE TO THE PUBLIC

 

70 Exhibitors

 

Find the information, products, people, and solutions on all things green!

Explore new products and cutting edge technologies. Talk with key people and businesses who are actively engaged in finding solutions.

Learn what you can do and what is available

 

- SUNDAY FEB 21, 2010 - 11 A.M. – 5 P.M.

- MONDAY FEB 22, 2010 - 8 A.M. – 3 P.M.

 

 

 

Sunday Feature:  The Green Solutions Stage

FREE

 

Featuring:

 

11:30am

Revolutionizing the Eco Build, Braden Homes

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/article717563.ece

 

 1:30pm

Chef & Author, Jeff Crump, cooking demo “Earth to Table”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/he-cooks-local-but-this-book-bris-about-to-go-global/article1288938/

www.earthtotable.ca

 

 

2:30pm

Jay Ingram of the Discovery Channel’s “Daily Planet”

www.discoverychannel.ca/showpage.aspx?sid=13287

 

 

4:00pm

Rev Wear Fashion Show

www.flickr.com/photos/ryan_tir/sets/72157614600933867/

 

Plus

12:00  Smart Meters & Time Shifting – Horizon Utilities -  how to save energy and $$

 

12:20  Raw Food Demo- Chef’s Marg-Ann Rourda (Bread & Roses Café) and Karen Burson will  show us how to “cook” raw food

 

12:55  Food and the Farm – local organic farmer Chris Krucker (Manorun Farm) will open our eyes on food issues and the future of the farm

 

 

 

- MONDAY FEB 22 , 2010-

 

The Upwind Downwind 2010 Conference: Air Knows No Boundaries

Delegate Conference – Fee applies

8am – 5pm

 

Conference Registration: www.cleanair.hamilton.ca/default.asp?id=45

 

 

- Agenda -

 

8:00- 8:30 AM         

Registration & Welcome

 

8:30 AM        

 

Welcome – Chris Murray, City Manager -City of Hamilton   www.hamilton.ca

                                               

Welcome – Brian McCarry, Clean Air Hamilton   www.cleanair.hamilton.ca

                       

 

MORNING THEME:  Transboundary Air Issues – 1st Floor Wentworth Room C

 

8:45 AM

 

Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

www.eco.on.ca/eng/

 

9:25 AM        

 

Rachel Kampus, Ontario Climate Change Secretariat

www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/air/climatechange/secretariat.php

Ontario Government and Climate Change actions

 

10:00 AM

 

Break & Network – Please check out the Green Solutions Market Place

 

 

10:30 AM

 

Adam Redish, Karen Clark and Craig Golding, Ministry of the Environment

www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/air/index.php

Provincial initiatives addressing transboundary air issues

 

11:00 AM      

 

Paul Miller, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management

www.nescaum.org/

Northeast  American initiatives and research on transboundary air and climate change

 

11:30 AM

 

Dr. Jeff Brook, Environment Canada

www.ec.gc.ca

Transboundary Air & Health Impacts

 

12:10 PM

 

Lunch & Network - Please check out the Green Solutions Market Place

 

 

           

AFTERNOON THEME: INNOVATIVE & PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS- 1st Floor Wentworth Room C

                         

1:00 PM

Dr. Robert J Shaw, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

http://rt.grc.nasa.gov/main/people/dr-robert-j-shaw/

Technology for a Green World Exists

 

2:00 PM

 

Break & Network – Please check out the Green Solutions Market Place

 

                                               

 

                                               

AFTERNOON PARALLEL PLENARY SESSIONS – 3rd Floor

 

PLENARY 1: INNOVATIVE ENERGY FUTURE

3rd Floor – Webster Room A       

 

2:30 PM

 

Mike Elwood, Electric Mobility Canada

www.emc-mec.ca

Electric vehicles ahead

 

3:10 PM

John Taylor,  Bionx EBikes

www.bionx.ca

Electric bikes

 

3:30 PM 

Brent Gilmour, Canadian Urban Institute

www.canurb.com/home.php

Energy and Land Use Mapping

 

 

                       

PLENARY 2: THE CARBON NEUTRAL FUTURE TODAY!  

3rd Floor – Webster Room B

 

2:30 PM

 

Libby Little, Town of Eden Mills

www.goingcarbonneutral.ca

Being a carbon neutral town

 

3:10 PM

Ian Graham and David Carson, Dundas in Transition

www.dundasintransition.ca 

Transition Towns & Peak Oil

 

3:30 PM 

Rodney Wilts, One Planet Communities

www.oneplanetcommunities.org/NorthAmerica/index.html

One Planet Living

 

 

           

                                                           

4:10 PM        

Closing and Have a Safe & Green Travel Home

                                                                                   

                                                                                               

                                                                                   

 

 

 

                                                                       

                                                                       

                                                                       

 

 

                                   

 



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