Climate Change, Oil & New Jersey Higher Education

Wednesday, 25 October, 2006 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

The New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS) will be having a climate change event on Wednesday, 25 October, at the New JerseyInstitute of Technology (NJIT) campus in Newark. We will have students,administrators and faculty there from NJIT and a number of our other 44member colleges and universities. The goal would be to outline variousclimate change action programs emerging nationally, regionally and in NewJersey, and mention some of the ways it may impact NJ higher educationinstitutions, and then transition into NJIT's Technology &amp Societypresentation on "Winning the Oil End Game" by Nathan Glasgow. http://tsf.njit.edu/glasgow.php

Part One- "Climate Change & New Jersey Higher Education"

• 12:00pm, Marc Brammer, Director of Research, Innovest, presenting on the"Focus the Nation" effort going on around the country (using the slides ofFocus the Nation's founder, Eban Goldstein)
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• 12:30pm, Maura Cowley, Sierra Student Coalition (Invited), presenting about the Campus Climate Challenge.
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• 1:00pm, John Cusack, Executive Director, NJHEPS, presenting about "Results of the NJ President's GHG Emissions Reduction Goals of 2001-2005" and the "American College and University Presidents Climate-Neutral Commitment"announced last week in Arizona at the national Association for theAdvancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) meeting.
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• 1:30pm Chris Sherry, NJDEP, presenting on "the Regional Greenhouse GasInitiative (RGGI) and New Jersey Higher Education"
• 2:00-2:30pm Speakers Panel - Questions &amp Answers (including Nathan Glasgow)
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• 2:30-3:00pm Afternoon break and networking opportunity during room seating arrangement change

Part Two- "Winning the Oil End Game"

• 3pm-4:30pm , As part of NJIT's forum series on Technology &amp Society, theRocky Mountain Institute's Nathan Glasgow, will talk about his work with the well known inventor and environmentalist, Amory Lovins, in a talk, "Winning the Oil Endgame", based on their recent book they co-authored.For Presentations visit NJIT Technology and society forum website at http://tsf.njitedu/index.php