EVENT AGENDA: Portland, OR

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Location
Portland State University
University Place at Portland State University - Main Ballroom
310 SW Lincoln Street
Portland, OR 97201
Contact: Anna Brones, Regional Director
8:30 AM
Registration
Continental breakfast, access to conference tables in exhibit hall, etc.
9:00 AM
Welcome
  • Rex Burkholder, Metro Councilor, District 5
  • Tom Z. Collina, Executive Director, 20/20 Vision
  • Anna Brones, Regional Director, 20/20 Vision, Lewis and Clark College
  • Lindsey Vines, Americans for Informed Democracy
    • 9:30 AM
    Panel Discussion
    Key Problems: Rising Gas Prices, Trouble in the Middle East, Global Warming and Jobs
    Moderator: Tom Collina, 20/20 Vision

  • Deron Lovaas, Vehicles Campaign Director, NRDC
  • Dan Carol, National Steering Committee, Apollo Alliance
  • Jeff Hammarlund, Adjunct Associate Professor, Mark Hatfield School of Government, PSU; and President, Northwest Energy and Environmental Strategies
    • 11:00 AM
    BREAK
    11:15 AM
    Concurrent Workshops #1
    Workshop #1:  Making Biofuels
    Neil Woody, Sequential Pacific Biodiesel
    Workshop #2    :  Messaging 101—Lindsey Vines, Americans for Informed Democracy
    Workshop #3:  Student Activism— Julie Philp, 20/20 Vision
    12:00 PM
    BREAK
    12:15 PM
    Lunch Served
    Keynote speaker: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
    1:30 PM
    Concurrent Workshops #2

    Workshop #1:  Peak Oil — Emily Pollard, Portland Peak Oil
    Workshop #2:  Organizing 101—Lindsey Vines , Bus Project
    Workshop #3:    Working Congress 101—Deron Lovass, NRDC
    2:15 PM
    Panel Discussion
    Promising Solutions: Alternative Fuels, New Automobile Technologies, Fuel Efficiency and Smart Growth
    Moderator: Anna Brones, Regional Director, 20/20 Vision

  • Chris Hagerbaumer, Program Director, Oregon Environmental Council
  • Joanna Schroeder, Communications Director, Ethanol Promotion and Information Council
  • Tomas Endicott, Founder, Sequential Biofuels
  • Dan Eisenbeis, Staff Planner, 1000 Friends of Oregon
    • 3:45 PM
    Break - Snacks Provided
    4:15 PM
    Oil ShockWave College Tour Simulation
    Opening remarks
    Tom Z. Collina

    Oil ShockWave Executive Crisis Simulation
  • President: General Merrill A. McPeak, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Air Force Chief of Staff, 1990-94.
  • Cabinet: Local professors and students
    • 5:45 PM
    Simulation Discussion/Q&A
    6:15 PM
    Close



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