Focus the Nation UC Davis
Teach-In and Poster Session
January 31, 2008
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Activities and Recreation Center (ARC),
Ballroom
TEACH-IN
9:00-10:20 am: Climate change spirit
Sponsors: Care for God’s Creation Interfaith Community, Interfaith Campus Council of UC Davis
Chair: The Reverend Sarah Motley, Care for God’s Creation
- Diane Colborn, Davis Community Church, Care for God’s Creation
- Matt Biers-Ariel, author, teacher, “A Personal and Family Response: The Epic Ride”
- Danielle Lee, Cal Aggie Christian Association
- Khalida Fazel, President, Muslim Student Association
- To be announced, Newman Center Catholic Student Community
- Judith Moores, Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis
Music: Eldridge Moores, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geology, UC Davis
10:30-11:50 am: Local government strategies
Chair: Stephen Wheeler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Program
- Mitch P. Sears, Sustainability Program Interim Coordinator, City of Davis
- Christopher L. Cabaldon, Mayor, West Sacramento
- Tara Goddard, Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, City of Davis
12:00-1:30 pm: Agricultural sustainability and climate change: Vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation
Sponsor: Students for Sustainable Agriculture
Moderator: Sean Smukler, Graduate Student, Ecology
- Louise E. Jackson, Ph.D., professor and extension specialist, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources
- Thomas P. Tomich, Ph.D., founding director, Agricultural Sustainability Institute; Kellogg Chair in Sustainable Food Systems; director, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources statewide Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
1:40-3:00 pm: Enabling change: How policy and practice create climate change solutions
Sponsor: Office of Resource Management and Planning, UC Davis
Moderator: Emily Brand, President, Environmental Law Society, UC Davis School of Law
- Robert C. Dynes, Ph.D., President, University of California, Professor, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego,“UC and Climate Change Solutions: A Recipe for Blue Skies”
- Clifford Rechtschaffen, J.D., Special Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, State of California Department of Justice, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University, “Climate Change—The Path Forward”
- Albert C. Lin, J.D., Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law, “Legislative Solutions”
3:10-4:30 pm: Innovation: Commercializing science in energy & efficiency
Sponsors: Davis Net Impact & UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, GSM, UC Davis
Moderator: Andy Hargadon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Technology Management, GSM, UC Davis
- Barbara Grant, Ph.D., managing director and partner, American River Ventures, Roseville, California and Research Advisory Board, UC Davis.
- Raju Pandey, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, UC Davis; co-founder of Synapsense
- David McGee, Ph.D., Executive Director, InnovationAccess, UC Davis
POSTER SESSION
California Watt Watchers, Kurt Kornbluth
Climate and Agriculture, Laura Podolsky
Climate Change and CEQA: An Overview, Tony Held, Lisa Lowry
Dual Cool-Retrofit for Rooftop Air Conditioning Units, Josa Tuchel
Greenlight Organic: Global Corporate Social Responsibility, Sonny Aulakh, Jeff Ansley, Andrew Barkett, Isabel Chen, Helen Kim
HT Gasification: Solution for Bioenergy from Diverse Feedstocks, Tim Keller, Mike Hart, Chris Kasten, Reed Bennett, Daniel Dodd
Hydrology at +2.4C, Jessica Norling
Is your health at risk (due to climate change)?, Venus Yuan, Sandra Wong
Low Carbon, High Performance Buildings, Clayton Halliday, Bill Starr, Gary Dahl, Ardie Dehghani, Julianne Nola
Low Cost Radiant Floor Cooling, Jon Anderson
Money for Methane, Western United Dairymen, Western United Resource Development
Movement of the Conifer Belt on the Sierra Nevada over the Last 140 Years, Thorne, J. H., Thrasher, S.L., Bjorkman, J.S.
New Infrared - Friend of California Food Processing, Josa Tuchel
Rammed Earth in Yolo County, Nicole LaPatka
Reduce your Carbon Emission by Changing your Feeding Behavior, Abhinav Bushan, Riccardo Locascio, Ebrima NCessay, Valery Ngassam, Gabriel Paulino
Rethinking Growth in Yolo County: The Benefits of Density, Brendan Ehlermann, Anna Ng, Danny Yadegar
Suite Fleet, Tai Stillwater
The Davis Junior High Global Warming Project, Amy P. King, Cort Anastasio, Deb Niemeier, Kate M. Scow
Transportation and Land Use Climate Change Solutions, Jonathan Woolley, Chris Congleton
Water Use in Yolo County, Keith Wright
West Village Strategic Energy Management Organization, Jon Short, Amy Barr, Ben Finkelor
Yolo County and Sea Level Rise, Nick Burke, Erik Gellerman