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The 8th Consumer Issues Conference will be held on Thursday, September 25 on the campus of the University of Wyoming, with tours of energy-efficient projects on Friday, September 26 in the Laramie and Cheyenne area.

Important dates to consider are the deadlines for requesting booth space to share information about consumer issues (September 19), the early registration deadline of September 11 and the date to make hotel reservations at our conference rate (September 1). Late poster submissions are still being accepted. See the Conference main page for details and contact information.

On September 25 there will be both plenary and concurrent sessions throughout the day. The program grid below shows the schedule of speakers and events.

While in Laramie on the 25th you might consider attending the discussion with author Salman Rushdie. He will speak and answer audience questions at in the UW College of Arts and Sciences auditorium at 5 pm on Thursday night September 25. This event is sponsored by the UW Department of English. It is free and open to the public.

8th Consumer Issues Conference: September 25 & 26, 2008
Wyoming Union, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Audio files from the sessions are now available. To listen you may click on the audio file link. The file will load and open in a new webpage. The files are large and downloads will not be immediate. Alternately you may right-click on the file name and save it to your computer for listening in the future.


Thursday, September 25, 2008 – Wyoming Union floor)

8:00   Registration - full breakfast, exhibits, posters   Lobby & West Yellowstone Ballroom
         
8:45 Welcome & announcements University President Tom Buchanan and Committee co-chairs Virginia Vincenti & Dee Pridgen Family Room
         
9:00-9:45 Plenary Speech - Policy in energy and telecommunications—gaps and needs, Rob Hurless, Energy & Telecommunications Policy Advisor to the Wyoming Governor

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To watch these video files you will need to install the Real Player, available free from http://www.real.com/

Family Room
9:45-10:20   Break- refreshments, exhibits & poster session  - Poster session authors will be at their posters in the West Yellowstone Ballroom
       
    Track 1:
Our Energy Landscape		 Track 2:
Conservation & Alternative Energy		 Track 3:
Law & Policy		 Track 4:
Telecommunications
           
10:20-11:15 Concurrent Breakout I
    Wyoming’s (and the West’s) Role in Future Energy Options
Mark Northam, Director, UW School of Energy Resources

(presentation)
(audio file)		 Panel: Energy Saving Buildings (private & public)

Linda Kiisk, UW Associate Director of Facilities Planning; Anthony Denzer, UW Assistant Professor of Engineering; Treva Sprout, Lecturer, Department of Family & Consumer Sciences and S. L. Tiger Adolf, Executive Director, Wyoming Energy Council, Inc.

Panel is a double session.

(presentation)
 (audio file)

 Consumer Tips on Navigating Technology

Joel Kelsey, Consumers Union, Policy Analyst for Telecommunications Policy

(presentation)
(audio file)

Panel, Business, Economic, Legislative and Public Utility Commission Viewpoints on Telecommunications Today
John Tschirhart, UW College of Business, Professor of Economics and Finance, moderator; Curt Cramer, Associate Dean, College of Business, and Professor of Economics and Finance emeritus; Cale Case, Wyoming State Senator; Mike Ceballos Wyoming State President of Qwest; and Mary Byrnes, Wyoming Public Service Commissioner

Panel is a double session.

(audio file)
           
11:20-12:15   Concurrent Breakout II      
   

Panel: Ethanol’s Role in Energy Solutions,

Terri Rittenburg, Associate Professor of Management and Marketing, UW College of Business, moderator;

Tim Burkink, Associate Dean of Business, University of Nebraska-Kearney; Jose Rosa, Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Business Practices, UW College of Business

(presentation)

(audio file)

 Double session
continued.

(audio file)		 The Federal Trade Commission Goes Green: New Initiatives on Gas Pricing and Energy Information for Consumers,

Dee Pridgen, UW College of Law, Associate Dean & Carl M. Williams Professor of Law and Social Responsibility

(presentation)
(audio file)		 Double session
continued.

(audio file)
       
12:20 Plenary Speech & Lunch - What Would a Green Economy Look Like? Felicity Barringer, New York Times correspondent. Introduction by Myron Allen, UW Vice President for Academic Affairs.

At this session Felicity Barringer will trace the changing political dynamics of the environmental movement, which emerged from a largely anti-corporate stance to one where today Carl Pope of the Sierra Club is giving a shout out to oil magnate and swift boater T. Boone Pickens because of his wind proposals. We will explore new ways everyone – with or without government incentives – can make green choices every day that make both environmental and economic sense.

(audio file)

 Central & East Yellowstone Ballroom
         
1:15   Break & exhibits    
1:20-2:15   Concurrent Breakout III    
    Energy Options in the Rural West,

Michael Bowman, National Steering Committee, 25 x 25, an effort to improve US energy security		 Solar and Wind Energy for Rural Consumers,

Sadrul Ula, UW Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

(audio file)		 Utility Pricing to Encourage Consumer Conservation,

Chris Petrie, Secretary and Chief Counsel, Wyoming Public Service Commission

(audio file)		 Public Access Television: Issues of community independent media access, consumer choice, and media reform,

Beth Federici, Media Literacy Matters, independent film maker, educator, and media activist. Introduction by David Hunt, Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing, UW College of Business

(audio file)
           
2:20-3:15 Concurrent Breakout IV
   

Energy and Sustainability: Cultural norms, attitudes, assumptions, and values,

Eric Arnould, UW Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Business Practices, College of Business

(audio file)

 Consumer Energy Policies: You Can Now Hang Your Clothes on the Line in Colorado,

Carole Makela, Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, Colorado State University

(presentation)		 From Broadband to Broadcast: Media and Communications Policy at a Critical Juncture,

Joel Kelsey, Consumers Union, Policy Analyst

(presentation)

(audio file)		 DTV Transition: What Consumers Need to Understand to Prepare for It,

Nikki Shears, District Director, Denver Federal Communications Commission Office

(audio file)
           
3:15-3:40   Break, exhibits, dessert and beverages      
3:40-4:50   Panel discussion      
    Issues into Action: Panel of policymakers and consumer advocates,

 Michelle Beck, Director, Utah Committee on Consumer Services; Tim Schram, Nebraska Public Service Commissioner; and Mary Byrnes, Wyoming Public Service Commissioner.

(presentation) (handout) (audio file)		 Family Room
           
5:00 A & S Auditorium - Salman Rushdie

Friday, September 26, 2008
  
Pre-registration required; cost is $12 and includes transportation and lunch. NOTE: REVISED SCHEDULE DUE TO ILLNESS  
   

Tours in Cheyenne area -

8:00 a.m. Leave Laramie from the Holiday Inn parking lot.    
       

8:30 - 9:30

 

 

Tour of Mary Beth & Joe Stepans’ home in Mountain
Meadows, near Curt Goudy State Park

Linda Kiisk, UW Associate Director of Facilities Planning and a registered architect, will conduct the tour of this home, a 2,400 SF hybrid straw bale home with photovoltaic and solar hot water with radiant floor heat, bamboo floors, granite counter tops, captured rainwater, and snowmelt systems.

This tour will take 1 hour. If you wish to arrive on your own, meet at the kiosk at Curt Goudy State Park at 8:30 a.m. This home is 30 minutes drive from Laramie.

30 minutes drive from Laramie
         

10:00-11:15

 
 

Wind Farm on Happy Jack Road

Duke Energy in partnership with Black Hills Power, Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power, and the City of Cheyenne have constructed a 14 turbine wind farm outside Cheyenne, WY. The tour will include a short presentation by site Project Manager Thomas Bailey and a tour inside one of the turbines at the wind farm on Happy Jack Road.

This tour will take 1 ¼ hour.

No private vehicles allowed. Limited to 20 people per tour. Second tour possible depending on registration.

 

 

11:30-12:15

 Return to Laramie    
       
Tours in Laramie
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch Laramie County Community College, Albany County Campus in Laramie, with presentation and brief tour by Tim Nyquist, Instructor, Construction Technology, Albany County Campus of LCCC. This new campus building has many energy saving features and multiple sources of energy generation and conservation.    
         

1:30-2:00

University of Wyoming Indoor Practice Facility

Rock Morgan, UW Facilities Planning Project Manager and architectural engineer, and Sadrul Ula, Electrical Engineering Professor, will conduct a tour of this athletic facility with many sustainable features including south facing orientation, maximization of daylight, and photovoltaic cells.

This tour will take ½ hour.

Facility is located on SW corner of Willet and 22nd St. in Laramie.
         

2:15-4:15

Home Energy Audit

Dave Bunn, Energy Star contractor. At this tour we will observe a residential energy audit and the presentation Heal Your Home, Heal The Planet, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

This tour will take 2 hours.

 
         
4:30 Return to Holiday Inn parking lot    

 


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