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• Aaron Wissner, Founder, Local Future
• Jim MacInnes, President, Crystal Mountain Resort

• Climate Change Impacts on Michigan
  Sarna Salzman, Executive Director, SEEDS
• Risks to Michigan's Automotive Future
  Kim Hill, Associate. Director, Center for Auto Research
  New - Full Online Video of Kim Hill's Presentation
• Michigan Energy Import Overview
  Tom Stanton, Coordinator, MI Renewable Energy Program
• Where We Are Today: Credit Markets, Derivatives, Etc.
  Ellen Brown, attorney, author of "Web of Debt"

• Energy Policy and the Path to Sustainability
  Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
  New - Full Online Video of Heinberg's Presentation
• Plan A, Plan B, Plan C or Plan D?
  Tim Hudson, Institute for Sustainable Energy Education
• Positive Visions for Future Michigan
  Aaron Wissner, Director, Local Future

Friday Panel

• Kim Hill
• Tom Stanton
• Ellen Brown
• Richard Heinberg

Track A: Michigan's Energy Security I

• Balanced Energy Initiative
  Jack Hanson, VP Generation Engineering & Service, CMS
• The Geology of Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)
  Dr. David Barnes, Professor of Geosciences, WMU
• Advanced Coal Technology & CCS
  Darren Owens, Engineer, Consumers Energy
• Power Supply Alternatives
  Eric Baker, President & CEO, Wolverine Power Cooperative
• Morning Panel
  Hanson, Barnes, Owens, Baker

Track B: Michigan's Food Security I

• Reducing Food Miles
  Rich Johnston, President & CEO, Sysco Grand Rapids
• Local Food Production
  Patty Cantrell, Program Director, MI Land Use Institute
• Michigan Food Democracy
  Ken Dahlberg, Michigan Land Trustees
• The Permaculture Vision
  Thaddeus Owen

Track C: Peak Oil: A Crude Awakening

• Peak Oil: The Alarm and Scenarios
  Tim Hudson, Institute for Sustainable Energy Education
• Peak Oil: Mitigation Strategies
  John Richter, Institute for Sustainable Energy Education

Track A: Michigan's Energy Security II

• Natural Gas: The Energy Bridge to the Future
  Jerry Norcia, President & COO, MI Consolidated Gas Co.
• Natural Gas Powered Transportation
  Richard Kolodziej, President, NGVAmerica
• Natural Gas Panel
  Norcia, Kolodziej

Track B: Michigan's Food Security II

• Capture and Store Rain Water Simply
  Bill Wilson, Founder, Midwest Permaculture
• Food Security Panel
  Johnston, Cantrell, Dahlberg, Owen, Wilson

• Nuclear Power Plant Proposal for Detroit
  Tony Earley, President, DTE Energy

• The Power of One: Towards Cradle to Cradle
  Paul Murray, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, Herman Miller Industries
• After Fossil Fuels: Sustainable Energy Options
  Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
• Executive Panel
  Earley, Murray, Heinberg

• Michigan's Renewable Portfolio Standard
  Jeff Mayes, Michigan House of Representatives
  David Palsrok, Michigan House of Representatives
• Community Renewable Power
  Steve Smiley, Bay Energy Services
• Renewable Energy Payments (Feed in Tariffs)
  Kathleen Law, Michigan House of Representatives
• Energy Security Solutions Panel
  Mayes, Smiley, Law

• Solar Energy in Michigan
  Chris Shirk, Manager, Solar Application Center,
  Dow Corning Solar Solutions
• Wind Energy in Michigan
  John Sarver, Supervisor Technical Assistance,
  Michigan Energy Office
• Renewable Hydroelectric Power in Michigan
  Jim Bernier, Senior Natural Resource Manager,
  Consumers Energy Hydro Generation
• Plug in Hybrids & Michigan's Grid
  Michael Delaney, DTE Energy
• Renewable Energy in Michigan Panel
  Jennifer Alverado, Executive Director, GLREA
  Shirk, Sarver, Bernier, Delaney

• Food Revolution: Alternatives to an Energy Intensive Food System
  Albert Bates, attorney, trainer,
  Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm
• Transport Revolution: Moving People and Freight without Fossil Fuels
  Dr. Richard Gilbert, Consultant on Urban Issues
  (via live videoconference)

• What should be Michigan's ultimate energy future?
  How do we get there from here?
  Hanson, Mayes, Law, Sarver,
  Heinberg, Bates, Gilbert, Smiley

Track A: Uncertainty and Risk Analysis

• Our Banking System: One Minute to Midnight
  Ellen Brown, attorney, author of Web of Debt
• Energy: The Root of Our Environmental Problems
  Kurt Cobb, author Resource Insights
• Population and Overshoot
  John Richter, Institute for Sustainable Energy Education

Track B: Energy Conservation I

• Low Demand Buildings
  Wayne Appleyard, architect, Sunstructures Architects
• Changing Energy Usage in the State:
  One House at a Time
  TJ Brown, Project Coordinator,
  Northern Options Energy Center
• Renewable Energy Installation
  Mark Bauer, President, Bauer Power
• Conservation Panel
  Appleyard, Brown, Bauer

Track C: Beyond Solutions

• Appropriate Technologies
  John Barrie, Appropriate Technology Collaborative
• The Power of Community (film)

Track A: Community Level Responses

• Communitarianism
  Albert Bates, attorney, trainer,
  Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm
• Bioregionalism
  Stephanie Mills, author, bioregionalist
• Transition Initiatives
  Michael Brownlee, Transition Boulder County
  (via live videoconference)
• Community Response Panel
  Heinberg, Bates, Mills

Track B: Energy Conservation II

• Hybrid Homes
  Adam Bearup, Hybrid Home Guy, Hybrid Homes LLC
• The Passive House
  Christina Snyder, Equilibrium Energy Spaces
• Full Solar Heating
  Laren Corie, designer, solar heated homes
• Home Efficiency Panel
  Bearup, Snyder, Corie

• Real Green, Real Sustainability
  Aaron Wissner, Director, Local Future
• Critical Responses & Essential Understandings
  Albert Bates, Ellen Brown, TBD

• Expert Panel I - A Living Legacy for Michigan
  TBD
• Visioning the Future of Michigan in Community
  World Cafe Dialogue

• Expert Panel II - Choosing Michigan's Destiny
  TBD
• Alternatives Paths to Achieving the Vision
  World Cafe Dialogue
• Strategic Planning and Short Term Goals
  World Cafe Dialogue

Breakout Meeting in Arctic Bay Room

• Clean Coal, What is It?
  Tom Karas, Clean Energy Now (30 minutes)

• Aaron Wissner, Director, Local Future
• Jim MacInnes, President, Crystal Mountain Resort

• After Party at Thistle Restaurant