SCHEDULE & NOTES, 2013


NOTE:  This schedule is subject to change depending on speaker availability and/or important news items.


Jan 7

Introduction:  Introduction

PART I

Current energy use and trends

 

Jan 9

Overview of Global Energy Trends:  Energy Overview

Jan 14 Guest Lecture from Georgia Power:  Julie Paul Lecture: Georgia Power and Energy Planning


Jan 16

Facilities Management Personnel

Jan 23

Guest Lecture by Randall Guensler:  Transportation and Energy

 

PART II

Anthropogenic climate change: causes and consequences

 

Jan 28

Fracking Overview:  Hydro-fracking: Heaven-sent or Too Good To Be True?

 

Jan 30

Climate Change:  The Science of Climate Change

 

Feb 4

IPCC:  Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change

 
Feb 6 Guest Lecture by Chuck Huling:  A Perspective on The Politics of Water


Feb 11

The Kyoto Protocol:  The Kyoto Protocol

 

Feb 13

Guest Lecture by Paul Baer:  Equity, Climate Change and the Right to Development

 

Feb 18

National Bills:  National Bills

 

Feb 20

Guest Lecture from EPA:  Climate, Energy, and the Southeast: An EPA Perspective

 

Feb 25

CRC Plan Presentations & Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative:  Regional Climate Alliances

 

Feb 27

Guest Lecture by Erik Johnson:  Lecture Avalaible on T-Square Only.

 

Mar 4

Regional & State Climate Alliances:  Regional & State Climate Alliances

 

Mar 6

Regional & State Climate Alliances:  AB32: CAs Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

 

Mar 11

Guest Lecture by Marilyn Brown:  Financing Clean Energy

 

Mar 13

Renewables Overview:  Renewables Overview

 

Mar 13

Stabilization Wedges:  Stabilization Wedges

 

Mar 25

Renewables:  Overview of Alternative Energy Sources

 

Mar 27

Renewable and Alternative Fuels:  Renewable and Alternative Fuels

 

Apr 1

Guest Lecture by Bojan Petrovic:  Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development Supplemental Material:  IRIS Public Trust in Nuclear Energy

 

Apr 3

Gas Hydrates:  Gas Hydrates: Our Energy (and Climate) Future?

 

Apr 8

Guest Lecture by Ian Cooper

 

Apr 10

Guest Lecture by Lou Circeo:  Plasma Gasification: A Significant Global Waste-to-Energy Opportunity