CHEMTRAILS: BAN KI-MOON. PLANET UNDER PRESSURE 2012 March 29, 2012 01:19 AM Part 3

Programme for streaming. Thursday 29 March 2012 Day 4: Planetary Stewardship 09.00: High-level welcome 09.15:Conference Statement Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia 09.30:Towards planetary stewardship: the nature of the challenge Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Sweden 09.45: Interconnected risks and solutions: policy recommendations Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Frank Biermann, Professor, VU University Amsterdam 10.00: Future Earth and a new contract between science and society Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team 10.15: High-level responses from policy, major groups and society Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20 and former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados, Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, Margit Fischer, President, Austrian Science Center Network 10.45: Open discussion We invite your questions. Facilitator: Nisha Pillai 11.15: The Daily Planet 11.45: Reducing economic disparity Richard Norgaard, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA 12.00: Creating sustainable cities Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, Japan 12.15: Panel discussion: delivering governance for global sustainability across scales Achim Steiner, Director, United Nations Environment Programme Maria Ivanova ...

"Some proponents of ridge line wind assert "we need it all", that is, all possible renewable energy development. This simplistic assertion does not withstand a careful consideration of the actual potential for wind generation in the Eastern US, or the potential and prospects for alternatives to wind power, or the potential negative consequences of ridge line wind development on both the environment and the progress of renewable energy development in general." -- Dr. Ben Luce Dr. Luce's formal training as a scientist, along with his work as alternative energy researcher, his love for the environment, and his experiences with legislation and public policy all work together to help him to bring a unique blend of science, economics, and practicality to his presentation. His talk will explore the small size of the onshore wind resource, the high cost of transmission, and the large environmental impact of ridge line wind. He will also discuss wiser alternative solutions such as solar which are based on analysis of the photovoltaics cost trend and large solar resource size in the northeast. Dr. Benjamin P. Luce is a professor of physics and chair of the Sustainability Studies Program at Lyndon State College in Northeastern Vermont. Dr. Luce received his BS in physics from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1989, and his MS and Ph.D. in physics from Clarkson University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. A long-time advocate of renewable energy, including utility-scale ...