Policy & Community Engagement

Schedule

2013
Monday, October 14th
10:00 AM

Permitting & Policy

Charles Niebling, Innovative Natural Resource Solutions
Dwayne Breger, DOER
Marc Wolman, Mass DEP

CC 165

10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
1:30 PM

Recycling the Biosphere

Daniel Young
Ronal G. Larson
Erich Knight, Shenandoah Gardens

CC 165

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
3:15 PM

Traversing the Abyss: Commercializing Biochar

David Morell, Sonoma Biochar Initiative
Christoph Pollatos, Biochar Central
Jeff Wallin, The Biochar Company
Michael Abbate, Common Capital
Jon Niedzielski, MA Farm Service Agency

CC 162

3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, October 15th
10:00 AM

Ethics & Sustainability

Gloria Flora, USBI
John Bonitz, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Karen Ribeiro, Inner Fortune Coaching

CC 165

10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
1:30 PM

Carbon Offsets & Markets

Rick Wilson, Cool Planet Energy Systems
Keith Driver, The Prasino Group
Tom Stokes, Climate Crisis Coalition

CC 165

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
3:15 PM

Biochar Community Development

Ronal G. Larson, Larson Consulting
Jim Long, Umpqua Bio-Alternatives Cooperative
Scott Graves, Terralogix

CC 165

3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 16th
10:00 AM

Cool Villages

Albert Bates, The Farm
Akira Shibata, Wood Carbonization Science Society
Steven McGreevy, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

CC 165

10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
1:30 PM

Synergistic Communities for Biochar

Albert Bates, The Farm
Jonathan Bates, Permaculture Nursery
Peter Hirst, New England Biochar

CC 165

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM