John Denver's
Presents"New Choices for Your Future" Symposium 2006October 2, 2006
Snowmass Village, CO
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
An
environmental education symposium
for students, teachers and the public!
- As an audience member in Snowmass, CO
for the opportunity to be educated, inspired and entertained by our outstanding group of presenters. Register Now!
- View Symposium via the Internet / Dish Network
October 2, 2006
Join us in one of two ways:
(more speakers to be announced...stay tuned!)
John Coonrod |
John Coonrod is one of the original volunteer leaders and currently Vice-president of The Hunger Project. John has been instrumental in the formulation and management of the Africa Prize and the development of the Strategic Planning-in-Action, and in charge of communications. John was trained as a physicist at Stanford and Berkeley, during which time he was active in the civil rights and anti-war movement. He also worked as a research physicist at Princeton University. As a physicist, he was involved in the design and construction of the High-Energy Astronomical Observatory satellite and the first-whole body CAT scanner. |
Lyle Estill |
Lyle Estill calls himself the "Vice-president of Stuff" for the Piedmont Befouls Cooperative which he co-founded in Moncure, N.C. Through his participation in the alternative energy production, Lyle is one of today's godfathers of the biodiesel movement. He teaches an energy class, runs a highly successful energy blog, co-owns a Canadian alternative energy company, and has been a computer and software entrepreneur. He has a recently published book, Biodiesel Power: The Passion, the People, and the Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel, which has been described as "part journalism, part storytelling, and part speculation on an industry that is not yet fully birthed." Lyle Estill promises to be an informative and comical historian of the biodiesel journey. Lyle's search for sustainability puts him in the pulpit for energy reform. |
Dr. June Scobee Rodgers | Dr. June Scobee Rodgers is the widow of Challenger Space Shuttle 51-L's Commander, Dick Scobee. She is the founding chair of Challenger Center for Space Science Education, an organization conceived and founded by June and the other family members 20 years ago to continue the educational mission of the ill-fated Challenger flight. June is a lifetime educator and is proud to acknowledge that she has taught every grade from kindergarten through college. At the time of the Challenger explosion, June was serving as chair of the gifted and talented department of the University of Houston Clear Lake. In addition, she is a noted author of Silver Linings which commemorates the dedication of purpose and resiliency of the human spirit. June spends much of her time working with the over 50 Challenger Learning Centers which have become models for change and educational reform in math and science. |
Dr. Reese Halter | Dr. Reese Halter is an award-winning conservation biologist, research scientist, children's book author, family man, the host of Dr Reese's Planet, and founder and president of Global Forest Science. With an international multidisciplinary team of 140 scientists, Global Forest Science is a world leader in forest science research and has often been likened to the Red Adair's of the forest biology world. Global Forest Science's many victories range from legislation to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia, protection of the world's largest ant colony, opening an international insect quarantine facility to helping to save New Zealand's multi billion dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth. |
Joanie
Klar Bruce | Joanie is a social architect, media producer and founder of "Integrated Sustainable Solutions, identifying and integrating the 'best practices" of the "practical visionaries" of the green movement and holistic global health arenas. Living on 4 continents and in many tribal cultures for more than half of her life, Joanie has developed projects that support sustainable development, empowering woman, indigenous people, health and experiential education. She has been a prominent board member of International Bamboo Foundation, Native Voices Foundation and Global Health Alliance. In May 2003, she received an eco-ward at the UN for her efforts in sustainable development. |
John Sagebiel |
Dr. John Sagebiel is the Environmental Affairs Manager for the University of Nevada, Reno where he is responsible for working to reduce the University's ecological impact, and insuring compliance with environmental regulations. He holds a doctorate in Environmental Chemistry and a bachelor's degree in Environmental Toxicology, both from UC Davis, and a LEED Accredited Professional certificate from the US Green Building Council. He spent 14 years at the Desert Research Institute doing research primarily on air pollution. More recent work focused on alternative fuels, alternative energy and sustainability issues. He and his wife developed a sustainable zero-net-energy home in Reno that he continues to monitor and study. |