Monona Terrace Convention Center, Friday, April 20, 2007
8:00 AM
Registration check-in
8:30 AM
Call to order by Pete Nowak, Academic Programs Chair, Nelson Institute
8:35 AM
Welcome by Lewis Gilbert, Associate Director, Nelson Institute
8:40 AM
Opening remarks by Judy Ziewacz, Executive Director, Wisconsin Office of Energy Independence
9:00 AM
Plenary Address: Craig Cox, Executive Director, Soil and Water Conservation Society – "Energy, Water, and
the Environment: The Conservation Imperative in Agricultural Landscapes"
9:40 AM
Break in Exhibit Hall
10:10 AM
Rod Nilsestuen, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection - "
Issues Facing the Working Lands of Wisconsin"
10:50 AM
Concurrent Sessions
- Dust Clouds on the Horizon: How to Avoid the Soil-for-Oil Trade-Off (Dan Cotter, District Conservationist, Lafayette County; Patrick Murphy, State
Resource Conservationist; and Judy Derricks, State Agronomist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
- Water Quality Implications of Corn Ethanol (Jim Baumann, Bureau Director Special Assistant, Watershed Management, DNR)
- Community-Scale Bio-Energy Projects (Lisa MacKinnon, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin; Jamie Derr, Great Lakes Biofuels)
- Cellulosic Ethanol: The Way Forward (Tom Jeffries, Forest Products Laboratory
Noon
Lunch: Keynote Address. UW-Madison Professor Jon Foley, "Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and
Opportunities for a Sustainable Future"; (Lunch is complimentary)
1:10 PM
Concurrent Sessions
- Dust Clouds on the Horizon: How to Avoid the Soil-for-Oil Trade-Off (Dan Cotter, District Conservationist, Lafayette County; Patrick Murphy, State
Resource Conservationist; and Judy Derricks, State Agronomist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
- Water Quality Implications of Corn Ethanol (Jim Baumann, Bureau Director Special Assistant, Watershed Management, DNR)
- Switch Grass as a Fossil Fuel Supplement (Kim Zuhlke, Vice President of New Energy Resources, Alliant Energy)
- Keeping Our Working Lands at Work: The Promise of Biofuels (Gary Radloff, Director of Policy and Strategic
Communications, DATCP;
Matt Johnston, Ph.D. candidate, land resources/energy analysis and policy, Nelson Institute, UW-Madison; Brett Hulsey,
President, Better Environmental Solutions)
2:10 PM
Break in Exhibit Hall
2:30 PM
Panel on Sustaining the Wisconsin Landscape: Biofuels Challenges and Opportunities, Moderator:
Steve Born
(emeritus professor, urban and regional planning and environmental studies, UW-Madison)
- Rep. Eugene Hahn, Chair, Assembly Committee on Biofuels and Sustainable Energy
- Todd Ambs, Water Division Administrator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Nino Amato, Government Relations and Policy Development Specialist, Wisconsin Farmers Union
- Steve Hiniker, Executive Director, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin
- Randy Cortright, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Virent Energy Systems, Inc.
