SOLAR 2009 Public Day Program ‐ Saturday, May 16, 2009 Buffalo Convention Center Time
Track A
9:30
Track B Registration Opens
10:00 1A: Green Homes #1 – A 100% Solar Retrofit in Buffalo. ‐ Running a Buffalo Home on 100% Solar – Space & Water Heating & Electricity – How to Do It: Walter Simpson. ‐Is WNY in the Dark about Solar Energy? Meeting More than 100% of Your Electric Needs with a 3kW PV Solar Array: Bill Henry.
1B: Green Strategies for Businesses. Moderator: Robert E. Knoer, Esq., The Knoer Group PLLC. Green strategies for businesses, NYSERDA incentives, policy changes and how they may affect business. Panel: Katy Duggan‐Haas, Upstate Green Business Network & Resource Recycling Systems; Linda Hardie, NYSERDA.
11:00 2A: Green Homes #2 – Greening New & Old Homes. Moderator: Walter Simpson. ‐Designing a High‐Performance Single Family Home – Energy Star & LEED Standards: Rick Alfandre, AIA, Alfandre Architecture. ‐Case Study: Adding Solar to an Historic Buffalo Home: Tom Palamuso, Homeowner, & Nathan Rizzo, Solar Liberty. ‐NYSERDA Incentives for Energy Conservation Retrofits Available to Homeowners, Lee Butler.
2B: Green Commercial Buildings in WNY. Moderator: Roxanne Button, AIA, LEED AP, Architectural Resources & USGBC NY Upstate Chapter. Green Buildings – case studies, lessons learned, and moving green building forward in WNY. Panel: Tracie Hall, Executive Director – NY Upstate Chapter, USGBC; Mark Casell, Ecology & Environment; Tim Vaeth, Ciminelli Development.
12:00
Lunch / Tour the Exhibit Hall
12:30 3A: Affordable Green Strategies for Your Home. Panel: Sam Magavern, UB Law Affordable Housing Clinic and the Apollo HECK Program; PUSH Buffalo; Cyd Cox, BPI Contractor & Energy Consultant; and Rick Alfandre, AIA, Alfandre Architecture.
3B: Green Schools #1 – Student Projects & Initiatives. Moderator: David Bauer, Sustainable Earth Solutions Inc., Environmental Youth Summit. ‐Nichols School Big Green Initiative: Tim Vanini. ‐Student Projects – Nichols School, Tapestry Charter School, and Aurora Waldorf School: student presentations on solar and composting projects.
1:30
4A: Living a Low Carbon Lifestyle. Reducing Your Carbon Footprint to Zero, led by Cyd Cox & Walter Simpson.
4B: Green Schools #2 – Greener Facilities. Moderator: Roxanne Button, AIA, LEED AP, Architectural Resources & USGBC NY Upstate Chapter. Green Buildings – case studies, lessons learned: bringing environmental issues into design, renovation & construction of schools in WNY. Panel: Diane Brandli – Green Schools Advocate, NY Upstate Chapter, USGBC; Bill Zografos, Cannon Design; Paul McDonnell, Buffalo Public Schools; Michael Anderson, Architectural Resources.
2:15
5A: Campus Green – Colleges & Universities. Overview of Campus Sustainability Issues: Walter Simpson – an overview of what higher education is doing nationally to green operations & address climate change, with presentations by local colleges.
5B: Green Architecture – Student Projects. Moderator: Dennis Andrejko, FAIA, UB School of Architecture. ‐Student Projects: from the UB School of Architecture. ‐Cornell University Solar Decathlon Team: presentation on design for 2009 competition.
3:00
3:30
Break / Tour the Exhibit Hall
KEYNOTE EVENT: Rustbelt to Greenbelt – Creating Green Markets & Jobs in Western New York Moderator: Bill Nowak Advancing Solar and Renewables – a panel featuring Senator Antoine Thompson, Laura Briggs AIA (Parsons New School for Design, NYC), and other guests will discuss the future of green jobs and industries in Western New York.