Conference Agenda

Tuesday, August 21

Wednesday, August 22

Thursday, August 23

Friday, August 24

1) Agriculture in Georgia
Topic Coordinator - Jeff Larson

2) Farming in Atlanta
Topic Coordinator - Susan Varlamoff

3) Clean Air Act Regulatory Update
Topic Coordinator - Max Zygmont

4) GHG Reporting Requirements
Topic Coordinator - Andrew Montgomery

5) Building Material Reuse in Georgia
Topic Coordinator - Heather Alhadeff

6) Energy and Water Efficiency (particularly via building retrofits)
Topic Coordinator - Clark Wisenbaker

7) Achieving Sustainable Development While Maintaining Quality of Life in Georgia’s Coastal Counties: Community, Economic, Environmental, and Climate Change Considerations
Topic Coordinator - Jeff King

8) Follow Up to Topic 6
Topic Coordinator - Jeff King

9) Compressed Natural Gas Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Topic Coordinator - Tricia Bonner

10) Plug-In Georgia - State of the State
Topic Coordinator - Don Francis

11) Cancelled

12) Survey of Georgia Successes in Clean Energy
Topic Coordinator - Lee Peterson

13) Secrets of Renewable Energy: The Real Truth
Topic Coordinator - Lee Peterson

14) Biomass in Georgia: Supply, Demand, and Sustainability
Topic Coordinator - Jill Stuckey

15) Power Generation in Georgia
Topic Coordinator - Jonathan Wells

16) Brownfields Part I - Case Studies from Georgia Communities
Topic Coordinator - Camilla Warren

17) Brownfields Part II - Georgia Brownfields Association
Topic Coordinator - Jim Kutzman

18) Brownfields Part III - Case Studies from Georgia Communities
Topic Coordinator - Camilla Warren

19) Georgia's Voluntary Remediation Program - Lessons Learned with Experience
Topic Coordinator - Max Zygmont

20) Economic Benefits of Land Conservation
Topic Coordinator - Will Wingate

21) Military Installations Environmental Initiatives; Greening the DoD – Energy and Sustainability (combined with Marshall's)
Topic Coordinator - John Brent

22) Transportation's role in shaping the built environment and the economic development
Topic Coordinator - Heather Alhadeff

23) Transportation projects to improve and mitigate storm water run off.
Topic Coordinator - Heather Alhadeff

24) Transportation SPLOST, what will this mean for Georgia’s Environment?
Topic Coordinator - Gregg Hudduck

25) EPD Branch Updates - Session I
Topic Coordinator - Nils Thompson

26) EPD Branch Updates - Session II
Topic Coordinator - Jonathan Wells

27) Local Municipal Update
Topic Coordinator - Diana Trettin

28) Case Study: Savannah Harbor Expansion Project
Topic Coordinator - Carol Bernstein

29) Georgia's Legislative Update
Topic Coordinator - Todd Edwards

30) Development and Implications of Green and Sustainable Remediation Strategies
Topic Coordinator - John Jolly

31) Opportunities in the Green Jobs Sectors
Topic Coordinator - Lee Peterson

32) Health Cost Impacts and Economic Development
Topic Coordinator - Lee Peterson

33) Subsidies Using a Holistic Approach
Topic Coordinator - Lee Peterson

34) Sustainability Using a Holistic Approach
Topic Coordinator - Charity Teamer

35) RCRA
Topic Coordinator - Adam Sowatzka

36) Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Stakeholders and Resolving the Tri-State Water Conflict.
Topic Coordinator - Thomas Singleton

37) Water Policy in Georgia - Forcing Supply and Demand to Meet
Topic Coordinator - Max Zygmont

38) Reservoir Financing (Bonds, Public-Private Partnerships, or Something Else?)
Topic Coordinator - Rick Brownlow

39) Development of Alternative Water Sources to meet Georgia's Demand
Topic Coordinator - John Clarke

40) Emerging Contaminants in Groundwater and Implications to Industry in Georgia
Topic Coordinator - John Jolly

41) Water Management Practices
Topic Coordinator - Jeff Larson

42) Stormwater
Topic Coordinator - Adam Sowatzka

43) Wetlands Regulatory Update
Topic Coordinator - Carol Bernstein

44) Environment, Economy, Science, and the Golf Industry
Topic Coordinator - Jeff Larson