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A symposium on Thursday, Oct. 11, and Friday, Oct. 12, at Dartmouth will
examine how engineers, educators, business people, and policy makers can work
together to make clean, renewable forms of energy a reality.
 Lisa
Margonelli
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Lee Lynd,
professor of engineering and chair of the symposium’s organizing committee,
says he hopes to pack the symposium sessions with students, faculty, staff, and
community members. “I hope [attendees] will gain appreciation for how important
and pervasive energy-related challenges are.”
He also hopes, he says, that participants will be reminded that the
“greenest” energy choice is to use as little as possible, through efficiency
and conservation—no matter how clean or renewable that energy may be. “I hope
they go away from this seminar understanding that all of us make choices that
determine whether we, collectively, do or do not respond to the challenges we
face. It is difficult and maybe impossible to solve the world’s energy problems
without a behavioral component, especially if we are planning for a world that
doesn’t have a majority of its population living in poverty.”
The symposium opens with a keynote speech by Lisa Margonelli, a popular
speaker and author of Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the
Pipeline, which was the summer reading selection for the Class of 2011, on
Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in Cook Auditorium in the Murdough Center.
The event continues Friday, Oct. 12, in Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall,
starting at 8:30 a.m. with panel discussions and speeches throughout the day
addressing energy issues as they relate to the environment, science and
technology, policy and government, and business. Panelists and speakers will
include educators, business people, and policy experts from Dartmouth, northern
New England, and elsewhere in the nation, among them former U.S. Senator and
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); Jason Grumet, director of the National Commission on Energy
Policy; and Dan Reicher, director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives
for Google.org.
The symposium concludes with a panel discussion and workshop at 6 p.m.
addressing the opportunities and responsibilities of Dartmouth College in the
energy sphere.
The event is free and open to the public, although seating is limited and
attendees are encouraged to register in advance. Registration forms and the
complete schedule are
online or by calling 646-2674.
The event is being sponsored by Thayer School of
Engineering in collaboration with the Tuck School of Business, the Rockefeller Center, the
Office of the Dean of the Faculty of
the Arts and Sciences, and the Environmental Studies Program.
BY REBECCA BAILEY
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