Energy Fair Keynotes & Workshops

2009 Energy Fair Workshops

Workshops are offered in a variety of areas.

SCHEDULE AVAILABLE

The full Energy Fair Workshop Schedule is available for download. Click HERE to download the full workshop schedule and descriptions.

Please email the MREA if you would like a complete Energy Fair Program Guide mailed directly to you.

EDUCATOR TENT

The Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) is proud to announce that they are again hosting the Educator Tents at the Energy Fair which are designed especially for teachers—formal, non-formal, and homeschool. The Educator Tent workshop topics parallel other sessions held during the Fair and are enriched with strategies to teach others what you are learning. You can also experience renewable energy and energy efficiency first-hand through hands-on educational materials on display. Visit the tents and learn how you can win fun, energy-related resources.

Attention Wisconsin K-12 classroom teachers! KEEP is offering one-credit graduate courses at the Energy Fair. For more information on how to sign up for these courses, visit the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) web site and click on Professional Development. These courses are limited, so sign up today!

2009 Energy Fair Keynotes:

Antonia Juhasz is an author and political activist. She was the author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time in 2006, Alternatives to Economic Globalization for which she received the 2004 Project Censored award. In 2008, she published The Tyranny of Oil. For more information on Antonia and her lasted book, visit her website HERE.

Saturday, June 20 at 1 pm
Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman spoke at the 10th Anniversary Energy Fair, and we’re happy to have him join us another ten years later to celebrate our progress and help us look forward to another 20 years.

Alan Weisman is an author and journalist whose reports from around the world have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Wilson Quarterly, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Discover, and more.

His most recent book, The World Without Us, (a staff favorite) is a bestseller, and was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by both Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Get details HERE

Sunday, June 21 at 1 pm
Wendy Williams

Wendy Williams, an is the author of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. The Wall Street Journal called Cape Wind "a ripe subject, populated with the sort of people who would be among the first to count themselves as friends of the Earth but the last to accept an environmentally friendly energy source if it meant the slightest cloud on their ocean views."

Williams has written for many major publications, including Scientific American, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Providence Journal and The Baltimore Sun. She has been journalist-in-residence at Duke University and at the Hasting Center. The author of several books, she lives on Cape Cod.