Photo Credit: www.denverzoo.org

This presentation will describe Denver Zoo’s efforts to become the greenest zoo in the world through systematic planning and creative innovation, including ISO 14001 and on site waste to energy conversion using gasification. Sustainability is fundamental to conservation and a Denver Zoo’s mission, to “secure a better world for animals through human understanding”.  Denver Zoo has been an industry leader in sustainable zoo operations for many years, and now has created several innovations that will have an impact beyond zoos.

For a look at the entire WERF 2012 program click here.

Photo Source: National Geographic

National Geographic recently highlighted the good deeds of Linkin Park, the Rock Band from California that has been around since 1996. They rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory in 2000. Twelve years later, in the aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti, Linkin Park is taking their “Hybrid Theory” to a whole new level. With a huge social media following, Linkin Park launched their campaign Power the World, giving thousands of Solar light bulbs to Families in Haiti.

1.3 billion people currently live in the dark. If you want to help Linkin Park power the world by giving families in need access to sustainable energy sources donate today. You can also learn more about Sustainable Energy For All, a project that was recently launched by the United Nations Secretary-General.

There will be an international track at the upcoming WREF 2012 conference that will feature other great projects going on in the international landscape. Learn more.

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Professional members of ASES are encouraged to participate in Division activities related to their field.  Each division holds a business meeting at the annual conference.

Here is the schedule of meetings to be held at the World Renewable Energy Forum, May 13 – 17, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.

• Conference Registration is required to attend in person.
• All  meetings will take place at the Colorado Convention Center.

• 501(c)3 Nonprofit organizations
• Business or trade associations
• Universities or schools
• ASES Chapters
• LinkedIn groups
• Advocacy groups
  

When you qualify as a participating organization, we will:

• Recognize your organization’s participation on the WREF website
• Provide a discount code for your members to use.

To become a participating organization you agree to:

• Put a button on your site that links to the WREF website
• Promote attendance at WREF to your members via email and other tools that you use

Click here to get started!

During his talk, Why I Must Speak Out on Climate Change, this scientist turned civil disobedient spoke quite eloquently and passionately about climate change, urging policy makers to make changes quickly to save the planet for our children and grandchildren. We agree that climate change is an important subject and we have a track at WREF 2012 that is devoted to the subject of climate change. Click to learn more about WREF 2012.

Photo: James Duncan Davidson

Barbara Farhar, PhD

A one-day workshop, “Engaging Women in Clean Energy Solutions,” will emphasize energy, poverty, and gender issues in the developing world.

The workshop will be held Sunday, 13 May 2012, at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA. An intensive focus on energy and gender will jump-start the conference week throughout which the Energy and Gender (EG) Section is organizing technical sessions and forums on energy and gender issues. Dr. Michelle Bachelet, Director of UN Women, has been invited to keynote the workshop and to address the Forum’s first plenary session. The Workshop will be opened by Professor Ali Sayigh, Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN).

Key issues will include energy as women’s business, cooking and electrification, methods for women’s inclusion in clean energy solutions, and climate and energy justice. A technical committee, chaired by Dr. Barbara Farhar, Ph.D. of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), is developing the workshop as well as WREF’s EG section.

WREF2012 will focus on how renewable energy technology can address the world’s economic, environmental, and security challenges from an international perspective as well as explore what it will take to integrate renewables into the world’s energy infrastructure on a much larger scale. This international conference gathers the world’s top energy experts in covering research, technology transfer, manufacturing, installation, utilities, environment, policy, professional education, workforce development, consumer education, and small-scale distributed technologies.

Since WREF2012 will take place just one month before the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio+20), it provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of renewable energy in building a green economy, one of the key themes of Rio+20. It can also support the goals of the UN’s global campaign on Sustainable Energy for All by 2030.

This workshop on Engaging Women in Clean Energy Solutions will identify specific examples of gender-sensitive energy access initiatives and policies that support women’s economic empowerment, improve food security and water management, facilitate a widespread transition to low-emission energy technologies, conserve critical ecosystems, and promote successful adaptation to changing climate conditions.

WREF 2012 is being organized by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), and is supported by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) and the Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES). The EG Section is also being sponsored by the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

WREF2012 comes at a watershed moment in the evolution of energy sourcing. Renewable energy sources are now crossing over the grid-parity divide into mainstream use throughout the world. The Forum will examine how renewable and sustainable energy technologies address the world’s economic, environmental, and security challenges at every scale from off-grid villages to gigawatt power plants.

The EG section will also present technical sessions and forums focusing on the role of women in science and technology.

The workshop may be added to a conference registration for an additional $50, or may be purchased separately as a stand-alone event. Click here to register.

Register today at WREF2012.org!