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Buffalo Convention Center
Time Track A Track B
9:30 Registration Opens
10:00 1A: Green Homes #1 – A 100% Solar Retrofit in Buffalo. 1B: Green Strategies for Businesses.
‐ Running a Buffalo Home on 100% Solar – Space & Water Moderator: Robert E. Knoer, Esq., The Knoer Group PLLC.
Heating & Electricity – How to Do It: Walter Simpson. Green strategies for businesses, NYSERDA incentives, policy
‐Is WNY in the Dark about Solar Energy? Meeting More changes and how they may affect business.
than 100% of Your Electric Needs with a 3kW PV Solar Panel: Katy Duggan‐Haas, Upstate Green Business
Array: Bill Henry. Network & Resource Recycling Systems; Linda Hardie,
NYSERDA.
11:00 2A: Green Homes #2 – Greening New & Old Homes. 2B: Green Commercial Buildings in WNY.
Moderator: Walter Simpson. Moderator: Roxanne Button, AIA, LEED AP, Architectural
‐Designing a High‐Performance Single Family Home – Resources & USGBC NY Upstate Chapter.
Energy Star & LEED Standards: Rick Alfandre, AIA, Alfandre Green Buildings – case studies, lessons learned, and moving
Architecture. green building forward in WNY.
‐Case Study: Adding Solar to an Historic Buffalo Home: Panel: Tracie Hall, Executive Director – NY Upstate
Tom Palamuso, Homeowner, & Nathan Rizzo, Solar Liberty. Chapter, USGBC; Mark Casell, Ecology & Environment; Tim
‐NYSERDA Incentives for Energy Conservation Retrofits Vaeth, Ciminelli Development.
Available to Homeowners, Lee Butler.
12:00 Lunch / Tour the Exhibit Hall
12:30 3A: Affordable Green Strategies for Your Home. 3B: Green Schools #1 – Student Projects & Initiatives.
Panel: Sam Magavern, UB Law Affordable Housing Clinic Moderator: David Bauer, Sustainable Earth Solutions Inc.,
and the Apollo HECK Program; PUSH Buffalo; Cyd Cox, BPI Environmental Youth Summit.
Contractor & Energy Consultant; and Rick Alfandre, AIA, ‐Nichols School Big Green Initiative: Tim Vanini.
Alfandre Architecture. ‐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. 4B: Green Schools #2 – Greener Facilities.
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint to Zero, led by Cyd Cox & Moderator: Roxanne Button, AIA, LEED AP, Architectural
Walter Simpson. 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. 5B: Green Architecture – Student Projects.
Overview of Campus Sustainability Issues: Walter Simpson Moderator: Dennis Andrejko, FAIA, UB School of
– an overview of what higher education is doing nationally Architecture.
to green operations & address climate change, with ‐Student Projects: from the UB School of Architecture.
presentations by local colleges. ‐Cornell University Solar Decathlon Team: presentation on
design for 2009 competition.
3:00 Break / Tour the Exhibit Hall
3:30 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.