The Plain Green Conference and Marketplace is two days of advancing sustainability on the Northern Plains.
Connect, learn and take action with hundreds of other attendees and star-power keynotes, plus green exhibitors and two days of workshops and breakouts. The region’s premiere event on green design, business and ideas will be held at the historic Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Downtown Sioux Falls April, 2011.
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The 2010 Lineup
Pre-Conference: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
| Time | Events | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00a-4:00p | Community Project: Straw Bale Shed at Summit House*, sponsored by Puetz Corporation | Joyce Coppinger |
Pre-Conference: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
| Time | Events | Speakers | |
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| 8:00a-4:00p | Community Project: Straw Bale Shed at Summit House*, sponsored by Puetz Corporation | Joyce Coppinger | |
| 8:00a-4:00p | Full-day Pre-conference Workshops* (details here) |
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| • | US Green Building Council’s LEED Core Concepts and Strategies at Museum of Visual Materials. Separate registration required here. | Brian Dunbar | |
| • | Designing a Home-Scale Food Forest Cancelled | Karl Schmidt | |
| • | Concepts in Sustainability | Doug Raynie | |
| 8:00a-11:30p | Morning Pre-conference Workshops* (details here) |
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| • | Protecting Open Space Networks through Conservation Design, sponsored by SD Planners Association and APA West Central Chapter | Randall Arendt | |
| • | Post-Copenhagen Report: What New Climate Legislation Means for SD Cancelled | Jamie Horter and Matt McGovern | |
| 12:30p-4:00p | Afternoon Pre-conference Workshops* (details here) |
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| • | Transforming Highway Commercial Strips into Mixed-Use Corridors, sponsored by SD Planners Association and APA West Central Chapter |
Randall Arendt | |
| • | Wear-Ever Green Fashion and Re-Purposeful Living sponsored by Institute of Design and Technology of SD | Anita Kealey | |
*Separate registration required for these pre-conference events
Opening Night: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
| Time | Events | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00p | Welcome and Conference Opening | Stacey McMahan and Jane Hegland |
| 5:15p | Special Presentation: J Lohr Vineyards and Wines’ Journey Towards Ever-Greater Sustainability | Brian Thompson |
| 5:35p | Opening Keynote: Twelve Terrific Tools to Help Us Save the Planet and Set Us Free sponsored by Argus Leader Tour de Kota | Steve Clark |
| 6:30p-9:00p | Marketplace Grand Opening Party co-sponsored by Johnson Controls, Inc, and Argus Leader Media |
Thursday, April 29, 2010
| Time | Events | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:15a | VIP Breakfast, sponsored by SD State University Office of the President and SDSU Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability Committee | ||
| 7:30a | Registration and Continental Breakfast sponsored by Henry Carlson Company, Trane and Submittal Exchange | ||
| 7:30a-3:30p | Marketplace Exhibits Open | ||
| 8:15a | Morning Welcome and Announcements | Jane Hegland and Stacey McMahan | |
| 8:25a | Welcome and Comments | David L. Chicoine | |
| 8:40a | Keynote: Can Green Buildings Cool a Hotter World? sponsored by Gage Brothers Concrete | Brian Dunbar | |
| 9:45a | Networking BREAK sponsored by Associated Consulting Engineering Inc. and O’Connor Company | ||
| 10:05a-11:10a | Keynote: Future Carborexic Cities sponsored by Lloyd Companies | Mitchell Joachim | |
| 11:20a-12:05p | Morning Concurrent Breakout Sessions (details here) | ||
| • | Building With Bales, sponsored by Koch Hazard Architects | Joyce Coppinger | |
| • | Greening Existing Buildings and Green Audits sponsored by O’Connor Company and Associated Consulting Engineering Inc. | Mike Twedt | |
| • | Communicating Green sponsored by Howalt+McDowell Insurance | Nathan Schock | |
| • | Xeriscaping and Harvesting Rain Water | Paul Clinton | |
| • | Global Warming: What Can Old Ice from Antarctica Tell Us? | Jihong Cole-Dai | |
| 12:10p | Luncheon: Eco Fashion and Local Eats sponsored by Sioux Falls Green Project, with local foods and special eco-fashion show by Institute of Design and Technology of SD | ||
| 1:30p-2:15p | Afternoon Concurrent Breakout Sessions (details here) | ||
| • | Special Session: ASHRAE Standard 189.1: High Performance Green Buildings sponsored by Direct Digital Control, Climate Systems and ASHRAE SD. | Doug Zentz | |
| • | The Future of Renewable Energy sponsored by POET | Dusty Johnson, Doug Berven and Michael Ropp | |
| • | Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Community Change | Tim Olsen | |
| • | So, You Get to Where the EPA Hat… | DJ Mittan | |
| • | Environmental Stewardship and the World’s Poor | Mitchell Hescox | |
| 2:20p | Local Sustainability Showcase | ||
| • | Community Service Project 2010: Building a Strawbale Tool Library | Whitney Parks | |
| • | SDSU Sierra Club: Composting in the Cafeteria | Kayla Miller | |
| • | Avera Cancer Institute: A Leap Forward in Green Healthcare | Dick Molseed | |
| 3:10p | Networking BREAK sponsored by Xcel Energy, Perspective Architecture Design Studio, and SD Interior Designers | ||
| 3:30p | Keynote: When Sustainability is a Matter of Survival sponsored by Avera Cancer Institute | Cameron Sinclair | |
| 4:40p-5:30p | Closing Panel: Q+A with the Keynotes, hosted by Brian Dunbar | Brian Dunbar, Cameron Sinclair, Mitchell Joachim and Steve Clark | |
| 5:30p | Closing Party: Green Drinks at Monk’s House of Ale Repute, co-sponsored by Howalt+McDowell Insurance and Mt. Pleasant Cemetery |
Note: All events will take place at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science unless otherwise noted. Speaker schedule is subject to change any time.
