CONSORTIUM for ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP and SUSTAINABILITY (CESAS)

SPEAKERS’ BUREAU CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Ken Barnard, Professor, Aviation, KSU-Salina,
   Topics:
    • Environmental Ethics: Decision Making in Uncertain Times
    • Galaxy Gamble: An Interactive game to reduce your carbon
                 footprint
    • Climate Change: Are You Ready?
    • Why Sustainability Matters

Ken Barnard received his Bachelor of Science degree at Kansas State University, Master of Science degree at Pittsburg State University, and a Doctorate degree at Oklahoma State University in Aviation and Space. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army. Holds Federal Aviation Administration Airline Transport Ratings, Certified Flight Instructor in Airplanes and Helicopters is an Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic. He has many awards to include the Marchbanks Memorial award for Teaching Excellence at the university level, Wakonse Fellow for teaching innovation, the Kansas Governors Aviation Honor award, and the William Weatley award for Teaching Excellence and Contributions to Aviation Education at the National level. He is a lecturer of the President Lecture Series at Kansas State University on Climate Change. He has attended training at The Climate Project with scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He currently teaches Aviation Meteorology at K-State Salina.

Terrie Boguski, CHSR and Harmony Environmental
Topic: Developing Greenhouse Gas Inventories

This presentation gives an overview of how a greenhouse gas inventory is completed. The presentation covers the questions:
    • What are greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?
    • Why do we want to estimate GHG emissions?
    • How are GHG emissions estimated?

Websites to learn more about GHG inventories:

EPA Climate Leaders, http://www.epa.gov/climateleaders/
GHG Protocol, http://www.ghgprotocol.org/

For more information about Harmony Environmental, please click here.

Tonya Bronleewe, Extension Service
    Topics:
    • Everyday Living Green
      • Taking Children Outside

Ben Champion, Director of Sustainability, Assistant Professor
    of Geography, KSU
   Topics:
    • Universities and the Sustainability Movement
    • K-State Efforts in Sustainability
    • Past, Present, and Future of the Local Foods Movement
      • Struggles of Food Systems Organizing from the Ground Up:
              Farming, Distributing, Retailing, and Eating

Lisa Harrington, Professor, Geography, KSU
Topic: Introduction to Sustainability Concepts

John Harrington, Jr., Professor, Geography, KSU
Topic: Natural and Human-induced Climate Change

Rhonda Janke, Associate Professor - Horticulture, Forestry & |
Recreation, KSU
Topic: Local food

Ruth Miller, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU
Topic: Wind Energy

Ruth Douglas Miller directs the Kansas Wind Applications Center, which provides instruction in wind and solar energy technologies and system design to engineering students at KSU. It also oversees the Wind for Schools program in Kansas, which helps K-12 schools in the state install small wind turbines for educational purposes. Dr Miller will provide an overview of the progress of wind energy in the country and state in general, and/or a how-to tutorial on installing your own wind turbine for electricity generation.

For more information on Dr. Miller and wind energy, please visit www.ece.ksu.edu/~rdmiller and www.ece.ksu.edu/psg/wac

Jim Steichen, NILMT, Bio and Ag Engineering, KSU
    Topics:
    • Land sustainability
    • Water sustainability

Mike Steinke, Wind Energy Consulting and Contracting
Topic: Wind Energy