Once Upon a College: Energy Summit April 3rd

Monday, March 24, 2008

Energy Summit April 3rd

The Governor’s Energy Efficiency Summit: Reducing Business Costs through Energy Savings.
Governor John Baldacci is hosting this event to help businesses, towns and others to use energy more efficiently to reduce energy costs. The summit will demonstrate real successes, tools, ideas and resources. It is sponsored by the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the Maine Chamber of Commerce and other prominent businesses and conservation groups. This event is ideal for small businesses, large commercial or industrial facilities, municipalities, and other public/non-profit institutions. The Governor will speak and members of his cabinet and top advisors will participate.

When: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.Where: Augusta Civic Center, 76 Community Drive, Augusta (Click here for directions)Get there efficiently - carpool if you can. Click here for potential drivers and riders attending this event.
See, discuss, discover and learn at the Summit:

Hear from Keynote Speaker Thomas R. Casten - expert with thirty years experience in energy efficiency and energy recycling, author of Turning Off the Heat, and founder and CEO of Trigen Energy Corporation and Primary Energy Ventures LLC.

Learn How to Make Energy Efficiency Work for Your Business at Sessions On: Success Stories, Financing Efficiency Investment, Practical Options for Energy Efficiency in Small Businesses, Energy Efficiency in Large Commercial and Industrial Businesses, Job Opportunities in Energy Efficiency, and more.

Tour the Energy Expo - see and discuss cutting edge energy-efficient technologies and services.
Attend the Panel Discussion “Making it Happen: Resources and Actions” - Discover how government, business, and environmental organizations are working together to help Maine businesses save money and energy.

How to Register:Visit the Governor’s website to find out more and register here!Deadline is Wednesday, March 26th!

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A long time ago, in an educational universe far away and almost certain never to return, the professors of a certain small college experimented with experiential learning and taught their students not just to "read, write, think, and figure", but also to do practical things with that learning. Educational theory and research results from Kurt Hahn to modern scholars suggests strongly that experiential learning works better, particularly for active young people. It also matters greatly that young people have the physical and mental confidence to do something positive with their learning, particularly to make social and environmental change, in other words, to lead. This kind of confidence comes with physical challenge and being made to defend your ideas out loud, among other things. The small college was built around these ideas, deliberately, by a group of determined and innovative educators. With this success, along came the inevitable bean-counters who believed such a valuable education was way too expensive for those students. Wanting to keep more of the students' money (to pay their six figure salaries, of course), they cut the programs the first chance they got and went all-online where the teaching help is way cheaper and less demanding of budgets for tools and materials. I happen to think it was well worth the investment for any student who really engaged with the opportunity, but... bean counters gonna count beans. So the college is, for all useful purposes, gone, or at least changed beyond all recognition and not any good at teaching anyone anything practical at all. But the memories remain. And, despite the best efforts of the new administrators to erase them, so does quite a bit of open-source computer data to remind us of those memories, in the form of this and several other blogs and video pages online. In the case of this blog, the blog data were mine, not the college's, all along, even though they tried many times to get their cold dead bean-counter hands on them. So fuck 'em. Oh, and yes, this particular professor cusses more now that I don't have to worry about pointy-headed supervisors. Fuck them too. Enjoy. And remember, llegitimi non carborundum. If you're one of our former students and looking for stories you wrote or photographs or records of projects you worked on, just use the keyword search function or the chronological record to find your projects. They're all still here. Drop me a line using the comments section. I'd love to hear from you.

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