Energy Hub is helping our friends at REthink Wisconsin with their Mugs on the Mall event to distribute free coffee and awareness about resource conservation.

Stop by Library Mall on Thursday, December 2 from 8:00am-11:00am for a free cup of coffee (if you bring a refillable container – no throwaway cups will be provided*).

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** visitors who don’t have a refillable container can receive a sweet eHub-branded thermos in exchange for joining our email list and signing the REthink Pledge (which says that you’ll use the refillable container instead of disposable containers whenever possible)**

Is the drab weather keeping you indoors in front of a TV or computer screen?  If so, this is a great time to augment your energy literacy by catching up on the energy lectures and programs that have happened right here at UW-Madison over the past year.

Energy Hub’s partner, Wisconsin Public Utility Institute, has an online archive of audio/video recordings of their top-quality programs dealing with various modern energy issues like electricity generation and transmission, fossil fuels, renewable energy, nuclear energy, climate change, EV-to-Grid strategies and more.

The screenshot shown above is from the archived talk with Dr. Gavin Schmidt, from his “Communicating Climate Science” lecture in March 2010:

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Thanks for visiting the 2010 Alternative Vehicle Expo!

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The Alt Vehicle Expo brings the newest available technologies and ideas for personal, public, and industrial transportation to Madison.   Attend to see hybrid-electric, plug-in electric,  and biofuel-powered cars and trucks, electric motorcycles and scooters, pedal-powered vehicles, and more!

UW student? Attend the 2010 Energy Hub Conference, “Moving Forward: Powering Our Transportation Future” on the same day.

Makes/Models to be showcased:

• smart USA fourtwo electric drive
• Toyota PHEV Prius
• Honda CR-Z
• Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sport Wagon
• Zero Motorcycles, Zero S
• Columbia ParCar/Ozee Cars
• Scooter Therapy – electric bikes and scooters!
• Madison Metro bike transporter demonstration rack
• UW Hybrid Vehicle Team Moovada
• Green Cab of Madison
• Community Car’s red Mini convertible

Plus Madison Gas and Electric will demo their EV Charging Station prototype!

Want to showcase your vehicle at the Alt Vehicle Expo?  Contact info@uwehub.org

Alt-Vehicle Show Location:

Monona Terrace Convention Center
One John Nolen Drive
Madison, WI 53703

The 2010 Energy Hub Conference is November 5, 2010 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in downtown Madison, WI.  This is our third annual conference and will focus on the energy impacts of transportation policy and technology.  The students-only conference will happen in tandem with a public Alternative Vehicle Expo in the lower Monona Terrace exhibition space.

The 2010 Conference is offered at no cost to UW-Madison students thanks to our generous sponsors. Online registration is CLOSED.

Registered attendees are eligible to win door prizes, including an Amazon Kindle (sponsored by Deloitte), a deluxe bike tune-up from Dream Bikes, a $20 ride card from Union Cab, a pair of round-trip tickets (Madison-Milwaukee) from Badger Bus, and more!

Learn more about the benefits of 2010 conference sponsorship.

Student Research Poster Exhibition:

At the conference, please visit our 2010 Student Research Poster Competition.  All accepted posters win $100 (20 posters accepted), and the best poster wins an additional $100!  Graduate and undergraduate students showcase their energy and environment-related research on campus.  The UW-Madison has a broad range of top-quality energy expertise on campus – we want to demonstrate our students’ capabilities at the 2010 Conference.

Conference Agenda:

Note: Agenda times subject to change

8:00am Doors open to students – registration check-in
8:45am Welcome and Introduction from the Energy Hub Team

9:00am    Mini-Lecture: The Supply Chain for Biomass Fuels
• Gary Radloff, Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative

9:20am    Panel Discussion: Alternative Fuel Strategies for Transportation
Moderator: Peter Taglia, Clean Wisconsin
• Francis Vogel, Milwaukee Clean Cities
• Tim Williams, Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
• John Greenler, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
• Dane Morgan, UW-Madison Materials Science
• representative TBA from Virent Energy Systems

11:00am   Keynote
• Skip Laitner, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
Keynote sponsored by the Wisconsin Experience Grant

1:00pm High Speed Rail Primer for Wisconsin and the Midwest
• John Oimoen, Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation

1:40pm Panel Discussion: EV-to-Grid, Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Corey Singletary, Energy Hub Alumni Advisor
• Guenter Conzelmann, Argonne National Laboratory
• David Toso, Madison Gas and Electric – EV charging station pilot program

3:30pm    Videoconference Keynote
• Saul Griffith, WattzOn.com founder and 2007 MacArthur Fellow

4:45pm   Closing Remarks, Research Poster Award Presentation

Conference Features:

• Keynote Presentations from transportation tech and policy experts
• Expert Panel Discussions (see agenda above)
• Student Research Poster Exposition
• Sponsor Showcase + Networking
• Alt Vehicle Exposition (see below)
• Post-Conference Reception

Energy Hub’s
Alternative Vehicle Expo is also November 5, 2010
11am-7pm
Open to the Public!

The Alt Vehicle Expo brings the  newest and best technologies and ideas for personal, public, and industrial transportation to Madison.   Attend to see hybrid-electric, plug-in electric,  and biofuel-powered cars and trucks, electric motorcycles and scooters, pedal-powered vehicles, and more!

Makes/Models to be showcased:
• smart USA fourtwo electric drive
• Toyota PHEV Prius
• Honda CR-Z
• Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sport Wagon
• Zero Motorcycles, Zero S
• Columbia ParCar/Ozee Cars
• Scooter Therapy – electric bikes and scooters!
• Madison Metro bike transporter demonstration rack
• UW Hybrid team’s Moovada project
• Green Cab of Madison
• Community Car’s red Mini convertible

Plus Madison Gas and Electric will demo their EV Charging Station prototype!

Want to showcase your vehicle at the Alt Vehicle Expo?  Contact info@uwehub.org

2010 Conference Sponsors

The Energy Hub team sincerely thanks our generous sponsors.

Gold Level
Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative
Alliant Energy

Silver Level
Exelon Corporation
Sandia National Labs

Bronze Level
Madison Gas & Electric
Xcel Energy
American Transmission Company
BP
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Wisconsin Public Service

UW-Madison Sponsoring Departments and Programs
College of Letters and Science
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and CFIRE
UW Experience Grant – Skip Laitner Keynote Sponsor
College of Engineering
LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Business, Environment, and Social Responsibility Program
UW-Madison Energy Institute

Learn about sponsorship of Energy Hub events

Conference Promo Flyer - Help us promote the 2010 Conference.
Print this PDF and post on a public bulletin board!

Download our Press Release for the Conference and Alt-Vehicle Expo

Lecture with Dr. W. Mark Nutt,
Argonne National Laboratory

Friday, Nov 19th, 3:30-5:30 PM
Room 1800 Engineering Hall, UW-Madison

Food will be provided!

Hosted by UW-Madison Women in Nuclear
contact: Sarah Khalil, skhalil@wisc.edu
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Madison Committee on Foreign Relations presents

Dr. Charlotte Streck
“Making Progress on Climate Change: the Prospects for the UN Cancun Meeting”

Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 5:30 pm
Edgewater Hotel
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Saul Griffith,

inventor, entrepreneur, renewable energy engineer, energy literacy advocate, bike-builder, and MacArthur Fellow isn’t going to visit Madison for the 2010 Energy Hub Conference.

But, he’s doing the next best thing by speaking to eHub via video over the internet, and saving a ton of energy while staying home in CA. (Per-person energy expenditure on a 2000-mile round-trip flight? Between 50-100 gallons of jet fuel.)

Saul will join Moving Forward attendees via remote-video on his assessment of how personal transportation and energy choices can play a big role in addressing global energy, climate and environment predicaments!

Click “more” to see Saul’s talk on the Colbert Report and other videos!
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The 2010 Energy Hub Conference was a big success!  Thanks for attending!

We’ll post pics and video soon, so please check back soon.

Help us plan the 2011 Conference – stop by our weekly meeting to get involved and make your mark on the next eHub event.

The Beehive Design Collective, artists/activists hailing from Machias, Maine, will present their new “True Cost of Coal” graphic! Through this giant graphic, they will teach the UW community about the horrors of mountaintop coal removal and the impacts of the coal industry on Appalachia and beyond. With discussions around tradition, labor, history, art & education, environment, economy, culture, activism, and hope, this presentation is not to miss!

Showing is Wednesday, October 20
7:00pm – 10:00pm
22 Ingraham Hall, University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
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