Talks and Workshops

Friday, October 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MUEN E0046

How Action-Based School Learning Projects Can Connect With and Empower Your Sustainable Development Projects

Thursday, October 2, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., DUAN G1B20

Organic Bazaars as a Tool for Sustainable Development

Saturday, October 4, 1:30 - 3:30pm, DUAN G125

Practical solutions through low-tech solar cookers, water pasteurizers and other sustainable devices – Experiences and strategies in Nepal, (and Mongo

Preserving and Building on Traditional Skills

CU Biodiesel Fueling The Future

Video: Reclaiming Water, People do not drink words.

Phytoremediaiton: A Low-Cost, Sustainable Technology for Environmental Clean-Up

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., MUEN E0046

Engineering Education: Integrating the Humanities and Service Learning to Advance Sustainable Development

Community Productive Use Platform

Solar Cookers and Fuel-Efficient Stoves

Sustainable Development Today: the Monetary Dimension

Permaculture- Understanding its Roots

The VitaGoat: A Food Processing System for Nutrition and Micro-enterprise Development

Saturday, October 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m., MUEN 431

Renewing the Spirit of Community

Thursday, October 2, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., MUEN E0046

Development Education In Engineering: The Experience of Ingegneria senza Frontiere

Sustaining the Bering: International Cooperation in a Global Ecosystem

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., DUAN G1B20

Sustainable Economic Development Planning Framework

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., MUEN E0046

Joint Development of a Master’s Program on Sustainability in Europe and Asia

Saturday, October 4, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. DUAN G1B30

Sustainable Housing Efforts for the 21st Century – a Whole Community Approach

Thursday, October 2, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, MUEN E0046

Tools for Teachers: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Education Reform in Uganda

Saturday, October 4th, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MUEN E0046

Ecovillages and Social Change

Friday, October 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. DUAN G1B30

Designing the Urban and Industrial Watershed

Cultural Preservation and Community Knowledge in Tibet and the Himalayas using Digital Technology

Friday, October 3, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. MUEN E113

The Developing World can have Affordable, Safe, Healthy, Reliable, Efficient and Green Solid State Home Lighting!

Zero Emissions: Practical Solutions for Eliminating the Concept of Waste

Saturday, October 4th, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. MUEN E050

Managing Projects in the Developing World

Friday, October 3rd, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. RAMY C250

Twenty Five Years Developing Vernacular Stoves

Rural Electrification in Developing Countries

Saturday, October 4, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MUEN E431

Addressing the Children's Traumas

Sustainable Micro-farming

Saturday, October 4, 1:30-3:30p.m. RAMY C250

How a Non-Profit Uses Chocolate and ecotourism for Sustainability

Advancing Sustainability Through Innovative Approaches

Computing in the Developing World - Success in Nepal

Clean Energy: The challenges and opportunities in Brazil

Brazilian Awareness on Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility

More Food Equals More Forest - a sustainable model for rural development in the tropics

Power systems in rural Africa

Thursday, October 2, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., DUAN G1B20

The Keystone – Mexico Partnership for Prosperity Project

Saturday, October 4, 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. MUEN E432

Capacity-Building for Basic Sanitation Services in Low-Income Communities

Saturday, October 4, 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. MUEN E113

The Solar Entrepreneurs Handbook

Poverty Alleviation using Integrated Waste Management & Farming Systems

Technology for human development: Sustainable management of geothermal resources in South Peru

Friday, October 3, 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. MUEN E113

The Outline of a Solution

Creating High Performance Learning Environments

Ecovillages and Social Change

Saturday, October 4th, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. DUAN G1B20

Grassroots Strategies for Generating the Political Will to End Hunger andPoverty - And Beyond

Evolving Patterns Of Infrastructure-Related Environmental Pollution In Developing Countries

The Macroeconomics of Sustainable Development: Is It Possible To Eliminate Poverty and Increase Economic Growth Without Harming The Environment?

How the Earth Charter Addresses the Interconnected Factors of World Poverty

Saturday, October 4, 1:30 - 3:30p.m. DUAN G1B300

GIMMIE SHELTER: Solving the Global Housing Shortage

Renewable Energy in Action: Snapshots from Nepal

Development of a Model Sustainable Village in China

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., DUAN G1B20

Sustainable Micro Enterprise Development

Sustainable Urban Revitalization

Rethinking Poverty by Living Rich and Living Well

Friday, October 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. DUAN G1B20

Crossing Frontiers: Building Powerful North-South Solidarity Movements for Corporate Accountability

Saturday, October 4, 10:00 am - 12:00 p.m. DUAN G125

MiniFarms

Integral Design and Eco-Psychology: Becoming Nature Working

Intentional Communities for the Poor

Saturday, October 4, 1:30 - 3:30p.m. RAMY C250

Adventures in Invention for Sustainability

Leadership for Sustainable Development

Renewable Energy for the Developing World

Session 6 (Thursday October 3 from 10-12)

Revolutionary Health Care and Education: PV Power in Cuba

Women and Energy: The Importance of Incorporating Women into Development Projects

Alternative Development - A Community to Community Approach

Friday, Ocober 3rd, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. DUAN G125

Development and Use of the Baker and Hernandez Sawdust/Alternative Fuel Injection Burner Systems and Homemade Castable Refractories to Build and Fire

One solar cooking technology: Success and expanded applications

Thursday, October 2, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, MUEN E0046

Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning (ETHOS)

Saturday, October 4th, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. MUEN E064

Renewable Energy Workforce Development: Quality, Safety and Sustainability

The Climate Change Conundrum

Overview of ECHO's Services

Rooftop/Above-ground Gardening Methods using Recycled Materials

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. DUAN G125

Clean Water for the Rest of the World

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., DUAN G1B30

Biome Design

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., MUEN E0046

The State of Green Engineering at Virginia Tech

Systems 101 for Community Leaders: Tools for Global Thinkers

Core Values Lead To Lasting Solutions

Saturday, October 4, 10:00a.m. - 12:000p.m. MUEN E113

Ohm's Law for Heatflow, Applications to Frugal Solar Water and house Heating and Natural Cooling

The Small Farmer Dairy

Achieving “Health For All”

Renewable Energy 101

Thursday, October 2nd, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. & 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. MUEN E050

Gaviotas – Productive Harmony in the Tropics, Paolo Lugari

Friday, October 3, 3:15-5:15p.m. DUAN 131

Safe Water, One Family at a Time

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., MUEN E113

Bicycle Powered TV

The Curse of Government Funding of Sustainable Development: Doing Good Doesn't Mean Doing Well

Saturday, October 4, 1:30 - 3:30pm MUEN E131

Solar Roof-garden Concepts

Saturday, October 4, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m., DUAN G131

Briquetting as a Sustainable Alternative to Wood and Charcoal Use in Developing Nations

Tribal Wind Power

Examples of Sustainable Solutions to Environmental Problems for Economically Limited People

Friday, October 3, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., DUAN G125

Responsible Selection and Design of Sustainable Piping Systems for Clean Water Delievery and Sanitation

Thursday, October 2nd, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. DUAN G1B30

State of the World from a Cultural/Native Perspective

Friday, October 3rd, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. DUAN G1B20

THINK GLOBALLY: ACT LOCALLY The Power of Thinking Small

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., MUEN E0046

Promoting Higher Education and Employment for Women in Islamic Countries

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., DUAN G1B20

Microfinance: A Sustainable Economic Development Solution

Community Exchange Systems

Democratic Learning Communities

Saturday, October 4th, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. DUAN G1B20

THE ROLE OF CORPORATIONS AT THE BASE OF THE ECONOMIC PYRAMID: EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND COLLABORATION

A Minimalist Approach to Computer Learning among underprivileged

Friday, October 3rd, 3:15 - 5:15PM MUEN E0046

Empowering Youth to Empower Others

Thursday, October 2, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m., DUAN G1B20

Evolving Models for Funding Social Missions

Finding New Markets for Traditional Skills

A Practical, Sustainable Solution to Poverty Reductin: the HFHG Model

From Boulder to Farza: the Road to Recovery

Overcoming the Barriers to Life Sustaining Choices