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Saturday, June 18
1:00 p.m.
Main Stage
CHRIS PAINE
Environmentalist, entrepreneur, and writer and
director of Who Killed the Electric Car
Chris Paine’s award-winning documentary
feature film, Who Killed the Electric Car
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006
before its release by Sony Pictures Classics, and
went on to become one of the most successful
documentaries of the last five years. Revenge of
the Electric Car is his latest film.
Previously, Chris served as executive producer
on FASTER, Mark Neale’s 2003 cult film (with
narrator Ewan McGregor) about the world’s
fastest motorcycle race. The same team also made
No Maps For These Territories about cyber-punk
visionary William Gibson. No Maps featured U2’s
Bono and was named Best Documentary by the
Los Angeles New Times in 2001.
Chris has appeared on The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart, Nightline, ABC World News
Tonight, Democracy Now, and Science Friday on
NPR. He has toured nationally to speak about
electric cars and sustainable transportation
at international venues including Princeton,
Brown, Stanford, the Matthew Shepard
Symposium on Social Justice, the James Baker III
Institute in Houston, Google, and more.
During his keynote address at The Energy Fair,
Chris will discuss the politics, personalities,
and cold hard cash reasons for the return of
the electric car. He will share his role as the
filmmaker who caught GM and others destroying
thousands of this “disruptive technology” in
2003. Seven years later, he’s documenting the
incredible return of electric cars for his 2011
documentary Revenge of the Electric Car. His
presentation will recap the challenges and chart
the A to Z reasons for their comeback.
Sunday, June 19
1:00 p.m.
Main Stage
CENTRAL WISCONSIN RESILIENCY
PROJECT PANEL DISCUSSION
We are pleased to continue our tradition of
promoting successful community projects and
groups from central Wisconsin. On Sunday, June
19, we will present a keynote panel discussion
on the formation and implementation of the
Central Wisconsin Resiliency Project.
Using principles from the Natural Step
framework, AmeriCorps members in the
Central Wisconsin Resiliency Project work with
volunteers, local government staff, and area
non-profit organizations to address a range of
sustainability issues. The Project’s mission is to
identify and foster cooperative efforts in central
Wisconsin aimed at creating an environmentally,
socially, and economically secure future. The
Project will accomplish this mission through
community development focused on food, energy,
ecosystems, waste, and water.
In 2010-2011, the Central Wisconsin Resiliency
Project will engage 29 AmeriCorps members in
sustainability work through a mix of full-time,
part-time and seasonal positions. AmeriCorps
provides a vehicle for identifying, training, and
deploying community organizers, educators, and
leaders who can marshal volunteers and mobilize
community assets to accomplish seemingly
impossible tasks.
The Project’s headquarters are located at the
former Jackson School, but the majority of
AmeriCorps members serve at placement
sites across central Wisconsin, including local
governments and area non-profits.
Invited panelists include: Erin Yudchitz, Program
Director, Central Wisconsin Resiliency Project;
Mayor Andrew Halverson, Mayor Stevens Point;
Patty Drier, Portage County Executive; Eric
Olson, Central Wisconsin Resiliency Project
Executive Committee Member; Ellie Jackson,
MREA Outreach Specialist and Central
Wisconsin Resiliency Project Member.
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