Introductions (University Center Auditorium):
Mary English, Research Leader, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Welcome:
   Jan Simek, Interim Chancellor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Welcome:
   Bill Haslam, Mayor of Knoxville

Energy Use and Future Generations

(Moderator: Wayne Davis, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville))

• Sarah Kenehan (University of Bern), “Energy Use, the Externalization of Costs to Future Generations, and the Philosophy of John Rawls” [link to paper]
• John Nolt (The University of Tennessee), “Greenhouse Gas Emission and the Domination of Posterity” [link to paper]
• Behnam Taebi (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), “Nuclear Waste Management and Intergenerational Justice: Beyond Repositories” [link to paper]

Ethics of Energy Expertise

(Moderator: Heather Douglas, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Cheryl Cline (Queen’s University, Ontario), “An Ethical Analysis of Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Energy Research”
• Kevin C. Elliott (University of South Carolina), “Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Energy Policy, and the Ethics of Expertise” [link to paper]

Pragmatics of Energy Choices in Business

(Moderator: Denis Arnold, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Michele John (Curtin University, Perth Western Australia) and Stephen Schilizzi (University of Western Australia), “Energy and the Environment – What Are the Ethics and Responsibilities? An Industry Perspective”
• Jon Frederick Kirchoff and Wendy Tate (The University of Tennessee), “What Motivates Organizations in the Hospitality Industry to Adopt Energy-Saving Changes?”
• Jeffrey G. York (University of Virginia), “Ethical Stances and Renewable Energy: A Pragmatic Approach” [link to paper]

Panel: Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility

(Panel Chair and Moderator: Denis Arnold , The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Anda Ray (Tennessee Valley Authority)
• David Haft (Frito-Lay North America)
• William Hederman (Congressional Research Service)

Energy Policy and Justice

(Moderator: Nina Gregg, Charter of Human Responsibilities, U.S.)

• Daniel Klingensmith (Maryville College), “Two Cheers for Arthur Morgan: Energy, Ethics, and Politics in New Deal Environmentalism”
• Satya Prateek (National University of Juridical Sciences, India), “Energy at Play: Ethics on a Holiday? Deliberative Development, Contested Environmentalism, and the Great ‘Rights’ Replay”
• Laura Westra (University of Windsor), “Extractive/Mining Industries and Indigenous People’s Rights: The Interface”

Ethics of Technological Solutions

(Moderator: Randall W. Gentry, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Lisa Dilling and Benjamin Hale (University of Colorado), “Carbon Sequestration, Ocean Fertilization, and the Problem of Permissible Pollution” [link to paper]
• Alissa Meyer and Clare Hinrichs (Pennsylvania State University), “Growing Energy for the Public Good?”
• Marilyn Brown (Georgia Tech), “Carbon Lock-In: The Need for Policy Reform”

Panel: Business, Ethics, and Energy

(Moderator: Denis Arnold, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Perry Minnis (Global Director, Ethics and Compliance, Alcoa), “Ethics and Sustainability at Alcoa: A Symbiotic Relationship”
• Truman Semans (Executive Committee, U.S. Climate Action Partnership; formerly Director, Business Environmental Leadership Council, Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “Profit Seeking, Value Creation, and the Public Good in Corporate Action on Climate Change”

SESSION CANCELLED

Environmental Justice and Energy Use

(Moderator: John Nolt, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Colin Crawford (Georgia State University), “The Paradox of Preservation: Biodiversity Protection, Bio-fuel Development, and Environmental Justice”
• Alice Kaswan (University of San Francisco Law School), “Reconciling Efficiency and Justice: Integrating Environmental Justice into Cap and Trade Programs for Controlling Greenhouse Gases” [link to paper]
• Babu Ram (African Development Bank, Tunisia), “The Economics and Ethics of Climate Change in Africa” [link to paper] Note: this presentation will be made by Ms. Paritosh Kasotia (Iowa Council for International Understanding)

Panel: The Legal, Environmental, Moral, and Social Implications of Mountaintop Removal Strip-Mining for Coal

(Moderator and Panel Chair: Dean Rivkin, The University of Tennessee Law School)

• Ann League (Save Our Cumberland Mountains)
• Patrick McGinley (University of West Virginia College of Law)
• John Rausch (Catholic Committee on Appalachia)

Environmental Ethics and Climate Change

(Moderator: Mark O'Gorman, Maryville College)

• Andrew Jameton (University of Nebraska Medical Center), “How Deep are the Implications of Climate Change for Ethics?”
• Clare Palmer (Washington University), “Polar Bears, Climate Change and Group Harm” [link to paper]
• Evelyn Wright and Paul Pojman (Towson University), “Examining the Resistance to Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Looking Beyond Technology Solutions in the Climate Policy Debate” [link to paper]

Collective and Individual Responsibility

(Moderator: John Hardwig, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Christopher Caldwell (Virginia State University), “Energy Lifestyle: The Moral Significance of Daily Choices” [link to paper]
• Amos Nascimento (University of Washington), “Global Measures for Global Problems: The Case for an Ethics of Collective Responsibility” [link to paper]
• Bruce Tonn and Brandon Blalock (The University of Tennessee), “Intervention in Countries with Unsustainable Energy Policies: Is it ever justifiable?” [link to paper]

LUNCH (by special registration/payment of $20 - or on your own)

STUDENT CAUCUS - UT Conference Center Building (across the street), 3rd floor, Room 323

Students are invited to caucus over lunch. Caucus discussion will include the responsibility of higher education in addressing energy issues, and the role of students in addressing energy issues with respect to current generations, our future, and our prosperity. From this discussion students are invited help draft a statement as part of the generation who will be most responsible for solving our energy related issues.

Justice, Capitalism, and Energy

(Moderator: David Reidy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Simon Caney (Oxford University), “Justice, Energy, and Climate Change” [link to paper]
• Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon University), “Free Trade and the Environment” [link to paper]
• David Schweickart (Loyola University), “Is ‘Sustainable Capitalism’ an Oxymoron?” [link to paper]

Panel: The Youth Climate Movement: Young People Taking Control of Their Future

(Moderator and Panel Chair: Reagan Richmond (SPEAK, The University of Tennessee; and Energy Action)

• Kari Fulton - 2007 Howard University Alumna and HBCU field organizer for Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, an Energy Action Coalition partner organization
• Liz Veazey - 2004 UNC-CH Alumna, Regional Coordinator for the Southern Energy Network also an EAC partner, and Co-Founder of the Energy Action Coalition
• Jon Paul Plumlee - 2005 University of Tennessee Alum, Tennessee College Program with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

Ethics of Planning Processes

(Moderator: Bruce Tonn, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Jeff Boyer (Appalachian State Univesity) and Steve Owen (Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy), “When the Well is Poisoned: Local Knowledge and the Politics of Scale in Shaping a Socially Responsible Wind Energy Strategy in Appalachia” [link to paper]
• Efrain O’Neill-Carrillo (University of Puerto Rico), “Sustainability, Energy Policy and Ethics in Puerto Rico”

Panel: Justice, Morality, and Futility: Environmental and Other Ethics in the Face of Potentially Tragic Environmental Problems

(Moderator: Mary English, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado Law School), “Parenting the Planet: Towards an Ethic for Human and Other Natures”
• Douglas Kysar (Cornell Law School), “The Point of Precaution: Economics and the Forgetting of Environmental Law”

Workshop: Using Ethics to Inform Responsible Action

(Workshop Chair: Nina Gregg, Charter of Human Responsibilities, U.S.)

• Chuline Carson (Earth Charter Atlanta)
• Don Huisingh (University of Tennessee)

Panel: Irreversibility and Environmental Damage

(Moderator: Jerry Paul , The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Neil A. Manson (University of Mississippi), “Defining Environmental Irreversibility”
• Derek Turner (Connecticut College), “Irreversibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis” [link to paper]
• Barry Thacker (Geo/Environmental Associates), “Coal Procurement and Mining with the End Product in Mind” [link to paper]