Workshop 2- Energy Efficiency Tools and Resources

Are you looking for information to help get a project started? Attendees at this workshop will learn about resources for planning and implementing energy efficiency projects including funding strategies, technology options, energy management best practices, workforce training and development options and more!

Speakers –

Keith Reihl, PE, MBA, CEM, AVS, LEED® AP, GBE, CSDP – Reihl Engineering
Rachel Downey Haines – DXS Engineering
Greg Tinkler, CGD – Page

Sponsor: HTS

Join HARC for a series of three lunch and learn workshops that will help small to mid-sized business owners and developers increase energy efficiency and save money.

Register for one, two or the whole series!

Registration is free and lunch will be provided.

In keeping with an almost 50-year history of developing energy scenarios to explore ways forward, Shell has envisioned a possible pathway for the world to meet the climate change goals of the Paris Agreement. The Sky Scenario outlines what Shell believes to be a technologically, industrially and economically viable way to limit the global temperature rise to below 2°C from pre-industrial levels.

While the scenario is an encouraging first step in combating climate change, success is not guaranteed. Consumers, companies and governments will face tough choices, and the paths toward lower-carbon energy will vary by country and sector. Join us as Shell’s chief energy advisor Wim Thomas discusses the potential for a system that brings modern energy to everyone without delivering a detrimental climate legacy.

This event is part of the Shell Distinguished Lecture Series. The Shell Distinguished Lecture Series is the Baker Institute’s flagship speakers program, reflecting the vision of our honorary chair, former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, and Shell’s commitment to defining the role of statesmanship, integrity and bold leadership in meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

Follow @BakerInstitute on Twitter and join the conversation online with #BakerEnergy.

AGENDA

8:00 a.m. — Breakfast and Registration
8:30 a.m. — Presentation

FEATURED SPEAKER

Wim Thomas is the chief energy advisor and leader of the Energy Analysis Team at Shell. He advises Shell companies on a wide range of energy issues, including global supply and demand, regulations, energy policy, markets, pricing and industry structure. His team is also responsible for worldwide energy analysis and long-term global energy scenarios. He has been with the Shell Group for over 33 years, with prior positions in drilling operations, subsurface reservoir management and commercial and regulatory affairs in gas. Thomas is the chairman of the U.K. national committee of the World Petroleum Council and is a former chairman of the British Institute of Energy Economics. He holds a postgraduate degree in maritime technology from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

For the first half of the program, Jim Blackburn, co-director of the Severe Storm Prevention, Education, and Evacuation from Disaster (SPEED) Center at Rice University and director of the Bayou City Initiative, and Dr. Stephen Klineberg, founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, will discuss flooding and the future of Houston.

This will be the first public conversation between Blackburn, who specializes in sustainable development, environmental law, and civil and environmental engineering, and Dr. Klineberg, urban and environmental sociology expert.

For the second half, Wendy Watriss, award-winning social and political photojournalist, will lead a discussion about documenting major traumatic events from the photographer’s perspective. Watriss is joined by Houston Chronicle photojournalists Elizabeth Conley, Brett Coomer, Melissa Phillip, and Godofredo Vasquez, all of whom were on the front lines of documenting Hurricane Harvey.

The event is free. Registration is required.

Presented in partnership with the Houston Chronicle, Bayou City Initiative, and SSPEED Center at Rice University.

Can American free enterprise solve climate change? 

Can conservatives lead us to action?

How can citizens summon in our leaders the courage to lead on climate?

Join the UH community for a discussion about free enterprise, conservatism, and climate change.

Former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) will give a talk titled “Solving climate change with courage and conservative principles.” Plenty of townhall-style Q&A will follow his remarks.

Sponsored by republicEn.org, the UH Energy and the UH Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Center. The event is free, open to the public.

Wednesday, October 3rd

Hilton (Ballroom) at University of Houston

6:00 PM (CST)

The event is part of republicEn’s EnCourage Tour, a 14-city series of events this fall. On the EnCourage Tour, republicEn.org and allies bringing together Americans to lead the way to free-enterprise climate solutions; To showcase #EcoRight ideas and momentum; To call upon American greatness; and To summon in our lawmakers the courage to work together to solve climate change.

About former U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis: Bob represented South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District for 6 terms (1993-1999 and 2005-2011), serving on on Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Science & Technology committees. He was South Carolina’s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 1998. Bob started the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University in 2012 and later launched the republicEn.org grassroots community. In 2015, Bob was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his outspoken leadership on climate change during and after his time in office.

Please RSVP so we can ensure your seat!

The Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series 2018 is organized in collaboration with PLAT Journal and Rice Architecture. Through a series of lectures and accompanying publications, RDA’s Fall Lecture Series 2018 will explore different definitions of the sharing economy as they relate to the built environment. Many of the physical spaces that architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and engineers design are inherently locales of joint access and participation. Today, digitally-based platforms, supported by vast physical infrastructures, facilitate new types of exchange. Such platforms bring about liberating possibilities to actualize transnational networks that coalesce around food, shelter, transportation, and talent. Yet, for every emancipatory path an equally restrictive one exists. The Fall Lecture Series 2018 will address these rapidly changing notions of sharing and will invite three internationally renowned practitioners to reflect on their experiences and the ways in which they have affected their design thinking. For more information and to sign up, visit signup.rice.edu/PeggyDeamerSharing.

The Woodlands G.R.E.E.N. is sponsoring a Going Green Sustainability Lecture titled “USGS Annual Groundwater Table Data: How Are We Doing?” to be held at the offices of the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). The presentation will be by Mr. Christopher Braun of the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Mr. Braun will discuss the results from the latest round of measurements and will highlight various trends that have developed over the past decades of data collection and analysis. 

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

For more information, visit thewoodlandsgreen.org.

The Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series 2018 is organized in collaboration with PLAT Journal and Rice Architecture. Through a series of lectures and accompanying publications, RDA’s Fall Lecture Series 2018 will explore different definitions of the sharing economy as they relate to the built environment. Many of the physical spaces that architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and engineers design are inherently locales of joint access and participation. Today, digitally-based platforms, supported by vast physical infrastructures, facilitate new types of exchange. Such platforms bring about liberating possibilities to actualize transnational networks that coalesce around food, shelter, transportation, and talent. Yet, for every emancipatory path an equally restrictive one exists. The Fall Lecture Series 2018 will address these rapidly changing notions of sharing and will invite three internationally renowned practitioners to reflect on their experiences and the ways in which they have affected their design thinking. For more information and to sign up, visit signup.rice.edu/JackSelfSharing.

Carol Coletta, a senior fellow with the Kresge Foundation’s American Cities Practice, joins the Kinder Institute to talk about reimagining the civic commons — an initiative focused on revitalizing and connecting public places to form more creative, inclusive cities. For more information, visit kinder.rice.edu/events.

Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to the 2018 Creation Care Fest – Environmental Extravaganza. This free event has fun and educational environmental activities for all ages such as pumpkin decorating and lectures by experts on major environmental issues. Exhibits by local environmental nonprofits will offer more opportunities to learn and engage.

Parking is available for $1 at the Rice University lot across the street from the church. Metro bus stops for lines 27 & 41 are nearby. Bike parking is available in the church lot.

For more information, visit eventbrite.com.

The Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series 2018 is organized in collaboration with PLAT Journal and Rice Architecture. Through a series of lectures and accompanying publications, RDA’s Fall Lecture Series 2018 will explore different definitions of the sharing economy as they relate to the built environment. Many of the physical spaces that architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and engineers design are inherently locales of joint access and participation. Today, digitally-based platforms, supported by vast physical infrastructures, facilitate new types of exchange. Such platforms bring about liberating possibilities to actualize transnational networks that coalesce around food, shelter, transportation, and talent. Yet, for every emancipatory path an equally restrictive one exists. The Fall Lecture Series 2018 will address these rapidly changing notions of sharing and will invite three internationally renowned practitioners to reflect on their experiences and the ways in which they have affected their design thinking. For more information and to sign up, visit signup.rice.edu/JohnAlschulerSharing.