Wisconsin Schedule of Events 2019

View the interactive 2019 workshop schedule organized by the hour and 2019 Program Guide below. You can also view workshops sortable by category here: https://www.theenergyfair.org/workshops/.

NOTE: schedule is subject to change – any changes before June 11 will be posted online.

Click the buttons below to view schedules in pdf format. See the workshop page for printable workshop schedules by day.

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Program Guide 2019

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

6:30 pm

Networking Dinner

Friday, June 21, 2019

9:00 am

DNR Cooking Demonstration

Daily Yoga Sessions

Battery-Based PV System Design

Farm to School Kids’ Activities

Energy System of the Future at Bubolz Nature Preserve

UWSP Museum Interactive Touch Table

Green Energy—Grow it Hands-On for K-16 and Beyond

Kids Building Wind Turbines for Competition

Making Paper from Recycled Materials

Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education (WCEE)

9:30 am

Micro and Smart Grid Basics

MREA Campus Tour

10:00 am

Energy Storage and Renewable Energy

Garbage and Recycling—What Actually Happens?

Fertile and Healthy Soil in Farming

Intro to Small Wind Systems

Op-ed Writing Workshop

People Power—Strategies for Behavior Change

Solar on Schools—Wisconsin Schools Are Going Solar!

Sustainable Living—Simplified and Solar-Powered

What is Beneficial Electrification?

Lead Acid Battery-Based Systems (1.5 NABCEP CECs)

Renewable Germany

10:30 am

Bio-Fuel—Use it. Grow More. (Demo)

11:00 am

Solar for Your Community

Living Lightly in Northern Wisconsin

Advanced Fuel Vehicles

Building Your Own Super Capacitors and Batteries (Demo)

Motivating Change—Yes, You Can!

Mythbusting—Small Wind Consumer Education

Problem: Solar on Grid, Answer: Flow Battery

Solar for Tax-Exempt Organization

Enhancing Your Groundwater Curriculum

How Sustainable is Your Gardening?

Yoga for Kids & Family

Yoga for Kids & Family

11:30 am

Maximize Installation Efficiency on Your Roof (1.5 NABCEP CECs)

12:00 pm

Chevy Volt—An Update

30 Years of Progress Toward Sustainability

All Electric Home—A Case Study

Efficient Domestic Hot Water Delivery

Planning and Planting the Fall Garden

Stories from the Frontline—Living with Fossil Fuel Extraction, Production, and Transport

The Solar Revolution and Utility Backlash

Teaching Solar Principles in Your Classroom

Make Your Own Journals from Ellie Pooh

Finding Affordable Happiness in a Small/Tiny House

1:00 pm

Bethany McLean

Make Your Own Non-Toxic Paint

2:00 pm

Raptor Show

Clean Energy Communications

City Hens for Waste Reduction and Soil Building

Bathroom Remodeling with Peace of Mind

Cold Climate Greenhouse Construction

Convert a Bicycle to Run on Electric Assist

Launch a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen

Testing and Maintaining Your Private Well Water

The Path Less Traveled in Energy Efficient Building

Water Pumping Windmills

Wisconsin—Paths To 100% Renewable

Resilience at the Local Level

The Future of Behind the Meter PV

The Value of NABCEP Board Certifications

Connecting the School Garden to the Classroom

Sustainable Camping

Raptor Show

2:30 pm

The Chord Trackers

SolarWakeup Live!

3:00 pm

Community-Led Clean Energy Action

Electric Tractors for Home and Garden

Future-Proofing PV for Your Home

Intro to Gridbeam

Intro to Solar Hot Water

Planning for Solar PV End-Of-Life

Q: What Can a Drone Do? A: Not much, but…

Tying Sustainability and Art into a Remodel

Introduction to the Pika Energy Island (1.5 NABCEP CECs)

Learning About Energy in Ecosystems

Make a Solar Power Sunshine Fan!

Using Solar + Storage to Reduce Demand Charges (1 NABCEP CEC)

Understanding the Utility Regulatory System

4:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Happy Hour – Sponsored by Panasonic & NABCEP

Clean, Efficient Biomass Heating Overview

Beginning Fermentation Concepts

Build a Lifetime Cobblestone-Pervious Driveway

Living Off Grid—Really?!?!

Our Sense-Able Nature

Solar for Commercial and Industrial Properties

The Solar Greenhouse

Vegetable Seed Saving in the Home Garden I

Wisconsin’s Largest Rooftop Solar System and Solar Roadmap Planning for Schools

Introduction to the NREL System Advisor Model (1 NABCEP CEC)

Rock Hounding For Children

4:30 pm

Art Stevenson & High Water

5:00 pm

MREA General Member Meeting

Bike Touring in Your 20s and 60s

Edible Insect Farming for Human and Environmental Health

Energy Monitoring and Energy Management

Energy Storage – The Big Picture

Extreme Downsizing

Fuel from Vegetation—Cure for Climate Change

Rocket Stone and Wood Gasifer Construction

Seed Saving Part II

Solar Farms—Economic, Environmental, and Agricultural Benefits

History of Commercial, Industrial, and Utility Scale Energy Storage (1 NABCEP CEC)

Ground Mount Racking Design & Installation (1 NABCEP CEC)

Make Your Own Mono-Printing

The Reality of Energy Efficient Lighting

6:00 pm

MREA Member Social

6:30 pm

Baba Ghanooj

7:00 pm

Building a Straw Bale Home: A Practical and Spiritual Guide Documentary

9:00 pm

People Brothers Band

Saturday, June 22, 2019

8:45 am

Sustainable Farm & Garden Tours

9:00 am

Pedal Power Energy Bike

The Nature of Teaching K-12 Nature Curriculum

UWSP-CNR—Wisconsin Center for Wildlife

10:00 am

Chef Demonstration

Aesthetics of Renewable Energy

Bridging Access to the Clean Energy Economy

Build Your Own Log Furniture from Treetops (Demo)

Building Your Sustainable Home

Coffee, Community, and a Future Worth Fighting For

Eating Year-Round from the Garden

Midwest Solar Markets—A State by State Overview

Photovoltaics for Domestic Hot Water

Soil Sisters—Women Farmers Empowering Change

What about My Woodlands?—Getting started

Streamlining the Solar Permitting Process (1 NABCEP CEC)

Morningstar MultiWave Inverter/Charger (1.5 NABCEP CECs)

Kids Building Wind Turbines for Competition

Roof Tech PV Install Demo

Electric Vehicle Market and Charging Infrastructure Overview

Square Foot Garden Planning

11:00 am

The Sultan, the Secret, and the Witch

Comfortable and Energy Efficient Buildings

Chainsaw Sculpting Basics (Demo)

Electric Cars 101

Energy-Wise Food Storage—Root Cellaring

Gardening for Life with Native Plants

Green New Deal and Food Sovereignty

Managing Your Land—Getting Started

NAACP—Environment and Climate Justice

Smallish House in the North

Using 2017 NEC Arc Fault and Rapid Shutdown-Multiple Product Overview (1 NABCEP CEC)

Utility Panel Discussion—Electric Vehicle Programs

The Sultan, the Secret, and the Witch

Catching the Sun

12:00 pm

Aerialists Fly High at MREA

An Introduction to Woodland Invasives

Energy-Wise Food Preservation—Drying and Canning

Environmental Justice as Social Justice

Heating Your Home with a Masonry Mass Stove

Intro to Photovoltaic Systems

IOT – The Internet of Things—Get Ready & Rock!

Make Your Own Concrete Countertops

New Outback Power Products (1 NABCEP CEC)

The Consumer Perspective on The Big Energy

Weeds Please!

Aerialists Fly High at MREA

1:00 pm

Naomi Oreskes

Build a Solar Cooker

Make Your Own Non-Toxic Play Dough

2:00 pm

Kickapoo Coffee’s Iced Maple Latte Pop-up

Fabulous Frogs & Sensational Snakes

Aldo Leopold, Phenolgy, and Climate Change

An Energy Efficient Remodeling Case Study

Driving a Tesla Model “S” On Sunshine—Year 3

Energy in Architecture—NZEB vs. nZEB

Fermentation From A-Z—Hands-on and Fun!

Green Burials

Healing the Split Between Planet and Self

The Do’s and Don’ts of Backyard Chickens

Tools and Techniques for Light-Footprint Gardens

Workforce Diversity: Building Dynamic Teams

Commercial, Industrial, and Utility Scale Energy Storage (1.5 NABCEP CECs)

Panasonic HIT Panels and Authorized Dealer Program (1 NABCEP CEC)

A Storm on the Horizon!

The Nature of Teaching K-12 Nature Curriculum

Make Your Own Paints and Finishes (2 hr, Demo)

Fabulous Frogs & Sensational Snakes

3:00 pm

Stanton West

Recycle Right, Wisconsin!

Beyond the Veggie Garden—Staple Crops

Building Unity 4 Justice and Sustainability—Part 1

Efficient Residential Building Ventilation

How Camping Changed Me and My Perspectives

Managing Woodland Habitat for Birds and Other Wildlife

Why Cohousing?—Part 1

Pesticides—Health Findings and Options

Solar Battery Options Compared

Your New Favorite Shirt Again!

4:00 pm

Faster Designs With Online Design Tools (1 NABCEP CEC)

Building Unity 4 Justice and Sustainability—Part 2

Farmstead Chef—Organic Eating on A Dime

High Mass Sand Beds and Solar Thermal Storage

Hosting a Solar Group Buy Program—How You Can Do It!

Managing Your Land for Wildlife

Maple Syrup 101

Modern Building of Straw-Clay House Walls

Building Cohousing in Your Community—Part 2

Particulate Air Quality Around Wisconsin Silica Sand Mines

Real-World Experiences with Plug-In Vehicles—Owner Panel

Fermentation Fun

4:30 pm

Experiences from the Toa Baja Training & Install

5:00 pm

Rosa Clemente

Build Your Own Composter

5:30 pm

Genevieve Heyward

6:00 pm

MREA Benefit Dinner

7:00 pm

Salsa Lessons + Live Music from Cache MKE

How to Design and Build a Masonry Heater Documentary

9:30 pm

Anna Jo Banjo

Sunday, June 23, 2019

9:00 am

Aldo Leopold Audubon Society

Portage County Green & Healthy Schools Showcase

10:00 am

Current Issues Facing the Petroleum Industry

Converting a Grasshopper Mower to Electric

Choosing Herbal Remedies for Sustainability

Basic PV

Biochar (2 hour, Demo)

Community Growing and Giving

Electromagnetic Exposure—2019 Update

Faith, Environmental Justice, and Solar Power

Follow the Build—In Progress

Nikola Tesla’s Clean Energy Solution

Solar for Good—Helping Wisconsin Nonprofits

The Wisconsin Solar Corps—A Statewide Workforce Development Initiative

Toolkit for Electric Vehicle Advocates

Reality of Vehicle Maintenance and Conversions

11:00 am

Terrific Turtles

Around the Farm Table’s “A Visit From Inga!”

Successful Collaborative Management—SPAC

Carbon Drawdown Now!

Applications of Drone Technology in Livestock

Backyard Composting Basics

Biomass Heat and Sustainable Living

Community Energy Activism

CUB Utility Bill Clinic

How to Design and Build a Tiny House

How to Help Pass the Energy Innovation Act

Intermediate PV

Prairie Restoration—Monoculture to Myriad

Today, What Can I Do About Climate Change?

Zero Energy with Structural Insulated Panels

Terrific Turtles

12:00 pm

Curt Meine

River Valley Marionettes

1:00 pm

Convert a Vehicle to Run on Cooking Oil (Demo)

Biochar

“Illth” and Promoting Good Financial Hygiene

Brewery Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

Build an Efficient Home on a Budget

Communicating from the Heart

Journey to Sustainability—EV + Solar

Pets—The Environment, Climate Change, and Alternative Pet Care

Plarning—Repurposing Plastic Bags

Road to Zero Energy Over Building Lifespan

Sustainable, Responsible, and Impact Investing

The Story of Tar Sands

Traveling by Bicycle

Winter Food Production

Sustainable Singing with Tom Pease

1:30 pm

The Outskirts

2:30 pm

Dead Horses

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