DOCSLIB.ORG

Conference Proceedings Clean Tech Summit

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Conference Proceedings Clean Tech Summit CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS June 2017 UNC CLEAN TECH SUMMIT CSE06201701 I NSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT These proceedings were produced through a generous grant from Wells Fargo INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................1 CLEAN ENERGY .........................................................................................5 WHAT IS ON THE HORIZON FOR ENERGY STORAGE? ............................................................................................................ 5 CHALLENGES IN COMMERCIAL SOLAR .................................................................................................................................. 8 A LOOK AT SOLAR FARMS AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ..................................................................................................... 9 OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH IN THE BIOENERGY SECTOR ................................................................................................. 9 FOOD......................................................................................................12 HOW THE REVOLUTION IN GENOMICS IS IMPROVING OUR FOOD SECURITY ...................................................................12 THE ENTIRE VALUE CHAIN FOR CRAFT BEERS .....................................................................................................................14 CAN BIOLOGICALS MEANINGFULLY INCREASE FOOD PRODUCTION WHILE PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT? .............16 INNOVATION ..........................................................................................17 PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR ........................................................17 VENTURE CAPITAL IN AG TECH ............................................................................................................................................20 ANALYTICS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD ............................................................................................................................20 UNIVERSITIES CREATING THE NEXT GREAT COMPANIES .....................................................................................................21 WATER & ENERGY ..................................................................................23 WATER RESEARCH AT UNC: ASSISTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA ........................................................23 INNOVATIVE WAYS TO DELIVER ENERGY AND WATER TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD.......................................................28 TRENDS IN ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY ..........................................................................................................................28 UNC CLEAN TECH SUMMIT • KENAN INSTITUTE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INTRODUCTION On March 1-2, approximately 1,000 people convened at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill for the fourth annual UNC Clean Tech Summit. This was the largest crowd to gather for the event, and, as emcee Rye Barcott, co- founder and managing partner of Double Time Capital, noted, about a third of those in attendance were students. Barcott acknowledged the objectives of the summit: to network and – with a nod to the TED Talks theme – share ideas worth spreading. Kevin Guskiewicz, UNC-Chapel Hill’s dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, took to the podium to welcome the audience. He said this occasion to assemble students, business leaders, scholars, policymakers and others for brainstorming sessions and relationship building was very much “what a leading global public research university is about.” “The organizers of this year’s event have put together a fascinating program focusing on themes of great urgency,” Guskiewicz said. The agenda included four primary themes: Clean Energy, Food, Innovation, and Water & Energy. “Among the topics we will be exploring over these two days,” Guskiewicz continued, “are rural development, solar energy challenges, genomics and food security, oyster restoration, climate policy, more efficient energy delivery and how universities are creating the next generation of great companies – all of which are of great interest to us here in North Carolina and have ramifications for the rest of the country and the world.” UNC Chancellor Carol Folt followed Guskiewicz, noting the appropriateness of the UNC-Chapel Hill Clean Tech Summit taking place at the UNC Friday Center. “During Bill Friday’s 30-year tenure as president of the UNC system,” Folt said, “he made, as we all know, so many significant contributions to our state and our higher education that led to many game-changing improvements to North Carolina.” She spoke of Friday’s vision as a pioneer in the development of Research Triangle Park, which the founders saw as holding great potential as an engine for “collaboration and innovation among business, government and universities – and it couldn’t be more relevant today than it was when they first dreamed it up.” 1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS • UNC CLEAN TECH SUMMIT “They imagined a home in North Carolina where research communities would come together to invent the future,” Folt affirmed. Such was the focus of this summit, she said, bringing together the “best and brightest” from across the state and the region to hold “important discussions that can lead to improving our leadership and growth in the clean tech industry.” Folt referenced Barcott’s observation on the great turnout of students and the extent to which it boded well for the future of the clean technology industry. “We know who the future is,” Folt asserted. “It’s sitting out in this audience.” Data really is transforming “Clean tech is the quintessential example of that saying that ‘green everything. is green,’” she said in closing. “That means that clean technologies and Everything is efficient energy use are not only good for the environment but also good becoming digitized. for business.” Fran O’Sullivan We live in a time of “certain uncertainty,” Folt said. “It’s a time when every General Manager town, every state, every nation needs to act now to create a future where IBM GBS Global Operations their people can thrive and where our planet can flourish. “I think there’s no better way to get going on the business of doing just that right now than being here at this summit, working on the development of clean technologies here in our own backyard.” Newly elected Gov. Roy Cooper, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, concluded the opening proceedings by expressing pride in his state, praising its “visionary leaders of the past,” among them RTP’s founders, who were at “the forefront of folding environmental sustainability into our business practices.” Now is the time As for the present and future, Cooper lauded public/private partnerships, for innovation. such as the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster. Between 2002 and 2015, Now is the time for 39 clean energy patents were issued to RTP companies or inventers. Since entrepreneurship. 2009, clean tech projects have created more than 10,000 jobs. And RTP It will help us grow has the highest concentration of clean tech employees in the country. a more robust economy. “Now is the time for innovation,” Cooper concluded. “Now is the time for entrepreneurship. It will help us grow a more robust economy.” Gov. Roy Cooper 2 UNCA CLEAN NEW TECH SUMMIT • CONFERENCEWORLD PROCEEDINGS Fran O’Sullivan, general manager of equivalent of approximately 300 million IBM GBS Global Operations, presented books of data will be collected about their a Thursday keynote address titled “The health. Cognitive Era: How Technology Is O’Sullivan discussed some examples of Accelerating Disruption,” in which she how the proliferation of data is being put to offered some food-for-thought about the excellent use. For example: rapidly evolving world of commerce. Dade County in Florida used IBM’s Watson The world’s largest taxi company, Uber, Analytics to conserve 20 percent of their owns no vehicles, O’Sullivan observed. water supply, and then used the savings to The world’s largest company for invest $1 million in parks and recreation accommodations, Airbnb, owns no real and to teach kids to swim. estate. The world’s largest retailer, Alibaba, O’Sullivan spoke of artificial intelligence in China, owns no inventory. Facebook, the augmenting human potential. IBM is world’s largest media company, owns no advancing what it has coined “new collar” content. workers: the right skills to match new “Data really is transforming everything,” she demands. said. “Everything is becoming digitized.” “We need more STEM students entering However, O’Sullivan noted that only 20 the workforce,” she affirmed, and more percent of enterprises say they are able to diversity among those students. Not enough gain insight from their data. Eighty percent women are considering STEM jobs; they of the data is “dark”, meaning; it cannot be need mentors, and IBM is now working searched to gain a competitive edge. with UNC and Duke to make North Carolina – and, specifically, the Triangle – a “How much data is out there?” O’Sullivan destination for STEM jobs for women and asked. She offered the following insights: underrepresented minorities. • There are 680 million smart meters in the energy industry today. “We’re very excited about this,” O’Sullivan • In a single day, New York City generates said. “Think about a young person who about 520 terabytes of public safety-related you can make a difference for, and tell them data. how they can help change the world if they • In the
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Mccorkle PLACE
    CHAPTER EIGHT: McCORKLE PLACE McCorkle Place is said to be the most densely memorialized piece of real estate in North Carolina.501 On the University’s symbolic front lawn, there are almost a dozen monuments and memorials fundamental to the University’s lore and traditions, but only two monuments within the space have determined the role of McCorkle Place as a space for racial justice movements.502 The Unsung Founders Memorial and the University’s Confederate Monument were erected on the oldest quad of the campus almost a century apart for dramatically different memorial purposes. The former honors the enslaved and freed Black persons who “helped build” the University, while the latter commemorated, until its toppling in August 2018, “the sons of the University who entered the war of 1861-65.”503 Separated by only a few dozen yards, the physical distinctions between the two monuments were, before the Confederate Monument was toppled, quite striking. The Unsung 501 Johnathan Michels, “Who Gets to be Remembered In Chapel Hill?,” Scalawag Magazine, 8 October 2016, <https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2016/10/whats-in-a-name/>. 502 Timothy J. McMillan, “Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina,” in Silence, Screen and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information, ed. Lindsay A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell, 137-162, (Berghahn Book: New York, New York, 2004): 139-142; Other memorials and sites of memory within McCorkle Place include the Old Well, the Davie Poplar, Old East, the Caldwell Monument, a Memorial to Founding Trustees, and the Speaker Ban Monument.
    [Show full text]
  • Carol L. Folt to Become USC's 12Th President
    Carol L. Folt to become USC BoardUSC’s of Trustees selects 12th internationally president recognized biologist and former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor to lead the university into new era. Carol L. Folt will become the 12th president of the University of Southern California. Photo by Gus Ruelas By USC News staff | March 20, 2019 NOTED LIFE SCIENTIST, TEACHER AND was known for advancing student access we spoke to over a hundred diverse and academic leader Carol L. Folt will become and affordability, promoting research, world-class candidates. Dr. Folt stood out the University of Southern California’s discovery and academic excellence at from the very beginning as a courageous and 12th president, the USC Board of Trustees the university, and steering the campus compassionate person who always places announced today. toward greater accountability. the well-being of students, faculty, staff Formerly chancellor of the University of “As I have come to know Dr. Folt and and patients at the heart of all she does. North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Folt how she thinks, it is clear that USC has “She has a deep appreciation for the brings decades of experience in academia chosen a brilliant, principled leader with breadth and depth of USC’s mission, and to USC, launching a new era for the clarity of purpose and integrity to lead I’m confident she will further strengthen 139-year-old university. She will take the university forward and upward,” said the academic and athletic programs, office as USC’s new president on July 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Carol Lynn Folt, Phd Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Carol Lynn Folt, PhD Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ADDRESS Office of the Chancellor 103 South Building, Campus Box 9100 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9100 [email protected] t. 919-962-1365 PERSONAL Married: David R. Peart, Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth Two children: Noah V. Peart (b. 1985) and Tessa S. Peart (b. 1987) EDUCATION University of California at Davis, PhD in Ecology 1982 University of California at Santa Barbara, MA in Biology 1978 University of California at Santa Barbara, BA in Aquatic Biology 1976 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Current 2013 Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Previous 2012 Interim President, Dartmouth 2010 Provost, Dartmouth 2010 Associate Director, Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Dartmouth 1997 Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 2009 Acting Provost, Dartmouth 2004 Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth 2001 Dean of Graduate Studies, Dartmouth 2001 Associate Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Programs 2000 Associate Director, Dartmouth Center for Environmental Health Sciences 1998 Associate Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program 1991 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1983 Research Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State 1981 Lecturer at University of California, Davis SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS & ELECTED OFFICES 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biological Sciences 2010 Member Board of Trustees, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2008 Member of Board of Directors, Sherman Fairchild Foundation 2007 Endowed Professorship – The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences 2002 Elected Officer American Society of Limnology & Oceanography Member-at-Large (3 year term) 1996 Member Board of Trustees, Montshire Museum of Science.
    [Show full text]
  • The North Carolina Botanical Garden at 50
    A Conservation Garden: The North Carolina Botanical Garden at 50 (1966-2016) Volume I Researched, compiled, and written by the North Carolina Botanical Garden Greenbriers February 2019 To the visionaries who came before us, the pragmatists who carried the vision forward, and the allies yet to come; and to past, present, and future seekers who find inspiration, encouragement, and solace at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. FOREWORD One would be hard pressed to walk into any botanical garden in the world and come across a compendium of historical information as complete as this one. What is even more amazing is that this compilation of the Garden’s 50-year history was authored by volunteers! Calling themselves the Greenbriers, this dedicated group of 12, under the able leadership of Joanne Lott, has spent countless hours researching, fact checking, and writing the definitive guide to the first 50 years of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. As you peruse Volume I from the Introduction to the Reference Timeline, perhaps even delve into the Volume II appendices, you will quickly come to the realization that this history goes much deeper than the last 50 years. Indeed, the story of the North Carolina Botanical Garden is the botanical legacy of the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest public university. Like the entangling Greenbrier vine, the two have been intertwined and inseparable since 1903 when the University’s first professor of botany, William Chambers Coker, established a teaching collection of trees and shrubs on campus which later became the Coker Arboretum. The Garden has many other branches that can trace their origin to the Coker legacy, including Battle Park, the UNC Herbarium, the Coker Pinetum, and The Rocks at the Coker/Burns estate.
    [Show full text]
  • Racial Justice Movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1951-2018
    RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE: RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 1951-2018 Charlotte Fryar A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of American Studies. Chapel Hill 2019 Approved by: Seth Kotch Rachel Seidman Altha Cravey Timothy Marr Daniel Anderson © 2019 Charlotte Fryar ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Charlotte Fryar: Reclaiming the University of the People: Racial Justice Movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1951-2018 (Under the direction of Seth Kotch) This dissertation examines how Black students and workers engaged in movements for racial justice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1951 to 2018 challenged the University’s dominant cultural landscape of white supremacy—a landscape in direct conflict with the University’s mission to be a public university in service to all citizens of North Carolina. Beginning with the University’s legal desegregation, this dissertation tells the history of Black students’ and workers’ resistance to institutional anti-Blackness, demonstrating how the University consistently sought to exclude Black identities and diminish any movement that challenged its white supremacy. Activated by the knowledge of the University’s history as a site of enslavement and as an institution which maintained and fortified white supremacy and segregation across North Carolina, Black students and workers protested the ways in which the University reflects and enacts systemic racial inequities within its institutional and campus landscapes.
    [Show full text]
  • February 2019
    . The Belo Herald Newsletter of the Col. A. H. Belo Camp #49, SCV And Journal of Unreconstructed Confederate Thought February 2019 This month’s meeting features... Warren Johnson Update on Lee Park and Dallas Monuments The Belo Herald is an interactive newsletter. Click on the links to take you directly to additional internet resources. Col. A. H Belo Camp #49 Commander - James Henderson 1st Lt. Cmdr. - David Hendricks 2nd Lt. Cmdr. - Lee Norman Adjutant - Hiram Patterson Chaplain - Tim Barnes Editor - Nathan Bedford Forrest Contact us: WWW.BELOCAMP.COM http://www.facebook.com/BeloCamp49 Texas Division: http://www.scvtexas.org Have you paid your dues?? National: www.scv.org http://1800mydixie.com/ Come early (6:30pm), eat, fellowship Our Next Meeting: with other members, learn your history! Thursday, February 7th: 7:00 pm La Madeleine Restaurant 3906 Lemmon Ave near Oak Lawn, Dallas, TX *we meet in the private meeting room. \ "Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity." Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA Dec. 3rd 1865 Commander’s Report Lt Col Alfred H Belo 55th NC Infantry Founder of the Dallas Morning News from Confederate Veteran magazine Vol X FEB 1902 p 83 Chaplain’s Corner Now! Everywhere you look the American people are growing weary of being used and taken for granted by a government that has simply gotten too big. We the people, the majority who have supported this country and continue to do so, are tired of being ignored by a bureaucratic government that promotes it's own agenda and caters to the demands of a few malcontents.
    [Show full text]
  • 2018–2019 Year in Review
    MOREHEAD-CAIN YEAR IN REVIEW 2018–2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 2018–2019 MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION POST OFFICE BOX 690 CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514-0690 moreheadcain.org @moreheadcain WITH PURPOSE. WITH PROMISE. YEAR IN REVIEW 2018–2019 CONTENTS From the Director 1 Morehead-Cain Foundation Board of Trustees 3 Morehead-Cain Day of Giving: November 19, 2018 4 Are You a Morehead-Cain Partner? 6 Honor Roll of Giving 8 Graduate and Professional School Donors 8 Alumni and Scholar Donors by Class 8 2018 Alumni Forum Sponsors 20 Friends of the Program 22 Morehead-Cain Staff Donors 27 Parents of Alumni and Scholars 27 Parents’ Perspective: Sandy McKenzie and Larry Nabatoff 29 Corporation and Foundation Donors 30 Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund Board of Directors 32 Cover: James Dean ’89 delivers his SEVEN Talk in Memorial Hall on the Carolina campus at the Eighth Triennial Morehead-Cain Alumni Forum This page: SEVEN Speakers and Forum Co-Chairs on the Memorial Hall stage A Message from the Fund Board Chair 33 Morehead-Cain Benefactors 82 The Year in Review 2018–2019 36 Scholar Impact at Carolina 85 The Morehead-Cain Selection Process 61 Class of 2019 109 Selection Process at a Glance 62 Class of 2020 139 Professional Readers 63 Class of 2021 145 Regional Selection Committee 63 Class of 2022 151 Central Selection Committee 64 Class of 2023 158 British Selection Process 66 Morehead-Cain Staff 166 Canadian Selection Process 66 Special Thanks New Nominating Schools 67 The Summer Enrichment Program 69 The John Motley Morehead Society 76 John Motley Morehead Society Spotlight: Anne and Alex Lassiter ’10 78 #TakeoverTuesday 81 FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Friends, I find it hard to summarize the past year at Carolina and Morehead-Cain.
    [Show full text]
  • How Popular Discontent Is Reshaping Higher Education Law
    University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 2019 The People v. Their Universities: How Popular Discontent Is Reshaping Higher Education Law Ben L. Trachtenberg Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs Part of the Education Law Commons THE PEOPLE v. THEIR UNIVERSITIES: How POPULAR DIscoNTENT Is RESHAPING HIGHER EDUCATION LAW Ben Trachtenberg, ABSTRACT Surveys taken since 2015 reveal that Americans exhibit starkpartisan divisions in their opinions about colleges and universities, with recent shifts in attitudes driving changes to higher education law. In recent years, Democrats have become slightly more positive about higher education. Concurrently, Republicans have become extremely more negative, and a majority of Republicans now tells pollsters that colleges and universities have an overall negative effect on the country. Particularlyin legislative chambers controlledby Republicans,public and elite dissatisfaction with higher education has led to legal interventions into the governance of universities, with new laws related to faculty tenure, the treatment of undocumented immigrant students, the use of state funds for disfavoredprograms, the composition of university governing boards, and campus speech, among other topics. At the federal level, during the Obama Administration advocatespersuaded the Department of Education to demand sweeping changes to how institutions adjudicate allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault. At the behest of different advocates and critics, Trump Administration officials have rescinded the prior guidance and are in the process of enacting new regulations on the same campus processes. Higher education has real problems-such as skyrocketing tuition-which inspire real anger. Right-wing media outlets amplify this discontent, andpoliticians respond to voter outrage with hearings and legislation, deepening the lack of confidence.
    [Show full text]
  • UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Responding to Campus Racism: Analyzing Student Activism and Institutional Responses Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7j10b4kn Author Cho, Katherine Soojin Publication Date 2020 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Responding to Campus Racism: Analyzing Student Activism and Institutional Responses A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the Requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Education by Katherine Soojin Cho 2020 © Copyright by Katherine Soojin Cho 2020 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Responding to Campus Racism: Analyzing Student Activism and Institutional Responses by Katherine Soojin Cho Doctor of Philosophy in Education University of California, Los Angeles, 2020 Professor Sylvia Hurtado, Chair Scholarship on student activism describes how protests, demonstrations, and hunger strikes push higher education institutions towards progress and increased institutional accountability. However, cyclical demands, particularly from Student-Activists of Color regarding campus racism, suggest more complexity at the institutional level. In comparing the responses of two public higher education institutions from 2015 to 2018, this study explored the responses by senior-level administrators, faculty, and governing boards to determine how they align with students’ concerns. Their multiple perspectives, competing demands, and layered dynamics complicate what are considered to be the institutional responses and how they are perceived by Student-Activists of Color. Situating student activism through the Institutional Response Framework, this comparative case study employs document collection, archives, and interviews. Moreover, in the traditions of Critical Race Theory and Black Feminism, these responses are contextualized within the sociopolitical histories of each campus to further illuminate the roles of incrementalism, reputation, and trust.
    [Show full text]
  • UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Responding to Campus
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Responding to Campus Racism: Analyzing Student Activism and Institutional Responses A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the Requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Education by Katherine Soojin Cho 2020 © Copyright by Katherine Soojin Cho 2020 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Responding to Campus Racism: Analyzing Student Activism and Institutional Responses by Katherine Soojin Cho Doctor of Philosophy in Education University of California, Los Angeles, 2020 Professor Sylvia Hurtado, Chair Scholarship on student activism describes how protests, demonstrations, and hunger strikes push higher education institutions towards progress and increased institutional accountability. However, cyclical demands, particularly from Student-Activists of Color regarding campus racism, suggest more complexity at the institutional level. In comparing the responses of two public higher education institutions from 2015 to 2018, this study explored the responses by senior-level administrators, faculty, and governing boards to determine how they align with students’ concerns. Their multiple perspectives, competing demands, and layered dynamics complicate what are considered to be the institutional responses and how they are perceived by Student-Activists of Color. Situating student activism through the Institutional Response Framework, this comparative case study employs document collection, archives, and interviews. Moreover, in the traditions of Critical Race Theory and Black Feminism, these responses are contextualized within the sociopolitical histories of each campus to further illuminate the roles of incrementalism, reputation, and trust. Through critical discourse analysis and thematic analysis, I ii map these patterns, tactics, and considerations onto three dimensions of the Institutional Response Framework: control, demand, and institutionalized racism. Findings reveal how responses minimize students’ concerns, criminalize activism, co-opt initiatives, and only “claim diversity” through empty dialogues.
    [Show full text]