KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
After attending one or more of or workshops, we invite you join hear two nationally renowned
professionals with expertise in both sustainable agriculture and energy. Nate Hagens and
John E. Ikerd will present on these topics in relationship to our Lake Superior region at 4PM
and 2PM respectively. This project was funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management
Act, by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, in cooperation with
Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Program.
4PM - Dr. Nate Hagens
2PM - Dr. John E. Ikerd
After attending one or more of or workshops, we invite you join hear two nationally renowned
professionals with expertise in both sustainable agriculture and energy. Nate Hagens and
John E. Ikerd will present on these topics in relationship to our Lake Superior region at 4PM
and 2PM respectively. This project was funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management
Act, by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, in cooperation with
Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Program.
4PM - Dr. Nate Hagens
2PM - Dr. John E. Ikerd
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| Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 8 am to 4 pm / 4 pm Speaker / 5:30 Concert- Bayfront Park |
Sustainable Energy from Agriculture:
A Question of Food and/or Fuel
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics,
University of Missouri Columbia, author and
character in the movie FRESH
A Question of Food and/or Fuel
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics,
University of Missouri Columbia, author and
character in the movie FRESH
The Coming Energy, Food and Financial
Transition
Post Carbon Institute Board of Directors,
Managing Editor of the OilDrum.com
Transition
Post Carbon Institute Board of Directors,
Managing Editor of the OilDrum.com
If agriculture is to be a sustainable source of energy for food or fuel, we must create a
sustainable system of agricultural production. We must remain vigilant of the
ecological, social, and economic implications of how we produce both food and fuel.
The first priority for agriculture must be to provide a sustainable source of food energy
for people. That said, agriculture quite possibly could provide a significant sustainable
source of fuel as well as food, but only if we return to a more localized,
community-base systems that support a regenerative, solar-energy-based agriculture.
An agriculture that destroys the quality of our air or water in the process of producing
our food or fuel is not sustainable.
John E. Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his
BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri.
He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial
positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of
Georgia, and the University of Missouri before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he
spends most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability with an
emphasis on economics and agriculture. Ikerd is author of Sustainable Capitalism, A
Return to Common Sense, Small Farms are Real Farms, Crisis and Opportunity:
Sustainability in American Agriculture and A Revolution of the Middle, on line at
http://sites.google.com/site/revolutionofthemiddle/.
sustainable system of agricultural production. We must remain vigilant of the
ecological, social, and economic implications of how we produce both food and fuel.
The first priority for agriculture must be to provide a sustainable source of food energy
for people. That said, agriculture quite possibly could provide a significant sustainable
source of fuel as well as food, but only if we return to a more localized,
community-base systems that support a regenerative, solar-energy-based agriculture.
An agriculture that destroys the quality of our air or water in the process of producing
our food or fuel is not sustainable.
John E. Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his
BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri.
He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial
positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of
Georgia, and the University of Missouri before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he
spends most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability with an
emphasis on economics and agriculture. Ikerd is author of Sustainable Capitalism, A
Return to Common Sense, Small Farms are Real Farms, Crisis and Opportunity:
Sustainability in American Agriculture and A Revolution of the Middle, on line at
http://sites.google.com/site/revolutionofthemiddle/.
Nate Hagan is a well know authority on the overall resource depletion picture. He
was, until recently, the editor of The Oil Drum, one of the most popular and
highly-respected websites in the world for analysis and discussion of global energy
supplies and their implications for the future.
His talks address the opportunities and constraints facing the coming human
transition away from fossil fuels. On the supply side Nate focuses on biophysical
economics (net energy) and the interrelationship between debt based financial
markets and natural resources. On the demand side Nate addresses the
evolutionarily-derived underpinnings to conspicuous consumption, valuing the
present over the future, and habituation to resource overconsumption and offers
suggestions on how we as individuals and society can better adapt and mitigate to
what's ahead.
Nate has appeared on PBS, BBC, NPR and many other radio stations and has
lectured around the world on issues related to resource depletion.
Nate holds a PhD in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont and a Masters
Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago. He is currently completing his .
Previously he was President of Sanctuary Asset Management and was a Vice
President at investment firms Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers.
was, until recently, the editor of The Oil Drum, one of the most popular and
highly-respected websites in the world for analysis and discussion of global energy
supplies and their implications for the future.
His talks address the opportunities and constraints facing the coming human
transition away from fossil fuels. On the supply side Nate focuses on biophysical
economics (net energy) and the interrelationship between debt based financial
markets and natural resources. On the demand side Nate addresses the
evolutionarily-derived underpinnings to conspicuous consumption, valuing the
present over the future, and habituation to resource overconsumption and offers
suggestions on how we as individuals and society can better adapt and mitigate to
what's ahead.
Nate has appeared on PBS, BBC, NPR and many other radio stations and has
lectured around the world on issues related to resource depletion.
Nate holds a PhD in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont and a Masters
Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago. He is currently completing his .
Previously he was President of Sanctuary Asset Management and was a Vice
President at investment firms Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers.