Friday

12 noon – 5 PM:

• Arrive at Feathered Pipe, hang out, get settled
• When you arrive, a light lunch will be available
• Check in at the registration desk

5:00 PM: Happy Hour at the Lodge

6:00 PM: Dinner

7:30 PM – ??:

• Brief history of the New Western Energy Show:  David Nimick & Robin Leenhouts
• Warm-up Activity:  Karina Naumer
• “Where Have you Been?”  (just a few minutes– we have the hook!!)
  • How did the NWES effect your life?  or
  • How did you get to the NWES? or
  • What is your most special memory from the NWES?  or
  • Where have you been for 40 years?

Saturday

7 AM: Coffee & tea

7:30 – 9 AM: Breakfast (breakfast food will remain available throughout the morning)

9 – 12:30 PM: 

• Historical perspective of AERO & NWES:
  Kye Cochran, Wilbur Wood, Elizabeth Wood, & Greg Jacobs
• Program of speakers
  • Energy Conservation and Buildings
    Jim Baerg: Owner, Montana Energy and Design
  • Energy Conservation and Transportation
    Alan Nicholson: Urban Developer and enthusiastic Tesla owner
    
  • The Promise of Hydro, Geothermal, and Biofuels
    Wilbur Wood: Journalist and Genius, longtime sane energy advocate
  • The Revolution in Wind and Solar Power
    Ben Reed: Owner, Winpower West
  • Progress in Sustainable Agriculture
    David Oien: Lentil farmer extraordinaire and owner, Timeless Seeds
    
  • Carbon Sequestration
    John Brown: Renewable energy advocate
    
  • Overcoming Electric Utility Resistance to Renewable Energy
    Tom Power: Economics Professor Emeritus, University of Montana, Missoula
    
  • Local Food Production Inspires Local Self Reliance
    Neva Hassanein: Environmental Studies Professor, University of Montana, Missoula
    

12:30 PM: Lunch

1 – 4 PM: Hike, hang out

4 – 5:30 PM: Impromptu Activities

• Small group discussions on topics to follow up with the morning’s talks
• Read old NWES scripts??
• Other??

6:00 PM: Happy Hour

6:30 PM: Dinner

8 PM – ??: 

• Skits (old ones read or performed by request)
• NWES movies from 1976 and 1977
• Music

Sunday

7 AM: Coffee & tea

7:30 – 9 AM: Breakfast (breakfast food will remain available throughout the morning)

9 – 12 PM: Special Program of Speakers and Discussion

• Perspectives and Visions on Energy Today and in the Future
  Jennifer Hill-Hart, Executive Director, AERO
  Ben Brouwer, Policy Director, Montana Renewable Energy Association
• Where Are We Going? AERO, Education, the Future
  Free-for-all discussion on how combining science, the arts, technology, and living theater (the style of the New Western Energy Show) can effectively convey not just messages but images of what an energy-enlightened society could look like, sound like, smell-taste-feel like?
• NWES scripts and discussion of applicability to today’s world

12 PM: Lunch

2 PM: Goodbyes