Bay Green Expo Schedule

See below for highlights from the 2008 event:

The Bay Green Expo offers something for sustainable development professionals, government officials, key community and non-profit organizational leaders, community stakeholders, and every one who is interested in living sustainably. Those who are interested in being more informed, wanting to find innovative methods to “going green”, or anyone who wants to become involved is welcome to attend.

Schedule of Events

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Time	Room 243	Room 244	Gibson Lecture Hall
9:00am - 10:00am	Consumers in the Green Movement: A Guide Sara Lamia	Benefits and Cost Effectiveness of Solar Water Heating Pat Muth	How To Make A Rain Barrel Summer Zephyr and Students
10:10am	First Rain Barrel Drawing
10:30am - 11:30am	New Urbanism and Its History Lynn Keohnemann	Gardening in the Green Janet Psikogios Rain Gardens: Protecting Our Water Through Gardening Brian Cameron	Energy Conservation Building George Rogers
11:40am	Second Rain Barrel Drawing
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Kids and Community Organic Gardening: Our Journey Kim Gordon	Creating Model Watersheds Faith Eidse	Energy Efficiency Projects of Tyndall Air Force Base Gil Walker
1:10pm	Third Rain Barrel Drawing
1:30pm - 2:30pm	FSU Sustainable Campus Kevin Frentz	WaterSense and Green Infrastructure Dorothy Rayfield & Maryann Gerber (EPA)	Consumers in the Green Movement: A Guide Sara Lamia
2:40pm	Fourth Rain Barrel Drawing
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Green Lodging and EPA Standards WaterColor Representative	How to Make Compost and Its Benefits Kat Benford	6 Key Systems to a Cost Effective Green Home Carl Roberts
4:10pm	Final Rain Barrel Drawing

Class Descriptions:

9am-10am: Consumers in the Green Movement: A Guide
Class description coming soon.

9am-10am: Benefits and Cost Effectiveness of Solar Water Heating
Pat Muth is a third generation plumber and has been installing Solar Water Heaters in the Bay County for more than 20 years.  Come learn for the guy that has been hands on with the most cost effective product to reduce your utility bill and “Go Green” in just a few days.

9am-10am: How to Make a Rain Barrel
For the past twenty years Summer Zephyr has been teaching high school science as well as other subjects in the Bay Distinct School system. She has been named teacher of the year twice at her school. Summer is now the media specialist at A.D. Harris High School.  This enables her the opportunity to collaborate with other teachers and develop environmental and other projects.  For nine years she has been involved with Project Learning Tree, a nationally recognized environmental program available for teachers who want to incorporate environmental concepts into their curriculum. In 2006 she was the Florida PLT Educator of the year. 

10:30-11:30: (Two Presentations)
1. Gardening in the Green
Janet Psikogios is the UF/IFAS Bay County Extension 4-H Operation Military Kids Regional Coordinator.  This program supports military youth before, during and after a parent’s deployment.  She has been a Master Gardener for 12 years and was the Horticulture Program Assistant for about 15 months while the Horticulture Agent was serving in Iraq.  Janet received advanced Master Gardener training in Youth Gardening, Pest Management, Best Management Practices and First Detector Training.  She served as Master Gardener President for two years and Vice President for a year.   Janet has volunteered over 5,000 hours.  She served in the Air Force for 11 years as a communication computer officer.  Janet has a BA from Lafayette College and a Masters from Central Michigan. 

2. Rain Gardens: Protecting Our Water Through Gardening
Mr. Cameron is the Sea Grant Extension Agent at the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences (IFAS) Bay County Extension Service in Panama City, Florida.  His responsibilities with Sea Grant include education and outreach for the marine and natural resources of Bay County.  Programs included in these responsibilities are Stormwater Education through the national network known as Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO), focusing on sea grass beds as critical fish habitat, sustainable angling practices with an emphasis on circle hooks, venting tools, and proper handling of fish, shark awareness, and marine youth programs. 

Prior to working with the University of Florida, he received a Master’s of Aquaculture degree from Auburn University with a focus on Fisheries and Aquaculture Extension, hatchery management, and production of many fish species (tilapia, catfish, largemouth bass, grass carp, etc.).  He also received a Bachelors of Science degree from Auburn University in Fisheries Management, where he worked as a lab technician for the Aquatic Ecology lab taking water samples from regional watersheds and running water quality tests on them.

10:30-11:30: Energy Conservation Building
George Rogers is Windstorm Damage Mitigation and Energy Program Extension Agent with the University of Florida. George develops and instructs courses in disaster preparedness, damage mitigation energy efficiency, and green building, construction practices. He serves sixteen counties in Northwest Florida. George manages the Windstorm Damage Mitigation Training and Demonstration Center at the University of Florida, Escambia County Extension Service on Stefani Road in Cantonment (Pensacola), Florida.

George is certified by the International Code Congress, and licensed by the State of Florida as a Building Official and as a Mechanical Inspector. He has a Green Advantage Certification issued by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGB). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Financial Management
George was formerly the Director of the Building Inspections Department for the City of Pensacola. He has served on several State Boards and Committees regulating building codes and construction industry licensing. These include the Florida Board of Building Codes and Standards, the Construction Industry Licensing Board and the Code Administrators and Inspectors Board.
George is a Retired Navy officer. His assignments included aircraft pilot, aviation safety officer, aircraft carrier Combat Information Center (CIC) Officer, Tactical Action Officer (TAO), educator and financial manager.  He completed his Navy career as the Financial Manager for the Chief of Naval Education and Training.

10:30-11:30: New Urbanism and Its History
Lynn Koehnemann has worked as a planning researcher or planner of the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Berkeley, The State of Florida’s Bureau of Coastal Zone Planning and the San Mateo County, California Planning Department.
A sixth generation native of this area (1820), she grew up in Chipley, Florida.  She also has lived in  Mexico City (Churubusco), Mexico, San Francisco, CA, among others.  She has taught geography at GCCC and FSU-PC for several years, most recently Urban Geography.

12:00-1:00: Creating Model Water Sheds
Environmental writer, Faith Eidse, Ph.D. is a Public Information Specialist at the Northwest Florida Water Management District.  With her colleagues at the District, she published Voices of the Apalachicola (University Press of Florida, Gainesville), winner of the 2007 Samuel Proctor Oral History Award. A Barry University English instructor, she also contributed to Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf and co-edited Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global (Nicholas Brealey, Inc., London).   

1200-1:00: Kids and Community Organic Gardening: Our Journey
Kim Gordon received her B.A. at Hollins University, and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. She practiced law in New York City and Birmingham, then taught law students at Vanderbilt.  She is presently the Athletic Director and Garden Coordinator at the Seaside Neighborhood School.  Her interest in gardening has been lifelong, but only recently has she begun to grow vegetables.  Mrs. Gordon tells her students that they are learning "with" her, not just "from" her, as they progress towards making a garden they have all envisioned, with much help from the community.   She is committed to making The Corner Garden organic and teaching her students about the benefits of sustainable agriculture.  The community also enjoys the use, and care, of the garden.

1200-1:00: Energy Efficiency Projects of Tyndall Air Force Base
Gilbert Walker, Energy and Utilities Manager, Tyndall AFB
Gil has primary responsibility for the evaluation and recommendation of multiple energy efficiency projects at Tyndall.  Throughout his career he has been involved with many projects to make the existing infrastructure at Tyndall more efficient, across multiple energy sources.

This is a great opportunity for the citizens of Bay Country to learn about how Tyndall is at the forefront of sustainability and to hear a professional’s experiences in the field.

1:30-2:30: FSU Sustainable Campus
Dr. Frentz graduated from the University of South Alabama with a Bachelor in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Counselor Education.  He began his career as a residence hall manager and Higher Education instructor at Illinois State University before earning his doctorate in Higher Education from Florida State University.  He then worked for the Florida Department of Health, first as the Director of Health for the Leon County Health Department and then as a program consultant for the Chronic Disease and Diabetes Control Programs.  Since returning to FSU as a health educator in 1999, he has supervised the alcohol and drug and the smoking cessation programs, has chaired the Smoking Policy Change Committee and the Sustainability subcommittee for Education and Marketing, and taught the First Year Experience class.  He is most proud of having helped implement the new campus smoking policy which prohibits smoking up to 50 feet from campus buildings.

1:30-2:30: WaterSense and Green Infrastructure
Dorothy Rayfield joined the United State Environmental Protection Agency in 1985, working in the planning for the Construction Grants Program in EPA’s Water Division.  She then worked in EPA’s Superfund Program as a Site Assessment Manager and Remedial Project Officer for eight years before returning to the Water Division.  She has been the Chief of the Construction and Technical Assistance Section for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4 since 1997, where she oversees project grants to states, tribes and nonprofits.  In this capacity, Ms. Rayfield works with the eight states in Region 4 and local governments and is  responsible for the implementation of the special infrastructure State and Tribal Assistance Grants for the Region, which has grown to more than 0.8 billion dollars in federal construction funds.  In 2007 she was designated as the Region 4 Sustainable Infrastructure Coordinator.  As such her Section is responsible for technical assistance in the area of sustainable water infrastructure throughout the southeast, including green infrastructure, soil and erosion control, decentralized wastewater management, water efficiency and EPA’s WaterSense Program.   Ms. Rayfield has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Spring Hill College and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida.

Maryann received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida in 1980.  After graduating, Ms. Gerber joined the US Army Corps of Engineers, in Jacksonville, Florida, as a project engineer for public works projects to address coastal, navigation and flood control projects.  She also gained experience issuing Section 404 permits for wetlands fill while at the Corps.
In 1988, Maryann began her EPA career developing Environmental Impact Statements for major NPDES permits issued by EPA.  Shortly after coming to EPA, Ms. Gerber was assigned to a newly created program called Wetlands Planning, where she coordinated wetlands studies and water quality issues the South Florida area.  Maryann spent the next 10 years at EPA perfecting her skills in addressing storm water serving as the Nonpoint Source Coordinator.
Currently, Ms. Gerber serves as the Water Management Division’s expert on matters pertaining to storm water, including erosion and sediment control and Green Infrastructure, by providing technical and compliance assistance to the Division, state and local entities, and the general public.  She also serves part-time as the Project Officer for special construction projects dealing with storm water, watersheds and localized flooding.

1:30-2:30: Consumers in the Green Movement: A Guide
Class description coming soon.

3:00-4:00: Green Lodging and EPA Standards
The WaterColor Inn is Green Lodging Certified by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  The Florida Green Lodging Program is voluntary and recognizes lodging facilities that demonstrate water and energy conservation, waste minimization, recycling, indoor air quality, environmentally friendly purchasing, program sustainability and pollution prevention.

3:00-4:00: How to Make Compost and Its Benefits
Kat Benford is a 3rd generation herbalist.  Retired from the federal government, she now has time to 'play in the dirt.'  She is a Master Gardener in Pennsylvania and Florida (two totally different plant environments).  Pennsylvania is where she really learned about composting as it is a state/federally required recycling effort to reduce material going into landfills.  Kat recently started a small herbal supply and nursery business.  She paints and does pottery (just can't get away from the dirt for too long); she also volunteers at Bear Creek Feline Center, an exotic cat rescue and research facility.

3:00-4:00: 6 Key Systems to a Cost Effective Green Home
Carl Roberts. Regional Direct of Eco-$mart, Inc.  Eco-$mart, Inc. is a unique type of organization, with a unique approach to business. Operating since 1993, our company is a for profit venture, yet we operate under license from the nonprofit Florida House Institute for Sustainable Development (I4SD). This means that all of our products and programs are screened and approved by the nonprofit I4SD.

Eco-$mart was created for the sole purpose of making it easy and affordable to include energy efficient, resource efficient, disaster resistant, and health enhancing systems into commercial and residential projects.

Carl has had a long time interest in green issues and products to the point that he is a full time representative for Eco-$mart inc. in Northwest Florida.  He will be explaining the 6 systems that are integrated with each other to include all aspects of a truly Green Home.  These systems are designed for energy efficiency, sustainability, and healthy home without duplication or redundancy.