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Adam Flint

Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition
Southern Tier Solar Works Program Manager
Southern Tier of New York State

southerntiersolarworks.org

Adam Flint is Southern Tier Solar Works Program Manager at the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition. Previously he led the Southern Tier Green Jobs Green New York program. He has more than 20 years experience as an educator, including as Asst. Prof. of Sociology at Hartwick College. Adam co-founded the NY Energy Democracy Alliance, leads the Community Owned Shared Renewables Working Group, and works on NY State energy policy focusing on the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding.
EnergyDemocracyNY.org

8:00am

Registration & Check-in Open! Campbell Student Union Lobby

9:30am

Organizing Community Power for the New Energy Economy - INVITE ONLY Assembly Hall

12:30pm

Lunch Social Hall

5:00pm

Registration/Check-in Open! Rockwell Lobby

5:30pm

Light Dinner Rockwell Hall Patio

7:00pm

Opening Plenary: Achieving Self-Determination And Sovereignty For Our Communities Rockwell Theater

9:30pm

Opening Social Campbell Plaza, Tent

8:30am

Breakfast Campbell Student Union Lobby

9:30am

Banking and Finance for a New Economy Bulger Communication Center East 2 Do-It-Yourself Video for Activists and the New Economy Rockwell Hall 305 From One Owner to Many: Why and How to Convert Small Businesses to Employee Ownership (and why now is the time to do it) Ketchum 315 New York Renews: Uniting Climate With Social and Economic Justice to Build Power and Win a Renewable & Equitable Energy Economy for All Bulger Communication Center West 2 Scaling Up the New Economy in Red and Rural Communities: Best Practices from the Field Rockwell Hall 201 What Do We Mean by Energy Democracy? Rockwell Theater

11:15am

Community Benefits Agreements: Making Them Solid, Making Them Stick Rockwell Hall 306 Community Investing Innovations & Challenges Rockwell Hall 302 Race, Power, and Energy Democracy Ketchum Hall 118

12:30pm

Lunch Social Hall

4:00pm

Building the Business Movement for a New Economy Rockwell Hall 301 Building the Global Social Solidarity Economy Movement Bulger Communication Center West 2 Building Your Community's Blueprint for Economic & Energy Democracy Rockwell Hall 305 Confronting Utility Power Rockwell Hall 304 What is the Next System? Bulger Communication Center East

5:30pm

Evening Plenary Rockwell Theater

7:30pm

Dinner & Party Quad outside Campbell Student Union

9:30am

Financing Energy Democracy Rockwell Hall 305

11:15am

Energy Democracy Models Bulger Communication Center West 2

12:30pm

Lunch Social Hall

1:45pm

Community Energy Cooperatives Bulger Communication Center East Keynote Case Study: The Cooperative Movement in Post-War Central America/ El Movimiento Cooperativo en América Central de la Posguerra Ketchum Hall 111 What is the Story You Seek to Change? A Conversation with David Korten Ketchum Hall 118

3:05pm

Closing Plenary Rockwell Theater