The future of the planet may depend upon on our ability to increase energy supplies even as we reduce carbon emissions.

On June 6-8, the University of Colorado Law School’s Natural Resources Law Center’s 32nd annual Clyde O. Martz summer conference will address how a

Keynote Address:

June 6 at 5 p.m: Bill Ritter, Executive Director, Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE), Colorado State University at Fort Collins will provide an overview of where energy seems to be heading over the next couple of decades.

The conference, "A Low-Carbon Energy Blueprint for the American West " will explore such topics as:

• Energy/Water Nexus: The role of water in a low-carbon energy future: Water for Energy/Energy for Water;
  
  
• The Future of Conventional Fuels: Can we make conventional fuels work in a low-carbon energy society;
  
  
• Transmitting and siting;
  
  
• Renewable energy options;
  
  
• Less demand/Less carbon: Conservation and efficiency in the foundation of a sustainable energy policy;
  
  
• The role of climate policy: Local, state, national and international.

Discussing these issues will be some of the country’s most influential and innovative thinkers in this field, including:

• Tom Iseman, program director, Water Policy and Implementation, Climate Adaptation, Western Governors’ Association, Denver;



• Dag Nummedal, director, Colorado Energy Research Institute and Scientific Director, Carbon Management Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo.;
  
  
• John Volkman, general counsel/policy director, Energy Trust Oregon, Portland, Ore.;
  
  
• Jonathan Silver, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Third Way (former Executive Director of DOE’s Loan Programs Office)
  
  
• Jennifer Turner, attorney-adviser-Division of Indian Affairs, Office of the Solicitor, Dep’t of the Interior, Washington
  
• Jim Martin, regional administrator, Region 8, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Denver, Colo.

The conference will be held in the Wolf Law Building, located at the south end of the Boulder campus on Kittredge Loop Road. CLE credits are available.