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Solar Nova Scotia is pleased to announce the public lecture feature of
Rise and Shine 2000, the national solar conference which starts in Halifax
this weekend. 

Speaker: Don Aitken

Title: The Renewable Energy Transition and Buildings: Forces, Benefits,
and Opportunities for the Built Environment

Dr. Aitken will present a brief overview of the forces that will
accelerate a transition toward the renewable energy resources long before
fossil fuels are exhausted, such as climate change, evolving distributed
utility economics, and the need to convert expenditures for social
necessities into opportunities for meaningful employment.  He will then
note that all policies lead toward energy efficiency and renewable energy
applications in buildings as the appropriate starting point, with the
greatest return to society and the environment in the least amount of
time. Dr. Aitken will then reveal the diversity of opportunities for
efficiency and renewable energy applications in buildings.  He will
conclude by looking ahead to the integration of in-building reliability
and the hydrogen future. 

Biography
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Dr. Donald Aitken is Principal of his own consulting company, Donald
Aitken Associates, and Affiliate Faculty Member at the Frank Lloyd Wright
School of Architecture. Previously he was on the faculties of Stanford
University and San Jose State University for 27 years. He has over 100
publications in various energy policy and architectural subjects. In 1997
Dr. Aitken was awarded his country's highest honor for lifetime service to
solar energy. 

Dr. Aitken is a sought-after consultant, lecturer and professional
architectural and engineering workshop leader, and has carried these
activities throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, Germany,
Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Cyprus, Israel, India, Africa,
Mexico, and three of the Republics of the former Soviet Union. He teaches
professional workshops for architects on energy efficient design, solar
energy residential design, and daylighting design of commercial buildings.


Dr. Aitken learned architecture from his interest in Frank Lloyd Wright,
and is a scholar in the works of Wright, especially his daylighting design
techniques. He is preparing material for a book on Frank Lloyd Wright's
contribution to daylighting in architecture. Dr. Aitken has designed award
winning and technically pioneering energy efficient, solar and daylit
buildings, and continues that practice today. 

Location
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The lecture will be held in the DalTech School of Architecture Lecture Theater.

For more information, reply or write 

   rs2000@chebucto.ns.ca

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Full info on the RS2000 conference is available at

   http://chebucto.ns.ca/Technology/RS2000/