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January 24: Biofuels in the Americas: Technology, Investment, and the Path Forward, College of Business and The Center for Energy and Technology of the Americas of the Applied Research Center (ARC), Florida International University, Miami, Florida. The Biofuels Conference is focused on both Technology and Investment, Miami, Florida February 14-18: AAAS (Advancing Science, Serving Society) Annual Meeting 2008, "Science and Technology from a Global Perspective", Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest federation of scientists and engineers, with 130,000 members and 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Green Microfinance was invited to be part of a panel discussion entitled: It Takes a Bank To Raise a Village: Financing Science and Technology for Sustainable Development, Boston, Massachusetts February 23: Fueling, Feeding, and Financing Sustainable Change The Microfinance Leadership Initiative and Nicholas School Student International Discussion Group (SIDG), Duke University, Durham, North - March 26-30: 2008 Aspen Environmental Forum, (inaugural), The Aspen Institute and National Geographic Magazine: Examining the Future of Our Shared Environment, Aspen, Colorado
April 9-11: Financing Village-Level Energy for Development in the Asia-Pacific, Financing Village-Level Energy for Development in Asia-Pacific: The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC), with its partners Asian Development Bank and GVEP International, hosts a high-level workshop, Manila, Philippines
April 18: University of Pennsylvania, Microfinance Conference, Global Assets: Local Access, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 18: University of Chicago, Chicago Microfinance Conference, Competition & Collaboration: Expanding the Boundaries of Microfinance, Chicago, Illinois June 10-11: 2nd JatrophaWorld The JatrophaWorld is a series of three conference focused on Jatropha investment, cultivation and processing, Miami, Florida June 13-15: The Second Subsistence Marketplaces Conference: Sustainable Consumption and Commerce For a Better World, 100 academicians, business practitioners and social enterprise leaders gather for the second subsistence marketplace conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
July 28-30: Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit: The Microcredit Summit Campaign and Gema PKM co-host the Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit 2008, Bali. GreenMicrofinance team members reported and conducted interviews from the Summit for posting on USAID microLINKS and GreenMicrofinance Blog. Bali, Indonesia August 1-2, 2008: Bank Indonesia Annual International Seminar: Macroeconomic impact of Climate Change - Opportunities and Challenges: The Bank Indonesia hosted this annual seminar bringing together a diverse audience of governors, deputy governors, distinguished speakers, and scholars from various world leading universities, who provided valuable insights on policy perspective on global warming and climate change, Bali, Indonesia. August 26-29: Asia Microfinance Forum 2008: The Asia Microfinance Forum 2008 was convened by The Banking with the Poor Network (BWTP) and the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC). GreenMicrofinance was invited to speak on the panel, Microfinance and Sustainable Development, Hanoi, Vietnam - September 16-17: 2nd Annual Carbon Markets USA: This forum provided a meeting point for new entrants (GreenMicrofinance) and key market players, as they examine the latest market developments and ways to futher accelerate market growth. Washiington, DC
- November 7: Lehigh University invited GreenMicrofinance as a guest presenter. This event was co-sponsored by the Microfinance Club, Engineers without Boarders, and the Environmental Coalition. The topic was Harnessing the Power of Clean Energy in Microfinance. Bethlehem, PA
- November 12: The Carolina Microfinance Initiative (CMI), a center to catalyze interest and facilitate action in microfinance on the campus of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, invited GreenMicrofinance to present during a Microfinance and the Environment Workshop. The topic is focused on the opportunity provided by microfinance and the biofuels revolution for small growers in developing countries. Chapel Hill, NC
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- April 26-27: Symposium “Fueling Change with Renewable Energy”, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- March 30: Wharton Microfinance Club: Microfinance: Poverty’s Macro-Solution, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- October 25: "Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Security: Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change”, University of California, Irvine, California
- December 3-5: 31st Miami Conference on the Caribbean Basin (C-CAAA), Miami, Florida
25: "Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Security: Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change”, University of California, Irvine, California (This one-day workshop, in which Green Microfinance was invited to participate, was a preliminary to the UN Climate Change Conference 2007 in Bali-Indonesia.)
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