Community Salute to the Environment 

Each year CEI celebrates community leaders and initiatives that have made a positve impact on our natural environment and honors the numerous environmental accomplishments in the Greater Rochester area.

Topics & Keynote Speakers

2011

Realistic Environmental Expectations in a World of Economic Upheaval
Kevin Surace, Chairman and CEO of Serious Energy

2010

Great Lakes Off-Shore Wind Project
Richard Kessel, President, New York Power Authority

2009

Lake Ontario Water Quality - Advances and Opportunities
Dr. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY Brockport

2008

Hydrogen: Fuel for Thought
Dr. Thomas E. Drennen, Sandia National Laboratories and Hobart and William Smith Colleges
and Barbara S. Moore, General Motors Corporation

 2007

Climate Change Forecast for Upstate New York
Dr. Arthur DeGaetano, Director, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University

2006

Climate Change in a Carbon Constrained Future
Peter R. Smith, President & CEO, New York State Energy Research and Developopment Authority

2005

Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America’s Energy Challenges
Paul W. Bledsoe, Director of Communications and Strategy for the National Commission on Energy Policy

2004

Acid Rain: Unfinished Business
Dr. Gene Likens, National Medal of Science Honoree