Association for Behavior Analysis International

The Blue Rock Station Tour is filled to capacity.

ABAI Past President Richard Malott and Mexico's Comunidad Los Horcones member Esteban Armendariz will lead this tour of Annie and Jay Warmke's farm in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and learn first-hand how these pioneers promote sustainable living. The tour will included a look at livestock raising methods, water collection systems, and gardens and buildings (made of natural and re-used materials). The Warmke's passive solar home – called an Earthship – is the first of its kind East of the Mississippi River and has been featured on national TV programs including MTV’s Teen Crib. Transportation and solar cookies with lemonade are included in the cost of the tour. Find out more about Blue Rock Station at http://www.bluerockstation.com/

Tour Registrants will meet in the Great Hall on the first floor of the Ohio Union, by the Information Center. Your transportation will be located at the 12th street turnaround off the Potter Courtyard. The bus departs at 12:30 pm and returns at 5:00 pm.

Capacity: 20 (must reserve spot by August 1). Cost: $15 (to be paid onsite)

The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) is The Ohio State University's oldest research center. BPRC is internationally recognized as a premier polar and alpine research center, with an expanding focus on global climate and environmental issues. The mission of BPRC scientists is to conduct multi-disciplinary research, to enhance the educational opportunities for all students, and to provide public outreach and engagement opportunities. Details about our nine research groups, Polar Archival Program, and the U.S. Polar Rock Repository are available at http://bprc.osu.edu/.

On this tour, Behavior Change for a Sustainable World Conference attendees will receive an overview of the Center, be introduced to the Center's ice core paleoclimatology and paleoceanography research programs, and visit the Polar Rock Repository.

Conference attendees who plan to participate in the tour must add this event to their personal schedules (below) and will meet in the Great Hall on the first floor of the Ohio Union, by the Information Center. Your transportation will be located at the 12th street turnaround off the Potter Courtyard. The bus departs at 1:00 pm from Ohio Union. The cost is free to conference attendees.

Come experience Ohio State's campus, and learn why Ohio State is a leader in sustainability. On this walking tour you will visit LEED Certified buildings, see trees older than the University itself, visit the historic Mirror Lake and Oval, walk through Ohio Stadium to see the zero waste effort, visit the beautiful Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens, and explore the one-of-its-kind wetlands.

Conference attendees who plan to participate in the tour must add this event to their personal schedules (below) and will meet in the Great Hall on the first floor of the Ohio Union, by the Information Center. Your transportation will be located at the 12th street turnaround off the Potter Courtyard. Approximate walking distance: 1.3 miles. The bus departs from Ohio Union at 1:30 pm and will return at 3:00 pm. The cost is free to conference attendees.

The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) is The Ohio State University's oldest research center. BPRC is internationally recognized as a premier polar and alpine research center, with an expanding focus on global climate and environmental issues. The mission of BPRC scientists is to conduct multi-disciplinary research, to enhance the educational opportunities for all students, and to provide public outreach and engagement opportunities. Details about our nine research groups, Polar Archival Program, and the U.S. Polar Rock Repository are available at http://bprc.osu.edu/.

On this tour, Behavior Change for a Sustainable World Conference attendees will receive an overview of the Center, be introduced to the Center's ice core paleoclimatology and paleoceanography research programs, and visit the Polar Rock Repository.

Conference attendees who plan to participate in the tour must add this event to their personal schedules (below) and will meet in the Great Hall on the first floor of the Ohio Union, by the Information Center. Your transportation will be located at the 12th street turnaround off the Potter Courtyard. The bus departs at 3:00 pm from Ohio Union. The cost is free to conference attendees.

The Ohio State Center for Automotive Research (OSU CAR) is an interdisciplinary research center in The Ohio State University College of Engineering. OSU CAR research focuses on: advanced electric propulsion and energy storage systems; advanced engines and alternative fuels for reduced fuel consumption and emissions; intelligent transportation and vehicular communication systems; autonomous vehicles; noise, vibrations, and dynamics; vehicle chassis systems; and vehicle and occupant safety.

OSU CAR also provides facilities and support for Motorsports/Student Projects. This program challenges students of all majors, backgrounds, skill levels, and degrees of experience to compete on one of six motorsports teams (Baja SAE, Buckeye Bullet, Buckeye Electric Motorcycle, EcoCAR, Formula Buckeyes SAE, and Supermileage SAE). Students apply research and classroom concepts, as well as learn hands-on skills for designing, fabricating, racing, managing, and marketing competition vehicles. This experience includes machining, engine testing, battery testing, computer aided design, and many other engineering tools. To learn more about OSU CAR visit: http://car.osu.edu/ and http://car.osu.edu/motorsports.

Conference attendees who plan to participate in the tour must add this event to their personal schedules (below) and will meet in the Great Hall on the first floor of the Ohio Union, by the Information Center. Your transportation will be located at the 12th street turnaround off the Potter Courtyard. The bus departs from Ohio Union at 3:30 pm and returns at 5:00 pm. The cost is free to conference attendees.

Come experience Ohio State's campus, and learn why Ohio State is a leader in sustainability. On this walking tour you will visit LEED Certified buildings, see trees older than the University itself, visit the historic Mirror Lake and Oval, walk through Ohio Stadium to see the zero waste effort, visit the beautiful Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens, and explore the one-of-its-kind wetlands.

Conference attendees who plan to participate in the tour must add this event to their personal schedules (below) and will meet in the Great Hall on the first floor of the Ohio Union, by the Information Center. Your transportation will be located at the 12th street turnaround off the Potter Courtyard. Approximate walking distance: 1.3 miles. The bus departs from Ohio Union at 3:30 pm and will return at 5:00 pm. The cost is free to conference attendees.

Dr. Bill Heward will open the conference. Then, a warm welcome to The Ohio State University will be given by Ronald M. Sega, director, Office of Energy & Environment, and vice president and enterprise executive for energy and the environment, The Ohio State University.

Climate change is no longer a future threat; it is here now. The widespread melting of high-elevation glaciers and ice caps, particularly in low to middle latitudes, provides some of the strongest evidence that large-scale, pervasive, and in some cases, rapid change in Earth's climate system is under way. Physical evidence from ice cores retrieved from shrinking glaciers confirm their continuous existence for hundreds of thousands of years, and that atmospheric conditions that dominate those regions today are radically different from those under which these ice fields originally grew and were sustained. A large and continuing increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the result of human activity, is the major cause of both global warming and climate change. Despite this, societies have taken little action to address this global-scale problem. Hence, the rate of global carbon-dioxide emissions continues to accelerate, bringing with it increasingly rapid changes in climate. The major challenge of climate change is not to prove that it is real, but to get people, especially those in government, religious, and environmental organizations around the world, to change their behavior. For global climate change, nature is the timekeeper; none of us can see the clock, but there is no question that time is running out.

Forthcoming.