Friday Evening at the Tabernacle, November 13,2009 at 7:00

Open to the public.

The Bioneers "Friday Evening at the Tabernacle" November 13th Program:

Utah Energy: Power Our Future - Dianne R. Nielson, Ph.D., Energy Advisor to Governor Herbert, State of Utah (This 7:00 p.m. evening program is presented to the people of Northern Utah by the Utah Bioneers. It is free and open to the public.)

Dr. Nielson will give a brief overview of the current state of energy supply in Utah. Then the focus will shift to the future with the State’s plan to manage energy supplies and production into the future. Energy policy, renewable energy, and traditional energy supplies will be addressed. A question and answer period will follow."

Dianne Nielson is the Energy Advisor to Governor Herbert for the State of Utah. She has served as Energy Advisor since in June of 2007. Her more than 25 years of service for the citizens of Utah includes her prior appointment as the Executive Director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality and a member of DEQ's five policy Boards.

During her career in natural resources, Dr. Nielson directed the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining; served on the Utah Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining; and worked as Senior Economic Geologist for the Utah Geological Survey. Prior to her work in state government, she conducted energy and mineral exploration with private industry. She has chaired or worked on numerous state and federal commissions and advisory committees dealing with environmental quality and resource development.

Dr. Nielson is a native of Elgin, Illinois. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in geology from Dartmouth College, and her B.A. from Beloit College. She is a Licensed Professional Geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Michael Pollan (national plenary speaker by DVD from California)

"In Defense of Food - The Omnivore’s Solution"

The leading American thinker about our relationship to food, Michael Pollan is the author of such seminal classics as In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire. He explores what the industrialization of food and agriculture has meant for our health and happiness as eaters. He surveys the landscape of the growing national movement to redesign the food system.