US-China Green Energy Conference: Fueling a Clean Energy Future (Asia Society)
Saturday, May 17 at 2pm
Both the US and China face daunting challenges in the areas of national security, long-term economic competitiveness and global warming. Energy is at the center of all three, making it arguably the most important problem that we must solve in the coming decades. While there are no magic bullets, the answer clearly lies in increasing energy efficiency in the short term and developing sustainable, carbon-neutral energy sources over the longer term.

This conference is the first to bring together leading clean energy specialists from business, government, and academia from both the U.S. and China. The San Francisco Bay Area, Beijing, and Shanghai are rapidly becoming the global centers for clean energy technology promotion, development, and investment, and there are enormous gains to be achieved through enhanced collaboration between the regions. This conference, and a larger conference to be held in Beijing in November 2008, represent the beginning of an effort to encourage long-term collaboration between clean energy policymakers, researchers, and firms in the two countries.

Keynote Speaker: Zhao Zhongxian, Vice Chairman, CAST (Chinese Association for Science and Technology), Chairman of Chinese Academy of Science Advisory Committee

Panelists:

Gary D. Conley, DEO, SolFocus, Inc.
-Han Wenke, Director, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), PRC
-Harrison Fraker, Dean, College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley
-Dian Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utility Commission
-Mark Levine, Group Leader, China Energy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (moderator)
-Neal Gutterson, President and CEO, Mendel Biotechnology
-Lenny Mendonca, Chairman, McKinsey Global Institute
-William Morrow, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Gas and Electric Company
-Matt Rogers, Director, McKinsey & Company
-Scott Sandell, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
-Paul Williams, Vice President, BP (moderator)
-Zhou Dadi, founding director, Beijing Energy Efficiency Center (BECon); director, China Energy Research Institute

The Story of Ing (Doc) Hay: Frontier Herbalist
Wednesday, May 21, 8pm and Saturday, May 24, 1pm
This program tells the unusual and significant story of Doc Hay and his business partner and friend Lung On, who ran the Kam Wah Chung store and medical practice in the small eastern Oregon town of John Day beginning in the late 19th century. Unlike other parts of the country where lynchings and massacres of Chinese immigrants were the norm, these two men were respected members of the community and are still remembered by town residents.

As I Am: Asians In America (PRX)
Thursday, May 29 at 8pm
The As I Am program features reports, analyses, and commentary on social, political, cultural and artistic topics seldom heard on traditional public radio broadcasts. Hosted by the award-winning journalist, author and scholar Helen Zia, public radio audiences will hear unique voices and perspectives on a variety of issues from across the country.

The As I Am program has also just recently received an award from the American Women in Radio and Television in the "Outstanding Special Category," for a segment that was previously aired on American Public Media's Weekend America.

The program features up and coming author Min Jin Lee as she discusses her new book Free Food for Millionaires with Boston College's Professor Min Hyoung Song. As I Am's Paul Niwa reveals the effects of gentrification on Boston's Chinatown through one man's battle against his landlord's rent increase. American Public Media's Angela Kim's journey from California to the Midwest reminds us that no matter where we may move we are often searching for something, anything, to remind us of where we came from. Nationally recognized slam poet Regie Cabico performs a piece that challenges the notion that we can be easily defined by a census box. Known for his cookbooks and popular television show Yan Can Cook, Chef Martin Yan steps out of the kitchen to talk with the award-winning broadcast journalist Sydnie Kohara. A group of UMass Boston students' trip to the Gulf Coast is chronicled as they discuss rebuilding the Vietnamese American communities ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. And International Studies Professor at Trinity College Vijay Prashad comments on why his ideal home isn't in the present, it is in the future. You can hear these stories and more, on As I Am: Asians In America.

Musical consideration for the pilot has been provided by Boston Progress Radio a community-based online radio station and blog focusing on independent Asian American music and art. For more information on Boston Progress Radio please visit their website: www.bprlive.org .