Prospects of a clean energy future will bring college students from throughout the Midwest to the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the weekend.
The students will partake in the first-ever Midwest Student Clean Energy Conference, starting Friday and ending Sunday afternoon, to learn about energy issues and the threats of global warming due to the rampant consumption of fossil fuels. As of Wednesday, 230 people had registered for the free event, which is at the Humanities Building on the UW-Madison campus.
The conference is related to the Campus Climate Challenge, a competition among 500 colleges in the United States and Canada to slow the effects of global warming by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2050.