Ted Turner — media mogul, environmentalist and owner of vast acreage in ranchland — is the most high-profile of several speakers scheduled for this year’s American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) conference and celebration, to be held Aug. 21-23 in Aspen.

Turner will do an armchair interview with Pat Mitchell, former president of PBS and current CEO of the Paley Media Center, on Saturday, Aug. 23, and will be joined on the Wheeler Opera House stage by musician and philanthropist Peter Buffet.

The event will also include speakers such as Lester Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute and author of “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization;” Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Wolakota Foundation, Lakota, Sioux; Jerome Ringo, president of the Apollo Alliance; Harris Sherman, executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources; environmental consultant Sally Ranney; and representatives from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Presidential Climate Action Project, Native Wind and Rocky Mountain Institute.

Two films will be screened: “Burning the Future: Coal in America,” about the West Virginia coal industry; and “Fields of Fuel,” winner of the Sundance 2008 Audience Award, about biodiesel. 

To learn more about the conference schedule, including live music and a children’s climate-solution panel, check out  www.areday.net [1].