Also, the Outstanding Clean Air Partners for 2007-08 will be named at this event.

This year's keynote speaker is: Jeff Barrie, Kilowatt Ours Project Director.

Jeff Barrie has spent the last 12 years producing award-winning environmental documentaries for television and classroom use. His video productions include Generation Earth: A Look at Environmental Education, Summit of Hope, Arctic Quest: A Search for Truth, and Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America. Generation Earth has been used effectively as the cornerstone educational piece in a public/private program in Los Angeles County, reaching hundreds of schools with a waste reduction message and curriculum. He has coordinated successful and highly visible grassroots environmental campaigns, coordinating multimedia educational tours, and building coalitions as a consultant for organizations such as Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, and Tree People. In 2000, Barrie coordinated and pedaled a 4,600 mile bike trek across America to raise awareness about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The tour featured a hybrid Toyota Prius support vehicle, and promoted fuel efficiency on one of the first cross-country drives made by a hybrid car. Barrie founded Citizens for TDOT Reform in 2002 and led a successful effort to reform public involvement policies and advocate a more balanced transportation system in Tennessee. He wrote, filmed and edited the Southeast edition of Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America (2005) and the National edition of the film in 2007. Barrie founded the Kilowatt Ours organization, a project of Trust for the Future a 501c3 non-profit group in 2005.