Welcome to the 2010 Summit. Enjoy the reception and opening plenary with author, Elizabeth Grossman, a freelance writer and journalist specializing in environmental and science issues. Ms. Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry (Island Press, September 2009), High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail, and co-editor of Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion. Copies of Ms. Grossman's latest book will be available for purchase during the reception, and after her presentation, she will be available to sign them.

Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post, Salon, The Huffington Post, Scientific American online, The Nation, Mother Jones, AlterNet, ClimateProgress and Grist. She's received support for her work from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, Oregon Literary Arts, The Nation Institute, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and Chemical Heritage Foundation, and has been a science journalism fellow at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Ms. Grossman holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Also during the Opening Plenary, Play the P2Rx-sponosored EcoFluxx Game! P2, Sustainability, Mitigation! Quick! Adapt to survive! Will you win when Trees sequester GHG? Or will someone change the Goal so that Insects & Spiders Inherit the Earth?  Play ecology-themed Actions and Rules like Scavenger or Composting, but watch out for Creeper cards like Affluenza, that can ruin it all! Goals & rules change so often, it's like dealing with a bureaucracy!

This session will open with a presentation on an adaptation methodology implemented in five Latin American countries aimed at increasing the options for excluded communities through building coalitions with entities at the municipal, regional, national and international level to reach common goals. Excluded by ethnicity, class, or location, communities that are and will be most impacted by climate change are also least able to form collective strategies to adapt. This and many other adaptation planning efforts are underway, but there are a number of other opportunities to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change before they even take place. Materials management represents 42% of domestic greenhouse gas emissions. However, traditional inventories do not adequately account for the full life cycle impacts from materials. A life cycle view is necessary to fully recognize the sources of materials-related emissions so that meaningful progress be made in reducing these impacts. A second presentation will be made on efforts underway in the Northeast U.S. and elsewhere to bring more life cycle thinking to materials and waste policy as a way of minimizing the climate impacts of materials use. This will be followed by an interactive discussion with the audience about how to further advance this work.

IBM scientists and industry experts are working on smart energy solutions around the world. They are working with utility companies globally to accelerate the adoption of smart grids to help make them more reliable and give customers better usage information. They are working on seven of the world's ten largest automated meter management projects.

Florida’s 2008 Energy Bill set a recycling goal of 75% by 2020. The State faces a daunting task to more than double its existing recycling rate of 29% to achieve this goal. The panelists will discuss different strategies used to reduce waste streams and tackle other environmental challenges including EMS, Sigma 6, Lean, Zero Waste, Source Reduction, Deconstruction, and Construction and Demolition recycling.

Sustainability leaders are able to identify paths to sustainability that are consistent with their organization’s present priorities. Case studies in this presentation illustrate paths that commenced on each leg of sustainability, including: Frito Lay’s Journey to Net Zero (environmental), Sleeman Brewery’s water & energy conservation (economic) , and Veriform’s Sustainability Credits in Sudan and design for environment (social).

How can public employers be better stewards of taxpayers dollars and address climate change? By working together on a variety of sustainability issues, leveraging experience and economies of scale and educating employees and students about the environment and climate change.

In 2009-10 we find ourselves at the 20th anniversary of landmark environmental legislation. Massachusetts’ and Oregon’s Toxics Use Reduction laws were passed in 1989 and the US Pollution Prevention Act in 1990. This is a great opportunity to reflect on the changes that those and similar acts brought to the world of environmental protection, and to look forward, creating a new vision based on today’s challenges.

Hear about the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project (CERP), one of the largest public works projects in the nation, its successes and continuing challenges for restoring America’s Everglades, and links to other on-going research in other parts of the U.S. Understand the on-going level of coordination of stakeholder support, funding mechanisms and the importance of the Kissimmee watershed project and how it fits into the CERP. The goal of this session is to explain goals of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project, appreciate the complexity of the project, challenges, and successes of the Kissimmee River watershed project.

The Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI) is dedicated to the development and implementation of a more sustainable system for designing, producing, remanufacturing, and recycling electronic devices. Incorporating education into SEI allows for increased community knowledge and participation in this developing field and shaping environmentally conscious designers and engineers.

The demise of EPA's Performance Track program and the associated support for networking and education/training for states' performance based program has left a hole that needs to be filled. The panel will discuss the current state of these programs and how NPPR can develop a network that can help support and sustain these programs.

Oregon Senate Bill 737 presents big challenges to the municipalities and businesses on the “hot seat” to reduce persistent pollutants in water. This session presents a replicable P2 program aiming to help meet these challenges. EcoBiz, an ecological business certification program, is a voluntary multi-media approach that recognizes businesses who adopt a set of sustainable practices. This program is now being seen as a practical and adaptable “Plug & Play” template to foster wide-ranging business practice change, as well as a model for municipalities to meet the requirements imposed by regulatory drivers.

Current federal chemical regulations fail to adequately protect the nation’s citizens and environment from toxic chemicals and unsafe products. Major reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is needed to ensure that chemicals used in manufacturing are safe before they are allowed into widespread commerce and use. To rely on containing or cleaning up toxic chemicals after they have entered our bodies or environment is dangerous, expensive, and ultimately futile. A chemicals policy that prevents toxics from harming people or the environment is the smartest, cost effective, and healthiest way to protect our citizens and the environment.

This presentation will provide the fundamental definitions of zero energy with a recommended definition. It will provide the audience tools and processes for getting to zero energy, will help the audience identify target benchmarks for energy efficiency, and will provide case studies of existing zero energy buildings in the US. This presentation will also outline different aspects of energy projects from the Center for Applied Technology including their work with local governments on reducing energy consumption, implementing new technologies and spurring public private partnerships converting waste streams to value added products.

How do you use Lean and Green to grow your business? How do you incorporate Lean into an EMS? How do you use Lean as a compliance assistance tool? How do you collaborate to help each other on your journey to Lean and Green? Join us and learn how...

This panel will discuss the assertion that EMSs are a critical step in the path toward sustainability, both from the standpoint of EMSs adoption by individual entities and as a public policy tool for regulatory agencies. Panelist will discuss the use of EMSs, in the public and private sector, governmental efforts to promote stewardship as an element of sustainability, and global trends in EMS adoption and usage.

This session covers topics related to increasing the benefits of nanotechnology, while reducing the risks. Topics will include highlights from EPA’s research program and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, applications in remediation and other emerging nanotechnology areas, life cycle analysis, green nanotechnology efforts, EHS impacts, mapping of the “nanometro economy”, and recommendations to Federal agencies for future nanotechnology emphasis.

Sponsored by CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures is a dialogue among a broad range of stakeholders seeking to improve the United States’ approach to public health and chemical exposures. http://www.environmentalsummit.org/assets/pdf/NATCON_FACTSHEET_03.10.pdf

The importance of understanding human behavior – individually and collectively, and in our roles as consumers, decision makers, educators, learners and myriad other places in our lives – rapidly becomes apparent to anyone who does technical assistance work. Where a scientific approach to behavior has been applied -- for instance, the application of diffusion of innovation principles in small business technical assistance – the benefits have often been significant. Yet for the most part, a cohesive social science research agenda for pollution prevention does not exist, and research efforts in this area are often not as well visible to the P2 community as they should be. This discussion forum will provide a brief overview of social science research that has been applied to pollution prevention and sustainability technical assistance, and will then open up the discussion to include the audience. We hope to address such questions as: What IS the role of the social sciences in helping technical assistance programs become more effective? How is this research being incorporated into current program thinking and planning? What questions would the technical assistance community most like to see the social science research community address? What are some of the most relevant areas of research currently underway? What other application areas (such as preventative health, energy efficiency, etc.) might help to shed light on the social science issues facing P2?

There is continuing need in the Hospitality sector, especially in an economic downturn to minimize environmental impacts, increase worker safety, improve guest satisfaction, and increase profitability by both reducing costs and boosting property revenues. This session will discuss the nuts and bolts of how to make the business case for sustainability in the hospitality industry; and, how to work with the hospitality industry to start and maintain or improve sustainability programs.

Cross-cultural divides hinder sustainability of environmental prevention efforts; beyond ethnicity and language, those cultural divides also include social, political, economical “cultures”. Therefore the next steps for Energy, Sustainability, and a Green Economy require developing strategies and cross-cultural considerations that address the diverse perspectives/priorities of the different community sectors.

In 2007, the printing industry was besieged with requests to be sustainable. What that means for an industry sector and how the sector moved forward, and most importantly, the benefits reaped will be presented.

This session will pique your interest for the most recent pollution prevention/energy efficiency technologies that will save companies money by reducing wastes and conserving water and energy. Multiple brief (15-20 minute) technology presentations, will be followed by audience sharing and interaction of the latest and greatest technologies that we all should know about. Plan to come with your latest technology to share!

A new halogenated solvent, nPropyl Bromide, is increasingly being used as a drop-in replacement for banned or heavily regulated solvents like TCA, TCE and perchloroethylene. Not surprisingly, as hazard information emerges, we find there are concerns about neurotoxicity, reproductive toxicity and carcinogenicity, and Massachusetts has now listed nPB under the Toxics Use Reduction Act.

Recognizing the need to measure, understand and eventually address their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, business and government entities of all shapes and sizes are looking for assistance. This session will provide valuable information including GHG tools and programs that can be used by managers, technical assistance providers and others.

Presently, small businesses are striving to stay competitive by going green and becoming more environmentally sustainable. Hear how the Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP) developed a green building block approach to assist small businesses to remain relevant and viable in a struggling economy.

By using techology, business can increase their lean, green initiatives throughout their supply chain. Join us as this panel shows you how to reduce risk, cut costs and minimize the administrative work associated with energy and materials tracking, supply chain management and contracted services.

How can P2 fight for “shelf space” in a competitive marketplace of green ideas and programs? This presentation shows why P2 is more relevant and necessary than ever when it comes to driving sustainability forward, be it climate protection, green jobs, clean technology, environmental justice, or creating a sustainable economy.

Green chemistry topics covered in this session include case studies that demonstrate successful technology commercialization efforts built from the application of the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry from a range of industrial sectors. In addition, an update on U.S. EPA's Green Chemistry Program will be provided with examples of award-winning technologies. Finally, the moderator will lead the discussion of the American Standard for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards process for "Greener Chemical Products and Processes." This session will also present a summary of the development of green criteria, databases, and Web-based algorithms from the 12 principles of green chemistry, and their successful application to a wide spectrum of products.

A coached EMS implememtation training project for local governments and colleges and universities was conducted over a two year period. The project involved over 23 cities and 4 colleges and universities and was the result of one of the most collaborative planning efforts under taken by Region 6. It involved state, federal, local governmental players as well as contractors universities and NGOs.

These panel experts will discuss various programs and partnerships that promote saving energy. Hear from the Department of Energy, the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center and the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program.

Sustainable Atlanta works as a catalyst, consultant and facilitator to develop policy and programming for the city of Atlanta in an effort to drive sustainable progress. These efforts are driven through public/private partnerships. This presentation will provide best practices and case history to educate and encourage future efforts in other municipalities.

How can you cut costs and secure the capital necessary to get your project off the ground? Join our panel as they share practical advice for overcoming common financial obstacles, obtaining financing and stretching resources through internships.

Come share in this open forum discussion led by panelists from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) and the Washington Department of Ecology. Panelists will discuss examples of cost effective and environmmentally preferable NYSP2I projects and solutions, and a practical analysis of life-cycle assessment (LCA). Additional panelists include experts from the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association, the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Institute, and the Toxics Use Reduction Institute.

This overview of U.S EPA Sustainability programs will provide an update on pollution prevention related research activities in the areas of sustainability, biomimicry, green chemistry, and Environmental Technology Verification (ETV). Biomimicry is being used to develop a set of sustainability indicators for the emerging biofuels industry. The ETV program area to be covered in this session verifies the performance of real-time monitoring systems for air emissions, storage tanks, and clean-up, to alert personnel to leaks earlier and process raw material monitors to use raw materials more efficiently.

This session will hear from different sectors how to involve and collaborate across sectors to move forward on the path toward sustainability.

Dr. James M. Fenton has been Director of the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) since January 2005, where he leads a staff of 140 in the research and development of energy technologies that enhance Florida's and the nation's economy and environment and educate the public, students and practitioners on the results of the research. FSEC, created in 1975 by the Florida Legislature to serve as the state’s energy research institute, is the nation’s largest and most active state-supported renewable energy and energy efficiency research institute.

In addition to his duties as FSEC Director, he leads a 12-member university and industry research team in a $19 million U.S. Department of Energy research program to develop the next generation proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell automobile engine. Dr. Fenton also serves as a Professor in UCF’s Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Fenton holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. both from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles.