2010 EVENTS

Business Leadership in Managing Energy Usage

Regional Water Conference: Protecting and Using our Greatest Asset

Certified, Credible Sustainable Products: Innovation in Manufacturing

Green Chemistry Roundtable Series

Business Leadership in Managing Energy Usage

Date: Tuesday, December 7
Time: 8:30 am – 11:30 am
Location: Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Cost: $25 for C4S Members
         $35 Nonmembers

Breakfast Provided

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Presented by: Champions for Sustainability (C4S), a program of Sustainable Pittsburgh, the Business Climate Coalition, and the Pittsburgh Climate Initiative

This event, designed to inspire businesses in Southwestern Pennsylvania, features leading firms that are being proactive in managing how they use energy. Participants will have a chance to interact with a range of internationally-recognized businesses that have demonstrated cost savings and innovative practices in energy measurement and savings. After the interactive panel discussion, participants will gain resources and make connections to enable them to track their energy profiles, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and realize cost savings. Businesses that track and report their energy usage:

· Demonstrate their commitment to sustainability
· Save money by saving energy
· Improve transparency
· Qualify for incentive programs
· Are enabled to set well defined goals
· Reduce legal risk due to a changing regulatory environment
· Build market share
· Take action that illustrate their commitment to best management practice

Attend this event and learn how to gain a competitive edge through energy efficiency and carbon disclosure. Everyone is invited to intend. Those who stand to particularly benefit include sustainability professionals; facilities and operations managers/directors; corporate management; partners of the Pittsburgh Climate Initiative, and members of the region’s business and nonprofit leadership.

Featuring panelists in a short-presentation followed by a discussion-oriented, moderated format:

Renee Cowell
Regional Environmental Manager
Del Monte Foods

Lowell Cisowski
Coca Cola

Gary Hunt
Head, Facilities
Bayer Corporation  

Daniel Kreeger
Executive Director
Association of Climate Change Officers

Christine Mondor
Principal
evolve environment :: architecture

Richard Notte 
Director, Global Energy Services
Alcoa

Apple White
Environmental Sustainability
BNY Mellon

Agenda

Business Leadership in Managing Energy Usage

8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 Short Presentations: Results from
                   Energy and Carbon Disclosure Programs

9:15 Panel Discussion: Business Value and Opportunities

10:00 Brief Q&A/Discussion

10:15 Panel Response: Frameworks for Moving Forward

10:30 Workshop: Setting a plan for your organization

11:30 Adjourn

Registration Information

• C4S/Sustainable Pittsburgh members register online $25.00:

• Non-members register online $35.00:

Student registation and other questions, please contact:

Jake Baechle
BCC Coordinator
Sustainable Pittsburgh
(412) 258-6652
jbaechle@sustainablepittsburgh.org

or

Matthew M. Mehalik, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Sustainable Pittsburgh
412-258-6644
mmehalik@sustainablepittsburgh.org

Regional Water Conference: Protecting and Using our Greatest Asset

Date: Thursday September 9, 2010
Time: 7:30 – 3:30
Location: Regional Learning Alliance at Cranberry Woods
            850 Cranberry Woods Drive
            Cranberry, PA 16066
Cost:    $110 for ASCE, EWRI, or C4S members
            $130 nonmembers
            $50 students

Breakfast and lunch provided

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Presented by: American Society of Civil Engineers, Pittsburgh Section; Environmental & Water Resources Institute; and Champions for Sustainability

This conference highlights ways in which our region leads in the management of water and how we are using our greatest asset. The event is intended for professionals seeking to learn about practical solutions as well as engineering practitioners looking to understand what is on the minds of community leaders relating to sustainability and clean water. 

This conference builds on the conversation launched during the Water Matters! Conference held in June 2010 as part of the Pittsburgh region’s World Environment Day 2010 celebration.

Topics to be covered:

• Our Region’s Water Advantages – Why Pittsburgh?

• Marcellus Shale Mining Impacts and Solutions

• Early Warning Detection Systems for Water Protection

• The Future of Water Quality Regulations and Solutions

• The Water Consortium Initiative in Southwest PA

• Innovative Solutions to Clean Water

The conference will also feature a panel to discuss what engineering and policy practitioners believe to be the most important water-related issues for our region in order to ensure that the right responses to water demand are addressed.

Agenda:

7:30 – 8:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast/Introductions

Thomas Batroney, Chair, EWRI Pittsburgh Section

Matt Mehalik, Ph.D., Program Manager, Sustainable Pittsburgh

8:30    Pittsburgh – A World Center of Water Resources Management Projects and Opportunities

Werner Lohlein, P.E., Chief, Water Management Branch Operations Division, Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of Engineers

9:15    The Future of Pittsburgh’s Water Quality Management and Regulation

Dr. Stanley States, PhD., P.E., Water Quality Manager, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority

9:45    The River Alert Information Network - Safeguarding Pittsburgh’s Water Supply

Thomas McCaffrey, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

10:15 –10:30 Break

10:30   Treatment of Marcellus Shale Flowback Using Acid Mine Drainage Treatments

Radisav Vidic, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Civil Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.

11:00    Marcellus Hydrofracture Flowback and Wastewater Treatment, Recycle, and   Disposal Technologies

Timothy Keister, Chief Chemist/President, ProChem Tech International, Inc.

11:30   Looking Towards the Future of Marcellus Shale Exploration

Dr. Michael Arthur, Ph.D., Professor, Pennsylvania State University and Co-Director, Marcellus Initiative for Outreach and Research.

12:00 –12:45 Lunch

12:45    Emergency Water Response: Transitioning from Short-Term Needs to Long -   Term Viability

Ronald Cross, P.E, Cardinal Resources LLC

1:15    H2Opportunity: An Assessment of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Water Sector

GSP Consulting (Invited)

1:45 - 2:00    Break

2:00    Water Innovation Opportunities in Southwestern Pennsylvania

Dr. Jean VanBriesen, PhD., Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

2:30 – 3:45 Pittsburgh Regional Water: Protecting and Utilizing our Greatest Asset

Panelists:

Timothy Prevost, P.E., ALCOSAN Manager of Wet Weather Programs

Gregory Scott, P.E., Region 2 Governor of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Curtis Fontaine, P.E., Chair of Southwestern PA American Water Works Association

David Kaufman, P.E., VP Engineering, PA American Water

Karen DeCampli, Sales Channel Manager Mid-Atlantic Region, Siemens Water Technologies

Mark Poole, P.E., Senior Project Manager, Wade Trim

3:45 - 4:15 Q&A / Forum Discussion / Adjourn

Registration Information

• C4S/Sustainable Pittsburgh members as well as ASCE/EWRI members register online $110.00:

• Non-members Register online $130.00:

Student registation and other questions, please contact:

Matthew M. Mehalik, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Sustainable Pittsburgh
412-258-6644
mmehalik@sustainablepittsburgh.org

Certified, Credible Sustainable Products: Innovation in Manufacturing

Registration Fee: $75.00 C4S members, $95.00 nonmembers

C4S Members: Click here to register

Non-members: Click here to register

One of the key strategies used by advanced economies that maintain an extensive regional manufacturing infrastructure involves promoting ways for manufacturers to climb higher on the value chain.  This means companies supply products and solutions that demand a higher return because the products and services reflect greater levels of skills, knowledge, capabilities, and innovation. 

Southwestern Pennsylvania is well-positioned to help its manufacturers command the growing field of products based on sustainable solutions—products that meet the quality functional needs that other business or retail consumers want, while using materials that eliminate or reduce the impacts of those products that are otherwise externalized on society as a whole. 

This workshop features manufacturers and purchasers who have successfully achieved sustainable product certification as well as guidance on the certification process itself. Two panels of high profile industry leaders provide details on the benefits of certification—in terms of financial payback, regulatory risk minimization, and, most importantly, as an innovation driver for tapping into growing new markets.

Credibility of green claims continues to impact how sustainable products are perceived in the marketplace. Greenwashing has become commonplace. This workshop provides certified and credible/verifiable standards that address greenwashing concerns in an increasingly complex marketplace.

Agenda: Certified Sustainable Products

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:10 Program Objective

9:15 Manufacturing Panel
• Jason Bondra, WESCO Sustainability Director
• Denny Darragh, National Sales Director, Forbo Flooring
• Steve McGuire, Philips Sustainability Director
• John White, Eaton Energy Director

Issues:
- Sustainable manufacturing
- Sustainable product attributes & prerequisites
- Third party certifications
- Increasing sales & profitability
- Sustainable manufacturing underwriting
- Certified sustainable product credits
- Eliminating greenwash & market confusion
- Leadership standards campaign

10:30 Break

10:45 Purchasers Panel
• Shawn Carter, Regional President, Home Depot (invited)
• Joe Parisi, GSA Public Building Service
• Heidi Goldstein, Thompson Hine, LLP

Issues:
- Home Depot Eco Options
- Executive Order compliance
- Lacey Act
- Sustainable manufacturing underwriting standard for retailers & manufacturers

11:30 How to Get Certified

Keith Winn, President, Catalyst Partners

12:30 Adjourn

Contact:

Matthew M. Mehalik, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Sustainable Pittsburgh
412-258-6644
mmehalik@sustainablepittsburgh.org

Green Chemistry Roundtable Series

Presented by:
Champions for Sustainability & Rachel Carson Homestead Association

Green Chemistry Roundtable #4: Reuse, Re-Purpose, and Reclaim: A Second Life for Trashed Goods and Processes

This event has been postponed.

Green Chemistry Roundtable #3: Showcasing the Achievable to Inspire the Possible: Successful Products and Processes

Thursday, July 29, 2010
8:00 - 10:30 AM
Regional Enterprise Tower, 31st Floor
425 Sixth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa 15219

Registration Fee: $30.00
Students: Special Summer Rate

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Participate in a discussion with leaders in green chemistry and clean energy products and processes!

Our region's conversation and knowledge of green chemistry continues! Our first roundtable in January highlighted the inspiration for products and processes that are compatible with natural systems. The second roundtable in March focused on a dabate over policies pertaining to the impacts of what we make for our world's markets and consumers.

Workshop #3 highlights the achievable to inspire the possible. Come to participate in a roundtable discussion of company leaders who are realizing the benefits of creating and selling products from a vision of credible green market opportunities. Green chemistry and clean energy are increasingly sources of value and opportunity. Don't miss out on hearing some of the wisdom that they share about making their achievements possible.

This is the third roundtable in a series of four planned in 2010 through a collaboration between the Rachel Carson Homestead Association and Champions for Sustainability (Sustainable Pittsburgh). 

Featuring Panelists in an open discussion, moderated format.

Green Chemistry Panel:

Lalit Chordia
President and Founder
Thar Technologies

Janice Webb Donatelli
Owner
Artemis Environmental                               

Valerie Patrick
Sustainability Coordinator
Bayer Corporation

Laura Rosato, Ph.D., MBA
Global Product Stewardship & Occupational Health Risk Leader
Specialty Materials
Honeywell

Michael A. Vancil, PE
Corporate Quality and Environmental Manager
LanXESS Corporation

Clean Energy Panel:

Thomas A. Domitrovich, P.E.
Application Engineer
Eaton Corporation

Kevin Jones
President/CEO
Cardinal Resources

Michelle Proehl
Director of Sales & Business Planning
Serious Materials

Richard W. Taylor, Esq.
CEO
Imbutec

Agenda: Showcasing the Achievable to Inspire the Possible

7:30 - 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 Roundtable Discussion #1: How did you make it happen? (30 minutes each panel)

8:50 Brief Q&A/Discussion

9:10 Roundtable Discussion #2: Envisioning future opportunities (30 minutes each panel)

10:00 Brief Q&A/Discussion

10:30 Adjourn

Student registation and other questions, please contact:

Matthew M. Mehalik
Program Manager
Sustainable Pittsburgh
412-258-6644
mmehalik@sustainablepittsburgh.org

Patricia DeMarco
Rachel Carson Homestead
pmdemarco@rachelcarsonhomestead.org

Session #2: Debate: Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

Date: March 18, 2010
Time: 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Location: New Hazlett Theater
Registration Fee: $30.00

Join us for what promises to be a GREAT debate on Green Chemistry, Policy Issues and the reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

With top representatives from the American Chemistry Council, Environmental Working Group and Bayer Corporation, this is your chance to learn why TSCA is so important to your business, your health and the environment - and the future of green chemistry.

So don't miss what promises to be the most important debate on this issue on Thursday, March 18.

With the upcoming reform of TSCA - originally passed in 1976 - is there a need to put greater emphasis on safety and public health when it comes to a new chemicals policy in the United States?

Moderator:
Gordon Mitchell, Director, William Pitt Debating Union, University of Pittsburgh (to be confirmed)

Debaters:

Michael P. Walls, Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American Chemistry Council

Timothy Jones, Regulatory Affairs - Material Science,  Bayer Corporation

Jason Rano, Legislative Analyst, Environmental Working Group

Maryann Donovan, Ph.D., MPH, Director, UPCI Center for Environmental Oncology

Panel of Questioners:

Terry Collins, Ph.D., Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Student(s),William Pitt Debating Union, University of Pittsburgh

This is the second roundtable in a series of four planned in 2010 through a collaboration between the Rachel Carson Homestead Association and Champions for Sustainability (Sustainable Pittsburgh). 

We thank the William Pitt Debating Union of the University of Pittsburgh for their help with this event.

Light snacks will be served.

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Session #1: Preventing Pollution By Design
Presented by:
Champions for Sustainability & Rachel Carson Homestead Association

Date: January 13, 2010
Time: 7:30 – 10:00 AM
Location: Alcoa Corporate Center
201 Isabella Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Registration Fee:
$30.00

Don't miss the first of our Green Chemistry Roundtables for 2010.  Champions for Sustainability in collaboration with the RCHA will hold a series of roundtables that will convene leaders in the growing field of Green Chemistry to highlight the opportunities and challenges facing our region - and our country.

Our guest speaker for Session #1, Preventing Pollution By Design, will be John R. Ehrenfeld, author of Sustainability By Design.

This first roundtable will be held at the Alcoa Corporate Center in Pittsburgh. Built in 1998, Alcoa's aluminum-and-glass Corporate Center on Pittsburgh's North Shore riverfront used many design ideas that are now standards in the Green Building portfolio.

Green Chemistry Roundtable Series: Manufacturing a Sustainable Economy

How can green chemistry propel southwestern Pennsylvania's manufacturing business to become economically more sustainable?

This region is well positioned to help its manufacturers command the growing field of products based on green chemistry solutions - products that meet the quality functional needs that other business or retail consumers want, while using materials that eliminate or reduce the impacts of those products that are otherwise externalized on society as a whole.

With its substantial manufacturing capacities as well as its expertise in advanced chemistry and materials, product design and innovative talent, our region can grow and sustain its manufacturing base by bringing them together strategically.

The series of roundtables convenes leaders in the growing field of green chemistry to highlight the opportunities and challenges facing our region, and the entire country.

Upcoming titles for our series of roundtables include:

Session #1, PREVENTING POLLUTION BY DESIGN, John R. Ehrenfeld, (January 13, 2010)

Session #2: POLICY ISSUES and reform of the TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (March 2010)

Session #3: GREEN PRODUCTS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES (May 2010)

Session #4: RECLAIMED AND REPROCESSED PRODUCTS (July 2010)

Thanks to our Sponsors:

Alcoa Foundation

Bayer Foundation

Sponsorship opportunities are still open for the rest of the Green Chemistry series. Contact us for more information.

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