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October
19, 2010
10:30am -
5:00pm (pacific)
Oregon Convention
Center
Portland, Oregon
Click Here
to Register!
Registration
Fees:
General Registration -
$245
ACCO Members - $195
Upon
completion of your registration, you will be sent
information on discounts being made available to register
for the Renewable Energy Markets Conference. |
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SPEAKERS
David Allaway
– Policy Analyst, Solid Waste Program, Oregon Department
of Environmental Quality
Tim Cesarek – Managing Director, Organic Growth
Group, Waste Management
Valerie Patrick – Head of Sustainability, Bayer
Corporation
Blaine Collison – Director, Green Power Partnership
Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ed Boisson – Senior Consultant, Water, Environment &
Transportation, RW Beck (an SAIC Company)
Ted Michaels – President, Energy Recovery Council
Richard W. Sprott – Immediate Past President, Air &
Waste Management Association
Joshua Skov – Principal, The Good Company
Susan Anderson – Director, Bureau of Planning and
Sustainability, City of
Portland (invited)
Jim Desmond – Director, The Sustainability Center,
Greater Portland Metro Regional Government (invited)
Additional
speakers and program agenda will be announced shortly.
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Waste disposal is estimated to contribute as
much as two percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
But “waste” is just the tip of the iceberg – the life cycle of materials
(including waste) contribute 40 – 50% of all greenhouse gases. Waste
management can impact both these smaller “downstream” emissions but also
the larger “upstream” ones. As corporate campuses, municipalities,
government facilities and universities are addressing environmental
sustainability considerations, developing robust waste systems
represents a significant opportunity to reduce operating costs, generate
revenue streams, conserve energy, develop waste-to-energy infrastructure
and improve human impacts on the environment and resource availability.
On October 19, 2010, the Association of Climate Change
Officers and the
Center for
Resource Solutions invite you to a workshop featuring a series of
case studies and discussions on developing a sound operational approach
to addressing waste systems in industry, university campuses,
municipalities and government facilities. This ACCO Climate Change
Leadership Series event is being hosted in conjunction with the
Renewable Energy Markets Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Program
Highlights
- Exploration of
opportunities to reduce waste, leverage waste streams
and develop recycling programs.
- Case studies on
developing metrics related to the full life cycle of
materials and waste, including waste reduction and
waste-to-energy projects, greenhouse gas emissions
related to transporting, recycling, and dumping waste,
and engaging vendors, partners and other stakeholders.
- Examination of
challenges related to public perception of common waste,
as well as hazardous and sensitive materials.
- Discussion of
prospective action items for ongoing collaboration
amongst participants and within the ACCO community.
Topics Addressed
- What tools are available
for understanding and quantifying the life cycle impacts
of materials and waste management options?
- How are communities and
institutions accounting for these GHG emissions in their
inventories and what are the pros and cons of
alternative accounting methods, such as
consumption-based inventories and material flows
accounting?
- What investments are
being made into waste management programs? How should
returns be quantified?
- What are some of the
sweet spots or low hanging fruit that large facilities
and campuses can address, and what are the more
significant challenges?
- How does an organization
educate and train internal and external stakeholders who
may be predisposed to opposing change related to waste
systems?
- Is your existing
infrastructure (organizational structures, information
technology systems, etc.) equipped to handle this shift?
If not, how should it be revamped?
- What barriers are there
to modernizing waste management at large campuses and
facilities and what needs to be done to overcome those
barriers?
- How does life cycle
assessment inform decisions related to reducing the
energy and GHG emissions profile of a product, both
“upstream” and as waste management options are compared?
- What opportunities are
there for institutions to implement waste prevention,
composting, recycling and waste-to-energy programs? How
should these programs be assessed and implemented? What
challenges do institutions face related to these waste
programs?
Registration
Fees
- General Registration:
$245 / ACCO Members: $195
- Managing Waste
Workshop Registrants: Receive a discount applicable
to the Renewable Energy Markets 2010 (REM 2010)
conference.
- REM 2010 registrants:
Provided a discount code to attend this event at no
cost.
Eligible registrants
paying the full fee will be offered a 15% discount off
individual
membership in ACCO for the first year of membership.
Venue & Lodging
Information
- The workshop will be
hosted at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97212
- A preferred rate of $139
per night will be made available at the Doubletree hotel
(one block from the event site)
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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Interested in customizing a sponsorship package for
ACCO's Fall
2010 Climate Change Leadership Series events?
Click here
to download our sponsorship PDF or
contact
Martha Krafton at 703-920-9100
(by email at
mkrafton@ACCOonline.org) |
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Co-presented by:
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Don't miss the
Renewable Energy Markets Conference ...
October
19-22, 2010
Doubletree Portland
Portland, Oregon
For 15 years, Renewable
Energy Markets (REM) has defined and expanded marketplace
opportunities for clean power. Bridging the interests of
renewable energy generators, marketers, and utilities with
those of purchasers, policymakers, and the communities that
benefit from clean energy, REM is the nation's premier forum
for the energy community to gather, learn from each other,
and recognize best practices for promoting renewable energy.
Registrants to ACCO's
Managing Waste workshop will be offered a discount off registration to this
3-day conference.
For more information on
the program or to register,
please click here.
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