EPA sponsors and participates in various events to help stakeholders understand and use the best management practices of green remediation. Upcoming events include:
March 19-21, 2012. 23rd National Tanks Conference & Expo. St. Louis, MO.
May 21-24, 2012. Eighth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, including a panel on "Assessing Green and Sustainable Remediation (GSR): What Have We Accomplished and What Can We Improve Upon?" and platform papers on incorporating GSR practices into remedy operation and optimization. Monterey, CA.
June 27-29, 2012. XII International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology, Energy and Global Sustainable Development. Sponsored by the International Society for Environmental Geotechnology, Center for Energy and Sustainability, Cal State LA, and Spelman College. Los Angeles, CA.
July 3-5, 2012. 1st International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development: Incorporating Environmental Economics, Toxicology and Brownfields. New Forest, UK. Wessex Institute of Technology.
February 7, 2012. Decision Trees for Screening Potentially Contaminated or Underutilized Sites for Solar and Wind Potential. This 1.5-hour CLU-IN webinar sponsored by EPA's RE-Powering America's Land initiative describes two draft "decision trees" created by the U.S. EPA and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to guide state and local governments and other stakeholders through a process for screening sites for their suitability for solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy. Targeted sites include underutilized "greyfields", commercial/industrial rooftops, brownfields, Superfund sites, RCRA sites, publicly owned facilities, abandoned parcels, and landfills.
February 29, 2012. Introduction to Utility Energy Service Contracts. This 1.5-hour webinar sponsored by the U.S. DOE/EERE Federal Energy Management Program provides an overview of the contracting options and services available from local utility companies to engineer, finance, and install cost-effective energy and water savings projects. Participants are walked through the typical project process from the audit phase to commissioning the equipment.
March 6, 2012. US and EU Perspectives on Green and Sustainable Remediation, Part 4. As part of an EPA-sponsored Web seminar series on international green and sustainable remediation efforts, this two-hour seminar will: (1) present the last case studies in this series; (2) discuss Austria's new tool for performing a cost-effective analysis; (3) provide an update on EPA's draft methodology for estimating or quantifying a cleanup's environmental footprint (www.clu-in.org/greenremediation/methodology/index.cfm) and on ASTM International's effort to develop a voluntary consensus-based standard for greener cleanups (www.clu-in.org/greenremediation/subtab_b5.cfm); (4) present updates on international green and sustainable remediation efforts; and (5) provide information on 2012 green and sustainable remediation internet seminars and conferences. (Information on prior US-EU seminars is available at http://cluin.org/consoil/.)
March 12-14, 2012. Basic Hands-On CAMEO Training. Three-day session sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with the U.S. EPA to help organizations use the latest versions of CAMEO, ALOHA, and MARPLOT software when planning or responding to man-made and natural disasters involving hazardous substances. Boston, MA.
April 5, 2012. Selecting and Evaluating New and Underused Energy Technologies. This 1.5-hour webinar sponsored by the U.S. DOE/EERE Federal Energy Management Program demonstrates how to use the FEMP Technology Deployment Matrix to identify and select clean energy technologies that have high potential of immediate deployment into agency energy-use reduction programs; assess potential benefits; execute market-based deployment strategies; and develop performance metrics to validate effectiveness and justify project funding.
