Category: Webinars

At this Webinar you will hear about a soon-to-be-released report from the DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) titled Driving Demand for Home Energy Improvement. This report includes case studies and best practices for increasing participation in programs residential promoting energy efficiency.  You will also hear about the Center for Energy and the Environment “One Stop” Community Energy Services Program in Minnesota.  This program provides participants with a multi-step residential energy efficiency program that includes major home energy improvements, installation of low cost materials and reinforcement of good energy habits.

How to Attend

You can attend the Webinar via your desktop computer and phone line free of charge, but you must register in advance to obtain the URL and password for logging on to the video presentation via the Internet and the phone number to connect to the audio.

This Webinar describes the benefits of waste-derived biodiesel.  It will highlight economic and environmental benefits such as: conserving resources, recovering energy, diverting materials away from landfills, saving costs, protecting water quality and infrastructure, avoiding sanitary sewage overflow events, offering cradle-to-cradle economic model and protecting workers and fuel handlers.

Three speakers with three perspectives:

Government: the Policy side – Olof Hansen, U.S. EPA Region 9;

Commercial: the Business side – Carlo Luri, Bently Biofuels;

Organizations: the Community (NGO) side – Jo Fleming, Ecology Action

This webinar will explore the overall benefits to setting up a waste to biodiesel project for smaller communities, how to make it happen and showcase best management practices.

Space is limited.

Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/780871443

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Pollution Prevention Week is about the power of the people to make positive changes that can gain critical mass to change the world!

For the 20th anniversary of the Pollution Prevention Act and in celebration of National Pollution Prevention Week (next week) DTSC and the Western Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Network (WSPPN) hosted a video contest and asked everyday people to make a short video that shows how making small changes in our daily lives can have a big, positive impact on the environment.

I’m giving those of you who didn’t make a video to answer this question:

What small change do you think have a big, positive impact on the environment?  If you want to view the video submissions for inspiration, see http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=6eJFTgX6miU. 

Donna Walden

Regional Coordinator, WSPPN

University of Nevada Reno Business Environmental Program

LIVE WEBINAR – JOINT SESSION WITH IES
(IES – Illuminating Engineering Society)

SSL Technology and LED Lighting:

New Tools in Your Toolbox

Speaker: Avraham Mor, IALD, LEED AP, IESNA, Lightswitch Architectural

Solid-State Lighting (SSL) technology, also known as LED lighting (Light Emitting Diodes) is here to stay. This emerging technology offers tremendous promise for reducing energy use in buildings. Attend this webinar and learn the latest strategies to use these tools effectively.

This is part of an ongoing series of Green Munch & Learn Meetings designed to help you earn USGBC Continuing Education Credits.

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PLEASE NOTE: Registration is limited, so please register soon! Registration cutoff date:  September 20, 2010 The Environmental Sustainability Resource Center would like to announce a free Webinar on water efficiency practices for the Hospitality Sector addressing water conservation in hotels, including securing executive support and emerging technologies.  Facilities within the Hospitality Sector or technical assistance providers working in the Hospitality Sector will benefit from attending this Webinar.  Agenda: Water Efficiency – Heidi Siegelbaum, Calyx Sustainable Tourism Water/Energy Nexus – Waste Reduction Partners Retrofit Case Study – Hospitality facility refrofit Questions   Webinar date: September 20, 2010 – 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. EST Please register here. Contact Jamie Ragan at 919-715-6519 with questions.

The Western Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Network (WSPPN) annual conference will be held at the Bahia Hotel in San Diego on October 27-28, 2010.  There will be eighteen sessions presented in three tracks.  This year’s keynote speaker is Joel Makower who will be speaking on how mainstream companies are finding new sources of business value through the intersection of sustainability and innovation

The WSPPN conference is recognized as one of the best Pollution Prevention (P2) conferences in the country.  This is due in part to the collaborative nature of the conference that engages many experts in pollution prevention and sustainability and leverages technical and informational resources across the region.  This year’s conference will focus on sustainability, greening operations, emerging issues including greening chemicals and nanotechnology, and energy and green house gas reduction in business including lodging, printing, and personal care products.

Registration opens July 1, 2010.
The cost for the conference is $150.00 per day or $300.00 for the full conference.  These costs will increase on September 20, 2010, so register early and avoid the increase.

Benefit from the knowledge and collective experience, with effective environmental management and improving environmental and business performance, from the University of Nevada, Reno’s statewide Business Environmental Program.

Understanding waste management requirements is essential to business success.  The most successful businesses understand the management and operational approaches that improve performance and reduce costs. 

This seminar delivers the information you need, to not only comply with law, but make the best decisions to manage environmental and operational costs.  The seminar will provide the information you need to properly manage hazardous waste from your operations.  It will convey practical and cost-effective management strategies to minimize waste, conserve water and energy, and increase business and operational efficiency.  It will give you the tools to make the best decisions for improving your business performance.

Pre-registration required.

There is no charge for this seminar

Register on line.

Toll Free:  (866) 638-7232 or (775) 689-6690        E-mail: registration@nsbdcbep.org

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold two public listening sessions on potential changes to the water quality standards regulation before proposing a national rule. The current regulation, which has been in place since 1983, governs how states and authorized tribes adopt standards needed under the Clean Water Act to protect the quality of their rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries. Potential revisions include strengthening protection for water bodies with water quality that already exceeds or meet the interim goals of the Clean Water Act; ensuring that standards reflect a continued commitment to these goals wherever attainable; improving transparency of regulatory decisions; and strengthening federal oversight.

Water quality standards are the foundation of the water quality-based approach to pollution control, including Total Maximum Daily Loads and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits. Standards are also a fundamental component of watershed management.

The public listening sessions will be held via audio teleconferences on August 26, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PDT.  Call-in number: (888)-689-4723;  Conference ID: 90716138

At the sessions, EPA will provide a review of the current regulation and a summary of the revisions the agency is considering. Clarifying questions and brief oral comments (three minutes or less) from the public will be accepted at the sessions, as time permits. EPA will consider the comments received as it develops the proposed rulemaking.

EPA will also hold separate listening sessions for state, tribal and local governments.

EPA expects to publish the proposed revisions to the water quality standards regulation in summer 2011.

More information at EPA Water Quality Standards: