Partner Events

ISSP has partnered with these sustainability-related organizations to promote each other's events. ISSP members may receive discounts at these events.

Events are listed in chronological order.  Click on the conference name or scroll down to read more.

• Sustainable Design, August 24, Portland, Oregon
• Disaster Risk Reduction Certificate, Sept 6-17, Lusanne, Switzerland and November 8-19, Bangalore, India
• Green Initiatives Conference, September 29-30, Atlanta, GA
• GoGreen, October 5, 2010, Portland, Oregon, Arpil , 2011, Austin, Texas, April 2011 TBD
• Sustainable Building Advisory Program,  October, Portland, Oregon
• Gaining Ground 2010, October 4-7, Victoria, BC
• Integrating Life Cycle Thinking, October 26-27, Miami
• Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010, November 9-10, Beijing
• Mine Wastewater Management,  November 15-16, Perth, Australia

 

 

SHIFT: 10 Engaging Presentations on Sustainable Design

August 24, 7:00-9:30 pm, Ecotrust in the Pearl, 2nd floor, Portland Oregon

Join us Tuesday, August 24 for our 4th SHIFT <http://aigaportland.org/events/shift-4> . This event showcases sustainable design thinking and practices through 10 engaging, inspiring and informative 5-minute presentations with humor, sincerity and passion.
What is sustainable design? It’s about re-thinking creative solutions to better communicate social and environmental messages to businesses and consumers—through actions like elevating green brands in the market, to smarter strategies that reduce waste and reach the right customer, to wise materials selection, to more authentic communication of the issues.

This inspiring and educational evening will also include a short Q&A, mingling, and giveaways – while enjoying fresh local cupcakes from Peach Cheesecake and 52 Ltd. and beer, which is *free* if you bring your own mug and are older than Taylor Swift.

Members $5 / Non-Members $10

To RSVP and for more information, including if you'd like to submit a presentation idea, visit http://aigaportland.org/events/shift-4
 

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Certificate of Advanced Studies in Disaster Risk Reduction

 

Vulnerabilities and Capacities in the Context of Climate Change

6-17 September 2010 // EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

8-19 November 2010 // IISc Bangalore, India

Deadline for Applications: 30 May 2010

Course Synopsis

The objective for the second edition of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Disaster Risk Reduction (CDRR 2010) is to propose a continuing education course to professionals and specialists from both Southern and Northern countries who already have significant experience in disaster risk reduction or a connected field such as climate change adaptation or development. 

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue and focuses on the reduction of vulnerabilities and the strengthening of the capacities of populations at risk. The course does not have a technical vocation but concentrates on a practical and field-oriented approach in order to consolidate the theoretical part. Some time will be devoted to field visits, interactive workshops and methodological tools. 

Upon completion of the programme, participants should be familiar with natural disaster risk management, especially with regards to hydrometeorological disasters. They will be in a position to: 

• Compare and analyse the main risk management approaches;
• Interpret the current results of scientific research on climate change and challenges related to natural hazards, and identify appropriate measures in a specific situation;
• Apply methodological tools to assess vulnerabilities and strengthen adaptation.

The course will be held in Switzerland and India and thus offers a unique chance for sharing the different standpoints and experiences of Europe and Asia regarding the risk issue.

The course will be organised in 2 parts, each consisting of 2 weeks of full-time study:

• The first part will take place at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, from 6-17 September 2010.
• The second part will be held at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) in Bangalore, from 8-19 November 2010.

Teaching staff are drawn from the organising institution (EPFL), several Indian partner institutions, the host institution in Bangalore (IISc), Swiss, Indian and foreign universities and institutes, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector.

Financial Support

Full and/or partial grants may be offered to participants coming from developing or emerging countries that are not able to meet the total costs involved. Priority will be given to participants from India and Bangladesh.  The grant will cover tuition fees as well as accommodation and board in Switzerland and India.  Note that the grant will not cover travelling costs to Switzerland and India.

Brochures in paper or electronic formats are available upon request to cddr@epfl.ch.

For full information and application procedure see http://cooperation.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/cooperation/op/edit/pid/72010

For further inquiries email cdrr@epfl.ch.

 

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Green Initiatives Conference

 

 September 29-30, 2010, Atlanta, GA

www.greeninitiativesconference.com

The Green Initiatives Conference is a Senior Level Summit with C-Level Executives, Heads of Sustainability and Environment from America's largest and most revered organizations in both the Public & Private Sector.  Join us for two days of networking, presentations, workshops and case studies. This Event goes beyond Environment/Sustainability 101...
 
Early Bird Specials Expire July 30th 2010...Join us!!!
 
We are happy to be opening a block of 10 seats to ISSP's Member Companies, stake-holders and affiliates at $375.00 per pass. This is a 50% discount from the Early Bird price of $750.00.  Click here to reserve your seat

This special expires by July 30th 2010 or when 10 participants register.  Whichever comes first...

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GoGreen Conference

October 5th, 2010, Portland, Oregon http://portland.gogreenconference.net/ <http://portland.gogreenconference.net/
April 6th 2011, Austin, Texas http://austin.gogreenconference.net/ <http://austin.gogreenconference.net/>

April 20th 2011, TBD http://seattle.gogreenconference.net/ <http://seattle.gogreenconference.net/>

GoGreen Conference is a one day sustainability conference for business in Portland on built to motivate, inspire, and educate business owners to “go green” and become more sustainable. As an action-oriented, non-typical conference, GoGreen Conference teaches tactical steps on how to “green” your business and provides actionable next steps to sustainability for business owners and decision makers. Attendees will learn from live success stories and participate in panel discussions geared to provide solid takeaways to make any size of business the most sustainable that it can be. The GoGreen Conference will feature over 50 business leader speakers and 15 different sessions on how to build sustainability into your business.

ISSP members received $25 off to attend, use discount code: ISSP when registering.

 

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Sustainable Building Advisory Program

October, Portland, OR

The SBAP program is a nine-month training designed for working professionals wishing to apply sustainable concepts to the buildings they design, develop and construct. Sessions are presented by expert instructors in an interactive format with hands-on exercises, field trips and cross sector applicability.

Program Objectives

• Identify and discuss the key practices of sustainable building.
• Establish competencies in applying LEED™, Earth Advantage™ and other relevant criteria or established guidelines.
• Analyze the costs and benefits of incorporating sustainable building measures.
• Take advantage of financial incentives and technical assistance offered by government, utilities and non-profit organizations.
• Work with architects, designers, builders, building operators, and utilities to improve a building’s performance.
• Establish a sustainable design goal for project development.
• Assist in the education and training of staff in sustainable building.

Informational Webinar - May 25, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Webinars require internet access and a phone line.

To RSVP for the webinars or for additional program information:www.mhcc.edu/sbap or call 503-491-7585

 

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Gaining Ground 2010

 

“EcoLogical”   The Power of Green Cities to Shape the Future

Vancouver, BC October 4- 7, 2010

The upcoming 2010 Gaining Ground conference, Eco- Logical, will be modeled around the strengths of last year’s conference whi le making some key changes to best support the themes of this conference and the interests of its attendees. The conference will be three full days (Oct. 5/6/7). The overall goal of the conference is to promote sustainability innovation in every field wi thin the Vancouver urban and regional setting, and to advance Vancouver’s potential to become North America’s urban sustainability transaction hub (sustainability’s ‘head office’). This outcome can best be achieved if all sectors and interests increase their knowledge and capacity together. Under that arc, each of the three conference days will have a particular focus or emphasis:

• Governance Innovation: The hard part’s the ‘how’ —transforming the urban and regional sustainability vision into strategy, policy and best practice; and planning the system to be responsive and resilient.
• Business and Professional Practice Innovation: Capturing opportunity in the green economy and building a gr een business culture.
• Social Innovation: Animating public conversation, educating and building community, social messaging and media, promoting community health and well - being, and fostering positive public engagement.

These themed conference days will stand alone for those with a particular area of interest and limited time but build powerfully on each other for those who invest in the
full- conference experience. Here’s how the conference expresses these themes:

The 2010 Gaining Ground conference will be held at the downtown facilities of both Simon Fraser University (Woodwards and Segal Buildings) and British Columbia Institute of Technology on October 5-7 (Tuesday to Thursday; shoulder program commences Monday, Oct. 4) and will use numerous excellent theatres, galleries, presentation rooms and other meeting spaces. We believe the SFU/BCIT setting itself will ensure a lively, dynamic walkable conference in the heart of the city, and will reinforce the conference spirit. The event will put less emphasis on ecological ideology and more on practice, execution and innovation in policy, urban system and community design, green economy, education…and the full integration of sustainability in professional practice.

For more information and to register go to  http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/event/GainingGroundVancouver.asp

Presentations by NSF and the National Conference of State Legislatures to discuss emerging state approaches to chemical policy and how the principles of green chemistry are being applied in the development of state regulatory initiatives, product labeling programs, and consensus standards with the goal of positively impacting environmental health

Green community development and design: Homer Robinson, Senior Project Manager at Romero Rose LLC will be presenting on green community development and design. Homer is regionally known for his work in managing the LEED Mid-rise Pilot and Enterprise Green Communities certification process and is a senior project manager for Romero Rose’s Alvarado Transportation Center Development, a transit oriented development in New Mexico that includes low and moderate income LIHTC financed apartment units. Michelle Kawamura, Director of Outreach Education at the Institute for the Built Environment will present on how current green building standards and rating systems generally promote indoor environmental health, but are often overshadowed by energy efficiency and resource conservation strategies. 

Investigating the impacts climate change has on public health, including sessions by state health departments discussing the health consequences of climate change and how prepared public health is to respond to these consequences

• Monday, Oct. 4th Pre -Conference shoulder program featuring the debut presentation of the International Ecocity Standards, BCIT development and construction industry engagement program, presentation of the Gaining Ground Open Directory.
• Tuesday, Oct 5th “Vancouver Turns Deep Green.” How fast and how far can political leadership and new policy direction move? Bu ilding on Monday’s pre-conference activity, how does a city lay out an integrated program for green economy, green systems and green communities?
• Wednesday, Oct. 6th “ALT —Value Thinking About Urban Systems”-- A One- Day Business Summit For Leaders and Decision -Makers in: Cleantech, Alternative Energy, Innovative Infrastructure Planning, Urban Systems Planning, Valuation and True Value/True Cost Analysis, and Related Capital Markets. Themes: Embedding Sustainability in Capital and Management Planning; and Financing Sustainability.
• Thursday, Oct. 7th “Healing Cities” —strategies to address urban planning processes and design in a way that may fos ter greater connectivity both to the world around us, and to ourselves – and to thereby make us healthier and more whole. Content will address the interests of professionals in urban planning and design, health management, media and social media, experts in social narrative, and community development advocates.

 

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Integrating Life Cycle Thinking & Sustainability into Product Design

 

October 26-27, Miami

When designers already have the challenge of balancing performance and cost, how do you incorporate environmental impact into existing processes when you are doing a design for the environment? As a product designer, how can you use complex tools such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to identify key impact areas and make decisions for yourself on the fly in a simple, cost effective manner? Further to that, how can you prioritise your decisions to most effectively reduce your environmental impact?
Leading electronic, consumer goods and industrial companies will answer these questions and more in LCA Sustainable Product Design USA 2010.

This two day summit offers a diverse, yet focused perspective for companies involved in the consumer goods industry:
•    Plenary sessions offering fresh perspectives to all companies
•    Break out sessions split by sector:

1. Electronic Goods
2. Consumer Goods
3. Industrial

•    Round table discussions to create industry collaboration

The LCA Sustainable Product Design USA 2010 has evolved to meet the demands of today’s CSR, Environmental Affairs Strategists and for the first time engineering and product design experts as well. This event aims to present a truly unique approach to addressing companies sustainable product design objectives.
For further details and registration, please visit http://www.lca-sustainable-product-design.com, email sarah@london-business-conferences.co.uk or call +44 (0)208 920 1417.

 

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Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010

 

November 9-10,2010, Renaissance Beijing Chaoyang Hotel,Beijing,China

With the launch of concession bidding for 280 MW PV power generation projects in China, hot waves raised again inChina market. According to government planning, the installed PV power generation capacity should reach 5000 MW before 2015, which means the market share of China PV power generation will have a jump in 5 years. China’s PV market will gradually transform from producer to consumer.

November 9-10,2010,Beijing,JFPS Group will hold “Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010”. This forum will have deep discussions on “Policy & Market Development” and “Technology R&D and Application”, which are highly related to PV grid integration and attract most practitioners’ interests. Our senior speakers will analysis the PV power industry for you with 12 stand-alone speeches and 4 interactive panel discussions within 2 days conference!

This forum will focus on:
•Discussion on grid integration of photovoltaic system and smart grid construction
•Unveiling & implementation of Chinese on-grid photovoltaic feed-in tariff
•Key grid integration technology in BIPV projects
•Analysis of China's newest subsidy policy on grid integration of solar energy
•Difficulties in developing large scale grid-connected photovoltaic power plants in China

Expected 200+ Attendees will attend this great event for New Energy and Power Industry. They come from government officials, power groups, PV system integrators, PV cell and module manufacturers, PV products testing and certification service providers, PV components manufacturers and relative PV materials and equipments manufacturers to participate in.

For more info, please visit www.pvgridintegration.com

Event Contact:
Organized by: JFPS China
Contact Person: Fanny Wang
Tel: +8621-51720126
Email:marketing@jfpsgroup.com.cn
Website: www.pvgridintegration.com

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Mine Wastewater Management

15th & 16th November, 2010, Perth

Water is essential to all mining and mineral processing activities and, in Australia, the minerals industry is increasingly facing competition from other users, such as agricultural and urban development, for access to this important natural resource. Additionally water is the principal agent by which potential pollutants can be carried from mine sites to the surrounding environment by surface and subsurface flows. Consequently sound water management practices are essential for the minerals industry to operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

This Mine Wastewater Management training will explore how to manage mine wastewater operations in periods of drought and periods of excess water, and the importance of having a contingency plan for either scenario. You will learn all potential reuses of worked and treated water on-site and appropriate site-specific treatment methods. With new stringent legislation bringing tighter controls you need to ensure best practices are being followed, resulting in an environmentally sound, sustainable and responsible mine site.

Key topics     
•    Managing mine wastewater operations in periods of water excess and also in periods of water shortage
•    Exploring all potential reuses of mine wastewater
•    Dealing with Acid Metalliferous Drainage, desalination and hydrocarbon-polluted water
•    Keeping abreast of changing legislation and best practices

Key features
•    Managing your wastewater operations in both extremes of water availability, water excess and water shortage, and having contingency plans in place for either eventuality
•    Exploring all potential on-site reuses of “worked” water
•    Learning new treatment methodologies and technologies for your site-specific wastewater treatment needs
•    Addressing the serious issues of Acid Metalliferous Drainage and ensuring correct management is in place
•    Mastering best practices and keeping on top of current and future legislation   

* All ISSP members are entitled to a discount of 10% when registering with Ms. Esther. Please contact Ms. Esther for details and quote EN-ISSP during registration. *

http://www.marcusevans.com/marcusevans-conferences-event-details.asp?EventID=17061&SectorID=3

For further details and brochures, please contact:
Ms. Esther Wong
Tel No: +603 2723 6736
Fax No: +603 2723 6699
Email add: estherw@marcusevanskl.com
 

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