Agenda

• What types of models and metrics are most useful to understand materials and energy sustainability at a regional scale in transportation, energy supply, the industrial sector, and the built environment?
• How can these analyses inform development patterns or economic activity?
• How do regional scale decisions regarding energy and materials relate to larger scale effects?

• At the regional scale, how can water management be informed by development patterns; how can development decisions be informed by water management needs; and how can both take into account uncertain changes beyond local and regional control such as climate change?
• How do urban forests and other ecosystems located in densely developed areas affect greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, local water quality, local temperatures, etc., and how is this measured?
• How can this knowledge and information best inform economically sound land use planning at a regional scale?

• What are some approaches to make the concept of sustainability easy to understand and compelling to act on across a diverse population? 
• What is the role of geographic information, material flow data, and other data and models?
• When and how does scientific understanding best interface with a collaborative process to inform creative and effective solutions? 

Wednesday, April 23 2008

• CNS Grantee: Energy, Water, and Land Use:  A Framework for Incorporating Science Into Sustainable Regional Planning (PDF) (6 pp, 23 K)
  Richard Taupier, University of Massachusetts
  EPA Host:  Bernice L. Smith, EPA, ORD
  
  9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., Woodie’s Building,
  1025 F Street, NW, Room 3127, 3rd Floor,
  South Conference Room

• CNS Grantee: Building Sustainability Indicators To Assess the Physical, Social, and Economic Values of Greening Cities - A Study of the Million Trees Initiatives in Los Angeles, CA (PDF) (6 pp, 206 K)
  Jean-Daniel Saphores, University of California at Irvine
  EPA Host:  Anne Sergeant, EPA, ORD
  
  9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., Woodie’s Building,
  1025 F Street, NW, Room 3306, 3rd Floor,
  East Conference Room

• CNS Grantee: Promoting Sustainable Pollutant Control Policies Through Consideration of Social and Biological Indicators:  An Application to Mercury Control in New England (PDF) (7 pp, 467 K)
  Mark Borsuk, Dartmouth College
  EPA Host:  Pasky Pascual, EPA, ORD
  
  10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Woodie’s Building,
  1025 F Street, NW, Room 3127, 3rd Floor,
  South Conference Room

• CNS Grantee: Sustainable Building Materials and Practices During Gulf Coast Reconstruction (PDF) (6 pp, 275 K)
  Jack Geibig, University of Tennessee
  EPA Host:  Dale Manty, EPA, ORD
  
  10:30 a.m. –12:30 p.m. – Ronald Reagan Building, 
  1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, “Fishbowl”
  Conference Room

• CNS Grantee: Metropolitan Accessibility and Transportation Sustainability:  Comparative Indicators for Policy Reform (PDF) (9 pp, 1.05 MB)
  Jonathan Levine, University of Michigan
  EPA Host:  Kevin Nelson, EPA, Office of Policy, Economics
   and Innovation
  
  10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., EPA East,
  1201 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 2379

• CNS Grantee: Mapping Regional Development for Smart Growth Planning To Minimize Degradation of Water Quality and Enhance Green Infrastructure (PDF) (7 pp, 167 K)
  Donald Katnik, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 
  EPA Host:  Laura Gabanski, EPA, Office of Water
  
  10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., EPA West,
  1301 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 7201

• CNS Grantee: Reality Check Plus:  Envisioning a Sustainable Maryland (PDF) (6 pp, 340 K)
  Matthias Ruth, University of Maryland
  EPA Host:  Carlton Eley, EPA, Office of Policy, Economics and
   Innovation
  
  9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., EPA East,
  1201 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 2379

• CNS Grantee: Sustainable Lake Management in Maine’s Changing Landscape (PDF) (8 pp, 701 K)
  Kathleen Bell, University of Maine 
  EPA Host:  Robert Goo, EPA, Office of Water
  
  9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., EPA West,
  1301 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 7129

• CNS Grantee: Partnership for Industrial Ecology in Central Ohio (PDF) (12 pp, 820 K)
  Joseph Fiksel, Ohio State University
  EPA Host:  Angela Leith, EPA, Office of Solid Waste and
   Emergency Response
  
  10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., EPA West,
  1301 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 4118

• CNS Grantee: Grant Protection of Critical Source Areas for Achieving Long-Term Sustainability of Water Resources(PDF) (6 pp, 35 K)
  Zeyuan Qiu, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  EPA Host:  Angela Page, EPA, ORD
  
  10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Woodie’s Building,
  1025 F ST NW, 3rd floor, Room 3306 East
  Conference Room