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2009 Abstract Submittal FormAchieving, Communicating and Measuring Sustainable Performance

Addressing Climate Change

Energy Efficiency

Finance and the Role of the Financial Sector

New, Clean Technology

Policy and Regulation Updates

Practical Take-it-Home Tools

Sector-based Environmental Assistance

Summit Goal: CREATING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

Summit Goal: ENGAGING NGOS and other interested groups

Under the broad tracks above are more specific topic areas. These topic areas are listed here, and their detailed descriptions are in the attached PDF document.

1. Sustainability Projects/Production
2. Addressing Climate Change: Successes and Case Studies
3. Sector Based Environmental Assistance
4. Measuring and Communicating Sustainable Performance Results
5. Life Cycle Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis as Tools
6. Environmental Regulations Update for 2008-09
7. Green Chemistry
8. Clean Technologies; New Industry, Clean and Green , Specific Technologies and Application
9. Greening Your Business
10. Harnessing the Power of Collaboration on the West Coast
11. International Projects and Models
12. Research and New Technology
13. Resource Efficiency
14. Engaging the Financial Sector
15. Environmental and Chemical Policy
16. Community Engagement Success Stories
17. Energy Issues
18. Encouraging Innovation

A submitter needs to select one topic area under one track. For example, you could select Harnessing the Power of Collaboration on the West Coast" as the topic area under the "Energy Efficiency Track" for your submission. Below is a general guideline for how topics can fit in under which tracks. Please use this as a guide for helping you place your submission.

Sector-based Environmental Assistance Track:
Possible Topics:
3. Sector-based environmental assistance
9. Greening your business
10. Harnessing the power of collaboration on the West Coast
16. Community engagement success stories

Energy Efficiency Track:
Possible Topics:
9. Greening your Business
10. Harnessing the Power of Collaboration on the West Coast
11. International Projects and Models
12. Research and New Technology
13. Resource Efficiency
17. Energy Issues

Policy and Regulation Updates Track:
Possible Topics:
6. Environmental Regulations Update for 2008-2009
11. International Projects and Models
15. Environmental and Chemical Policy

Finance and the Role of the Financial Sector Track:
Possible Topics:
14. Engaging the Financial Sector
17. Energy Issues

Achieving, Communicating and Measuring Sustainable Performance Track:
Possible Topics:
1. Sustainability Projects/Production
4. Measuring and Communicating Sustainable Performance Results
5. Life Cycle Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis as Tools
7. Green Chemistry
9. Greening your Business
10. Harnessing the Power of Collaboration on the West Coast
11. International Projects and Models
13. Resource Efficiency
18. Encouraging Innovation

Climate Change Success Stories Track:
Possible Topics:
2. Addressing Climate Change: Successes and Case Studies
13. Resource Efficiency
16. Community Engagement Success Stories

New, Clean Technology Track:
Possible Topics:
5. Life Cycle Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis as Tools
7. Green Chemistry
8. Clean Technologies: New Industry, Clean and Green, Specific Technologies and Application
9. Greening your Business
12. Research and New Technology
17. Energy Issues
18. Encouraging Innovation

Practical Take-it-Home Tools Track:
Possible Topics:
5. Life Cycle Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis as Tools
8. Clean Technologies: New Industry, Clean and Green, Specific Technologies and Application
9. Greening your Business
11. International Projects and Models

These topic areas are guidelines meant to stimulate, but not limit your imagination. Within this framework, the details will be sculpted from the content of the submissions we receive. For some ideas about possible subject matter please select here.

In sum, there are two dimensions to every breakout session - format and subject material (topic heading category). Our intention is to balance the offerings of the Summit along each dimension. As you contemplate your submittal, look over our website to see what has already been submitted. You can maximize your chance of having your submittal selected by submitting it in a format or topic heading category which has received fewer submittals. After all of the proposals have been received, we will design the highest quality sessions into logically coherent tracks.

The final filter through which we will be considering all submissions is the session's articulated relevance to the theme of this year's Summit: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration. We believe that the subject matter of every session ought to demonstrate how our attendees can take environmental action. We ask that you make this connection very clear in the appropriate question on the form.

For additional background please click here for our call for content instructions. If you have any questions about this form please call Terrachord at (413) 684-2403 or email speakers@environmentalsummit.org.

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National Environmental Partnership Summit 2009
2009 Abstract Submittal Form

Thank you for taking the time to thoughtfully fill out this form and send to us by Friday December 5, 2008.

With each year of the Summit, the planning team has increased our effort to generate presentations that maximize interaction and intensity in order to deepen the learning experiences for our attendees. This year during the selection process, breakout session formats should encourage interaction and dialogue. To guide your thinking, we ask that you convey the expertise or experience you want to share through one of the following formats:

  • Open Dialogues
  • Tools
  • Case Studies
  • Collaborative Problem Solving
  • Workshops & Demonstrations
  • Panel Presentations with Discussion

Our hope is to feature a balanced number of presentations in each format. Accordingly, we will be tracking, measuring and communicating back to you a count of how the submissions are falling into each possible category.

The Summit is an interdisciplinary marketplace of ideas and activities. We are interested in the connections between ideas and people, in systems - not just specialties. Several national communities come together to learn from one another at the Summit: pollution prevention, compliance assistance, performance track and other environmental management innovators. By design, we offer a wide breadth of content to a diversity of environmental professionals. We consider this the hallmark of the Summit.

This year, we are making session selections with the goal of balanced coverage for each of the following broad track categories:

  • Sector-based Environmental Assistance
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Policy and Regulation Updates
  • Finance and the Role of the Financial Sector
  • Achieving, Communicating and Measuring Sustainable Performance
  • Addressing Climate Change
  • New, Clean Technology
  • Practical Take-it-Home Tools

Under the broad tracks are more specific topic areas. These topic areas are listed on the form, and their detailed descriptions are located in the instructions section at the bottom of this page

Please be sure to read all background and instructions before submitting your abstract.

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