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2010 National Environmental Partnership Summit
Abstract Submittal Form

Thank you for taking the time to thoughtfully fill out this form and send it to us by Friday, December 18, 2009.

Summit content review teams made up of your colleagues from Business, Government, and the non-profit community will be putting together sessions from individual speaker submissions. If you have a full session or training that you would like to submit please be sure that every speaker that you list as part of your session or training is aware of the Summit process and agrees to speak if selected.

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

Fields indicated with an asterisk (*) are required.

 Abstract Submittal Form
Your First Name:*  
Your Last Name:*  
Job Title:*  
Organization:*  
Phone Number:*  
Your Email Address:*  
 All confirmations and related information will be sent to the email address you provide.
Confirm Email Address:*
  
Please Select One:*
Session or Presentation Format
Format:*

Please select one session / presentation format

Note: Should you submit a single 20-minute tool, case study, or presentation, and it is selected, it will be combined with the most compatible submissions available. You will be asked by a facilitator to work with your co-presenters in advance, possibly to adjust your original concept, in order to achieve a coherent session.

 Open Dialogues
Facilitated discussions about a defined question – a chance to share ideas and advance consensus or progress around controversial issues. Example: Open examination of the role of enforcement in a beyond compliance paradigm and whether innovative, voluntary programs are distracting environmental agencies and diverting their resources from statutory obligations.
( Currently 6% of all submitted abstracts )
 
Collaborative Problem-Solving
Outcome-oriented sessions designed to attract diverse Summit attendees to work together to solve a specific common problem. Example: Session for environmental agency staff, industry EHS directors/facility managers and community-based organization representatives to explore how environmental monitoring, measuring and reporting activities/methodologies could provide results that accurately inform goals and priorities and determine supporting activities.
( Currently 5% of all submitted abstracts )
 
Workshops & Demonstrations
Abbreviated training sessions that focus in on a specific methodology for managing or delivering environmental programs. Attendees will leave sessions equipped to return to their jobs and apply the knowledge gained.
( Currently 15% of all submitted abstracts )
 
Tools (20 or 60 minute + discussion)
Introductory, informational presentations about practical tools & methodologies to use and take home. Differs from workshops in the lower level of detail.
( Currently 15% of all submitted abstracts )
 
Case Studies (20 or 60 minute + discussion)
Real world examples of successfully applied and systematically measured environmental solutions.
( Currently 25% of all submitted abstracts )
 
Panel Presentation(s) with Discussion
Theme oriented sessions that coordinate individuals who briefly present diverse perspectives about a single subject and then feature follow on discussions by all session attendees.
( Currently 34% of all submitted abstracts )
 
About Your Proposal
Session / Presentation Length:*
Please select the intended length of your proposed presentation or session.

Single Presentation
- to be combined with other abstracts to make a 90 minute session

Full 90 Minute Session

Notes: All presentations must allow for interaction and question and answer time. Individual presentations should be no more than 15 powerpoint slides.
Track*
Please select the single conference track that this session or presentation best covers. We recognize that many submittals will cover more than one possible track but require that you select the primary track for your submittal.		 Addressing Climate Change

Energy Issues

Energy, Resource Efficiency and the Climate Connection

Environmental Issues in Florida

Green your Business, Green the Economy: Engaging Business & the Financial Sector

International Projects/Models

New, Clean Technology

Pollution Prevention/Sustainability Projects

Research & New Technology, including Clean Technologies

Resource Efficiency

Sector-Based Environmental Assistance and Environmental Policies & Regulations Update for 2009-2010: including TSCA, Toxics, Toxics in Products, and Toxics Use Reduction at the State and Local Level

Sector-based Environmental Assistance/Regulation Updates

Sustainability

Proposal Title:*  
Short Description:*
If paper is selected, this will be used in final program. No more than 50 words		   
Session / Presentation Goal(s):*
Please identify the goal(s) of your session or paper. Why should this be of interest to others?
No more than 75 words.		   
Topics:*
Please select a primary topic (required). You may select a secondary topic and/or add a new topic as well.

Primary Topic Area:

Secondary Topic Area:

Additional Topic for Consideration:
Target Audience:*
Describe your target audience		   
Interaction plan or discussion questions:*
Describe how you will involve the audience for your session, e.g. a certain facilitated process, a series of posed questions, a group created product or outcome.		   
Expected Outcomes:*
What actions do you hope your audience will take after attending this session? How will this presentation enhance the performance of your target audience?		   
Optional Long Description and/or additional information / biographies:
Will be read by reviewers to make session / presentation selections.  Please include any additional information that will help the reviewers understand and evaluate your proposal (e.g., what environmental issue or challenge being addressed; what is the importance or relevance of the proposal to others).
You can provide your summary here or email your summary with any supporting documents using the information you will be provided after completing this form.
Speakers(s)
Facilitator
If you are proposing a full session, you must identify a facilitator or we will assign a facilitator to your session. All facilitators must be willing to work with us in advance of the Summit.
Yourself:
I would like to be the facilitator if this proposal is accepted.
Proposed Facilitator:
First Name:
Last Name:
Email Address:
Speakers

Required: Please enter the name and email address for each proposed speaker.

Note: If your proposal is accepted all speakers will be asked for biographies.
Yourself:
I will be a speaker if this proposal is accepted.
Optional Speaker A:
First Name:
Last Name:
Organization:
Email Address:
Session Role or topic area:
Speaker Status:
Optional Speaker B:
First Name:
Last Name:
Organization:
Session Role or topic area:
Email Address:
Speaker Status:
Optional Speaker C:
First Name:
Last Name:
Organization:
Email Address:
Session Role or topic area:
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Optional Speaker D:
First Name:
Last Name:
Organization:
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Background and Instructions - Continued

Our goal is to maximize interaction and intensity in order to deepen the learning experiences and allow participation for all attendees. This year during the selection process presentation formats should encourage interaction and dialogue. To guide your thinking, we ask that you convey the expertise or experience you want to share to fit into a session in one of the following formats:

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

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 including: green business, sustainability programs, pollution prevention, compliance assistance, and other environmental management innovators. We design the Summit each year to focus on the best practices of today and the future. Networking and innovation among the leaders in the environmental and green fields are the hallmarks of the Summit.

The following track categories are designed to help focus your submission:

  • Sector-based Environmental Assistance/Regulation Updates
  • Resource Efficiency
  • Sustainability
  • Energy Issues
  • Addressing Climate Change
  • New, Clean Technology

Under the broad tracks are more specific topic areas.

  • Sustainability Projects/Production
  • Addressing Climate Change: Successes and Case Studies
  • Sector Based Environmental Assistance & Environmental Regulations Update for 2009-2010 including TSCA, Toxics, and Toxics in Products
  • Clean Technologies: Specific Technologies and Application
  • International Projects and Models
  • Research and New Technology
  • Resource Efficiency
  • Green Your Business, Green the Economy: Engaging the Business and Financial Sector
  • Energy Issues
  • Environmental Issues in Florida

A submitter needs to select one topic area under one track. For example, you could select “Environmental Issues in Florida” as the topic area under the “Resource 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.

Resource Efficiency Track:
Possible Topics:
8. Green Your Business, Green the Economy: Engaging the Business and Financial Sector
5. International Projects and Models
6. Research and New Technology
7. Resource Efficiency
9. Energy Issues
10. Environmental Issues in Florida

Policy and Regulation Updates Track:
Possible Topics:
1. Sustainability Projects/Production
5. International Projects and Models
9. Energy Issues
10. Environmental Issues in Florida

Sustainability Track:
Possible Topics:
8. Green Your Business, Green the Economy: Engaging the Business and Financial Sector
9. Energy Issues
1. Sustainability Projects/Production

Addressing Climate Change Track:
Possible Topics:
2. Addressing Climate Change: Successes and Case Studies
7. Resource Efficiency

New, Clean Technology Track:
Possible Topics:
5. International Projects and Models
4. Clean Technologies: Specific Technologies and Application
8. Green Your Business, Green the Economy: Engaging the Business and Financial Sector
6. Research and New Technology
9. Energy Issues

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.

The final filter through which we will be considering all submissions is the articulated relevance to the theme of this year’s Summit: Taking the Next Step for Energy, Sustainability, and a Green Economy. 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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