• Our Failure to Protect and Restore: Communicating Not Connecting
  While environmental advocates, from government to non-governmental organizations to corporations to individuals, have accomplished some success in protecting and restoring our natural resources, we currently face the very real threat of leaving to our children a legacy of degradation. Why? Because in our use of numbers and other measurable objectives, we have ignored that which moves to accomplish change the most, a connection to our values, our fellow humanity, and ourselves -- we communicate, we don't connect. What we are doing is not working. How can we better understand the barriers to sustainable practices? Join this diverse panel to discuss how we may move to a more holistic and genuine campaign to affect protection and restoration.
• Climate Change: Where Are We Heading?
  Presentations by Federal, state and local government and industry leaders regarding climate change.
• Walk the Walk: Help Improve Small Businesses Environmental Performance by Focusing on their Economic Gain and Plugging the Environmental Drain
  A key challenge for small business is to balance resource investments for environmental improvement with focusing on increasing profit. Hear from small business assistance providers who have helped clients reduce their environmental footprint thus saving expenses.
• Pollution Prevention Performance
  Pollution Prevention providers are faced with providing service to a wide array of clients with limited resources. This session will provide some ideas on how to improve technical assistance programs by integrating measurement into technical assistance and reviewing an existing pollution prevention results data system.
• International Approaches to Addressing Environmental Problems and Measuring Results in the European Union, Canada and Other International Experience
  Representatives from European Commission and Canada will discuss lessons learned from their respective problem-solving approaches and provide opportunity for dialogue with audience.
• Smart Growth and Smart Locations: Achieving a Balance of Jobs and Housing
  Smart growth is about creating complete communities -- places where people can live, work and play. This means developing neighborhoods with a wide variety of choices for housing, employment and transportation. One topic that is often not directly addressed is how to incorporate industrial uses into smart growth development patterns. This session will feature a discussion of: (1) Maryland's overall philosophy and approach to smart growth; (2) how communities that promote smart growth can also preserve and encourage industrial uses; and (3) the importance to employers and workers that jobs and housing are proximate and reduce the travel burden for workers.
• Integrating Compliance Assistance into US EPA's 2008-2010 National Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Priorities
  U.S. EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) has developed strategies for each of the eight 2008-2010 OECA National Priorities. Five of the strategies include compliance assistance (CA) as one of the compliance assurance tools to address the environmental issues identified in the strategies. This session will showcase the variety of ways in which CA is integrated into three of the national priorities specifically Stormwater, Mineral Processing/Mining and Schools on Indian Country.
• Going Green: from Small Business to State Government
  See how a national Greening State Government task force met the challenge to move beyond environmentally preferable purchasing and how a small wood products manufacturer learned to green their product line with a little extra help.

Engage and exchange ideas with your colleagues at this lunchtime discussion including Summit and industry leaders, speakers, and policy makers:

How do we accelerate environmental performance?
What kinds of new actions and approaches should we be considering if we are to be successful in addressing the environmental problems of the future?
What are examples of successes that can be replicated?
What new information or tools do we have/do we need to understand and tackle some of these challenges? and
How can future Summits best accelerate environmental performance?

In this session participants will take part in several different conversations that build on each other, share ideas, and discover new perspectives. Your ideas and approaches will be captured and shared with the Summit partners. This process will help to illuminate possible paths forward.

Buffet lunch is provided. Sign-up required
Cost: $10

• Building a Sustainable Development Strategy: A Case Study in Leadership
  This discussion will briefly review sustainable development. After a case study on building and applying sustainable development concepts into a strategy, we will discuss the probable impact of sustainable development trends online management and environmental health and safety professionals. Exchanges will highlight a need to choose and how enterprise culture plays a role.
• Energy Efficiency Technologies and Approaches
  High energy prices are causing companies to examine ways they can reduce their costs through implementing efficient energy technologies and approaches. This session will include brief panel presentations by industry, and pollution prevention technical assistance programs on energy efficient approaches that have been used in various industrial sectors.
• Exploring Pollution Prevention, Environmental Results Program and Innovative Solutions to Implementation Clean Air Act Area Source Regulations
  To satisfy the air toxics mandates under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. EPA is drafting over 70 area source regulations that will impact tens of thousands of small businesses. Hear from key U.S. EPA and state personnel who are engaged in the area source regulation development process. The panelists will focus on the challenges and innovative opportunities associated with developing and implementing these regulations.
• Enhancing the Role of the Environmental Assistance Provider - A World Cafe Forum
  An Environmental Assistance Provider is any individual who assists another in understanding environmental requirements and improving environmental practices. Environmental assistance plays a role in promoting compliance and encouraging pollution prevention and green practices. In the face of dwindling resources and more issues to tackle than providers available, there is a strong need to enhance the efficacy of environmental assistance by working across regulators and the regulated community.
• Environmental Performance Measurement Tools
  States and provinces collect large amounts of compliance data that characterize the environmental performance of industry. This session will present some new methods of using existing data to help target compliance assistance efforts and to track trends in compliance of facilities, sectors, and regions. The session also presents a new approach to measuring the environmental impact of choices made by consumers at the state level.
• Future of U.S. Environmental Regulation: What Can the U.S. Learn from the European Union and Other International Experience
  Moderator will provide brief summary of earlier session titled "International Approaches to Addressing Problems and Measuring Results in the European Union, Canada, and Turkey." This session will then focus on new approaches for the U.S. to move forward in policy and implementation and reducing barriers, taking into account positive models and experience in other countries (particularly the European Union). After early leadership in environmental management, U.S. performance has fallen behind that of other leading nations, according to recent assessments. The panel offers an opportunity for constructive dialogue from diverse perspectives regarding problems, concepts, and potential initiatives for the future.
• Safe Development of Nanotechnology
  This session will attempt to elucidate the policy options for promoting nanotechnology safely, in order to ensure the promise of this new form of engineering can be realized without creating new risks beyond our current ability to manage. Presentations will cover what those risks might be and the adequacy of current law to address them. The remainder of the session will be open discussion examining what ought to be done.

• A Climate for Change: A Time for Action
  Momentum is building for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Leading companies are using a spectrum of strategies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This session will present examples of greenhouse gas emissions reductions programs and strategies implemented at the corporate and facility level, including goal-setting, organizational considerations, energy efficiency, use of renewable and alternative energy, and partnerships.
• Partnerships: The Future for Small Business Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
  Creating partnerships across assistance providers and local and state governments have leveraged resources to expand outreach to the small business community. Hear from a diverse panel on their successful partnership experiences. The panel will be able to help you develop your next environmental partnership strategy.
• Tools to Get You Ready for the Next Phase of Environmental Planning and Improvement
  Are you in search of the latest tools that will help you and your clients understand regulations, assess environmental impacts and even take steps to go lean? This session will showcase recently-developed tools that offer unique opportunities for providers, municipalities and industry to improve environmental planning. Be ready to participate in this interactive virtual tool session that could change how you do business when you return to the office!
• Addressing Uncertainty - Environmental Health and Safety Tools for Nanopractitioners
  Nanotechnology promises pollution prevention options, clean energy, and safer products. However, companies need best management practices, measurement devices, and life-cycle analysis strategies to ensure the protection of worker, public, and environmental health. This session will highlight currently available tools that help nanotechnology companies to start addressing potential real and perceived environmental health and safety risks.
• Challenges in Collaborative Governance: Lessons from the Chesapeake Bay
  A recent National Academy of Public Administration's (NAPA's) study highlights the challenges involved when multiple governmental and non-governmental partners must work in concert to solve environmental problems. NAPA's case study of the Chesapeake Bay will inform this discussion of the challenges of collaborative governance and what might be done to overcome them.
• How Can We Better Define, Measure and Communicate the Results of Environmental Leadership Programs?
  This session is intended to be a discussion among panelists and attendees on how to better measure and communicate the results of state and federal performance-based environmental leadership programs and where these programs might be headed in the future. This will be a continuation of a dialogue initiated by the U.S. EPA, the Environmental Council of States (ECOS), and the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance (MSWG), and follows on the heels of a recent, multi-stakeholder workshop on this topic at the Kennedy School of Government. To enrich this dialogue, U.S. EPA, ECOS, and MSWG commissioned the preparation of several papers examining the current state of federal and state programs, measurement and communication challenges, and future design scenarios. The papers and the follow-on dialogues are the first comprehensive attempt to examine both the direct environmental results of these programs and other results that are more difficult to measure, such as improving multi-stakeholder relationships and generating culture change. The papers were presented and discussed at the Kennedy School workshop. Those discussions, including salient points from the papers, will be summarized as a starting point for a facilitated group discussion.
• Toxics in Packaging: What to Look for and How to Find it
  This presentation summarizes the results of the Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH) compliance test project that screened over 350 packaging samples for the presence of four restricted metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium) using a portable ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer. Attendees are invited to bring their own packages for testing and there will be many samples of packages that violate the laws currently on the books in 19 states.

• Policy & Integration Working Groups
  Green Chemistry Business Incentives Project. Participate in partnership with the Green Chemistry in Commerce Council (GC3) and the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable to address new market challenges related to reducing toxics, re-designing products to be less toxic, and identifying safer chemical alternatives. The project deliverables include creating a menu of options for incentives that states could use to promote widespread adoption of green chemistry practices. The green chemistry incentives menu is envisioned as a flexible tool with a range of options designed to stimulate/motivate industry activities.
• Lean & P2 Working Group
  This interactive session will help you identify ways Lean Manufacturing can benefit your facility. The session is for facility managers who hope to implement lean at their site, and people in the public sector who wish to promote lean manufacturing as an effective pollution prevention strategy. The guided discussion will start at the facility level, discussing how to implement lean at a facility. It will then move to the policy and programmatic level, discussing how to promote lean through local governments, universities, and at the federal level.
• Small Business Network
  The Small Business Networking group’s purpose is to exchange ideas and experiences that relate to the environmental issues confronted by small business and by small business assistance providers. The group plans to discuss such issues as: measuring and reporting on measures; experiences, challenges, and successes in engaging small business to request assistance and to join pollution prevention, incentive, or other sustainability programs; strategies to engage small business owners. In addition, this group contributes to integrating small business topics into the annual Summit.
• Pollution Prevention Measurement & Results
  Measuring the pollution prevention accomplishments of government, university, and business programs is a major challenge. If you are involved with promoting pollution prevention and need tools and resources for helping you evaluate and assess your program’s accomplishments, join the Pollution Prevention Results Task Force. The Task Force is a joint project of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) and the Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx). The group has been very involved with developing and managing an online pollution prevention results data repository designed to demonstrate the accomplishments of pollution prevention projects, programs, and initiatives from around the U.S. The group also shares available tools for measurement within government programs and private companies. The Workgroup discussions and presentations at the 2008 Environmental Partnership Summit will focus on best practices in data collection, including tools and methods; data management tools; and NPPR’s analysis of overall national and regional results for 2004-2006.

• Tribal Working Group
  The Tribal Workgroup consists of environmental professionals from tribal entities, local, state, and federal agencies, academia, and not-for-profit organizations whose mission is to work collaboratively with tribes throughout the United States in reducing the environmental and health risks associated with the generation of waste in tribal lands. The workgroup was formed in 2003 from a U.S. EPA grant issued as a result of tribal requests for more specific tribal communication about pollution prevention efforts directly relating to tribes. The major task of the workgroup is to identify and address the environmental issues affecting the tribal nations using pollution prevention methodologies.
• Sustainability Working Group
  The Sustainability Workgroup was formed to understand how pollution prevention relates to sustainability and how the proven tools of pollution prevention can contribute towards sustainable production and development. This Sustainability Working Group session will feature short presentations by representatives from U.S. EPA, industry, state and local government on the "state of sustainability" from their perspectives. The group will discuss the status of the P2Rx (www.P2Rx.org) Sustainability Topic Hub currently under development by the workgroup as well as future collaborative projects. If you are interested working with others in "Accelerating Environmental Performance" in the context of the triple (social, environmental, economic) bottom line, please join us.
• Research, Technology and Energy
  The Research, Technology, and Energy Discussion will include two presentations on green technology. One presentation will highlight the technologies on which the regional Technology Diffusion Initiative have worked. The other presentation will give an overview of some of the most effective technologies for water conservation, including technologies that resulted in winning U.S. EPA's Water Efficiency Leader Award. Both presentations will discuss how to facilitate implementation of these technologies. The balance of this discussion will be a workgroup meeting where we will decide on topics for future quarterly Pollution Prevention Review conference calls and determine if there are any futher opportunities for collaboration among workgroup members.
• Local Government Network
  The Local Government's goal is to strengthen the role and effectiveness of local governments and communities to engage in and contribute to pollution prevention practices. This group hopes to promote networking and communication among people who are or interested in practicing pollution prevention; minimize duplication of efforts through increased communication; and serve as a resource to the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) members. The group plans to accomplish this through regularly scheduled conference calls with an issue-focused agenda, in-house development of and training on pollution prevention practices, identification of no- and minimal- cost training opportunities, and virtual-based outreach efforts for NPPR and other interested stakeholders. In addition, the group plans to prioritize media- and/or program- specific issues for discussion and with available resources, address these topics. The group also plans to host a dialogue session on local government and contribute to integrating local government topics into the 2008 Summit. This group's future strength is based in large part on its past members' dedication and accomplishments including: playing a pivotal role in publishing a compendium of case studies on innovative local government pollution prevention initiatives, coordinating National Pollution Prevention Week promotional activities across the country, and conducting local government training workshops. NOTE: This workgroup begins at 9:30 and ends at 11:00.

The Center Team will meet to share FY07 success stories / measurement challenges and explore collaborative opportunities in the coming year.

• Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Leading Practices - Lessons Learned from Over 200 Performance Track Site Visits
  This case study session will present lessons learned from observing effective and not-so-effective EMS practices at over 200 site visits. The session will cover all major EMS elements, with a focus on management involvement, communication, community outreach, performance measurement and improvement, monitoring and measuring, and corrective and preventative action. The session will be of interest to all individuals and organizations involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of EMSs.
• New Measurement Reports on Major Industry Sectors: Essential Tools to Drive Performance
  The panel leader will review data highlights from recent U.S. EPA measurement reports on manufacturing and other business sectors, particularly the newly published 2008 Sector Performance Report and new analyses of sector energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Audience members will hear examples of performance trend data from these reports that are relevant to their environmental programs. Panel members will give perspectives on how these data tools can drive environmental planning and performance by industry and government. Panelists and audience members will then engage in a facilitated discussion of several relevant issues – e.g., data gaps and needs; future uses of sector data to affect performance; the adequacy of current databases; and recommended actions drawn from data in the new reports. Moderators for this session are Karen Chu and Tom Tyler of U.S. EPA's Sector Strategies Program.
• Next Generation Conversion Coatings
  Phosphatizing, a phosphate conversion coating, is a chemical pretreatment process that prepares metals for organic coatings and helps prevent under-paint corrosion. Conventional metal phosphatizing operations generate wastewater with high phosphorus concentrations and can be very energy intensive. Newer generation technologies and products use low or no-phosphorus chemicals and require less energy input.
• Integrated Strategies for Addressing Environmental Problems
  US EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) has developed a model for strategically planning, implementing and measuring integrated approaches to address significant environmental issues. The presentation will define and explain the model and through case examples highlight how regulators have effectively used the approach to address environmental issues. The integrated approach focuses on nine key elements. It advocates the consideration of all available tools – compliance incentives, compliance assistance, monitoring and enforcement, pollution prevention and innovative business practices --- while recognizing the importance of selecting the tool(s) that best address the problem and the target audience.
• Bundling Partnership Programs Can Compound Results
  A new technique for delivering customer centric services to potential agency partners is quickly gaining momentum in U.S. EPA. A number of offices and regions have begun to "bundle" related partnership programs as a strategically coordinated package for potential participants. This reduces the administrative burden on private sector partners and holds great promise for producing larger and more integrated cross media environmental benefits.
• Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
  The Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL) program is dedicated to building and sustaining a diverse network of environmentally educated leaders who will help resolve Georgia’s environmental challenges. Come learn from this panel about how IGEL brings together leaders from a multitude of backgrounds who are important to sustaining and improving the health of Georgia’s environmental resources and have a proven commitment to confronting environmental issues in our state.
• Sustainability: What Is It and How Can I Get There?
  How can we influence consumer mindsets, balance environmental and economic needs, and drive sustainability in small business settings? This presentation looks at the foundation of sustainable development/consumption strategies, identifies potential stumbling blocks to successful implementation and provides tools to help you achieve measurable success whether your focus is on consumers, communities or organizations of any size and some tools to help you work together to achieve real success.

• Barriers to Financial Market Use of Environmental Information
  Corporate environmental initiatives build long-term shareholder value. But often financial analysts base their assessments exclusively on quarterly results. The Aspen Guiding Principles for Corporations and Investors commit signatories to defining metrics of long term value creation and focusing corporate-investor communications on long-term metrics. This session will examine how the concepts of long term value creation underlying the Aspen Principles apply to corporate environmental initiatives. The session will look at the principles from the perspectives of a leader in their development, a signatory company and an institutional investor.
• Dallas asks What IF...?
  Sustainable Skylines is a joint initiative with the U.S. EPA, North Central Texas Council of Government and the City of Dallas that involves completing several 3-year projects to reduce air emissions in the metro city area. The initiative is also expected to produce benefits to water and land quality and in addition to improving air quality in Dallas.
• Stormwater Management: Innovative Planning that Yields Sustainable Results
  Stormwater management is a national environmental issue that can be controlled through effective planning. Hear from a panel of experts who will share their stormwater management experiences, successes and challenges. Through careful planning, these presenters will be able to demonstrate environmental outcomes, economic benefits and ideas for sustainable development and renovation.
• How Small is Your Environmental Footprint?
  This session combines two distinct presentations that explore different perspectives on practical issues facilities face in trying to reduce their overall environmental footprint. The first presentation looks at tools for reducing operating and compliance costs while reducing environmental footprint. The second presentation explores the fairly common problem of trying to reduce a facility footprint in a leased office building.
• Using TRI Data
  The Toxic Release Inventory has been collecting data since 1988 and offers a wealth of information on Pollution Prevention practices and their impacts on industrial waste generation. In this session, learn how facility data on releases and other waste management activities reported to the TRI Program can be compared to other EPA programs' media-specific data to enhance data quality, strengthen data integration, and support compliance/enforcement efforts.
• Practical Measures and Models: Environmental Behavior and Results
  Three prominent researchers will present groundbreaking models for measuring changes in attitudes, behavior, compliance, and releases from compliance assistance, monitoring, and enforcement. Complimentary, limited edition prints of U.S. EPA’s 2007 Compliance Literature Search Results summarizing 215 books and articles on compliance and voluntary programs will be provided.
• Sharing Leading Environmental Practices
  Each year Performance Track members report progress toward their environmental goals. Based on these reports, the Performance Track program annually recognizes a select number of facilities demonstrating exemplary environmental performance. This session will highlight leading practices of award winners as well as provide "top 10" lists of leading and common practices that Performance Track members are using to make significant environmental improvements.

• Government Procurement Opportunties and the Green Economy
  With so many green businesses in America, why is it that government procurement personnel struggle with satisfying green procurement requirements? And why do small, minority owned green businesses often not market to the government? This four-part workshop will explore the characteristics of a truly green business and identify gaps in existing procurement systems that create roadblocks for greening government procurement.
• Building a Durable Future: Community, the Campus and Deep Economy
  The campus mission is change, with unique leverage points to promote environmentally sound behaviours: campus operations, student involvement, and community engagement. Panelists share success with greening facilities, new models of student activism and building sustainable local economies through university actions. Curriculum examples show how deep economy principles graft with the academic catalog.
• Industrial Water Management
  Pollution prevention practitioners have long worked with industries with water intensive processes. However, specific programs addressing water efficiency are a missing element in many technical assistance and pollution prevention service programs. This session is focused on industrial water management techniques to improve environmental performance and be more competitive in the global marketplace.
• Benefitting from Pollution Prevention in the 21st Century
  Integrating pollution prevention, lean techniques, and EMS into the regulatory framework will bring enormous environmental benefits and resource efficiencies to facilities. Hear from a diverse panel who will discuss and demonstrate the successes of pollution prevention integration in storm water permits, large research facility ISO management, and continuous improvement events. You will leave this session with key elements of success, practical and transferable steps to apply to your own programs, the importance of performance measurement, and ideas for designing performance measurement systems.
• Linking Pollution Prevention Practices and Human Health Benefits: An Integral Component of the P2 Paradigm
  Pollution prevention practices are known to help industry reduce waste, save money, and protect the environment. But pollution prevention practices that benefit employee and human health are not well documented or shared. This session gathers together three case studies where pollution prevention has been documented to result in benefits to the environment, to worker health, and to reduce the employer’s workmen’s compensation liability. The case studies cover pollution prevention/health impacts documented in auto body/auto repair and an air conditioning manufacturer.
• Using the Supply Chain to Achieve Sustainability in the Retail Sector
  Focus on greening the supply chain of the retail sector. Initial thoughts included testimonials from Johnson and Johnson and Walmart on their supply chain efforts. Potential speakers have been identified. Session to be moderated by EPA which would highlight the various tools available to the retail sector

Cost $20: Suppose you find yourself on an elevator with a senior executive and courageously decide this is your opportunity to convince him to integrate sustainability into his core business strategies. How would you open the conversation? When he throws objections at you, how will you respond? This training will help prepare sustainability champions for an "elevator speech" sales call on a skeptical senior executive so that when the elevator doors open you have converted his skepticism to excited curiosity and he invites you to continue the conversation in his office. By the end of the workshop participants will be able to describe at least three likely objections to sustainability initiatives that a sustainability champion will encounter from those who do not yet "get it" on sustainability and describe several effective ways to confidently handle each objection.