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
  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
  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
  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:  Testing Sustainable Building Materials and Practices During Gulf Coast Reconstruction
  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
  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
  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
  Gerrit Knapp, 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
  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
  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
  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

CNS Group Lunch/Networking (individually paid)
Location:  TBA