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July 27, 2010
Submit Your Session Proposals for Brownfields 2011
July 19, 2010
The 14th National Brownfields Conference is headed to Philadelphia on April 3-5, 2011. The National Brownfields Conference is the largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned, underutilized, and potentially contaminated properties in the nation.
Cosponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), the conference attracts more than five thousand registrants and hundreds of exhibitors. With more than 100 educational sessions, the conference offers knowledge building, networking, and business development opportunities for beginners and experienced professionals.
The educational program is a direct result of the conference’s national call for ideas and is designed to address the important issues facing brownfields practitioners, policy makers, and communities today. This year, conference organizers are particularly interested in new ideas related to green jobs, community engagement and environmental justice, the business of brownfields, green technology and emerging solutions, planning for community revitalization, and sustainability. Additionally the Brownfields 2011 Planning Committee wants to encourage more interactive educational sessions in hopes to have at least 60 percent using the always popular marketplace/roundtable format and the newly established public dialogue/debate format.
To submit your session proposal by the deadline of July 30, 2010 go to www.brownfields2011.org. For more information please contact Julie Butler (jbutler@icma.org) or see the conference website.
Draft FY 2011-2015 EPA Strategic Plan
July 19, 2010
The U.S. EPA Draft FY 2011-2015 EPA Strategic Plan is available for public comment through July 30, 2010. The Strategic Plan identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect over the next five years and describes how they intend to achieve those results.
For the first time, the Draft Strategic Plan includes five cross-cutting fundamental strategies aimed at tangibly changing the way the Agency carries out its work, both internally and externally. The cross-cutting fundamental strategies are:
-Expanding the conversation on environmentalism
-Working for environmental justice and children’s health
-Advancing science, research, and technological innovation
-Strengthening state, tribal, and international
partnerships
-Strengthening EPA’s workforce and capabilities
A Discussion Forum was launched, https://blog.epa.gov/strategicplan , to engage stakeholders in the development of the cross-cutting fundamental strategies.
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July 14, 2010
Job Posting: Eco-Cycle Enterprise Manager (EM)
July 13, 2010
Large nonprofit Zero Waste company in Boulder, CO seeking an entrepreneurial professional to help create and manage the next phase of combining environmental mission with business so as to establish Boulder as a Zero Waste Community Model for the nation. This position will report directly to the Executive Director and success will require passion, humor, flexibility and an autonomous motivation to create change within the organization. The EM position will function much like a COO in giving support to a seven-person management team that oversees 60 employees. The primary responsibility of the EM will be to improve our internal organizational effectiveness by increasing the financial return from current operations and creating new community programming that is financially self-supporting and environmentally significant. The EM must be an excellent communicator, an experienced businessperson who thinks as a creative entrepreneur, and is a big-picture, positive person who gets results. Eco-Cycle is an excellent workplace with great benefits and fair wages. Please send cover letter, qualifications and salary requirements to EM@ecocycle.org. Position will be open until filled.
Sustainable Business Clearinghouse
July 8, 2010
The Department of Commerce’s Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative (SMI) created a one-stop web portal, Sustainable Business Clearinghouse, of information available from federal and state programs on environmental sustainability. The portal is available at http://ita-web.ita.doc.gov/sbc/sbc.nsf/pgSearch?OpenPage. The clearinghouse is menu driven by choosing among the list of states (or all), sustainability issues (e.g., pollution prevention), industry sectors, and types of information.
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June 30, 2010
FY 2011-2015 U.S. EPA Strategic Plan
June 21, 2010
A full-text draft of the FY 2011-2015 EPA Strategic Plan is available for review and comment. Comments on the draft are due no later than July 30, 2010.
The Agency’s Strategic Plan, prepared as part of their update under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect over the next five years and describes how they intend to achieve those results. It is the EPA’s aim to produce a streamlined, executive-level Strategic Plan that we will use routinely as a management tool to advance the Administrator’s priorities and their statutory mission. To this end, the EPA has sharpened it’s strategic goals and objectives and intend to pursue them as One EPA, through genuine collaboration across the Agency. Further, they have offered a focused set of strategic measures that will better inform their understanding of progress and challenges alike in managing our programs. Their new cross-cutting fundamental strategies are directed at improving the way they carry out their work. They anticipate that this approach will foster a renewed commitment to accountability, transparency, and inclusion.
The EPA will use your feedback, along with input from other Agency stakeholders and partners and the general public, later this summer as they prepare the final FY 2011-2015 EPA Strategic Plan for release on September 30, 2010. The full-text draft of the Plan is accessible through the following web site:http://www.regulations.gov/ (Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OA-2010-0486).This web site also provides a link through which you are encouraged to submit comments to them electronically.If you have general questions about the full-text draft or require a hard copy, please contact Vivian Daub in the Office of Planning, Analysis, and Accountability, Office of the Chief Financial Officer (202-564-6790), or
Posting of 2011 NEIEN RFP
June 16, 2010
Earlier then past years the 2011 NEIEN RFP will be post this July.
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June 15, 2010
