http://www.p2.org The national forum for promoting the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at the source. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:23:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.p2.org/news/p2press/ 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 ... http://www.p2.org/news/ 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 ... http://www.p2.org/news/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.p2.org/news/p2press/ 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 ... http://www.p2.org/news/ 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 ... http://www.p2.org/news/ In support of the HUD/DOT/EPA Sustainable Communities Partnership http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/partnership/index.html, two large grant programs were recently announced.  The programs are designed to bring together new partnerships to support sustainable community planning and development. There may already be contacts in your community (many in Planning, Smart Growth, and Green Building programs) who ... http://www.p2.org/events/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.p2.org/news/p2press/ 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 ... http://www.p2.org/news/ Earlier then past years the 2011 NEIEN RFP will be post this July. http://www.p2.org/news/