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EPA Webcast Series: Energy Efficient Product Procurement
Categories: Energy, Green Government, Green Purchasing, Meetings, Models - Friday Mar 28, 2008 10:25EPA’s Clean Energy-Environment Municipal Network is offering the second in series of free webcast trainings targeted to local governments. This webcast will focus on energy-efficient product procurement for local governments and will provide an overview of the benefits of energy-efficient product procurement; tools and resources local governments can access; and examples from local governments that have successfully included energy efficiency into their purchasing programs. Registrants can access a draft section of EPA?s Clean Energy Strategies for Local Governments guide that discusses energy-efficient product procurement as background for the call.
The webcast will be held on April 17, 2008, 2:00 3:30 PM (Eastern Time)
To register for the webcast, send an e-mail to CleanEnergyWebcast@icfi.com. You will receive a confirmation email with registration information within 24 hours.
Priority for registration will be given to local and regional government staff and officials. If multiple staff from your agency wish to participate, we ask that you share a computer and phone line, as space is limited. EPA plans to record and post these webcasts on its Clean Energy website. For additional information, to access the background paper, or to view past webcasts, visit http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-programs/state-and-local/webcast.html.
EPA?s Energy Star Program also offers related web trainings on product procurement. This training includes information about EPA support to help your organization purchase products with superior energy performance; guidelines that define energy performance for numerous products; sample procurement language for stipulating energy performance attributes to vendors; lists of ENERGY STAR labeled products; and energy savings software that calculates the annual and life cycle costs of ENERGY STAR products and their less efficient counterparts. Upcoming trainings are scheduled for April 24, May 22, and June 26 from 2 to 3 pm (EST). To access these trainings visit
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_internet_presentations, click on the link for “live web conferences” and follow the registration instructions on that site.
Interactive Sustainable Agriculture Website Created
Categories: Agriculture, Biofuel, Energy Systems, Illinois, Land Use, Models, Waste - Monday Mar 10, 2008 02:41URBANA — The University of Illinois Agroecology/Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP) has been active for almost 20 years. Recently the program has created an interactive website to foster dialogue and sharing of information on sustainability.
Biofuels, computer tech, stargazing among topics of U. of I. spring lectures
Categories: Agriculture, Energy Systems, Illinois, Models, Waste, Water - Thursday Jan 17, 2008 10:00One laptop per child; biofuels and world food; the rapid loss of languages; the consequences of knowing your genes; Shakespeare as an astronomer, and Muslim reactions to a Danish cartoon - all will be among the topics this spring in lectures and discussions sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois.
GLNPO Request for Applications - Great Lakes Collections of Household Unwanted Electronics and Medicines
Categories: Buying Renewables, Economics, Energy Systems, Funding Opportunities, Models, Pharmaceutical Industry, Recycling, Water - Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 01:07The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National Program Office is requesting applications for an estimated $175,000 in funding for 8-10 cooperative agreement grants which would mobilize citizens and communities to collect and recycle household unwanted electronics and/or dispose of unwanted and expired medicines from within the Great Lakes basin. Both prescription and over the counter medicines can be collected. Selection criteria include the potential for a successful collection event taking place during the week of April 22, 2008.
The Request for Applications is available today through a link from http://epa.gov/glnpo/fund/glf.html or directly from http://epa.gov/greatlakes/fund/2008-1rfa01/2008-1rfa01.html.
Applications must be RECEIVED or postmarked BY 5:00 PM, Central Standard
Time on February 28, 2008.