[{"id":3242,"date":"2023-12-04T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T19:50:54","slug":"basic-sustainability-assessment-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/basic-sustainability-assessment-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Sustainability Assessment Tool (BSAT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/386344\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speaker: Maike Luiken, Chair IEEE Planet Positive 2030 and IEEE P7800 Standards Working Group<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Thursday, December 14, 2023<br \/>\nTime: 6:00 PM PST (Zoom, on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: none<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/386344\"> events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/386344 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>  As part of the Planet Positive 2030 initiative of the IEEE Standards Association, impact accountability and assessment frameworks for sustainability are being evaluated. Dr. Maike Luiken, Chair of IEEE Planet Positive discusses the Basic Sustainability Assessment Tool (BSAT) and its role in helping SME (small and medium sized enterprises) identify themselves as sustainable procurement options and have a positive impact on sustainability.<br \/>\nSustainability reporting is widely used by bankers\/lenders and impact investors. Buyers obtain the best value for money when purchasing the most sustainable goods and services from the most sustainable suppliers, in support of the buyer\u2019s organizational purpose and strategic goals. Over the past few years, focus in supply procurement has shifted from a primary focus on reduced cost to greater emphasis on reducing risk and achieving an organization\u2019s overall sustainability goals. SMEs (organizations with fewer than 500 employees) are major components of business activity globally. The Basic Sustainability Assessment Tool has been designed to allow them to prepare an accurate sustainability report without onerous overhead.<br \/>\nAn organization\u2019s sustainability report describes its impacts on the environment, its employees, and communities\/society, under the governance\/oversight that ensures that it is fulfilling its purpose.  Core topics\/issues include governance, environment, materials, energy, water, GHG emissions, waste, employee issues, community impacts and business ethics.  A sustainable business not only causes no harmful impacts, directly or indirectly, it also can have positive impacts. BSAT scoring in these areas is explained, as well as how the tool includes bonuses for positive and restorative impacts. The use of such a tool can have a globally positive effect, both environmental and social.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/12\/luiken.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\"><br \/>\n<strong>Bio: Maike Luiken,  <\/strong>  PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FIEC, is a longtime advocate for sustainable development, driven to leverage technology to achieve a more sustainable planet. She is managing director, R&amp;D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada. Maike\u2019s career spans academia and industry in Canada, USA and Germany. She obtained degrees from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, (Staatsexamen HL, Mathematics and Physics) and the University of Waterloo, Canada (PhD, Physics). In Sarnia, Ontario, she lead the Bluewater Sustainability Initiative, 2006-2013, and served eight years as Dean at Lambton College,  School of Technology, Sustainable Development, and Applied Research. Her strategic leadership and vision led to Lambton College becoming one of the top Research Colleges in Canada.<br \/>\nHer areas of interest and expertise span diverse technical areas from ICT, energy, and water to advanced manufacturing. She has particular interest in how progress and deployment of various technologies contributes \u2013 or not \u2013 to achieving sustainable development. She currently chairs IEEE Planet Positive 2030 \u2013 an initiative of the IEEE Standards Association \u2013 and the P7800 Standards Working Group: Recommended Practice for Addressing Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change Challenges in Professional Practice. She co-chairs the IEEE Future Directions SusTech Initiative. Maike has served as the IEEE VP MGA, 2021, as President, IEEE Canada, 2018-19, and as Chair, Policy Track, IEEE Internet Initiative, 2017-18. An IEEE SA Managing Director\u2019s Special Recognition has been awarded to her this year in appreciation for her leadership of Planet Positive 2030 and other sustainability initiatives inspiring all of IEEE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; sustainability goals, procurement options, value, reducing risk, investor impact, community impact &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3241,"date":"2023-11-28T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:21:26","slug":"powering-the-ai-data-center-revolution-sustainably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/powering-the-ai-data-center-revolution-sustainably\/","title":{"rendered":"Powering the AI Data Center Revolution Sustainably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/event\/register\/372108\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Speakers: from Nvidia, NASA, Vertiv, Cloudflare, Volt Server, and DWC<br \/>\nSeminar Date: Friday, October 20, 2023<br \/>\nTime: 8:00 AM &#8211; 4:30 PM PDT<br \/>\nLocation: Delta Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa Clara<br \/>\nCost: IEEE Members:  $225 ($200 Early Bird by 10\/6)<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/event\/register\/372108\"> events.vtools.ieee.org\/event\/register\/372108 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>   Six technical presentations.  The first two focus specifically on sustainability:<br \/>\n<strong>Achieving a Sustainable Future for Data Center Power<\/strong>, (Peter Panfil, Vice President Power Solutions, Vertiv)<br \/>\n<strong>Environmentally Friendly Supercomputing at NASA<\/strong>, (Willilam Thigpen, Director, High End Computing Center, NASA AMES)<br \/>\nFollowing talks: &#8212; &#8220;Advanced Data Center Cooling with Air-Liquid Hybrid Technology&#8221; (Nvidia); &#8212; &#8220;Upgrading Existing Data Centers to Support AI&#8221; (Cloudflare); &#8212; &#8220;Digital Electricity: Fault Managed Power&#8221; (Volt Server); &#8212; &#8220;Significant Changes in Design and Build of Next-Gen AI Data Centers&#8221; (DWC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; A Seminar on the Impact of AI and HPC on Data Centers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3232,"date":"2023-01-31T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:08:41","slug":"3232-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/3232-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RF Design for Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/event.on24.com\/wcc\/r\/4074075\/12292C487DF313A718847C5A928C46CF\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speaker: Dr. Jasmin Grosinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2022<br \/>\nTime: 9:00 AM PST (on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: none<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/event.on24.com\/wcc\/r\/4074075\/12292C487DF313A718847C5A928C46CF\"> Link to Registration Page <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Jasmin Grosinger will present RF design solutions for wireless sensor and communication nodes to solve sustainability issues in the Internet of things (IoT) due to the massive deployment of wireless IoT nodes on environmental, economic, and societal levels. Engineers can apply these design solutions to improve the (ultra) low-power operation of IoT nodes, avoid batteries\u2019 eco-toxicity, and decrease maintenance costs due to battery replacement. The presented solutions offer high integration levels based on system-on-chip and system-in-package concepts in low-cost complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technologies to limit the costs and carbon footprints of these nodes.<br \/>\nIn particular, I will present solutions for (ultra) low-power wireless communication systems based on high-frequency and ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies. I will show design solutions for wireless systems that reveal how to develop passive miniaturized IoT nodes that operate robustly in harsh application environments and how to create passive \u2013 batteryless \u2013 IoT nodes which provide passive sensing capabilities and work robustly in their respective application environment.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/01\/grosinger.png\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\"> <strong>Bio: Dr. Jasmin Grosinger   <\/strong>  (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree (Hons.) in telecommunications and the Dr.techn. (Ph.D.) degree (Hons.) from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2008 and 2012. In January 2021, she received the Venia Docendi (post-doctoral degree) in radio frequency and microwave engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria. Since 2013, Prof. Grosinger has been with Graz University of Technology, working on ultra-low-power wireless systems at the Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering. In 2021, she was elevated to an Associate Professor. From 2008 to 2013, she was a Project Assistant with the Institute of Telecommunications, Vienna University of Technology. She was a Laboratory Associate with Disney Research, Pittsburgh, USA, in 2011. In 2018, 2019, and 2021, she was a Guest Professor at the Institute of Electronics Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Prof. Grosinger has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and holds one US patent.<br \/>\nProf. Grosinger is actively involved in the Technical Program and Steering Committees of various RF-related conferences and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. She is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and the Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale Austria (Commission D). Within MTT-S, she serves as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (Tatsuo Itoh DML class of 2022\u20132024), a member of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committees MTT-25 Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion Committee and MTT-26 RFID, Wireless Sensors and IoT Committee, and as the Vice-Chair of the Women in Microwaves Sub-Committee of the Member and Geographic Activities Committee. In 2022, she is serving as the MTT-S AdCom Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; IoT nodes, carbon footprint, low-power, battery issues, integration level, SiP, RFID, passive, applications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3225,"date":"2022-09-28T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:58:43","slug":"enabling-distributed-ammonia-production-with-microwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/enabling-distributed-ammonia-production-with-microwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Distributed Ammonia Production with Microwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/event\/register\/323668\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speaker: (name, affiliation)<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022<br \/>\nTime: 6:00 PM PDT (Zoom, on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: none<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/event\/register\/323668\"> events.vtools.ieee.org\/event\/register\/323668 <\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/09\/bosch.png\" align=\"right\" width=\"350\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong>  The Haber-Bosch process has remained the industry standard for ammonia synthesis for the last 100 years and is considered one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century.  This process today produces about 150 million tons of ammonia per year and utilizes around 1% of the total energy supply of the world.  The HB process has been fine-tuned and has gained great efficiencies at large scale over this time; however, the large-scale processes is now a large contributor in carbon emissions.  A significant effort has been placed recently to both lower processing conditions and modularize the ammonia process so that it can be better paired with renewable energy to make the process green.  A partnership between WVU, NETL, and Malachite technologies has developed a process using microwaves to lower the processing temperature and pressure for ammonia synthesis.  This process utilizes the microwaves to selectively heat the active sites of the catalyst which lowers the bulk temperature of the reaction and has shown the highest ammonia production rates at low pressure conditions than competing methods such as electrolytic and plasma.  Microwaves provide a unique direct heating of the catalyst that provides quick ramps and load following ability for pairing with renewable energy.  The group has worked through significant challenges such as catalyst development and scale-up for the microwave reactors and will be discussed in this talk. The process has been demonstrated at 1kg\/day at 300\u00b0C and 300psi and will enable distributed ammonia production for local farm communities and energy storage for wind turbines.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/09\/wildfire.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\"><br \/>\n<strong>Bio: Christina Wildfire   <\/strong>  has served as a researcher at NETL since 2016 on the Reaction Engineering Team.  Currently, she is leading research to decarbonize the chemical industry using microwaves to electrify high emitting, energy intensive processes.  Some projects include low pressure ammonia synthesis and CO2 utilization using a microwave reactor.  She also investigates the interactions and mechanisms of materials in a microwave field to aid in materials synthesis\/processing and scale-up of microwave driven processes.  Dr. Wildfire\u2019s research interests include: material synthesis, catalysis, microwave reactions, and scale-up.  Dr. Wildfire received her BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Mercer University in Macon, GA and her PhD in Material Science from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Haver-Bosch process, synthesis, CO2, selective heat, renewable energy, demonstration, local farms &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3223,"date":"2022-06-21T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:20:27","slug":"3223-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/3223-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Manufacturing: Innovation and Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cmte.ieee.org\/futuredirections\/future-tech-forum\/sustainable-manufacturing-roundtable\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speaker: (name, affiliation)<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022<br \/>\nTime: 9:00 AM PDT (Zoom, on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: none<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/cmte.ieee.org\/futuredirections\/future-tech-forum\/sustainable-manufacturing-roundtable\/\"> cmte.ieee.org\/futuredirections\/future-tech-forum\/sustainable-manufacturing-roundtable <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>  The manufacturing industry has the power to reduce environmental impacts in the midst of an urgent climate crisis. Many already have a roadmap of commitments and sustainability objectives: developing services and products with operational efficiency, optimizing the use of resources, and reducing wastes. To track their sustainability goals and progress, organizations are continually evaluating their practices and technologies. How are the 5 R\u2019s: record, report, reduce, replace, and remove, aiding accountability?<br \/>\nThe sustainability journey, however, requires collaboration. Most businesses do not operate alone and have dependencies on their partners and suppliers. The industry needs a common language, standards on how and what to measure for their sustainability KPIs, how to share secured and trusted data, building common data models and algorithms, and having agreed-to metrics for data recording and reporting.<br \/>\nThis panel will explore innovative technologies enabling the 5 R\u2019s for sustainable manufacturing, and identify solutions and strategies for companies as they move forward on their sustainability journey. During the event, moderated by Craig Bauhaus, Sr. Industry Executive in Manufacturing at Microsoft, and a panel of subject matter experts will focus on Sustainable Manufacturing and Leveraging the 5 R\u2019s: Record, Report, Reduce, Replace and Remove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; environmental impacts, sustainability objectives, Record, Report, Reduce, Replace, Remove &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3220,"date":"2022-06-20T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:19:08","slug":"making-esg-and-sdg-standards-work-review-of-successful-strategies-to-achieve-goals-and-become-a-sustainability-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/making-esg-and-sdg-standards-work-review-of-successful-strategies-to-achieve-goals-and-become-a-sustainability-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Making ESG and SDG Standards Work:  Review of Successful Strategies to Achieve Goals and Become a Sustainability Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/316438\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speaker: Deborah Hagar, Hagar &amp; Associates, &amp; Chair of IEEE Standards PAR 7010.1<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022<br \/>\nTime: 6:00 PM PDT (Zoom, on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: none<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/316438\"> events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/316438 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> ESG and SDG have evolved into a confusing set of measures and reporting standards.  What exists today are competing standards for sustainability reporting.  There are numerous definitions, scorecards, and &#8220;sustainability&#8221; experts offering the right pathway to reaching the sustainability goals.  IEEE is supporting further development of Recommended Practices that will build on the existing P7010-2020 Standards and move forward a Roadmap to understanding and developing Action Plans that will RESULT in achieving the ESG\/SDG goals, supporting ongoing innovation, and advancing the organization to meet the new challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution.<br \/>\nThis session will present the assessment of current progress in meeting the Sustainability goals.  It will go further and report on the critical assessment that is identifying the barriers to progress and provide a better understanding of the multi-industry efforts needed to successfully transition to REAL SUSTAINABILITY.  It will present proposed strategies based on the excellent work of IEEE&#8217;s Sustainability Committee, under the direction of Rudi Schubert, and in defining the new Corporate Social Responsibility to advance humanity through technology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/06\/hagar.gif\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\"><br \/>\n<strong>Bio: Deborah Hagar,    <\/strong> the Chair of  PAR 7010.1, will present the work of this Working Group, the new strategies that are developing, and the goals for the Recommended Practices to be published in 2023. Deborah has also established The Foundation for Sustainable Communities, a private non-profit organization that is driving economic growth and development of high-value jobs through the establishment of an Analytics Center of Excellence in partnership with IBM.  The Foundation is providing a model for multi-agency collaboration in economic development and education in direct partnership with private industry.  It unites industry\/education\/labor in development of the competitive skills required for today\u2019s high-value jobs and to meet the demands of the growth industries of the future.   The Analytics Center is providing a digital network, advanced analytics, and industry expertise in key economic corridors of southern California. The Foundation enables both public and private sector organizations to leverage their resources and strategically collaborate on regional economic issues.<br \/>\nMs. Hagar has 35 years business\/management experience with demonstrated leadership and accomplishment.  For the past twenty years, her company has provided management and business solutions for organizations in multiple industries.  Her clients have included manufacturing and service companies, government, a wide variety of healthcare providers, and technology companies.  Ms. Hagar has established collaborative partnerships with Gallup Organization, Saratoga Institute, and Watson-Wyatt, in strategic initiatives. Prior to the establishment of her own company, Hagar &amp; Associates, Deborah worked in administrative\/management positions in hospitals and health systems, and in project management positions in support of NASA projects for a leading aerospace company.   Mrs. Hagar has served as an Advisor to the Healthcare Advisory Board and to the National Sub-Acute Care Association and has addressed members of Congress on healthcare issues.   She has served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors during her 12-year service on the Board of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Los Angeles.  Ms. Hagar is a Sr. Adjunct Professor with the University of LaVerne, where she has taught since 1980.<br \/>\nDeborah has served on the Board of Directors of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce, Children\u2019s Fund, the national Society for Human Resources Management, the California State Council for Human Resources Management (in collaboration with the California Chamber of Commerce), Arrowhead United Way, Chair of the City of San Bernardino Workforce Investment Board, and San Bernardino Special Olympics.  She has been a business lecturer for the American Management Association and a member of panel arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. She has been recognized in Who\u2019s Who in Executives and Professionals, Who\u2019s Who of America, Who\u2019s Who of American Women, Who\u2019s Who in California Business, Who\u2019s Who of Global Leaders, and Outstanding Young Women of America, and has been named Woman of the Year in 1993, for California 65th District, and Third District Honoree in the County of San Bernardino by the Board of Supervisors and the Commission on the Status of Women in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; ESG, SDG, sustainability reporting, IEEE P7010, goals, developing Action Plans, pathway &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3211,"date":"2022-03-29T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:00:42","slug":"ieee-conference-on-technologies-for-sustainability-sustech-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/ieee-conference-on-technologies-for-sustainability-sustech-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ieee-sustech.org\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Green Infrastructures for Sustainability<br \/>\nConference Dates: April 21-23, 2022 <strong>(Virtual)<\/strong><br \/>\nCost: $50 (get $25 discount with code &#8220;October2021&#8221;)<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/ieee-sustech.org\/\"> www.ieee-sustech.org <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/03\/SusTech2022.png\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\"> <strong>Summary:<\/strong> The 9th IEEE SusTech is designed to explore development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It brings together scientists, engineers, technologists and scholars from multiple disciplines to hold a dialogue on environmental issues and collaborate on ideas to develop and utilize innovative tools and intelligent systems to address the need for Sustainable Infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Green Infrastructures for Sustainability: Keynotes, Panels, Papers, Forum on Sustainable Aviation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3201,"date":"2022-02-21T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T23:55:36","slug":"design-for-sustainability-hardware-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/design-for-sustainability-hardware-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for Sustainability (DFS) \u2013 Green Hardware and Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>IEEE-SCV Computer Chapter<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-cs\/?p=2020\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speaker: Ramachandra Gambheer, PhD,  Senior Technical Operations Leader, Cisco<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022<br \/>\nTime: 6:00 PM PST (Zoom, on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: none<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-cs\/?p=2020\"> r6.ieee.org\/scv-cs\/?p=2020 <\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong>  The whole world is marching towards digitization in almost every field. Evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated digitization. While digitization in every field increases efficiency and resilience, at the same time it is resulting in  increased Greenhouse gas (GHG) and hence of carbon (CO2) emissions. Unless products are designed to be sustainable, the carbon emissions will destroy our planet. Not only that, soon we will exhaust the natural available resources. To combat this, the majority of technology companies around the World have pledged to meet the Net Zero challenge. This lecture aims at highlighting the concepts of GHG, the need to make products sustainable, design for sustainability for green hardware and software, with typical use cases of the green network.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/02\/gambheer.png\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\"> <strong>Bio: Dr. Ramachandra Gambheer  <\/strong>  is Senior Technical Operations Leader at Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose. He has 31 years of overall experience in the fields of hardware systems design, IoT, and high-volume hardware test automation, and has published several papers in national and international journals. He has designed several FPGA-based embedded systems for various industries including machine vision. He is a joint recipient of VLSI\u201999 International award for FPGA-based design. He is an alumni and also former faculty member of NITK (KREC), Surathkal, India. His research area is IoT. He has co-authored the text book \u201cDesign of Secure IoT Systems: A Practical Approach Across Industries\u201d published by McGraw Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; greenhouse gases, emissions, green pledges, typical use cases &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3197,"date":"2022-02-14T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T23:55:49","slug":"repurposing-californias-diablo-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/repurposing-californias-diablo-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Repurposing California&#8217;s Diablo Canyon to Provide both Giga-scale Drinking Water and Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Organized by MIT Club of NorCal, with IEEE-SCV PES\/IAS Chapter<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/repurpose-diablo-canyon-for-economical-water-energy-tickets-264918116217?discount=IEEE316\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/08\/reg.jpg\" alt=\"register\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Speakers: Dr. Jacopo Buongiorno, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT; Dr. John H. Lienhard, Professor Water and Food Systems, MIT; Dr. John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management<br \/>\nMeeting Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2022<br \/>\nTime: 5:00 PM PST (Zoom, on the Internet)<br \/>\nCost: $5 with code &#8220;IEEE316&#8221; (automatic, at this link)<br \/>\nReservations: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/repurpose-diablo-canyon-for-economical-water-energy-tickets-264918116217?discount=IEEE316\"> r6.ieee.org\/scv-pesias <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/02\/diablo-canyon-sm.jpg\" width=\"400\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong> California is in the midst of the second multiyear drought in 8 years, with drinking water conservation calls ranging from 10% to 32% across the State. California\u2019s water supply depends on winter precipitation that is the most variable in the nation. Further, the State\u2019s continuing investment in water supply, storage and conveyance comes at significant cost to the ecosystem, with frequent tradeoffs and delays to address environmental concerns. Thus, there is great interest in <strong>wholly new water sources<\/strong> such as recycled water and desalination; however, these are typically expensive as well as capital and energy intensive. What if California could build a <strong>billion gallon per day<\/strong> desalination plant?<br \/>\nMIT faculty members John Lienhard, Jacopo Buongiorno, and John Parsons, working with the Stanford Precourt Energy Institute, have developed an innovative proposal to generate significant quantities of desalinated water as well as zero-carbon electricity and green transportation fuel. By repurposing the existing Diablo Canyon Nuclear facility, they found that the nuclear plant plus a new giga-scale desalination plant could simultaneously help to stabilize the State\u2019s electric grid with carbon-free electricity and provide desalinated water to supplement the State\u2019s chronic water shortages at a scale potentially comparable to the largest reservoir projects.<br \/>\nThe proposal consists of three parts:<br \/>\n&#8212; Build a large scale modular desalinated water facility, using existing RO technology, adjacent to Diablo Canyon that shares its large-scale water facilities and capitalizes on low-cost electricity from the nuclear plant,<br \/>\n&#8212; Continue to use Diablo Canyon to provide dispatchable carbon-free power to the grid to complement the State\u2019s large renewable electric supply, while simultaneously addressing environmental concerns regarding seawater intake and heat discharge,<br \/>\n&#8212; Build a hydrogen fuel manufacturing facility adjacent to Diablo Canyon to generate green hydrogen fuel to further decarbonize the transportation industry in the State.<br \/>\nThe professors will discuss the technical and economic feasibility of this design, how it can reduce carbon emissions vs. the current trajectory for how we balance renewable energy, and how it can provide new, economical drought-proof water to the State on a scale not considered possible heretofore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio: Jacopo Buongiorno <\/strong> is the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Director of Science and Technology of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in thermo-fluids engineering and nuclear reactor engineering. Jacopo has published 90 journal articles in the areas of reactor safety and design, two-phase flow and heat transfer, and nanofluid technology. For his research work and his teaching at MIT he won several awards, among which the ANS Outstanding Teacher Award (2019), the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship (2014), the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (2011), the ASME Heat Transfer Best Paper Award (2008), and the ANS Mark Mills Award (2001).<br \/>\nJacopo is the Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES). In 2016-2018 he led the MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World. Jacopo is a consultant for the nuclear industry in the area of reactor thermal-hydraulics, and a member of the Accrediting Board of the National Academy of Nuclear Training. He is also a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) Space Working Group, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (including service on its Special Committee on Fukushima in 2011-2012), a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, past member of the Naval Studies Board (2017-2019), and a participant in the Defense Science Study Group (2014-2015). He earned a BS in Nuclear Engineering at Polytechnic of Milan in 1996 and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT in 2000.<br \/>\n<strong>Bio: John H. Lienhard V <\/strong> is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor and the founding Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab at MIT (J-WAFS). During thirty-five years on the MIT faculty, Lienhard\u2019s research and educational efforts have focused on heat and mass transfer, water purification and desalination, and thermodynamics. As Director of J-WAFS, he coordinates MIT\u2019s research in food security and water supply for a growing population on a changing planet.<br \/>\nLienhard received his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in thermal engineering at UCLA and his PhD in environmental fluid dynamics at UC San Diego. His research on water purification has included humidification-dehumidification desalination, membrane distillation, forward and reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, electrodialysis, solar-driven desalination, solvent extraction, bubble columns, management of high salinity brines, and energy efficiency analysis of desalination cycles. He has directly supervised 100 graduate theses and postdoctoral associates and is author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. He has been issued 38 US patents, and he is a co-founder of the international water treatment company, Gradiant Corporation.<br \/>\nLienhard is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluid Engineers (ASTFE), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a recipient of the 1988 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1992 SAE Teetor Award, the 2012 ASME Technical Communities Globalization Medal, and the 2015 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, and the 2019 ASME Edward F. Obert Award. Lienhard is the author of textbooks on heat transfer, on measurement and instrumentation, and on thermal modeling, and he is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts and Vermont.<br \/>\n<strong>Bio: Dr. John Parsons <\/strong> is a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on the valuation and financing of investments in energy markets, as well as the problems of risk in energy and environment markets. He is currently an Associate Director at MIT\u2019s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). He was a co-Director of the recent MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World. Dr. Parsons serves as an Associate Member of the U.S. CFTC\u2019s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee and has been a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 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As temperatures rise and droughts become more commonplace, greywater reuse can offer an affordable, low-energy solutio<a href=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3194 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2-768x1082.jpg 768w, https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>n to keep landscapes green and productive throughout the summer months\u2014 without consuming precious potable water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio: Laura Allen<\/strong> is the co-founder of Greywater Action, where she educates about sustainable water solutions through trainings and online classes. She authored Greywater, Green Landscape and The Water-Wise Home: How to Capture, Conserve, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape. Laura is a technical advisory committee member for the International Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Officials\u2019 (IAPMO) Water Efficiency Standard (We-STAND), and is also a board member of the California Onsite Water Association (COWA).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; greywater, reuse, low-energy, sustainability &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6.ieee.org\/scv-sust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]