2010 Conference Agenda
2010 AOR Conference - June 17-19 - Salem Conference Center
Access speaker presentation files (PDF) by clicking on the alphabetical list below or the highlighted links in the conference agenda.
David Allaway - Communicating Waste Prevention: DEQ's Waste Prevention Strategy
David Allaway - Latest Developments with Waste, Materials, and Climate Change
David Allaway and Juliet Johnson- Decisions and Life Cycle Analysis
Tom Bowerman - Keynote: Climate Change and Consumption
Steve Bishop and Sean Seymour - Keynote: Designing Green Behaviors
Dean Foor - Financial Viability of Biogas Plants
Rita Haberman - LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance Rating System
Kim Holmes - State Contractor Program for Oregon E-Cycles: An Oregon Stewardship Program
Lauren Norris - City of Portland's Thoughtful Consumption Campaign
Jordan Palmeri - Green Building 101
Jim Quinn - The Future of HHW Collection Programs in a Product Stewardship World
Viccy Salazar - Climate Change and Materials Management
Bill Sheehan - Extended Producer Responsibility: A Tool to Address Climate Change
Bill Sheehan - Transitional Infrastructure
Meredith Sorensen - Anaerobic Digestion: Feedstock, Technology, and Project Model
Katie Stansberry - Strategic Social Media: How to Direct the Online Conversation
Luke Werner - Energy Recovery from Organic Waste: Co-Digestion Opportunities
Thursday, June 17, 8 am to 7 pm
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9:00 |
Keynote: Designing Green Behaviors |
Designing curbside collection and specialty recycling programs is one thing. Getting people to use the programs and change their behavior to result in waste reduction is another. Through examples and research, this presentation gives insight into the human factors that drive desirability in wellness and green design opportunities that are often overlooked in favor of more tangible supply-side efficiencies. Facilitators will guide groups through a “once-over-lightly” workshop with the aim of designing a system that encourages participants to adopt a green behavior.
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Speaker: Steve Bishop and Sean Seymour,IDEO |
| 10:00 | Trade show opens | ||
| 10:30 | Break out Sessions | ||
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Latest Developments with Waste, Materials and Climate Change |
This panel shares state, regional and national information on the sources and policies impacting greenhouse gas emissions: products, packaging, materials management, waste prevention, consumption and zero waste policies. |
Moderator:Babe O’Sullivan,City of Portland Bill Sheehan,Product Policy Institute Viccy Salazar, EPA Region 10 |
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Messaging Your Information through Social Media |
How to use Facebook, Twitter and other tools to tell your story and engage people |
Moderator:Judie Miller,Metro Carri Bugbee, Big Deal PR Katie Stansberry,University of Oregon |
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Implementing Sustainable Events |
Implementing the procedures needed to create a sustainable public event requires planning, coordinatnion and education. These speakers focus on recycling as well as best practices for zero waste. |
Moderator:Yvonne Garcia, City of Portland Lindsey Newkirk,Elysium Events Sarah Grimm, Lane County Public Works |
| Noon | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 | Trade Show time | ||
| 1:30 | Break out Sessions | ||
| Product Stewardship |
Oregon’s has recently adopted product stewardship laws for e-waste and paint in which producers are responsible for providing collection and recycling services for their products. This session will address issues related to the use of existing recycling infrastructure in the development of such programs.
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Moderator:Scott Klag,Metro Bill Sheehan,Product Policy Institute Jim Quinn,Metro |
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| Cleaning Up with Greenwashing | Learn the tools to recognize and evaluate greenwashing in product and service marketing. The hour of information will prepare the audience to rank and discuss an ad. |
Moderator:Stan Jones,Port of Portland Valerie Davis,Enviromedia Social Marketing, Inc.
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| Energy Recovery from Organic Waste | Anaerobic digestion technology offers energy recovery from food and other organics at the end of first life. Learn the fundamentals, cost effectiveness and feedstock sources to maximize benefits of this technology. |
Moderator:Babe O’Sullivan,City of Portland Meredith Sorenson,Harvest Dean Foor,EcoOregon Luke Werner,Kennedy Jenks Consultants |
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| 3:00 | Trade show time | ||
| 3:30 | Break out Sessions | ||
| Decisions and Life Cycle Analysis | Life cycle analyses offer extensive information. Learning to wisely use that information requires skills and training. This session provides the foundation for LCAs, how they are designed, what they can and cannot be used for, and trends in this science. |
Moderator:Aymie Reynolds,Portland StateUniversity CES David Allaway,Oregon DEQ Juliet Johnson,American Center for Life Cycle Analysis
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| Sustainable Business Practices | Businesses are identifying and implementing specific solutions to help their organization operate in a more sustainable fashion. The tools to measure success (people, profit and planet) and create performance indicators will be discussed. |
Moderator:Shannon Martin,Clackamas County Elin Shepard,Oregon Department of Administrative Services Tracy Meyer,SAIF Corporation Natalie White,Organically Grown Alan Pennington,Marion County |
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| Green Building 101 | Focusing on residential construction, and local examples, we will cover a broad introduction to the environmental impacts of buildings, site selection, water efficiency, energy efficiency, material selection, waste prevention, indoor air quality, and green building rating systems. |
Moderator:Amy Roth,Oregon DEQ Jordan Palmeri,Oregon DEQ |
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| 5:00 | Opening reception with exhibitors | ||
Friday, June 18, 8 am to 11 pm
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8:00 |
9 hole golf tournament at the Salem Golf Course | |
| 8:30 | Tours (departure times listed below) and Discussions | |
| 8:30 – 10:50 |
Sequential Biofuels and Pringle Creek Community |
Tour the only operating biodiesel plant on the West Coast. The general manager provides a tour describing the process from receipt of dirty waste oil, to processing and quality control. 95% of their product is comprised of waste used vegetable oil which is collected curbside and at depots in Marion County as well as directly from restaurants and processors. Pringle Creek is a community being built with sustainability as its tenant for every aspect of the community. Community infrastructure - roads, drainage, heat sources, gardens as well as green building principles in the buildings themselves make this a model of sustainable living. Get an introduction and tour of the grounds & select buildings. Pringle Creek Community also houses the Flower Power Biodiesel Cooperative. Their fuel station is the only one to offer 100% biodiesel from Sequential Biofuels.
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Compost Oregon |
This large-scale compost operation handles a large percentage of yard debris from Marion County. It is also planning on getting permitted to handle food waste in the future. Get an explanation of the process and view the piles in various stages of processing.
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| 8:30 – 10:30 |
Walking tour of Sustainable Salem
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Salem may be the Sustainability Capital of Oregon. Within just a one mile stroll along the verdant Pringle Creek Pathway, you will explore the Conference Center Complex including the Grand Hotel and Bentley’s Grill, the SAIF Corporation headquarters, and Willamette University. Each of these facilities has won awards and accolades locally, statewide and nationally for sustainability excellence. Tour begins with 1/2 Sustainability tour of the Salem Conference Center. Walking tour begins at 9:00 am. This tour will return to the conference center in time for the 11:00 am presentation. |
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Covanta waste to energy plant and Ash Monofill |
Learn how the Waste to Energy Facility operates with an introduction by the site manager and a tour of the control room. Follow waste moved from the pit to the burner with the "claw" and view the tipping floor. Tour the Ash Monofill and view the leachate collection system. The tour guide will hike the group to the top of the grass-topped completed first cell and view the active cell up close weather and abilities permitting.
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Garten Services facilities and Agri-Plas |
Garten Services provides employment to people with developmental disabilities while providing vital recycling services for paper and electronics (and they often collect other items as well!). An introduction will be provided then a tour of the plant to see the sorting/shredding/disassembly in action. Agri-Plas is a one-of-a-kind operation in the U.S. The primary focus is agricultural plastics - baling twine, nursery pots, etc., but they also handle & process many other kinds as well into flakes and pellets (raw material). A facility tour usually includes sorting, processing, finished product storage. Agri-Plas also bales some plastics for processing in other markets, and has developed plastic-to-oil technology that is housed in a different facility out of the County.
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Let’s Chat About . . . That | So what is “That”? It is anything you want to talk about, comment on or simply suggest, that has to do with AOR’s mission and goals. Join AOR’s Chair Rick Winterhalter for coffee and treats and an “anything goes” brainstorming session. Bring your ideas, questions and comments. |
Moderator: Dave White, ORRA Rick Winterhalter, Clackamas County
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| 11:00– 12:30 | Communicating Waste Prevention to Residents: A Conversation with Conference Attendees | All local governments in Oregon are required to promote waste prevention (as part of the Opportunity to Recycle requirements). However, outreach around prevention (including reuse), particularly outreach directed at households/residents/individuals, is sometimes criticized as being stale and of questionable effectiveness. This session will present important new research by the City of Portland on how residents understand and view waste prevention and the importance of shifting from a traditional “waste” frame of reference to one of “thoughtful consumption”, and incorporating the positive values and benefits associated with making individual consumption more sustainable. The City will also introduce its new Be Resourceful Campaign an innovative outreach campaign promoting thoughtful consumption. DEQ will provide a short overview of their work researching this topic, and the remainder of the time will be devoted to a conversation between attendees to identify resources (existing and new) that would help local communities be more effective in communicating thoughtful consumption/waste prevention. |
Moderator: Craig Filip, Oregon DEQ Lauren Norris, City of Portland David Allaway, Oregon DEQ
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| 1:00 | Lunch and annual meeting with Board of Directors elections | It is time to elect half of AOR’s Board of Directors. Meet the candidates and cast your vote. | Voting quorum must be present |
| 2:30 | Trade Show time, closes at 3:00 | ||
| 3:00 | Keynote Speaker: Tom Bowerman with PolicyInteractive | What do you know and what do you think about climate change and consumption? Tom Bowerman with Policy Interactive will present the results of polling Oregonians on attitudes around consumption. This tool is a good foundation for waste prevention policies and outreach. |
Moderator: Babe O’Sullivan, City of Portland Tom Bowerman, Policy Interactive
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| 4:30-6:30 | Family bowling, depart from Gallery | ||
| 7:00 | No host beverages and networking | ||
| 7:30 |
Dinner and annual awards presentation, election results, and entertainment
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Saturday, June 19, 8 am to 3 pm
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8:00 |
Breakfast buffet |
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8:30 |
Annual AOR Policy Session |
This is an opportunity for AOR members to discuss and prioritize the organizations’ policies and emphasis for the upcoming year.
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Moderators: Rick Winterhalter,Clackamas County, AOR Chair Lee Barrett, Eco-Logistics, AOR past chair |
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9:30 |
Break out Sessions
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Markets Panel |
AOR’s forum in January touched on two topics that need follow up: plastic bag bans and taxes, and BCAP and urban wood issues. Additionally, we are getting the latest on the metals markets, paper and curbside issues, as well as markets for new materials and new markets for old materials. |
Moderator: Jerry Powell,Resource Recycling Magazine Patty Moore, Moore Recycling Associates Gordon Culbertson,Forest2Market, Inc. John Lucini, SP Recycling |
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Green Buildingin Practice |
This panel discussion will cover 3 topics: Pringle Creek Community’s recycling and reuse initiatives, and how the neighborhood has responded to the challenges of waste reduction; the relatively new rating system, LEED for Existing Building: Operations & Maintenance (EBOM); and the REX Project, and experience aimed to reuse everything from an old home while rebuilding a new one in Portland’s Westmoreland neighborhood. |
Moderator: Amy Roth, Oregon DEQ James Santana, Pringle CreekDevelopment Rita Haberman, Brightworks Shannon Quimby, REX Project
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11:00 |
Break |
Take time out to meet the speakers, network with attendees, make new friends. Food and beverage provided
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11:30 |
Break out Sessions
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Dirty MRF-ing |
Examples and results of MRF-level sorting for recyclables and compostables will inform the audience on feasibility of these types of operations. When is this practice necessary and how is it best implemented?
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Moderator: Will Elder, Metro Richard Gertman, Cascadia Consulting Mark Bowers, City of Sunnyvale, California
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Waste Prevention |
Waste Prevention techniques and opportunities vary drastically across industries. But with motivated staff and financing opportunities, businesses can see success. Examples of those successes and funding opportunities will be presented in this session.
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Moderator: Risa Buck, Recology Ashland Sanitary Service Alex Amarotico, Standing Stone Brewing Company Alicia Polacok, City of Portland Terry McDonald, St. Vincent de Paul
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Wise Use of Bans, Incentives and Mandates |
Overall - Presentation and discussion on recent examples of 3 policy tools in use: incentives, bans and mandates. This will include mandatory business recycling in the Portland metro region, Oregon E-cycles electronics landfill ban and perspectives on experiments with direct incentives for recycling participation.
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Moderator: Shanna Eller, PSU CES Scott Klag, Metro Megan Stein, City of Portland Kathy Kiwala, Oregon DEQ Rosalynn Greene, Clackamas County Shannon Martin, Clackamas County |
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1:00 |
Lunch
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2:00 |
Sustainable Consumption Roundtable |
This panel will facilitate interactive discussions on the impact of consumption, consumer behavior, product design and manufacturing on sustainable practices, policies, and waste prevention. |
Moderator: David Allaway,Oregon DEQ Tom Bowerman, PolicyInteractive Bill Sheehan, Product Policy Institute Steve Bishop, IDEO
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