Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
The Role of Industrial Ecology in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Discussion Leader: Cristina Madrid-Lopez (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Mohit Arora (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
"Transforming Industrial Ecology Research into Practice"
3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
Discussion
3:40 pm - 3:55 pm
Seyed Mehdi Zahed-Zahedani (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) / University of Calgary, Canada)
"Case Study: Use Existing Architectural Technology Diploma Program Sustainability Courses to Teach the Fundamentals of Industrial Ecology (IE)"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Energy, Resources and Policy
Discussion Leader: Alessio Miatto (Nagoya University, Japan)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Alexandra Lavers Westin (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
"Municipal Influence: How Much Can a Municipality Reduce Its Consumption 'Hotspots'?"
5:45 pm - 5:55 pm
Discussion
5:55 pm - 6:10 pm
Dominik Wiedenhofer (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
"Expansion, Maintenance and Saturation of the Socioeconomic Metabolism: An Investigation of 9 World-Regions from 1900-2015"
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm
Discussion
6:20 pm - 6:35 pm
Marco Miotti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Leveraging Data to Estimate Localized Emissions and Costs of Personal Vehicles"
6:35 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Dana Boyer (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Diversity of Food Flows, Diets, Supply Chains and Environmental Impacts of Nine Indian Cities"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Moonmoon Hiloidhari (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
"A New Look at the Potential and Prospect of Global Bioenergy to Mitigate Climate Change"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Sustainable Food and Water Development
Discussion Leader: Lin Zeng (Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Harold Rickenbacker (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"The Modifying Effect of Ambient Air Pollution on Indoor Air Quality, Impacts on Human Health"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Kasper Lange (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
"Exploring Rules for Economic Robustness in Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics Through Agent-Based Modelling: A Case Study Regarding Collective Composting in a Dutch Urban Agriculture Area"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Helen Hamilton (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
"Trade and the Role of Non-Food Commodities for Global Eutrophication"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Yuanchao Hu (Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Environmental Footprints and Insights of Mitigation Strategies of Food Consumption in Urbanized China"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Nemi Chetanbhai Vora (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Measuring Trade Dependencies in U.S. Domestic Food Trade and Embodied Irrigation Impacts"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Panel Discussion
Discussion Leader: Morgan Edwards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Building a Mutually-Beneficial Relationship Between Mentor and Mentee
Marina Fischer-Kowalski (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
Anu Ramaswami (University of Minnesota, USA)
Ming Xu (University of Michigan, USA)
Rupert Myers (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Julia Steinberger (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
