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Through the Green Design Institute, we are solving problems and building tools that help businesses accomplish more with less. Our focus is on developing practical [[pollution prevention]] technologies and lowering costs, by recycling scarce resources, using fewer raw materials and creating better products. Creative engineering and science can produce products and processes that both cost less and pose fewer threats to workers, consumers and the environment. By joining in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, businesses will gain the tools they need to be competitive in the new environmental era.
Through the Green Design Institute, we are solving problems and building tools that help businesses accomplish more with less. Our focus is on developing practical [[pollution prevention]] technologies and lowering costs, by recycling scarce resources, using fewer raw materials and creating better products. Creative engineering and science can produce products and processes that both cost less and pose fewer threats to workers, consumers and the environment. By joining in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, businesses will gain the tools they need to be competitive in the new environmental era.
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Seminars take place at noon in the CEE Conference Room unless otherwise specified.
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Seminars take place at 3:30pm in room PH A19 unless otherwise specified.
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| FRI || Feb 13 || [[Bert Bras]] || Georgia Tech || Green design, '''10:30-11:30, SH auditorium'''
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| FRI || Feb 13 || Chris Costello || CMU || Nitrate runoff and subsequent formation of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico under various future production scenarios of major food and biofuel crops within the Mississippi River Basin
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| MON || Mar 3 || Eric Williams || Arizona State University || China global steel / global e-waste
 
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| FRI || Mar 21 || Masyuki Tsuda || Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, Japan || Social impact assessment of ICT services
 
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| TUE || Apr 1 || Christine Costello || Carnegie Mellon CEE || Work in progress: GHG data for [[EIOLCA]], nitrogen input/output, land use vector in [[EIOLCA]]
 
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| FRI || June 13 || Matt Kocoloski || Carnegie Mellon EPP || Economic and environmental tradeoffs of cellulosic ethanol
 
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| FRI || June 13 || Ching-Shin (Norman) Shiau || Carnegie Mellon MechE || Structural analysis of vehicle design responses to [[CAFE]] policy
 
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| THR || Aug 28 || Masayuki Tsuda || NTT, Japan || Modeling of Relationship between Corporate Social Contribution Activities and Corporate Profit
 
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| THR || Oct 30, 4:30 || Brad Allenby || ASU ||
 
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Revision as of 15:12, 23 January 2009

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Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Director: Lester Lave

The Green Design Institute is a major interdisciplinary research effort to make an impact on environmental quality through green design. The central idea of the institute is to form partnerships with companies, government agencies and foundations to develop pioneering design, management, manufacturing, and regulatory processes that can improve environmental quality and product quality while enhancing economic development.

Carnegie Mellon researchers are working to address the regulatory issues that shape the global marketplace. Our research partners will have access to policy and management tools for environmentally conscious manufacturing and product and process design, as well as opportunities to explore comprehensive solutions to problems such as hazardous emissions, use of toxic materials and inefficient energy usage.

The institute has roots in two existing Carnegie Mellon centers: The Engineering Design Research Center, an internationally recognized NSF center of excellence established in 1986 to support more efficient and cost-effective designs in industry; The Environmental Institute, a university-wide organization bringing together faculty, research staff and students to work on environmental and educational activities.

Through the Green Design Institute, we are solving problems and building tools that help businesses accomplish more with less. Our focus is on developing practical pollution prevention technologies and lowering costs, by recycling scarce resources, using fewer raw materials and creating better products. Creative engineering and science can produce products and processes that both cost less and pose fewer threats to workers, consumers and the environment. By joining in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, businesses will gain the tools they need to be competitive in the new environmental era.

2009 Green Design Seminar Schedule

Seminars take place at 3:30pm in room PH A19 unless otherwise specified.

Day Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
FRI Feb 13 Chris Costello CMU Nitrate runoff and subsequent formation of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico under various future production scenarios of major food and biofuel crops within the Mississippi River Basin

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