of geothermal heat pumps and solar heating and cooling technologies. Lisa Meline will present geo as the sustain- able utility. Elise Brown will present results of the UC Davis CEC PIER study of geothermal heat pump efficiency, and Dennis Murphy on filling the vast white space of AB32 goals and 2020/2030 targets
Presenters: Phil Henry, President, Geoexchange
Solutions, Inc., Executive Director, Cali- fornia Geothermal Heat Pump Coalition Lisa Meline, PE, LEED AP, Certified Geoexchange Designer, Principal En- gineer and Owner, Meline Engineering, Chair ASHRAE Technical Committee on Geothermal Heat Pumps and Energy Re- covery Applications, ASME Fellow, Chair and Founder, CalGeo the California Heat Pump Association Elise Brown, Associate Director, UC Davis California Geothermal Energy Collaborative Dennis Murphy, Principal, Geoexchange Solutions, Inc., PI, ProjectNegatherm. org, Chair, USGBC California
Room 103 Put the “Action” Into Your Climate Action Plan: Make the Most of Your Meetings Frustrated that your organization’s great Climate Action Plan isn’t getting imple- mented? Discover a fresh approach to meetings and get ready to change the dynamic in your organization. Te Alameda County government’s sustain- ability team will share strategies for broad participation in climate action, including how we shifted our climate committee meetings from “discussing” to “doing.” You’ll learn how designing meetings to facilitate collaboration led to a top-level commitment to com- pleting specific actions, the targeted involvement of dozens of employees, and the creation of workplans for teams working on these actions. You’ll person- ally experience the foundational facilita- tion tool that supported this shift, and you’ll make a plan for how to bring back this simple and elegant tool, the Focused Conversation, to your organi- zation. (It even works for virtual meet- ings!) If you are working to implement a sustainability plan or on other change initiatives within an organization, get ready for a new way of looking at your work. (Te Focused Conversation is a Technology of Participation method
developed and taught by the Institute of Cultural Affairs.)
Presenters: Ryan Bell, Sustainability Project Man-
ager, Alameda County Sustainability Carolyn Bloede, Sustainability Program Manager, Alameda County Sustainability Emily Sadigh, Sustainability Project Manager, Alameda County Sustainability
Room 104 Turning Water Management Upside Down As industry professionals seek innova- tive best management practices (BMPs) for managing water resources, new design approaches are being evaluated to offer cost-efficient, sustainable solu- tions. Tese new design philosophies create an opportunity to value storm water as a reusable resource. Tis pre- sentation will outline a significant para- digm shift that makes it possible to col- lect, filtrate, store and reuse storm water all within the same profile. Traditional design practices for managing storm water have focused on controlling water run-off and discharging it from the site as quickly as possible. While this has been used for decades, advancements in technology and design have allowed for a solution that can literally turn onsite storm water management upside down. Rather than continuing to treat storm water as a waste product, the new product discussed will represent a true water management system not a water movement system. Tis passive onsite management solution controls sheet flow by collecting, filtering and moving water below ground without causing erosion. Instead of moving storm water downstream via surface slopes, it can be captured at the source to clean, store and later reused for subsurface irriga- tion, coolant water and/or other benefi- cial needs. Attendees will learn about an innovate technology that is changing how storm water can be managed. Te presenter will explore the challenges of storm water utilities face in managing the increased runoff from traditional construction techniques.
Presenter:
Christa Petzke, East Regional Business Manager, Firestone Building Products
Room 105 Recycling BIN (Build Infrastructure Now) for California Products Te “Green Team San Joaquin”, a pro- gram of the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce, is a collaborative effort between private businesses, municipal and county solid waste divisions, eco- nomic development professionals and the community of San Joaquin County. Tis private/public partnership is very progressive in its approach to economic development. Simply put, by assisting businesses in ‘going green” will not only reduce their costs of doing business, but it will also help the environment and move the San Joaquin County economy forward. Te model emphasizes the much-needed cultural change in our so- ciety that the reduction in waste, the re- use of resources, and the manufacturing of recycled content products are needed to sustain our society. Te Recycling Build Infrastructure Now (BIN) coali- tion (comprised of 9 statewide organi- zations of economic, environmental, business and non-profit organizations) believes strongly that the Legislative declaration now links business creation and expansion, investment and green job creation opportunities with materi- als being diverted from the landfills. As California strives to increase collection of recyclable materials as a result of AB 32 and AB 341 regulations, it should equally strive to remanufacture those recyclable commodities in California, thus creating “green” jobs and busi- nesses while stimulating California’s economy.
Presenter: Frank Ferral, Program & Public Policy Director, Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce
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