Upcoming Speaking Engagements
June 18, 2007, "Governance as Discourse: Setting Energy Targets in New
Jersey," International Society For Industrial Ecology Conference,
Toronto, ONT.
April 18, 2007, "Governance as Discourse: Setting Energy Targets in New
Jersey," Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San
Francisco, CA.
April 13, 2007, "Global Warming," Renaissance Community, Manchester,
NJ.
April 4, 2007, "Envisioning New Jersey's Energy Future: What
Stakeholders Want," GLOBALCON, Atlantic City, NJ.
March 30, 2007, "Regional Energy Technology Options," States and
Climate Change: Leaders or Lab Rats Conference, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ.
March 14, 2007, "Global Warming and Your Town," panelist, Sierra Club,
West Windsor, NJ.
February 26, 2007, "Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for
America," Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
November 10, 2006, "Setting Energy Targets for New Jersey," American
Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Fort Worth, TX.
November 3, 2006, "Community Sustainability Planning," panelist, New
Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Conference,
New Brunswick, NJ.
October 12 & 13, 2006, "Pros and Cons of Hydrogen," IEEE
Distinguished Lecture on Social Implications of Technology, Vancouver,
BC.
October 12, 2006, "Energy Security," IEEE Distinguished Lecture on
Social Implications of Technology, Vancouver, BC.
September 25, 2006, "Insights from Bottom-Up Models of Regulated
Firms," USEPA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
September 21, 2006, "Possible New Jersey Responses to Global Warming,"
Bedminster, NJ.
September 20, 2006, synthesis panelist, The Climate Ahead: Global
Change, Local Impacts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
August 16, 2006, "Schumpeter’s Next Wave," Gordon Research Conference
on Science & Technology Policy, Big Sky, MT.
May 12, 2006, "Discourses on Technology and Society," Engineers Forum
on Sustainability, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC.
May 10, 2006, "From Professional Certification to Technological
Citizenship," IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the
Environment, San Francisco, CA.
April 20, 2006, Master of Ceremonies, Wind Power:
Technology Economics and Politics Symposium, IEEE/AWEA/EWIG/NERC,
Washington DC.
April 13, 2006, "Green Building Research Highlights," Strategies for
Neighborhood Design and Development Symposium, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ.
March 31, 2006, "Community Sustainability," Sustainability in New
Jersey: A Summit for Educators, Carl Fields Center, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ.
March 9, 2006, "Determinants of Energy Use in U.S. Commercial
Buildings," Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,
Chicago, IL.
December 6, 2005, "The Energy Crisis: Is Hydrogen the Answer?,"
MAGPI Global Issues Roundtable, webcast,
registration information at http://www.magpi.net/globalissues.html
December 2, 2005, Panelist, The Race for Space: The Politics and
Economics of State Open Space Programs, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University.
November 9, 2005, "Communicative, Ethical, and Anticipatory Dimensions
of Engineering," ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and
Exposition, Orlando, FL.
October 27, 2005, "Selling Sustainability," American
Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO.
September 19, 2005, "Sustainable Energy/Transportation," Global to
Local Colloquium/Technology & Society Forum, New Jersey Institute
of Technology, Newark, NJ.
September 15, 2005, "Petroleum Sector Overview," Hearing on High Gas
Prices, Assembly Transportation Committee, New Jersey State House,
Trenton, NJ.
June 13, 2005, "A Multi-agent Model of Environmental Performance of a
Polymer Processing Firm," International Society for Industrial Ecology
Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
June 8, 2005, "Reducing Energy Vulnerability,"
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Loyola
Marymount
University, Los Angeles, CA.
April 12, 2005, "Community as Classroom: Student Contributions to Green
Planning in Highland Park, NJ," Pennsylvania Consortium for
Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy Annual Conference, Philadelphia,
PA.
March 30, 2005, Discussant for Peter Huber's lecture on "The Bottomless
Well," E.J. Bloustein School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
February 24, 2005, "Is it Worth Fighting for Energy Security?,"
Institute for Environmental Science and Policy Lecture, University of
Illinois at Chicago.
December 8, 2004, "Eco-Industrial Planning in China," En(light)ening
Lunch Seminar, E.J. Bloustein School, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ.
November 18, 2004, "Organizational Factors Influencing Corporate
Environmental Performance," Environmental Research Seminar, USEPA
Region 2 Offices, New York, NY.
October 29, 2004, "A Green Audit of Highland Park, NJ," Environmental
Sciences Seminar Series, Cook College, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ.
October 22, 2004, "Nested Sustainability Efforts: From Green Buildings
to a Sustainable State," American
Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
July 14, 2004, "Highland Park Green Community Audit," Environmental
Sustainability in the Garden State Workshop, Meadowlands Environmental
Center, Lyndhurst, NJ.
June 7, 2004, "Urban Planning and Environmental Policy," School of the
Environment, Nanjing
University, Nanjing, China.
June 4, 2004, "Research Methodology," School of the Environment,
Nanjing
University, Nanjing, China.
June 2, 2004, "Industrial Ecology," School of the Environment, Nanjing
University, Nanjing, China.
May 29, 2004, "Assessing Technology in a Global Context," IEEE Society
on Social Implications of Technology Regional Meeting, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan.
May 28, 2004, "Grounded Theory and Multi-Agent Simulation for a Small
Firm," International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and
Social Complex Systems, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
May 20, 2004, "Connecting Students and Faculty to Community
Sustainability Initiatives: Models and Strategies," NJHEPS Exploring
New Sustainability Frontiers Workshop, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken, NJ.
April 26, 2004, "A Multi-Agent Model of a Small Firm," USEPA Corporate
Environmental Performance Workshop, Washington DC.
April 20, 2004, "Formulating and Implementing Public Policy for
Hydrogen," IEEE Hydrogen Economy Symposium, Washington DC.
March 15, 2004, "Personal networks and corporate environmental
behavior," American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA.
January 8, 2004, "Agency modeling," Industrial Symbiosis Research
Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
December 5, 2003, "Rethinking the electric grid: Implications for
planners," Annual Planning Conference of the New Jersey APA, New
Brunswick, NJ.
September 25, 2003, "Avoiding deterministic thinking," IEEE
International Symposium on Technology and Society/CPTED, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
September 22, 2003, "New Brunswick Comparative Risk Project," County
Health Officials Mtg, New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection,
Trenton, NJ.
July 11, 2003, "Legitimizing uncertain risk information," American
Collegiate Schools of Planning/AESOP Joint Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
June 30, 2003, "A multi-agent model of a polluting firm," International
Society for Industrial Ecology Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
April 7, 2003, "Simulating the environmental implications of
organizational behavior," Industrial Ecology Workshop, Big Sur, CA.
April 4, 2003, "Doing joint fact-finding," Dept. of City & Regional
Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
February 7, 2003, "Agency in industrial ecosystems," School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
December 9, 2002, "Tackling the descriptive-prescriptive challenge in
industrial ecology," Barents Workshop, Helsinki University of
Technology, Espoo, Finland.
November 22, 2002, "Doing joint fact-finding," American Collegiate
Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
November 12, 2002, "Agent-based modeling in industrial ecology,"
Science Policy Research Unit Seminar, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
November 5, 2002, "Agent-based modeling in industrial ecology," IndEcol
Forum, Norweigian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway.
October 14, 2002, "Lessons from the New Jersey Comparative Risk
Project," NATO Conference on Comparative Risk, Anzio, Italy.
June 27, 2002, with John Posey & Mookhan Kim, "Goals &
Indicators
of Sustainability for New Jersey," Mid-Atlantic Sustainability
Conference,
Newark, NJ.
June 7, 2002, "Credibly constructing risk comparisons," IEEE
International
Symposium on Technology and Society, Raleigh, NC.
May 11, 2002, with Robert Axtell, "Agent-based Models of Industrial
Ecosystems," UCLA Computational Social Sciences Conference, Lake
Arrowhead,
CA.
March 19, 2002, "An Update on Energy Policy," Contemporary Public
Issues
Lecture, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Sarasota, FL.
November 30, 2001, "Monte Carlo Simulation in Comparative Risk
Analysis,"
Bloustein School Methods Colloquium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ.
November 26, 2001, "Energy policy update for planners," New Jersey
Chapter
of the American Planning Associaton Annual Conference, New Brunswick,
NJ.
November 14, 2001, "Solving New Environmental Problems by Going
Beyond
Regulation and Response," Inaugural Meeting of the International
Society
for Industruial Ecology, Leiden, Netherlands.
November 9, 2001, "Is Utility Deregulation Eco-efficient? The Case
of
Distributed Generation," American Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual
Conference, Cleveland, OH.
November 2, 2001, "The Practice of Joint Fact Finding," Association
of Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference,
Washington,
DC.
October 31, 2001,"Assessing Livability," University Forum Lecture,
Marjorie
Barrick Museum of Natural History Auditorium, University of Nevada Las
Vegas, NV.
October 1, 2001, "Keeping the Lights On: U.S. Energy Policy," Public
Affairs Lecture Series, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ.
July 6, 2001, "Humble Analysis: The Practice of Joint Fact Finding,"
International Symposium on Technology and Society, University of
Connecticut,
Stamford, CT.
June 17, 2001, “Industrial ecology as applied social science,”
Symposium
on Sustainability, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY .
May 23, 2001, “Teaching industrial ecology,” Workshop on
Sustainability
and the Curriculum, New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for
Sustainability,
New Brunswick NJ.
April 12, 2001, Institute for Environmental Studies Spring Lecture
Series.
"What We've Learned from Comparative Risk Projects." University of
Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA.
March 2, 2001, "Buried Commitments: Determinants of the Use of
District
Energy Systems in the United States." Association of American
Geographers
Annual Conference, New York, NY.
January 28, 2001. "Dimensions of Livability." Keynote panelist,
Workshop
on Transportation Decision-making: Place, Community, and the Quality of
Life, Committee on Identifying Data Needs for Place-based Decision
Making,
National Academy of Science, Beckman Center, Irvine, CA .
November 2, 2000, "Analyzing Quality-of-Place," American Collegiate
Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA .
April 18, 2000, Newark, NJ, Rutgers University School of Management,
NJ Sustainable Business Conference
November 15, 1999, Washington, DC, US Environmental Protection
Agency,Workshop
on Industrial Ecology and EPA
November 12, 1999, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University, I'm
organizing
a conference on "Quality of Place: Is it an appropriate focus?" with
theNew
Jersey Office of State Planning
October 23, 1999, Chicago, IL, American Collegiate Schools of
PlanningAnnual
Conference, "Trenton's Industrial Ecology"
September 30, 1999, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University, Dept.
ofEcology
& Environmental Science Seminar Series, "Trenton's
IndustrialEcology"
September 21, 1999, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University,
BlousteinSchool
of Planning & Public Policy Methods Colloquium, "Event
HistoryAnalysis"
May 7, 1999, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University, Northeast Regional
Meetingof
the Regional Science Association International, "Trenton's
IndustrialEcology:
Illustrative Environmental and Economic Impacts of State Governmenton
the
Capital of New Jersey."
February 26, 1999, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Royal Netherlands
Academyof
Sciences, Scientific Meeting of the International Human Dimensions
Program-IndustrialTransformation.
November 5, 1998, Pasadena, CA, American Collegiate Schools of
PlanningAnnual
Conference, "Process is the priority: Evaluating a decade of
comparativerisk."
September 24, 1998, Boston, MA, Boston University, North American
Workshopon
International Human Dimensions Program-Industrial Transformation
June 10, 1998, New London, NH, Colby-Sawyer College, Gordon Research
Conference on Industrial Ecology, " Industrial Ecology and Public
Policy."
April 30, 1998, Washington, DC, White House Conference Center,
Workshopon
Policy Applications of Industrial Ecology, " Linking Industrial
Ecologyto
Decision-Making."
April 28, 1998, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University, Bovay Lecture on
theHistory
and Ethics of Professional Engineering. "Choices in Industrial
Ecology."
March 28, 1998, Boston, MA, Association of American Geographers
AnnualConference,
Boston Convention Center, Copley Square. "Determinants of
AggressiveState
Regulatory Policy Reform."
February 27, 1998, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania,
Institutefor
Environmental Studies. "The Geography of U.S. Environmentalism:
PolicyImplications."
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