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• Summary of the LF-WTE Meeting on Climate Impacts of U.S. Waste Management Industry, Washington, DC, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 (contains all comments and revisions submitted to SUR till March 27, 2009). 
  
• Regional Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering
  
  at Columbia University 
  Tuesday, April 14, 2009  will be "Engineering for the Body and for the Planet" and will include a presentation by Prof. Nickolas Themelis on "Converting a Major GHG Source to Renewable Energy". Please click to see the "Program" and "Speakers and Presentations".
  
• THE ECONOMIST Special Report on Waste, Feb.26.2009: What’s wrong with policies on waste, and how to get them right
  
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Waste-to-Energy plants within Europe (By: Jan L.C. Manders)

• Carbon footprint and Renewable Energy Contribution of Waste-to-Energy across Europe

• The New York Times: Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up

• Waste News: WM to help landfill owners create own gas projects (You may need a free subscription to Waste News to read the article) 

• Waste News: Veolia, WM to study fugitive air emissions (You may need a free subscription to Waste News to read the article)

• Columbia University Reports Progress Toward NYC Sustainability Goals
  
• Resource Recovery Technologies (RRT): 5 Minute Piece on WtE in Minnesota.
• One of the WTERT papers presented at the Global Waste Management Symposium at Copper Mountain, Colorado (September 2008) received the GWMS 2nd place award for an outstanding manuscript. The paper, by Dr. Frank Zeman, was titled "Considering Carbon Capture and Storage for Energy Generation from MSW ".  Dr. Zeman was member of Columbia's Lenfest Sustainable Energy Center until this summer when he was appointed Director of the Center for Metropolitan Sustainability of the New York Institute of Technology (www.nyit.edu). Prof. Zeman is a Research Associate of the Earth Engineering Center, the parent organization of WTERT and the SUR Center.
• "WTERT 2008 Bi-Annual Meeting" was held at Columbia University, Oct 16-17, 2008. (WTERTprogram_Final_10072008.pdf)
• Columbia University Earns Top Grade for Sustainability, Columbia among Only 15 Schools Nationwide to Earn an A-
• Proposed Expanded Hierarchy of Waste Management, by Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis (Hierarchy.PNG)
• Reducing GHG Emissions of Waste Management,  Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis, Chair SUR/WTERT (GWMS_09.Sep.2008.ppt)
• Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS), held on 7-10 Sep.2008, at the Copper Mountain Conference Center, Colorado, USA. (GWMS-Photo.ppt)
• New York City's Secret: The Trash Crisis                                        No American city has more garbage than New York City or more trouble getting rid of it. Ever since 2001, when New York City closed its only landfill - Fresh Kills - the city has been grappling with a growing garbage crisis. We spend a day in the life of two sanitation workers, then follow the garbage on its odyssey through indoor dumps all around New York City, down the highways and byways of the eastern seaboard, and to its final destination - most often - landfills in Pennsylvania.

• Life After Fresh Kills: A Technology-Policy Joint Study on the NYC Waste Management System (December2001)                            This was a joint project between the Earth Engineering Center and the Earth Policy Center of the School of International and Public Affairs. The objective was to identify alternatives for increasing material and energy recovery from MSW. The project was funded by the Strategic Initiatives Program of Columbia University and the final report was submitted to Mayor Bloomberg of NYC in Dec.01.