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CALL
FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline:
Monday, February 1, 2010, 5:00 pm PST
E-mail your proposal to both:
Mark Barnhouse <mark.barnhouse@ndsu.edu>
Cindy Urness <cindy.urness@ndsu.edu>
In Unquenchable:
America’s Water Crisis and What to Do about It, Robert
Glennon asserts, “Water lubricates the American economy just
as oil does. It is intimately linked to energy because it
takes water to make energy, and it takes energy to divert,
pump, move, and cleanse water. Water plays a critical role in
virtually every segment of the economy, from heavy industry to
food production, from making semiconductors to providing
Internet service. A prosperous future depends on a secure and
reliable water supply. And we don’t have it. To be sure,
water still flows from taps, but we’re draining our reserves
like gamblers at the craps table.”
Help shape the 2010
retreat content. Propose a session, presentation, workshop,
demonstration, or interactive session in one of the following
themes related to Water (and other “hot [or wet] topics”):
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Retreat
Themes |
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Storm
Water Management and Site Design—From urban
infrastructure to constructed wetlands—site solutions
that address water management |
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Water
Conservation—How can our cities, sites, and buildings
use less water? |
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Rainwater/Greywater/Blackwater—How
can we reuse our water resources? |
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Innovations—From
small components to large system solutions, to case
studies, how can design-thinking and problem-solving
help address our water challenges? |
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Roundtable
Discussions or Working Groups—“Hot topic”
perspectives from SBSE colleagues to be discussed in
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Limit your proposal to
one page. All sessions will be seventy-five minutes in length,
with one to five presenters. Laptops and digital projectors
will be available.
Proposals must include:
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Name(s) of session organizer/presenter
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Contact
information (institution, email, telephone, url)
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Theme(s)
addressed by your proposal
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Title
of your presentation, workshop, demonstration, or hands-on
activity
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Length
of your presentation, workshop, demonstration, or
interactive session (select 15, 30, 45, 60, or 75 minutes)
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Summary of objectives, specific issues addressed, questions raised, and/or
activities implemented
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Intended
outcomes and deliverables
Submission
Deadline: Proposals
with “Subject: SBSE Retreat Proposal” should be e-mailed
by Monday, Feb 1, 2010, 5:00 pm PST to both
Mark Barnhouse <mark.barnhouse@ndsu.edu>
and Cindy Urness <cindy.urness@ndsu.edu>.
Notification
of acceptance will be Monday, March 1, 2010. Accepted
presenters must then register for the retreat by Monday, March
15, 2010, 5:00 pm PDT to ensure her or his place.
Alfredo and
Deborah will reserve your room at the Sahara Hotel;
transportation will be provided between the hotel and the
Springs Preserve. Rooms will be held until May 1 for retreat
registrants. (If you register later, you may have to book an
alternative accommodation.)
A second draft retreat schedule will be posted to the SBSE listserve and retreat
web site around March 8, 2010.
SBSE: Society of Building Science Educators
Comments about this page can be sent to Bruce
Haglund.
For more information about SBSE, visit the home page
or contact one of the
board members.
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