Science and Technology for Sustainability

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Science and Technology for Sustainability
Emmy Simmons, Co-chair, STS Roundtable Thomas
Graedel, Co-chair, STS Roundtable Marty
Perreault, Director (Marina Moses new Director
starting June 15)
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Roundtable on Science and Technology for
Sustainability History

• Long-term goals of a transition toward
  sustainability
• Meet the needs of a much larger but stabilizing
  human population,
• Sustain the life support systems of the planet,
  and
• Substantially reduce hunger and poverty.

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STS Roundtable (est. 2002)

• Mobilize, encourage, and use scientific
  knowledge and technology to help achieve
  sustainability goals and to support the
  implementation of sustainability practices.

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Overarching Principles for Roundtables Work

• Focus on strategic needs and opportunities for
  science and technology to contribute to the
  transition toward sustainability.
• Focus on issues for which progress requires
  cooperation among multiple sectors, including
  academia, government (at all levels), business,
  nongovernmental organizations, and international
  institutions.
• Focus on activities where scientific knowledge
  and technology can help to advance practices that
  contribute directly to sustainability goals, in
  addition to identifying priorities for research
  and development inspired by sustainability
  challenges.

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Roundtable Members

• Roundtable Members
• Thomas Graedel (NAE) (Co-Chair), Yale University
• Emmy Simmons (Co-Chair), U.S. Agency for
  International Development (retired)
• Matt Arnold, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• Ann Bartuska, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Arden Bement (NAE), National Science Foundation
• Michael Bertolucci, Interface Research
  Corporation
• Nancy Cantor (IOM), Syracuse University
• John Carberry, DuPont (retired)
• Leslie Carothers, Environmental Law Institute
• William Clark (NAS), Harvard University
• Glen Daigger (NAE), CH2MHILL
• Sam Dryden, Wolfensohn and Company
• Nina Fedoroff (NAS), U.S. State Department
• Marco Ferroni, Syngenta Foundation
• Mohamed H.A. Hassan, The Academy of Sciences for
  the Developing World
• Neil Hawkins, Dow Chemical
• Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University

• Catherine Hunt, Dow Chemical
• Lek Kadeli, Environmental Protection Agency Jack
  Kaye, NASA
• Gerald Keusch (IOM), Boston University
• Suzette Kimball, USGS
• Kai Lee, Packard Foundation
• Thomas Lovejoy, The Heinz Center
• Pamela Matson (NAS), Stanford University
• J. Todd Mitchell, Houston Advanced Research
  Center
• M. Granger Morgan (NAS), Carnegie Mellon
  University
• Prabhu Pingali (NAS), Gates Foundation
• Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University
• Christopher Portier, NIEHS/NIH
• Harold Schmitz, Mars Inc.
• Robert Stephens, Multi-State Working Group on
  Environmental Performance
• Denise Stephenson Hawk, The Stephenson Group
• Dennis Treacy, Smithfield Foods
• Vaughan Turekian, AAAS

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Current Activities

• Partnerships for Sustainability Examining the
  Evidence (Just released)
• Certification of Sustainable Products and
  Services (Workshop January 19-21, 2009
  workshop report being prepared)
• Expanding Biofuel Production Lessons from the
  Upper Midwest for Sustainability (Workshop June
  23-24)

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In Development

• Research and Development on Urban Systems A
  Workshop (Fall, 2009)
• Urban Implications for Sustainability
• Food Security and Sustainability
• Sustainability and Health

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Ongoing Core Activities

• Roundtable on Science and Technology for
  Sustainability
• Network for Emerging Leaders in Sustainability
• Sustainability E-newsletter
• Website Inventory of Sustainability Science and
  Technology Activities

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• For more information
• Website
• www.nationalacademies.org/sustainability
• Monthly newsletter
• To subscribe, send email to sustainability_at_nas.ed
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• Contact Marty at mperreault_at_nas.edu or
  [phone]. (Marinas email is
  mmoses_at_nas.edu same phone number)