ITRC Publishes Guidance on Green and Sustainable Remediation

The Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) has released its document, Green and Sustainable Remediation: A Practical Framework, which aims to educate, inform, and assist state regulators and other stakeholders in the concepts and challenges of green and sustainable practices and their integration into existing site investigation and remediation programs.

Further information is available on the ITRC web page devoted to green and sustainable remediation.

A Framework for Sustainable Remediation

SURF Trustee Karin Holland has published a Viewpoint in Environmental Science and Technology.  The Viewpoint emphasizes the need for a universal, yet flexible, framework for incorporating sustainability principles into the remediation decision-making process, regardless of the remediation program, the type and extent of impacts or where the site is located.

SURF has attempted to address this need by developing such a framework.  You can download a copy of the framework in the SURF library, and the Viewpoint from ES&T's website.

SiteWise V.2 Now Available

The second version of SiteWise has been published and is available for download via the NAVFAC Green and Sustainable Remediation website.

The SiteWise tool, developed jointly by the Navy, Army Corps of Engineers, and Battelle, is a publically available tool for conducting a baseline environmental footprint of a remedial technology.

Additional materials and information on sustainable remediation are available in the Links section of the SURF website, and in our Library.

World Congress on Sustainable Technologies - November 7-10, 2011

The World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2011) is a multidisciplinary congress, bridging efforts across the natural, social and engineering sciences, the environment and development of  communities. The congress covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to sustainability, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. It also encourages sharing new knowledge in the field of sustainable technologies and the environmental impacts. 

The mission of WCST-2011 is to provide the opportunities for collaboration and reflection that have the potential to greatly enhance the infrastructure and capacity for conducting and applying art, science and technology for sustainability. The WCST bridges the gap between academia and industry by creatingawareness of current development in sustainable technologies.

WCST-2011 will be held at the Thistle Hotel London Heathrow.

The full paper submission date is June 30, 2011, and extended abstracts (Work in Progress) are due July 31, 2011.  Accepted presenters will be provided an opportunity to present via videoconferencing if travel restrictions prevent in-person attendence.

For further details, please visit www.wcst.org.

SURF Issues New Sustainable Remediation Guidance

Exciting things are happening at SURF! 

Our ground-breaking White Paper was a tough act to follow, but we did it: THREE new guidance documents were recently published in the Summer 2011 issue of the Remediation Journal.  These documents are currently available to Remediation subscribers and will be available to SURF members via the SURF website in the near future.  [Update:  The guidance documents are now available in our library!]

SURF very much appreciates the contributions of our 2010-2011 members in producing these documents, and their - and your - continued support of SURF and sustainable remediation!

(And if you're not a member yet, become one today!)