TRACK 1

ID

Title

Authors

Wednesday May 15
9:00 - 12:00 0:00 13:20 - 14:20 14:20 - 16:00 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: Authentic Sustainability WELCOME: Tom Seager OPENING PLENARY: Ed Sawicki, Proctor & Gamble 94 Life Cycle Assessment of Coastal Water and Xiaobo Xue, Troy Hawkins and WATER: Nick Ashbolt Wastewater Services

128 Metrics and Approaches for Next-Generation Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Xiaobo Xue, Mary Schoen, Troy R. Municipal Water Systems
Hawkins, Wesley W. Ingwersen and Cissy Ma

50

Alexander Dale and Melissa A Model for Assessing Regional Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of Future Energy and Bilec Water Supply Scenarios

14

How is Corn-based Ethanol Production Changing the Face of Irrigation in the US Midwest?

Jane Bare

16:00 - 16:20 BREAK 16:20 - 18:00 RESILIENCE 96

Understanding Resilience in Economic Networks: Implications for Critical Infrastructure

Shauhrat Chopra and Vikas Khanna

20

Issues on Energy Sustainability: Consumption, Efficiency, and Environmental Impact 109 Full Spectrum Resilience for Urban Water Systems

Leisha Vance, Tarsha Eason and Heriberto Cabezas Arka Pandit and John Crittenden

90

Eco-Synergy Design: Integrating Technological and Ecological Systems on Campus for Sustainability

Erin L. Gibbemeyer and Bhavik R. Bakshi

18:00 - 20:00 POSTER SESSION: Refreshments served.

Thursday May 16
7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: fruit juice, coffee, danish & bagels. STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING Susan Spierre, Thomas 08:30 - 10:10 EDUCATION 113 Informing Global Climate Policy through Seager, Brad Allenby and International Game-play I
Sonja Klinsky

26

Using Systems Thinking and Sustainability as Sara Rimer and Jose Alfaro Educational Tools in Africa

Miguel Him Novel computer-based learning tools using wind-solar photovoltaic powered energy systems in rural communities in the Republic of Panama 141 A Continuous Improvement Cycle: Redesign Mark Sivak and Jacqueline A Isaacs of a Computer Game to Test Sustainability Tradeoffs

18

10:10 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:10 SUSTAINAB 55 LE CONSUMPTI 62

Wesley Ingwersen, Annie LCA models at the core of the sustainable supply chain toolkit: A paper towel case study Weisbrod, Maria Gausman, et al. Andrew Berardy, Thomas Seager, Evan Selinger and Russell Uhl Anthony Barnett, Richard Barraclough, Victor Becerra and Slawomir Nasuto Mark Fuge, Katherine McKinstry and Kevin Ninomiya

TURINEX: A Social Science Tool to Help Understand and Predict Sustainable Consumption 158 A comparison of methods for calculating the carbon footprint of a product 77 ImpactMap: Designing Sustainable Supply Chains by Incorporating Data Uncertainty

12:10 - 14:00 LUNCHEON AND AWARDS. Keynote: Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh Brian Dyson, Tom Stockton, 14:00-15:40 DECISION 130 Systems Framing and Alternatives Analysis John Carriger, Marilyn ten with DASEES ANALYSIS 54 Value Measurement Analysis of Energy Tradeoffs in South Africa

Brink, Timothy J. Canfield and Kelly Black Valentina Prado, Theodor Stewart, Marek Makowski and Detlof von Winterfeldt

65

Sustainability Evaluation for Product and Process Development

Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado, Raymond L. Smith and Michael A. Gonzalez

66

Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Sustainability

Raymond L. Smith, Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado and Michael A. Gonzalez

15:40-16:00 BREAK 16:00-17:40 INFRASTRUCTURE 111 A Decision Support Tool for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Infrastructure Development

Arka Pandit, John Crittenden, Hyunju Jeong, Zhongming Lu, et al.

33

Lessons Learned After Katrina: Sustainable Frameworks for Risk-based Flood Infrastructure

Wendi Goldsmith

48

Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional Concrete, Glass Powder Concrete, and Alkaliactivated Slag Concrete: Comparative of Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas 103 Analysis Understanding Energy Models Results in the Context of a Buildings Lifetime: Focus on a High Performance Building EVENING RIVERBOAT CRUISE

Mohan Jiang, Xiaoju Chen, Chris Hendrickson and Farshad Rajabipour Christi Saunders, Amy Landis, Laura Schaefer, Alex Jones and Melissa Bilec

Friday May 17

7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: oatmeal, cold cereal, yogurt LEADERSHIP & 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING (op 8:30 - 10:10 BUILDINGS 47 Results of a national survey regarding whole- Maureen A. Olinzock, Christi L. Saunders, Amy E. Landis, building life cycle assessments among the Laura A. Schaefer, Alex K. architecture, engineering, and construction Jones and Melissa M. Bilec community 91 Synergistic Scenarios for Indoor Health and William Collinge, Amy Landis, Alex Jones, Laura Schaefer Productivity in Whole-Building Life Cycle and Melissa Bilec Assessment x1 An Intellectual Property Case Study in Building Integrated Solar Thermal
Mitchell Newdelman

10:10 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:10 EDUCATION II2

Reinventing the Modern American University (again) 142 Sustainability Awareness and Sustainability Framework A necessary step toward sustainability leadership and management 133 Spaces of Resonance: Towards a useful framework for the collaborative life of groups engaged in sustainability 159 Reframing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Systems Thinking for Sustainability

Thomas P Seager Don Sweet and Thomas P. Seager Alan Bush

Gregory Luhan, Fazleena Badurdeen, Robert Gregory, Margaret Mohr-Schroeder, Leslie Vincent and Dusan Sekulic

12:10 - 13:30 LUNCH AND CLOSING KEYNOTE: Paul Anastas, Yale University

Title or author changed from initial submission New presentation Online sessions Session to fill

TRACK 2

ID

Title

Authors

TRACK 3

ID

ICT

121 The need for consumption-based impact estimation of ICT-based behaviors 16 Life Cycle Engineering of an Integrated Desktop Computer; A SME Perspective

Paul Teehan

ENERGY/ THERMO

83

Colin Fitzpatrick and Stewart Hickey

160

78

Efficient Resource Management for Toolika Ghose, Shubhangi Argade, Vinod Namboodiri and Sustainable Mobile Computing
Ravi Pendse

80

127 Biodiversity Impact Assessment of Kazue Takahashi, Yasue Nemoto, Kayo Murakami, ICT Companies Activities

89

Norihiro Itsubo and Masaharu Motoshita

ICT

82

Life Cycle Assessment of Lithium- Bingbing Li, Jianyang Li and ion Batteries with Silicon Nanowire Chris Yuan Anode for Electric Vehicles

ENERGY/ FUELS

71

140 Life Cycle Assessment of CNT Liion Battery Manufacture 92 Anticipatory Governance and Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment: Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Anode Lithium ion Batteries Green Terminal Blocks in Electronics

Ali Hakimian, Thomas P Cullinane and Jacqueline A Isaacs Ben Wender, Rider Foley, David Guston, Thomas Seager and Arnim Wiek

157 61

45

Patrick Duis and Tamim Sidiki

136

COMMITTEE MEETING 129 Utilizing a Physical Input-Output EEIO Model to Inform Nitrogen-Related DEVELOPMEN Ecosystem Services T

Shweta Singh, Jana Compton, Daniel Sobota and Troy R. Hawkins

DYNAMIC GHGs

123

Vikas will ask Scott about filling this slot (chair)

69

52

Jorge Vendries, Joseph Disaggregation of the Power Generation Sector for Input-Output Marriott, Troy Hawkins, Vikas Khanna and H. Scott Matthews Life Cycle Assessment

165

57

Use Phase Energy and Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment

Derrick Carlson and H. Scott Matthews

161

POLICY MODELING USING EEIO Ask Jun-Ki (Chair)

58

Life Cycle Assessment of Federal Procurement Suggest inviting Chris Hendrickson

H. Scott Matthews, Jeffrey Morris and Derrick Carlson

LCIA WORKSHOP

53

Priscilla Halloran, Sangwon 145 Development of the Tool for Sustainable Materials Management Suh, Bill Michaud, Matt

98

Assessing the Effect of Combined Energy Policies with an InputOutput Framework

Leighton, Troy R. Hawkins and AngelaChoi, Leith Mohammad Jun-Ki Pakravan and Bhavik Bakshi

HEALTHCARE

17

Evaluating the financial impacts of reprocessed medical devices

Scott Unger and Amy Landis

56 LCA INNOVATION II 27

70

Quantifying the Impacts of Green Hospital Design through a Comparative Longitudinal Assessment 73 The Triple Bottom Line Approach to Sustainability Accounting of Conventional versus Robotic Cardiac Surgery 164 The Role of Building Information Models in Efficient Delivery of Sustainable Healthcare Buildings

Cassandra L. Thiel, Kim LaScola Needy, Robert J. Ries and Melissa M. Bilec

Murat Kucukvar, Orhan Ozguner and Omer Tatari

Kristen Parrish

49

155 Revisiting the Hidden Costs of MODELING SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS Energy

Paulina Jaramillo and Nicholas Muller

LCA INNOVATION I

115

Ashok Sekar, Eric Williams Integration of Life Cycle and Mikhail Chester Assessment, Pollution valuation models, and Benefit Cost Analysis: case study of Monoethanolamine Carbon Capture and Sequestration Michael Tsang, Troy Hawkins, 138 LCA + RA: A Necessary Nexus

88

153

84

David Meyer and Wesley Ingwersen

93

Adapting ecological models for analysis of emerging technologies

Callie Babbitt, Erinn Ryen and Greg Babbitt

125

NG COMMITTEE MEETING (open to all participants) 110 A Robust Computational Method to Huabo Duan EOL Quantify United States Used Electronics Flows 4 Molecular Sorting Recycling in a new Dimension Designing Recycling Separation Systems Robust to Parameter Uncertainty EOL product remanufacturing and reuse economics: Consumer-side and producer-side
Robert Becker and Joerg Woidasky

TRANSPORT

163

21

46

Malima Wolf and Marcello Colledani

63

24

Malima Wolf and Timothy Gutowski

MATERIAL SYSTEMS

22 37

ProductDNA : Materials Traceability, Safety, and Challenges in sustainability certification of metals

Rakesh Vazirani Zhe Yuan, Steven Young and Goretty Dias

SPECIAL

19

Closed Loop Manufacturing: Global Timothy Gutowski Status Make Better Stuff: Human Centered Approach to Product & Systems Development
Xanthe Matychak

x2

Title

Authors

Eric Williams and Ashok Sekar Thermodynamic limits of energy efficiency of process chains: mobility powered by corn-based ethanol versus flat-plate silicon photovoltaic panels

Thermodynamic limits of energy resources use in traditional technological processes: A general approach and a metal bonding case study Municipal Solid Waste Management Options in India: Insight from Exergy Analysis

Rahul Nehete and Dusan Sekulic

Sachin Jadhao, Sunil Shingade, Aniruddha Pandit and Bhavik Bakshi

George Gregory Zaimes and Vikas Khanna The role of ecological goods and services in microalgal biofuel production: A life cycle thermodynamic view

Integrated supply chain, delivered costs and life cycle assessment of several lignocellulosic supply systems for biofuels, bioenergy and bioproducts in the Southern U.S. Profitability Benefits of Flexible Carbon Capture and Storage

Jesse Daystar, Carter Reeb, Ronalds Gonzalez, Trevor Treasure, Richard Venditti and Steve Kelley

David Luke Oates, Peter Versteeg and Eric Hittinger

Net CO2 Emissions from 1992 to 2011 Timothy Gutowski and Kotaro Kawajiri by PV

Impact of use phase efficiency and manufacturing process improvements on dynamic greenhouse gas (GHG) impact assessments: The case of Photovoltaic systems

Dwarakanath T R, Mikhail Chester, Thomas Seager, Benjamin Wender and Matthew Fraser

Integrated Transportation and Land Use Life Cycle Assessment Timebased Greenhouse Gas Impacts

Mikhail Chester

Revised emissions factors to evaluate alternative transportation fuels against a changing background climate Historical land use change emissions: Implications for biofuel carbon accounting An LCA of Orchard Production Systems Using Novel Impact Assessment Methods for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using only characterization results in LCAare we throwing Granny off the cliff? TBA

Morgan Edwards and Jessika Trancik

Xiaowei Liu, Andres Clarens and James Rhodes

Alissa Kendall, Elias Marvinney and Sonja Brodt

Lise Laurin

TBA TBA

Another step toward standardizing Life Wesley Ingwersen and Vairavan Cycle Assessment for making product Subramanian claims: Product Category Rule Guidance Joyce Cooper More emerging issues for Life Cycle Assessment Data and Databases

How to fill data gaps in life cycle inventories? A case study on CO2 emissions from coal electricity Tools to Support the Widespread Application of Life Cycle Assessment: Development of the Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization Tool and the Improvement of openLCA

Zoran Steinmann, Ian Laurenzi, Aranya Venkatesh, Ramkumar Karuppiah and Mark Huijbregts

Troy R. Hawkins, Wesley W. Ingwersen, Michael Srocka, Thomas R. Transue and Andreas Ciroth

Allocation in LCA as an Ill-Posed Problem: How it can be used to get your desired result and what can be done about it?

Rebecca Hanes, Nathan Cruze, Prem Goel and Bhavik Bakshi

The use of regression in streamlined life cycle assessment

Rebecca Hanes, John Davenport, Bhavik Bakshi and Prem Goel

Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment through Materials Classification and Under-specification A general framework for incorporating uncertainty into comparative LCA

Lynn Reis, Elsa Olivetti and Randolph Kirchain

Jeremy Gregory, Arash Noshadravan, Elsa Olivetti and Randolph Kirchain

Hyung Chul Kim Life cycle water footprint of automobiles: an inventory analysis and categorization

Automotive transition to sustainable technology mix, a response to CAFE standards Conventional, Corn Ethanol, and Electricity Powered Cars: Lessons Learned from Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Research Directions

Alan Jenn, Christian Blanco, William Chernicoff and Ines Azevedo

Troy R. Hawkins, Wesley W. Ingwersen, Guillaume Majeau-Bettez, Debalina Sengupta, Bhawna Singh, Raymond Smith, Anders Hammer Stromman and Xiaobo Xue

EDITOR'S ROUNDTABLE