----- Original Message ----- From: EnviroEng at UofT To: UTERN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: Enviro Industry Seminar - Nov 12 ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY LECTURE SERIES Join students and faculty of the Division of Environmental Engineering for a noon-hour lecture featuring guest speakers from engineering firms with environmental focus. When: Monday,November 12, 12:00 to 1:00 PM Where: Sandford Fleming, Rm 1105, (10 King's College Rd) Speaker: Stephanie Foster, M.A.,Vice-President -Strategic Initiatives and International Business Development, CH2M HILL Canada Limited Topic: "Engineering for Sustainability." Abstract: A fundamental challenge faces the world and all of us who seek to be leaders in the engineering field - the challenge of achieving sustainable development. We must find a way to meet the needs of the present without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development has emerged as the dominant economic, environmental and social issue of the 21st century. In our time, human numbers and the scale and intensity of human activities have reached the point where we have become the primary agents of our own evolution. The explosion in knowledge, science and technology, particularly in the last century, has made us the most successful of all the species on Earth. They have also set us on a pathway which is not sustainable and which threatens to make us the victims of our own success. World population will more than double in the next century and urban areas of the developing world will feel this increase acutely. By 2000, population in developing countries will account for 75% of the world's population. Economic expansion is a necessity, but it must take place in a manner which recognizes the need to take into account natural resource use and impacts, as well as social conditions. Engineers must and can play a critical role in the development of the future. The role of the engineer is changing from the technical innovator of the industrial revolution to agent of change in the quest for sustainable development in the next century. Sustainable development is about finding new ways to do business. Sustainable development demands change. It requires doing more with less - less resource input and less waste generated. It requires new manufacturing processes, more use of recyclable materials and the development of regenerative or recyclable output components. Instead of "end of pipe" technologies alone, it requires pollution prevention. Sustainable development means that we consider life-cycle consequences of production. It requires an approach that imitates natural or biological processes and seeks new levels of resource efficiencies in production. Sustainable development challenges institutions to create new possibilities for the design of products and the use of natural products. CH2M HILL Canada is accepting the challenge to move towards more a more sustainable way of doing business. We believe that sustainability is an essential component of a competitive strategy for the future. We are working to help clients to identify and develop opportunities to balance the sometimes competing needs of the Earth, the community and the bottom line. As we advance through our development stages to fully embrace the principles of sustainability, the firm is committed to working proactively with our clients to provide them with integrated solutions that demonstrate an innovative level of sustainability. We are also committed to providing our staff with opportunities for continuous learning, education and training to better understand the relevance of sustainable development to the environmental engineering field. Join us - Everyone is Welcome! For more information on our upcoming seminars visit the EILS website at: http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~kraemer/eils.html ----------- TUGS GENERAL ANOUNCEMENT MAILING LIST - http://tugsonline.cjb.net