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+ September 2009
Joint Group on Pollution Prevention (JG-PP) Chair Transition
Meetings were held with Army Materials Command personnel
at Redstone Arsenal last week regarding transitioning the JG-PP
Chairmanship role from NASA to Army. The Army Chairmanship role
will be in effect October 1, 2009. NASA accepted the role as
chairman of the Joint Group on Pollution Prevention (JG-PP) in
October 2007 (transitioned from the Marines). JG-PP was charted
by the Department of Defense in 1994 to reduce duplication of
effort within the DoD when qualifying new, environmentally
preferable materials or processes. The NASA Technology
Evaluation for Environmental Risk Mitigation Principal Center
(TEERM) was created in 1998 (under the original name NASA
Acquisition Pollution Prevention or AP2) to support JG-PP and be
the NASA focal point for agency-wide pollution prevention
activities. NASA has benefited greatly from its association with
JG-PP and the numerous projects JG-PP has undertaken. Like
TEERM, all JG-PP test plans and test reports are free and
publicly available. These reports and other JG-PP information
can be found at
www.jgpp.com.
NASA TEERM Assists HQ with
Energy/Water Plans
The NASA Technology
Evaluation for Environmental Risk Mitigation Principal Center
(TEERM) is working with NASA HQ Environmental Management Division
to develop a NASA-wide energy/water strategic plan and an
energy/water management action plan. The action plan will cover
all current mandates for federal facilities and discuss an ongoing
effort to provide useful feedback from NASA HQ to the centers and
component facilities. In order to facilitate this, TEERM engineers
have been developing “Center Dashboards” that show at a glance the
current scorecards for key metrics, including energy/water
intensity, renewable energy usage, and funding needs.
Additionally, the dashboards are planned to include fleet vehicles
and green house gas metrics when data is made available. The
concept of the action plan is to give guidance to center
energy/water managers and to provide information on center
requirements for the development of center-level strategic/action
plans.
+ August 2009
TEERM Program Management Review
NASA Headquarters Environmental Management Division (EMD)
conducted a Program Management Review (PMR) of the NASA Technology
Evaluation for Environmental Risk Mitigation Principal Center
(TEERM) in Florida the week of July 27th. The primary objective of
the PMR was to evaluate the progress of TEERM activities and
examine improvements to increase efficiency, effectiveness and
quality. Presently, TEERM is managing 5 and developing 8 new
demonstration/ validation projects designed to qualify or evaluate
new materials or processes to reduce NASA’s risk to mission. TEERM
also supports and monitors several other projects by partner
organizations. As part of the PMR, TEERM and EMD were able to
further collaborate and make key decisions for the
C3P/NASA 2009 International Workshop on Environment and
Alternative Energy. The workshop will occur from November
11-13, 2009, at the GE Global Research Munich facility.
+ July 2009
NASA Environmental Meetings in Europe
Representatives from NASA Headquarters Environmental
Management Division and the NASA Technology Evaluation for
Environmental Risk Mitigation Principal Center met with partners
in Portugal and Germany. NASA met with counterparts at the
Portuguese Center for Pollution Prevention Program (C3P) to review
joint U.S. - Portugal projects. Meetings in Germany finalized the
use of the US Consulate facility for the Joint Oversight Group
annual meeting and discussions with GE Global Research in Munich
resulted in finalizing decisions regarding speakers and further
details involving the use of GE facilities during the C3P/NASA
2009
International Workshop on Environment and Alternative Energy –
“GLOBAL COLLABORATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
STRATEGIES". The workshop will occur from November 11-13, 2009, at
the GE Global Research Munich facility.
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