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Greetings!
We're excited about three excellent events coming up at WIST: our first offering of a course in Life Cycle Assessment, another opportunity to attend the popular Hands-on Papermaking Course, and a special half-day event on campus called Focal Point 2011. Please read below for more information. Thank you for your continued interest in the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology.
Best regards,
Paul Fowler
Executive Director
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New one-day course offered: Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Product Declarations
Life cycle assessment is increasingly recognized as a valuable tool in measuring total environmental effects of creating, using and disposing of a product or service. This six-hour course at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is an introductory course on life cycle assessment (LCA), product category rules (PCR) and environmental product declarations (EPD).
Instructor Karyn Biasca, a professor of paper science and engineering at UWSP, has extensively studied LCA and has taught these principles in several venues. This introductory course will provide participants with an understanding of how LCA can be used in decision making processes, explain how LCA, PCR and EPD are related, and serve as a primer for a more extensive LCA course to be offered later by WIST.
You can download a flyer with more details and registration information here or by visiting the WIST website.
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Register now for
Focal Point 2011
 Join business leaders, economic development professionals and university faculty and administrators on Oct. 4 at UWSP for a networking breakfast and half-day seminar series. This event will celebrate WIST's first year in creating sustainable solutions through collaborative work.
Focal Point 2011 provides an opportunity to meet and visit with professionals enthusiastic about and actively involved in helping grow Wisconsin's economy through applied research and new market development.
The event is free but please register online here to provide name badge information and help WIST with event planning. The WIST website will hold the latest information including updates on presenters so please check there for details. |
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Hands-on Papermaking course offered Oct. 6 & 7 at UWSP
 Registration is open now for WIST's next Hands-on Papermaking course, scheduled for Oct. 6-7 at UWSP. The course alternates classroom instruction with guided sessions running WIST's pilot paper machine. Course instructor Kelly Klaas notes that most of the students in the papermaking classes aren't typical paper machine operators, but rather people from other departments within a paper company who want a better understanding of what it takes to run a machine and what machine operators go through in their daily work.
The course is a good match for anyone who needs the basics, has transferred from another industry, is new to operations or does machine maintenance.
You can view photos from a recent class here, and view or download course details and registration information here. See the WIST website for more information about the institute's pilot paper plant, paper testing services and other educational offerings.
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Through its three divisions, WIST offers laboratory services, outreach education, and research to create sustainability solutions for businesses and organizations. Technology and ideas developed by WIST and its partners will spur economic growth in Wisconsin and the region and help all of us preserve and protect a healthy environment for future generations.