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The following presentations and workshop projects are wholly or partly based on  Waste Not research:

National/International Presentations and Workshops

  1. Baker, L. (invited) NSF Chemistry Division Workshop: P Sustainability Research for INFEWS, May 18-19, 2015, Washington, DC.
  2. Baker, L. (Invited) Workshop on Food, Energy, and Water, A multi-disciplinary workshop sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Georgia Tech, the Ohio State University and industry partners, Feb. 22-24, University of Nebraska.
  3. Baker, L. Workshop on P sustainability (invited for 2017). Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland), part of a plan to connect Waste Not with an Irish EPA project on recycling.
  4. Peterson, J., and S. Hughes. Governing garbage: How can local government advance environmental aims in sectors where service is privately delivered? (PDF) To be presented at the, 46th Urban Affairs Association Conference, March 16-19, San Diego.
  5. Peterson, J., and S. Hughes. Advancing environmental reforms in waste management in Minnesota’s Twin Cities metro area. To be presented at the 2016 Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual General Conference, May 16-19.
  6. Peterson, J., and S. Hughes. Panel Presentation at the CPSA Environmental Politics Workshop, Public Goals, Private Pick-up: Advancing environmental reforms in waste management in Minnesota’s Twin Cities metro area.
  7. Urriola, P. E. and G. C. Shurson. 2015. Swine Research Program at the University of Minnesota. October 2015. Seminar at Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science. Beijing China.

Regional presentations and meetings

  1. The first four presentations were made at our MnDrive/Waste Not sponsored conference The Future of Organics Wastes in Minnesota held on June 2, 2015 at the Continuing Education Center on the St. Paul Campus:
  2. Baker, L., D. Nidzgorski, J. Schmidt, and C. Rosen. Overview of Waste Not Research. Presented at The Future of Organic Wastes in Minnesota.
  3. Shurson, G. Potential for Utilizing Food Waste for Animal Feed. Presented at The Future of Organic Wastes in Minnesota.
  4. Ruan, R., Q. Xie, Y. Cheng, S. Liu, P. Peng, B. Zhang, P. Chen, and L. Baker, Energy and Chemical Extraction from Waste.
  5. Hughes, S. and J. Peterson. Policy and Politics of Urban Innovation: Minneapolis and Beyond.
  6. Baker, L. Waste not: closing the loop on organic wastes. Presented to the Twin Cities Research Group, Wilder Center, St. Paul, Sept. 9, 2015. 100%
  7. Schmitt, J. Food waste modeling. Presented to Hennepin County (Karen Nikolai, Alene Tchourumoff) and UMN (Anu Ramaswami, Mark Reiner, Frank Douma) 6/18/15.
  8. Schmitt, J. Food waste recycling. Presented at Eureka Recycling (Kate Davenport), 6/22/15 & 11/16/15.
  9. Schmitt, J. Agricultural supply chains. Presented at Cargill, 7/27/15 .
  10. Schmitt, J. Agricultural Supply Chains. Presented at the Renewable Fuels Association (Geoff Cooper) and UMN (Pedro Urriola), 8/31/15.
  11. Schmitt, J. Food waste sourcing and processing. Presented to the Russick Group (David Russick), 9/17/15.
  12. Schmidtt, J.Agricultural supply chains and organic wastes. Presented at Land O’ Lakes (Jessica Wingert, Tai Ullman, Keith Newhouse, Todd Peterson, Tanya Dowda, 9/24/15.
  13. Schmitt, J. Agricultural supply chains and food waste to feed. Presented to the National Pork Board (Allan Stokes) and UMN (Jerry Shurson and Tim Smith), 10/14/15.
  14. Schmitt, J. Agricultural supply chains and pork Production, Presented at the University of Arkansas (Marty Matlock and Greg Thoma), 10/29/15.
  15. Schmitt, J. Food systems. Presented at Forum for the Future (Georgia Rubenstein), 11/10/15.
  16. Schmitt, J., Twin Cities Food Waste, Presented at Hennepin County (John Jaimez and Donovan O Koxvold), 11/19/15.