32nd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2025
June 16 - 18, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |||
| 7:30am - 8:30am |
PC1: BREAKFAST ON OWN |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Workshop 2: Science Communication Workshop Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Amy Aines From Assessment to Action:How to Clearly Communicate Your Ideas and Insights |
Workshop 1a: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Part 1] Location: Campus Club - Room C What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? |
Registration: Early Registration Location: Campus Club - Lounge Corridor |
| 10:00am - 10:20am |
Transition 1-I |
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| 10:20am - 10:40am |
Opening & Welcome Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 10:40am - 11:30am |
Keynote I: Sustainability Hotdish: Welcome to Minnesota! Location: Campus Club - West Wing Hear from Dr. Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota about new research into food sustainability, covering on air quality, food waste, and other topics—presented with a focus on the North Star State. |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Lunch Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 12:30pm - 12:40pm |
Transition 1-II |
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| 12:40pm - 1:25pm |
Lightning 1: AIB & HDS Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell From Waste to Resource: Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Food Waste Treatment in Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilities Versus Landfilling 12:45pm - 12:50pm Upcycling grocery wastes as a feed input for climate friendly egg production in the United States 12:50pm - 12:55pm Decarbonization pathways for U.S. Automotive Steel Consumption 12:55pm - 1:00pm Addressing data availability concerns in Social Life Cycle Assessment through a critical review on the United States manufacturing sector 1:00pm - 1:05pm Evaluating the adoption risks of early-stage research 1:05pm - 1:10pm Local Energy Justice Impacts of Global Carbon Market Design |
Lightning 3: ITM and CST Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Alysha Helmrich Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Early Stage Building LCA and Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies 12:50pm - 12:55pm Towards a shared view on the climate impact of digital technology including the handprint 12:55pm - 1:00pm New Tools for Synthetic Temperature and Heatwave Generation: Advancing Sustainability and Resilience under Climate Change 1:00pm - 1:05pm The Intersection of Sustainability, Resilience, and Smart Cities Literature 1:05pm - 1:10pm Balancing Stakeholder Interests for Sustainable Road-Stream Crossing Management Using a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm |
Lightning 2: SRE Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Samuel Markolf Consequential impacts of large electrical loads powering direct air capture 12:45pm - 12:50pm Life cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis of an intelligent water resource recovery system 12:50pm - 12:55pm Identifying Key Factors Influencing Zero-Emission Vehicle Uptake Across California’s Communities 12:55pm - 1:00pm Evaluation of policy requirements for the three-pillar method for clean hydrogen production in the USA 1:00pm - 1:05pm Low-carbon manufacturing increases climate benefit of photovoltaics (PV) by up to 208% points 1:05pm - 1:10pm Battery supply constraints in the light-duty vehicles sector - a barrier for fleet electrification or an opportunity for more efficient battery use? |
| 1:25pm - 1:45pm |
Transition 1-III |
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| 1:45pm - 3:05pm |
SRE1: Modeling Sustainable and Resilient Macro-scale Electricity Systems Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Margaret Grace O'Connell Chair: Chayse Monroe Lavallais Evaluation of Policies to Support Robust Planning of Electricity Systems Exposed to High Uncertainty 1:57pm - 2:09pm Projecting US State-Level Renewable Energy Generation Under Climate Change 2:09pm - 2:21pm Assessing the Local Economic Impacts of Rural Utility-Scale PV Deployment for Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region. 2:21pm - 2:33pm Integrated Energy-Water flows in the United States over the 21st century 2:33pm - 2:45pm Significance of Integrating Supply-side and Demand-side solutions in Electricity System Transition Planning – A model-based evaluation 2:45pm - 2:57pm The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S. |
HDS1: Considerations for Stakeholder Engagement Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Elizabeth Wachs The Underestimated Role of Consumers in LCA 1:57pm - 2:09pm Product User Well-being from Circular Economy Behavior Engagement 2:09pm - 2:21pm Understanding the Stakeholder Landscape Surrounding Energy Efficiency Decisions in U.S. Manufacturing 2:21pm - 2:33pm Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) on Women’s Argan Oil Production in Morocco 2:33pm - 2:45pm The Impact of Online Shopping on Retail Building Space Utilization and Energy Demand in the U.S. 2:45pm - 2:57pm Evaluating Stakeholder Preferences and Network in Road-Stream Crossing Management |
Lightning 4: SRI Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Obste Therasme Regional Light-Duty Vehicles Decarbonization Strategy from the Emission Abatement Cost Perspective 1:50pm - 1:55pm Adaptive Building LCA Tools for Promoting Circular Economy: A comprehensive analysis 1:55pm - 2:00pm Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Risk from Hazardous Events and Power Outages: Analytics and Resilience Implications 2:00pm - 2:05pm Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping and Principles for Green Hydrogen Ecosystem Development in Michigan 2:05pm - 2:10pm Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Thermoplastic and Conventional Rebar 2:10pm - 2:15pm Analysis for decarbonization of industrial petrochemicals 2:15pm - 2:20pm Techno-economic analysis of rail decarbonization 2:25pm - 2:30pm The climate limits of construction – consumption emissions and budgets for over 1000 cities. 2:30pm - 2:35pm Comparative Environmental Impact Assessment of Fiber Reinforcement for Additive Manufacturing Composites |
| 3:05pm - 3:25pm |
Transition 1-IV |
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| 3:25pm - 4:45pm |
Workshop 1b: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Part 2] Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Shelie Miller |
Special Session 1: Restructuring EPA's WARM Model Location: Campus Club - Room C Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session Restructuring EPA's WARM Model |
Special Session 2: Advancing Harmonized Biogenic Carbon Accounting in LCA Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Advancing Harmonized Biogenic Carbon Accounting in Life Cycle Assessment: from the UNEP/LCI Project |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm |
Transition 1-V |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Poster Session Location: Campus Club - West Wing Tool for Assessing Carbon Storing Materials-TACSMA Assessing Equity in California School Solar Adoption Through Machine Learning Cost, performance and Life cycle assessment of biosand filters and its modified derivatives for drinking water treatment. Decarbonizing Indiana’s Steel Industry: Hydrogen-Enhanced Electric Arc Furnace Integration and Grid Modeling Incorporating Industrial Ecology into Energy Systems Optimization: Modeling the Impact of Materials and Infrastructure on Decarbonization Integrating Sustainability Indicators for Plant-Based Proteins: A Review on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework Material Supply Resilience Modeling for Defense Buildings Model based control for carbon-efficient water treatment Novel circular economy approach to the recovery of Critical Raw Materials (CRM) from photovoltaic (PV) solar panel and Fibre Optic Cable (FOC) waste Regional Climate Impacts on Renewable Energy Generation The Impact of Subsidies on Heat Pump Adoption and Residential Heating Emissions in Massachusetts S-ROI: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating Sustainability Impacts of Emerging Technologies in Established Communities Strategic Carbon Hubs for Large-Scale Industrial Decarbonization: Cement, Steel, and Chemicals Value Theories in Infrastructure Development: Advancing the Human Dimensions of Sustainability Evaluating 25 years of changes in corn ethanol’s carbon intensity in the US: Some insights for advancing prospective life cycle assessment An Iterative Approach to Incorporating Experimental Data into the Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) of Potential Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs) Amplifying Women’s Voices: Addressing Gender-Specific Barriers to Renewable Energy Adoption in Fossil-Fuel-Dependent Economies Integrating Nutrition and Environmental Impacts into Nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA) for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems Comparing the environmental impacts of economic changes of USEEIO models: 2017 vs 2012 benchmark input output tables From Waste to Resource: Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Food Waste Treatment in Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilities Versus Landfilling Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Early Stage Building LCA and Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies Towards a shared view on the climate impact of digital technology including the handprint Upcycling grocery wastes as a feed input for climate friendly egg production in the United States Techno-Economic Analysis of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the South-Central U.S. Decarbonization pathways for U.S. Automotive Steel Consumption New Tools for Synthetic Temperature and Heatwave Generation: Advancing Sustainability and Resilience under Climate Change Amplifying Women’s Voices: Addressing Gender-Specific Barriers to Renewable Energy Adoption in Fossil-Fuel-Dependent Economies Addressing data availability concerns in Social Life Cycle Assessment through a critical review on the United States manufacturing sector Identifying Key Factors Influencing Zero-Emission Vehicle Uptake Across California’s Communities Evaluation of policy requirements for the three-pillar method for clean hydrogen production in the USA Whole-process water consumption of direct lithium extraction in the Salton Sea region Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping and Principles for Green Hydrogen Ecosystem Development in Michigan Balancing Stakeholder Interests for Sustainable Road-Stream Crossing Management Using a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Evaluating the community impacts of early-stage sustainability research Analysis for decarbonization of industrial petrochemicals Understanding decarbonization challenges in the cement sector through a retrospective analysis of industry reports and policy documents Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) –Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) Harmonization Framework to Evaluate Emerging Carbon Conversion Technologies Is the Design for Circularity strategy environmentally beneficial? A case study of the U.S Photovoltaics Industry shifting from Aluminum to Steel Frames Scalability of Hemp-based Thermal Insulation in the United States – A Monte Carlo-based Techno-economic Approach |
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