[meteorite-list] NASA JPL Hosts Launch: Beyond Waste Forum

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201207122212.q6CMC4B1029388_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

July 12, 2012

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck at nasa.gov

Will Schmitt
U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington
202-712-4971
wschmitt at usaid.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-129

NASA JPL HOSTS LAUNCH: BEYOND WASTE FORUM

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA and partners from the LAUNCH: Beyond Waste
forum will discuss innovative ideas for waste management during a
3-day forum July 20-22. Waste management is important for planning
long-duration human spaceflight missions to an asteroid, Mars or
beyond.

Reporters are invited to attend the forum at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Reporters must register in advance by
contacting Joshua Buck at jbuck at nasa.gov by 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT)
July 19.

LAUNCH: Beyond Waste is part of an initiative to identify, showcase
and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges
through a series of forums. It is the fourth forum in the series.

LAUNCH allows NASA to propel innovative solutions that help those
outside the agency make the connection between our lives on Earth and
how we live and work in space. Through the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID)'s involvement, LAUNCH places a
special emphasis on accelerating innovations poised for large-scale
impact in improving the lives of people in the developing world.

During the forum, nine international participants will showcase new
innovations that could address waste management problems on Earth and
may be used to solve problems for long-duration spaceflight.

NASA, USAID, Nike Inc. and the U.S. State Department are LAUNCH
founding partners. The Office of Naval Research; Vestergaard
Frandsen; IDEO, a design and innovation consulting firm; and
Architecture for Humanity are partners for LAUNCH: Beyond Waste.

The partners all contributed to planning the forum, selecting
innovators and recruiting other event participants. A list of the
innovators and innovations will be available online before the forum
at:

http://www.launch.org

The public may access and engage in the Launch: Beyond Waste
conversation online through MindMapr at:

http://mindmapr.nasa.gov

A link to live video of the conference will be on UStream at 10 a.m.
PDT (1 p.m. EDT) July 20 at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-educational

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov
        
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Received on Thu 12 Jul 2012 06:12:03 PM PDT