We can solve the problem of Junk (WASTE) management in Crete with the WSEAS

This Year the Conference will take place in Kerkyra, but in 2009 we will make it in CRETE

 

Waste is a terrible thing to waste.

That's why WSEAS will help the Society and the World !

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The 2nd WSEAS/IASME International Conference on WASTE MANAGEMENT,
WATER POLLUTION, AIR POLLUTION, and INDOOR CLIMATE
(WWAI'08)

 Corfu, Greece, October 26-28, 2008
 http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/wwai

Sponsored by WSEAS and WSEAS Transactions


 

Modern Companies activating on WASTE MANAGEMENT must not be brokers or haulers.

The Waste management i.e. the Junk Management is a Science and Art together
 


 

We received the following email and I think that the WSEAS members and the WSEAS Friends must read it.
 

"One of the essential lessons I’ve gleaned from the magazine Martha Stewart Living is that if you put together a collection of junk that’s all the same color (or maybe two colors), it’s almost always interesting to look at. (is Martha a WSEAS friend? Maybe yes, or maybe in the future....)

Sure, Martha is the MacGyver of home decorating — she can turn a stick of gum, some pocket lint, and a paper clip into a smashing holiday centerpiece. And her publications always reminds me of the allure of photographing with a shallow depth of field, so that only the thing you’re looking at is in focus and everything else goes seductively blurry. But in the end, her decorating style comes down to colors — the fewer the prettier."

We propose also to have a WSEAS Working Group on Junk Management (WSEAS Junk Management Working Group or WSEAS Waste Management Working Group)
Let's continue with this email:


"I was reminded of this the other day when I visited the sharp exhibit “Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty” at Montserrat College of Art. The centerpiece is New Yorker Portia Munson’s Green Piece: Lawn (2007), a heap of (mostly) plastic junk that fills a rectangle in the middle of the gallery floor. The stuff is attractively old and broken and tired — artificial trees and plants, a toy tractor, lawn furniture, a sled, a boot, water bottles, trash barrels, motor oil, a can of bug spray, hair-conditioner jugs, toy frogs, and alligators and dinosaurs. What makes it magnetic is that everything is green — all different shades of green. William Tozier

“Cornucopia,” a five-artist show organized by Montserrat curator Leonie Bradbury, is a portrait of America as a super-acquisitive consumer society. The artists themselves seem to have a love/hate relationship with all our shiny junk. An air of doom hovers over the proceedings — the focus is frequently the beauty of ruins. September 11 is evoked by way of President Bush’s efforts to maintain confidence in the US economy after the attack on the World Trade Center (and thus a symbolic attack on America’s world trade): “I encourage you all to go shopping more.” Also addressed are our global-warming-era fears of the toxic consequences of our mass-produced, synthetic, artificially flavored, technologically manipulated society. notional slurry
William Tozier.
   

And so Munson’s Green Piece (Greenpeace, get it?) mulls “green” as a code word for all that is eco-friendly — and increasingly “green” as in profitable, as well. It touches on all the contradictions and questions and feelings of duty and guilt that the label “green” now raises. A lawn, she notes, is just one more human mutation of nature. Her acid punch line: at the center of the junk sits a green plastic Waste Management recycling bin (notional slurry)

South Korean artist JeongMee Yoon’s four photographs from her “Pink and Blue Project” depict little kids with all their pink (for girls) or blue (for boys) stuff neatly laid out around them. There’s blue action figures, superheroes, weapons, and balls for boys, pink baby dolls, bows, stuffed animals, and toy dishes for girls. Again the photos are attractive because of the limited colors. It’s as if the kids’ whole world were pink or blue — the kids are even dressed in pink or blue. The images attest to the force and pervasiveness of gender indoctrination in our society. But the photo that sticks with me is Seohyun and Her Pink Things (2007), because Seohyun flashes this big smile. She seems incredibly happy. William Tozier

Yoon combines two tactics popular in photography today: photographing people and things as specimens, and photographing dazzling inundations. Danwen Xing of China and Chris Jordan of Seattle adopt similar styles for their photos of piles of junk — old cellphones, diodes, cords, adapters, circuit boards — that become pretty, abstract patterns.

Chicago’s Brian Ulrich offers boring shots, in the popular deadpan photo style, of a woman talking on her cellphone in front of a supermarket refrigerator case, a boy staring at model fantasy warriors in a shop, and piles of used shoes and computer gear in thrift shops.

Over at Boston University’s Photographic Resource Center, the nine-artist exhibit “Ad/Agency,” organized by the center’s Leslie K. Brown, touches on similar consumerist America themes but examines them through the lens of advertising. William Tozier

The best stuff here is New Yorker Penelope Umbrico’s Mirrors (from Catalogs), from 2002. She rephotographs pictures of mirrors — with their reflections — in home-improvement catalogues and then prints them at the real-life size of the mirror featured. Out of the corner of your eye they feel like real mirrors, but when you look at them, they show the carefully styled rooms in the catalogues: a tree on a bureau, a blurry soft white bed, notional slurry, perfume bottles neatly arranged on a dresser. They are literal reflections of our desires, epitomizing the ordered ideal of the American dream life. But they are places we can never enter."


After that Email:

WSEAS friends and members are kindly requested to send the following text to colleagues or to put it up on the announcement board of their laboratory or department:

The 2nd International Conference on WASTE MANAGEMENT, WATER POLLUTION, AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR CLIMATE
(WWAI'08) is going to be held in  
Corfu Island, Greece, October 26-28, 2008
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/wwai

The organizing committee calls you to submit your papers, special sessions, 4-hours tutorial.


 INDICES:
The Proceedings related to the Conference are covered by:

1. ISI (ISINET)
2. INSPEC (IET, former IEE)
3. CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
4. ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
5. ZENTRALBLATT
6. ULRICH
7. MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
8. MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
9. Directory of Published Proceedings
10. Computer Science Bibliography Administrator
11. American Chemical Society and its Index: Chemical Abstracts Service
12. European Library in Paris (France)
13. DEST Database (Australia)
14. Engineering Information
15. SCOPUS
16. EBSCO
17. EMBASE
18. Compendex (CPX)
19. GEOBASE
20. BIOBASE.
21. BIOTECHNOBASE
22. FLUIDEX
23. OceanBase
24. BEILSTEIN Abstracts
25. World Textiles
26. MEDLINE
27. British Library
28. National Library of Greece
29. German National Library of Science and Technology
30. IARAS Index

JOURNALS:
BEST PAPERS: The authors of the Best Papers will be invited to send extended versions of their papers after the conference to the Editor-in-Chiefs of WSEAS Journals. These extended versions might be published in the WSEAS Journals after the conference with additional review. This very limited number of high-quality papers will be announced in the Post-Conference report of the Conference.

No-show authors will be excluded from any further publication in WSEAS Journals, regardless of the quality of their papers. Additionally, they will be required to pay extra shipping and handling fees in order for the organizing committee to mail out their registration receipt, CD-ROM proceedings, and one volume of the hard-copy proceedings.

These journals are covered by:

1. ISI through the INSPEC (IEE)
2. INSPEC (IET, former IEE)
3. CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
4. ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
5. ZENTRALBLATT
6. MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
7. ULRICH
8. MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
9. Computer Science Bibliography Administrator
10. British Library
11. American Chemical Society and its Index: Chemical Abstracts Service
12. European Library in Paris (France)
13. DEST Database (Australia)
14. Swets Information Services
15. Engineering Information
16. SCOPUS
17. EBSCO
18. EMBASE
19. Compendex (CPX)
20. Geobase
21. BIOBASE
22. BIOTECHNOBASE
23. FLUIDEX
24. OceanBase
25. BEILSTEIN Abstracts
26. World Textiles
27. MEDLINE
28. Mayersche
29. Index of Information Systems Journals
30. National Library of Greece: See the link: NLG-Journals
31. IARAS Index

 

STUDENTS COMPETITION:
WSEAS will give out prizes for the winners of the students competition. The evaluation will be based on the recommendation of the Chairmen of each Session. The results will be announced at: www.wseas.org/reports

MEMBERS of the COMMITTEE:
See:
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/wwai/committee.htm
 

 

TOPICS:
A) Waste Management,
Simulation and Analysis of Water, Air and Land Pollution
Biological treatment of waste
Water and waste water treatment
Advanced waste treatment technology
Waste reduction and recycling
Waste treatment and disposal
Waste pre-treatment, separation and transformation
Soil and groundwater cleanup
Costs and benefits of waste management options
Clean technologies

B) Water Pollution,
Water management and planning
Waste water treatment and management
Water markets and policies
Urban water management
Water quality
Storm water management
Water security systems
Pollution control
Irrigation problems
Water Chemistry
Reservoirs and lakes
River basin management
Hydrological modelling
Flood risk
Decision support systems
Groundwater flow problems and remediation
Water and health
Remediation technologies
Monitoring and laboratory studies
Coastal and estuarial problems
Soil and water conservation
Risk analysis
Resources recovery
Environmental health effects
Remote sensing

C) Air Pollution,
Air quality management
Urban air management
Air pollution modelling
Transport emissions
Emission inventory
Comparison of model and experimental results
Global and regional studies
Aerosols and particles
Climate change and air pollution
Indoor pollution
Methodologies and practice
Construction and demolition waste
Pollution control
Atmospheric chemistry
Air and health
Remediation technologies
Monitoring and laboratory studies
Risk analysis
Resources recovery
Environmental health effects
Remote sensing

D) Indoor Climate
Identification of thermal characteristics of building components
Thermal and air permeability tests of building materials
Thermal analysis for building materials
Ventilation rates and indoor air quality
Quantitative and qualitative assessment of the air flow
Quantitative and qualitative assessment of lighting conditions
Thermal comfort in the controlled indoor conditions room
Air-conditioning systems
Influence of various materials or building components and systems
Thermal acoustic and optical comfort in both indoor and outdoor spaces
Microclimatic analysis
Meteorological conditions using both portable and permanently installed equipment
Climate and global change
Others


REGISTRATION FEES:
Details:
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/wwai/fees.htm


 Qualified Colleagues that might help the committee
should contact us


We can solve the problem of Junk (WASTE) management in Crete with the WSEAS