[USCC] Speakers Update for GRRN Zero Waste Conf. 5/23-25, NYC

[Gary Liss]

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REGISTER NOW for
The Second National Zero Waste Action Conference
New York City - May 23-25, 2005
“Building Zero Waste Communities: Tools to Take Home”

FOR MORE INFO OR TO REGISTER ONLINE, GO TO 
<file://../../marti.BOULDER/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLK322/www.grrn.org>www.grrn.org. 


Two great minds of the 21st Century are on the Zero Waste bandwagon 
are 
you? Come hear and meet with Peter Montague, Co-Director of the 
Environmental Research Foundation and Editor of RACHEL’s Environmental and 
Health News, on “Zero Waste and the Precautionary Principle,” and David 
Morris, Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and 
Director of the New Rules Project, on “The Power and Importance of Changing 
Local Rules to Create a Zero Waste Society.”

You will not want to miss this two-and-a-half day gathering with some of 
the leading advocates and technical experts in the industry who will 
provide you with the tools and processes to choose, plan and implement Zero 
Waste in your community!

What is “Zero Waste in Action?” Come learn about Resource Recovery Parks, 
Extended Producer Responsibility initiatives, Design for the Environment 
campaigns, and Job Creation programs.

Join your progressive peers working in New York, the U.S. and Canada to 
discuss challenges and different program approaches. Strategize your own 
Zero Waste plan for your region by building off other community’s ongoing 
planning processes.

What are the Tools to Take Home? We want to help you get your community 
moving toward Zero Waste, so some of the useful take-aways from this 
conference will include a framework for introducing Zero Waste to your 
community’s legislators and stakeholders, sample policies and legislation, 
resources and references for building infrastructure, community planning 
handbooks, promotional campaign artwork and other how-to’s.

Planning for Zero Waste? Bring a delegation from your community!
To start organizing your community around Zero Waste, we encourage you to 
bring a delegation with you. We suggest at least 2 or 3 of the following 
individuals: elected officials, top city management, solid waste program 
managers, business leaders, and members of community organizations.

Conference Agenda:
Monday, May 23rd
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Keynote Sessions:
Peter Montague, Co-Director of the Environmental Research Foundation and 
Editor of RACHEL’s Environmental and Health News
“Zero Waste and the Precautionary Principle: An Idea Whose Time Has Come”

David Morris, Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and 
Director of the New Rules Project
“The Power and Importance of Changing Local Rules to Create a Zero Waste 
Society”

Panel and Interactive Sessions:
    * Panel 1: “Upstream and Downstream – the Zero Waste System”
Producer Responsibility, Design for the Environment and Clean Production
Building Infrastructure: Resource Recovery Parks
    * Town Hall Meetings: Small group meetings with David Morris and Peter 
Montague!!
Lunch provided
    * “Open Space” Break-out Sessions:
A chance to network with your peers and discuss with experts the challenges 
you are experiencing in your specific community.
    * Panel 2: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs”
Reception 5-9 p.m.:
Music by DJ Chrome, the Soundz of Justice and Recycled Funk 
(<http://www.djobah.com/>www.djobah.com).

Tuesday, May 24th

Continental Breakfast

Group Work Sessions with national experts focusing on how government and 
community organizers can work both separately and together toward Zero Waste:
    * “Framing the Zero Waste Debate” – Annie Leonard, Global Alliance for 
Incineration Alternatives (GAIA)
    * Panel 1: “Choosing Zero Waste for your Community”
Timothy Logan, Lead Organizer, NYC Zero Waste Campaign
Donna Barlow Casey, Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District
Gary Liss, Coordinator, Zero Waste International Alliance
    * Panel 2: “Planning for Zero Waste”
Barbara Warren, M.S., Consumer Policy Institute of Consumers' Union and 
Co-Author, “Reaching for Zero: The Citizens Plan for Zero Waste in NYC”
Chris Luboff, Seattle Director of Solid Waste Planning
Mary T'Kach, Director of Environmental Affairs, Aveda Corporation

Lunch provided
    * Panel 3: “Implementing Zero Waste”
Laurie Lewis, Waste Diversion Planning Coordinator, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
Canada
Wendy Neu, Vice President of Governmental & Environmental Affairs, Hugo Neu 
Corporation
Eric Lombardi, Executive Director of Eco-Cycle, Boulder, CO

Evening Tours 5-8 p.m.
Choose one of two options:
    * Reuse – Materials for the Arts and Build it Green; OR
    * Toxics – Green Worker Cooperatives & Sustainable South Bronx.
Wine and snacks served after tours.

Wednesday, May 25th
Morning Tours 9 a.m.-noon
Choose one of two options:
    * Organics – Lower Eastside Ecology Center & Riker’s Island NYC 
Corrections Facility; OR
    * Recycling – Hugo Neu and Visy Paper Plant.
TO REGISTER or for more information, visit <http://www.grrn.org/>www.grrn.org.

GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) is a North American network of 
recycling professionals and waste reduction activists pushing public policy 
and corporate practice beyond recycling.


Gary Liss
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com