[USCC] In NYC 5/23-25, experts can help you to Zero Waste

[Gary Liss]

Apologies for Cross Postings - Please Forward to your Friends and Colleagues

Is your community treading water on recycling?  Do you want to help your 
community get to the next level?  If so, how much would you pay to pull 
together a team of experts in the industry to consult on your program?  For 
two and a half days in May, leading Zero Waste advisors with experience in 
helping communities around the world create Zero Waste strategies will be 
together in New York City to share their knowledge of how exciting the 
future could be in your town. This is a valuable opportunity­for city 
planners, community organizers, business leaders– to use these experts at a 
fraction of what it would cost to hire them.

You’re not going to want to miss it. See conference announcement below.

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. 


This is your opportunity to join leading experts in the Zero Waste industry 
and get the tools, processes and consult you need to implement Zero Waste 
in your community!

Mark Gorrell, an architect for Urban Ore in Berkeley, CA and one of the 
leading designers of Resource Recovery Parks (RRP), will help you design a 
Resource Recovery Park for your community (bring your site plans with you!).

Peter Montague, Co-Director of the Environmental Research Foundation and 
Editor of RACHEL’s Environmental and Health News, will present on “Zero 
Waste and the Precautionary Principle.” David Morris, Vice President of the 
Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Director of the New Rules Project, 
will speak to “The Power and Importance of Changing Local Rules to Create a 
Zero Waste Society.”

Zero Waste consultants and planners will share their specific Zero Waste 
plans including Resource Recovery Park designs, marketing considerations, 
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
    * Rick Anthony: GrassRoots Recycling Network and Zero Waste 
International Alliance Planning Group, Downstream = “Commodity and Service 
Analysis for Jobs and Sustainability”
    * Mark Gorrell, Architect, Urban Ore and designer of Resource Recovery 
Parks:  “Downstream=Resource Recovery Parks”
Town Hall Meetings: Small group meetings with David Morris, Peter Montague, 
Rick Anthony and Mark Gorrell!

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”
    * Omar Freilla, Director, Green Worker Cooperatives
    * Levon Chambers, Labor Union
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, Consumer Policy Institute of Consumers' Union and 
co-author of 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