Fwd: Calling Everyone to Zero Waste!
Sustain Door
Dave
From: patzke-l <patz...@peoplepc.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Subject: Calling Everyone to Zero Waste!
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Hello Environmental Friends,
We are a newly formed Initiative in the Green Bay area. We are holding monthly educational events to guide people toward an environmentally healthy "Zero Waste Future."
Personally, I see the connection between degradation, violence, and abuse toward our Earth / Ecological Environment and human degradation, violence and abuse. If we honor and respect one aspect of this beautiful, magnificent Creation we all share, we honor and respect ALL of it. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true.
If we can all be united by one thing, it is the fact that we ALL need Earth, Air, Water, and Sun to survive! Can we all put our heads and hearts together for that?! I think we can! I know we must!
Help us make 2013 the year we show our Care for the Earth and All Her Rich Diversity, in new and creative ways! When we care for the Earth, we are caring for the life, health, and well-being of all others!
Health and Wellness communties play a HUGE role in transitioning to Zero Waste!
A thoughtful question for today: "What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., say to us today, about our great need to ORGANIZE and ACT on behalf of our Sacred and Beloved Ecological Web, which gives life, offers healing, and sustains ALLLLLLLL Her many Peoples and species of life?" (Journal on that for awhile .. ... :+) )
Thank You So Much,
Linda Patzke, Contact, N.E.W. Zero Waste Coalition
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What is Zero Waste?
Zero Waste is a philosophy and a goal. Only by “closing the loop” can we hope to develop a sustainable economy.
The idea is to reduce consumption as much as possible by using design-for-environment in all products and their packaging, and to make all products and packaging recyclable.
Achieving Zero Waste depends on designing products and industrial processes so that their components can be dismantled, repaired and/or recycled.
Zero Waste means linking communities, businesses and industries so that one's waste becomes another’s feedstock. It means preventing pollution at its source. It means new local jobs in communities throughout British Columbia.
Zero Waste Definition
From Zero Waste Interenational Alliance"Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use.
Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.
Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that are a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health."Check out the following resources and organizations:
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, www.no-burn.org
- EarthBeat Radio, www.earthbeatradio.org
- Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, www.ehumanrights.org
- Pesticide Action Network, www.panna.org
- OilWatch, www.oilwatch.org
- Green For All, www.greenforall.org
- Zero Waste for Zero Warming campaign, www.zerowarming.org
- North American Program of Women’s Earth Alliance, www.womensearthalliance.org
- Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, www.seen.org
- Oil Change International, www.priceofoil.org
- Global Justice Ecology Project, www.globaljusticeecology.org
- Environmental Justice Resource Center, www.ejrc.cau.edu
- Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem, A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008)
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Please share
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If you are concerned about pollution, the environment, and finding creative solutions to landfills, come learn more ......
Moving Toward Zero Waste
Amy L. F. Spears, Oneida Nation Environmental Specialist
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Dean Hoegger, President, Clean Water Action Council of Northeast WI
Thursday, February 7, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Brown County Central Library, Lower Level, 515 Pine Street, Green Bay
Sponsored by: N.E.W Zero Waste Coalition
Contact: CWAC, con...@cleanwateractioncouncil.org or 920-921-8885