Re: Grassroots Recycling Network Info.

scott@cnt.org
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:19:44 -0500


Hi Dave:

Thanks for all this stuff-- I'd like to get plugged in, so I'll work on
getting a coherent and useful message together. As I see any opportunities
to use the PCSD to magnify the networks message, I'll pass them on. One
thought that occurs to me, has there been an effort to analyze the PCSD
report for support of the network's agenda? A lot of the original ASME
thinking is reflected in several of the specific recommendations.

I'll try and pull some of this together and pass it on.

Best regards,
Scott

>Scott -
>
>Thanks for having a walk and lunch with me in Chicago
>last week. I am always inspired and intellectually stretched
>by my intersections with you.
>
>I will clip various Grassroots Recycling Network messages
>to you. I have mentioned the ASME history to these folks
>and your appointment to the PCSD, work with the Bureau
>of Mines, interagency task force on materials efficiency, etc.
>If you want to send a message out to the steering committee
>on these issues, or a more general message to recycling
>advocates on the GreenYes ListServe, feel free.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dave K.
>
>ACTION ITEMS WE ARE WORKING ON NOW....
>
>From: jennie.alvernaz@sfsierra.sierraclub.org
>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 07:01:45
>Encoding: 1721 Text
>To: ruth.abbe@sfsierra.sierraclub.org, RicAnthony@aol.com (Rick Anthony),
> RecPoly1@aol.com (Marty Forman), ilsr@igc.apc.org,
> Dkirkwks@igc.apc.org (David Kirkpatrick),
> lynnlandes@earthlink.net (Lynn Landes), crra@aol.com (Gary Liss),
> nec@orbis.net (Mary Tkach), Trashwomyn@aol.com, UrbanOr@aol.com,
> DaveHWill@aol.com (Dave Williamson)
>Subject: GRN ACTION ITEMS From 8-19 Call
>
>
>TO GRN Steering Cmtee
>FROM Bill Sheehan 8/20/96
>
>ACTION ITEMS FROM CONFERENCE CALL
>
>
>1. MISSION STATEMENT: Bill will revise and email by Wednesday
>(8/21) for group input.
>
>2. ZERO WASTE: Neil will make revisions and run by Dan Knapp;
>Ruth has said she will write a 'front end' addition by this Friday (8/23).
>After group has reviewed it, the document will be distributed and
>posted on GreenYes (with the others, which Neil will work over) for
>public input, with a note that these are working documents until final
>adoption (or rejection) at the Winter Organizing Conference.
>
>3. ACTION - 35% GOAL: Lance will draft a sign-on letter by
>Wednesday (8/21). Each steering committee member will get vital info
>(address, work and home phone, fax, email, contact preferences) for
>twelve activists to Gary by today (8/20). The letter will ask for group (or
>individual?) sign-on. Gary will mail to all and the letter will be posted
>on the GreenYes, but each of us commits to make a PERSONAL
>FOLLOWUP PHONE CALL to each of our twelve people. The letter
>will request that each signer get ten more signers, with contact info back
>to Gary.
>
>(Gary, please compile, deal with duplication, and email the list back to
>us in a day or two, so we can see who we have missed.)
>
>4. ACTION - CANDIDATE LETTER: Lance will draft by Wednesday
>(8/21); run by Rick and Gary; then send via email to rest of committee
>for final approval.
>
>5. PITTSBURGH PLAN: Rick will email first draft for comment by
>Wednesday (8/21).
>
>6. FUNDING PROPOSAL: Neil will revise old Turner proposal by Sept
>1 with help from Bill; Lance will provide additional funding targets and
>input.
>
>From: jennie.alvernaz@sfsierra.sierraclub.org
>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 19:53:29
>Encoding: 2033 Text
>To: ruth.abbe@sfsierra.sierraclub.org, RicAnthony@aol.com (Rick Anthony),
> RecPoly1@aol.com (Marty Forman), ilsr@igc.apc.org,
> Dkirkwks@igc.apc.org (David Kirkpatrick),
> lynnlandes@earthlink.net (Lynn Landes), crra@aol.com (Gary Liss),
> nec@orbis.net (Mary Tkach), Trashwomyn@aol.com, UrbanOr@aol.com,
> DaveHWill@aol.com (Dave Williamson)
>Subject: GRN Draft Mission Statement
>
>
>DRAFT FOR COMMENT
>
>TO Grassroots Recycling Network
>FROM Bill Sheehan 8/20/96
>
>Here is the mission statement etc., revised with help from Lance.
>Please say yea, nay or give comments to first three parts, at
>least, by this Friday (8/23). With contact info, greenyes info and
>perhaps winter conference announcement, this could be the basis of a
>flyer for Pittsburgh....
>
>MISSION STATEMENT
>The Grassroots Recycling Network is dedicated to practicing
>environmental stewardship and achieving a sustainable economy by
>reducing waste and reusing and recycling the earth's resources in ways
>that support community.
>
>WHO WE ARE
>The Grassroots Recycling Network is a coalition of community-based
>recycling activists engaged in conserving our human and natural
>resources and giving voice to the conservation ethic that more than 100
>million Americans express daily by recycling.
>
>GOALS
> Eliminate waste
> Create jobs not waste
> End welfare for wasting
>
>OBJECTIVES
>Community economic development and resource conservation
>compliment one another and should be supported through public and
>private initiatives contributing to a sustainable economy
>
>Policies and tax-payer subsidies for extracting natural resources (such
>as metals, petroleum and timber) and wasting resources in landfills
>and incinerators reflect outmoded thinking and should be eliminated.
>Until these practices are stopped, the Grassroots Recycling Network
>believes that governmental action is essential to *level the playing
>field* so that resource recovery is not put at a competitive advantage
>with wasting.
>
>Resource conservation and recovery ease some of the most damaging
>consequences of wasteful consumption. Public and private initiatives
>should seek to reduce the destruction of wildlife habitat, ancient forest
>ecosystems, pollution associated with resource extraction, and energy
>consumed in the production of materials now essential in industrial
>economies.
>
>INFO ON SIGNING UP ON GREENYES LISTSERVE HOSTED
>BY THE GRN, IN DIGEST FORM:
>
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>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 07:16:00 -0700
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