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RE: greenyes-d Digest V98 #15 [ "Cosway, Frank" <fcosway@env.gov.mb ]

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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:43:31 -0600
From: "Cosway, Frank" <fcosway@env.gov.mb.ca>
To: "'greenyes@earthsystems.org'" <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
Subject: RE: greenyes-d Digest V98 #15
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Special events expertise.

Olav Myrholt of Norway was one of the people involved in the Greening of the
Olympic Games in Lillehammer. He continues to be involved in the assessment
of the environmental component of bids by cities for future Olympic events.
<olav.myrholt@ioc.olympic.org> or <envilill@online.no>

David Chernushenko is also heavily involved in the Greening of Sporting
events. He has published a book called "Greening Our Games" Its a little
old but it was the first in this area. He now has his own consulting
business - "Green & Gold Inc." He has special expertise in how events can
market environmental initiatives to sponsors. (It has been said that the
Atlanta Games missed out on $10-$40 million in corporate sponsorship because
they did not market green opportunities for sponsorship.
<david@delphi.ca>

A number of people from CH2M Hill were involved in the Atlanta Games:
Richard Hirsekorn (Atlanta), Kevin Nall, Bill Wallace (Oakland Calif.)

Jack McGinnis of Recycling Development Corporation (Ontario, Canada) was
involved in the recycling activities at Atlanta.
<jack.mcginnis@royalresource.com>

Also, checkout the homepages for Salt Lake City and Sydney Olympics.

Regards, Frank

Frank Cosway
Partnerships Officer
Manitoba Environment
Suite 160 - 123 Main Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3C 1A5
Tel: 204-945-8222
Fax: 204-945-1211

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> greenyes-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 15
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> Today's Topics:
> Env. packaging [ Michele Raymond
> <michele@raymond.co ]
> RE: [GreenYes] Event Waste Reduction/Rec [ "Gassman, Brenda"
> <blgassma@PUBSERV ]
> [GreenYes] Corporate Welfare Report [ GaryLiss@aol.com (by way of Shay
> Mi ]
> Re: [GreenYes] Env. packaging [ aschneid@cats.ucsc.edu ]
> [GreenYes] NY Times: Suit Demands Ban on [ DavidOrr@aol.com ]
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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:23:06 -0500
> From: Michele Raymond <michele@raymond.com>
> To: greenyes-d@earthsystems.org
> Subject: Env. packaging
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> there is info and links on Env packaging on my web site
> http://www.raymond.com
>
> The handbook from HP is good, but may be a little out of date by now.
>
> However, no one has done an update because US companies have lost interest
> in the subject in the absence of legislation or pressure from
> retailers/consumers.
>
> I could do a new handbook here if I felt there was a market. I would have
> to charge for it though!
>
> H-P did this sponsored I think.
>
> Best of luck!!
>
> Michele Raymond
>
>
> Michele Raymond
> Publisher
> Recycling Laws International/ State Recycling Laws Update
> 5111 Berwyn Rd. Ste 115 College Park, MD 20740)
> 301/345-4237 Fax 345-4768
> http://www.raymond.com
>
> ------------------------------
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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:26:13 -0600
> From: "Gassman, Brenda" <blgassma@PUBSERV.CO.ANOKA.MN.US>
> To: "'Tara Blumer'" <tarab@spnec.org>, greenyes@ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: [GreenYes] Event Waste Reduction/Recycling
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> Tara - The Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver CO put together an
> "environmental blueprint" booklet on the recycling program at their
> event. For more info, contact them at 303-355-2787. The booklet came
> out in 1995.
>
> Also, several CA cities put together a brochure on this topic. Contact
> city of Los Angeles, 213-237-1444. It's called "Event Recycling."
>
> NEC does a great job w/ the recycling and composting at their bike tour
> - hats off!
>
> Brenda Gassman
> Anoka County Integrated Waste Management
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tara Blumer [mailto:tarab@spnec.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 4:14 PM
> To: greenyes@ucsd.edu
> Subject: [GreenYes] Event Waste Reduction/Recycling
>
> Hello! I am in the process of gathering information on
> waste reduction, composting and recycling at special events like
> festivals, fairs, conferences, athletic events, etc. Has anyone put
> together a "how to" guide on this topic or is anyone willing to share
> information on their successes or failures? All replies will be
> appreciated.
>
> For anyone who is interested, the Saint Paul
> Neighborhood Energy Consortium (NEC) in Minnesota is a major sponsor and
> organizer of the Saint Paul Classic Bike Tour, which attracts 5,000
> riders annually. In an effort to reduce the amount of waste disposed of
> at this event, the NEC provides a staffed trash/recycling area at each
> of the six rest stops along the bike route. Riders sort their waste
> into recycling, compost or trash receptacles. This is a great
> opportunity to educate participants about waste reduction, composting
> and recycling by having them sort their waste into the correct
> container. For the past two years, approximately 5% of the waste was
> trash. The rest was composted or recycled. For more information you
> can contact Tara Blumer (tarab@spnec.org) or Hatti Koth
> (hattik@spnec.org) at the NEC.
>
> Happy Holidays!
>
>
>
>
>
> Tara Blumer
> Multifamily Recycling Coordinator
> Saint Paul Neighborhood Energy Consortium
> 475 North Cleveland Avenue, #100
> Saint Paul, MN 55104
> phone:(651) 644-7678
> fax:(651) 649-3109
> ----------------------------
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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:32:11 -0500
> From: GaryLiss@aol.com (by way of Shay Mitchell <shay@earthsystems.org>)
> To: greenyes@earthsystems.org
> Subject: [GreenYes] Corporate Welfare Report
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> ENN DAILY NEWS
> E-mail Edition for Thursday, December 17, 1998
> Produced by the Environmental News Network
>
>
> http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1998/12/121798/tbreak.asp
>
>
> $17.8 BILLION IN POLLUTER TAX BREAKS REVEALED
>
> SUMMARY
>
> Federal tax breaks for polluting industries, such as oil and gas, mining,
> timber and agribusiness corporations, are estimated to grow to $17.8
> billion
> over the next five years, according to a report released Monday by the
> Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. The environmental group Friends
> of
> the Earth says the report, Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures for
> Fiscal
> Years 1999-2003, is evidence of how the government gives billions of
> dollars
> away in annual tax breaks to businesses that harm the environment.
>
> FULL STORY
>
> $17.8 BILLION IN POLLUTER TAX BREAKS REVEALED
>
> Thursday, December 17, 1998
>
> Oil and gas industry tax breaks will amount to about $11 billion over the
> next
> five years.
> Federal tax breaks for polluting industries, such as oil and gas, mining,
> timber and agribusiness corporations, are estimated to grow to $17.8
> billion
> over the next five years, according to a report released Monday by the
> Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
>
> The environmental group Friends of the Earth says the report, Estimates of
> Federal Tax Expenditures for Fiscal Years 1999-2003, is evidence of how
> the
> government gives billions of dollars away in annual tax breaks to
> businesses
> that harm the environment.
>
> Oil and gas tax breaks alone account for close to $11 billion. These
> subsidies
> not only cost ordinary U.S. taxpayers more in taxes, but they stunt the
> growth
> of emerging, environmentally friendly energy technologies, which are
> crucial
> to sustainable development, said Friends of the Earth.
>
> "Santa came early this year for polluting industries," said Gawain Kripke,
> director of economic campaigns at Friends of the Earth. "Congress should
> play
> Scrooge and cut these dirty tax breaks."
>
> The tax breaks include:
>
> $11 billion for tax breaks and loopholes that subsidize exploration and
> production activities for the oil and gas industry
> $1.9 billion for tax breaks to the mining industry -- some of which comes
> from
> mining minerals on public lands
> $900 million in special provisions for timber companies, which the
> environmental group says drives down the costs of virgin wood products at
> the
> expense of recycled goods
> $3.9 billion for loopholes intended to benefit small farmers but that
> primarily benefit large agribusiness
>
> "We cannot allow the continued rape of the land by polluters who would
> deplete
> our forests, scar our public lands, pollute our air and water and then
> have
> the tax code subsidize their destruction," said Representative Pete Stark,
> D-Calif., a member of the Ways and Means Committee. "This $17.8 billion in
> corporate welfare is unconscionable."
>
> Friends of the Earth has tracked corporate welfare for polluters in the
> tax
> code since 1995 and recently updated Dirty Little Secrets, a report
> targeting
> the 15 worst tax breaks for the environment.
>
> "Tax loopholes continue to reward corporations that pollute the air and
> water,
> drill for oil and gas and cut down forests," said Brian Dunkiel, Friends
> of
>
> the Earth director of tax policy. "It is time to put an end to these
> unnecessary and harmful subsidies."
>
> Copyright 1998, Environmental News Network, All Rights Reserved
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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:36:16 -0800
> From: aschneid@cats.ucsc.edu
> To: Michele Raymond <michele@raymond.com>
> CC: greenyes-d@earthsystems.org
> Subject: Re: [GreenYes] Env. packaging
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> More background on the Guide to Env. Pkg. It was put together by two
> packaging engineers from HP along with Apple and IBM engineers who then
> invited many other packaging engineers. They also contact local
> government to provide recycling expertise and some environmental groups
> to ensure that many perspectives were included.
>
> It was a great project and process. For the most part the engineers
> were all young and enthusiastic. They were amazed with the eastern
> establishment came down on them so hard.
>
> But, I bet they would be willing to update the document. Local Silicon
> Valley companies paid for the first two printings. They'd probably put
> the next version on line, public domain.
>
> If a ground swell rises I will pass it along to the lead folks at HP.
>
> Ann Schneider
> UC Santa Cruz Extension
> in the heart of Silicon Valley
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:27:22 EST
> From: DavidOrr@aol.com
> To: community@ag.arizona.edu, rags-rap@ran.org
> Subject: [GreenYes] NY Times: Suit Demands Ban on Logging
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> Thursday, December 17, 1998
> <A HREF="aol://4344:104.nytcopy.6445375.574106743">Copyright 1998 The New
> York
> Times</A>
>
> Group's Suit Demands Ban on Logging in U.S. Forest
>
> By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
>
>
> WASHINGTON -- A coalition of environmentalists plans to sue the Forest
> Service on Thursday, demanding an end to logging in national forests on
> grounds that the federal timber program causes more economic harm than
> good.
>
> The environmental groups, led by Friends of the Earth and Forest
> Guardians,
> assert that the Forest Service routinely ignores laws and regulations that
> require it to calculate the economic costs of logging, such as damage to
> water
> resources or tourism, and to weigh them against the benefits, such as the
> value of the timber that is sold.
>
> In one sense, the lawsuit upends the typical dispute between business
> groups
> who say that environmental regulations cost more than they are worth, and
> environmentalists who usually argue that the benefits of strict
> environmental
> rules cannot be expressed in dollars. For years, the environmentalists
> have
> been fighting attempts in Congress to require cost-benefit tests. Now they
> are
> in court seeking exactly that.
>
> The lawsuit has been joined by recreation, hunting and fishing
> organizations, owners of small forest lots, tourism enterprises and others
> who
> say they have been harmed economically by the logging program.
>
> It is supported by some prominent natural resource economists who
> contend
> that is is possible to measure the worth of forests that are not logged --
> and
> indeed that these values probably far exceed the worth of the timber they
> hold
> and the jobs that are created by logging.
>
> The suit is to be filed in federal district court for Vermont, in
> Burlington, said Brian Dunkiel, a staff lawyer for Friends of the Earth.
> It
> follows a year-long campaign in which the environmentalists filed
> administrative appeals with the Forest Service challenging hundreds of
> individual timber sales by the service, including in the Green Mountains
> National Forest in Vermont, on similar grounds, only to be rebuffed
> repeatedly.
>
> "The law requires the Forest Service to account for net economic and
> social
> values," Dunkiel said. "It is almost as though the Congress had hired the
> Forest Service to serve as the public's accountant, to manage these
> assets.
> What has become clear is that the Forest Service has failed terribly."
>
> James Lyons, the undersecretary of agriculture for natural resources,
> said
> he had not seen the complaint and could not address its specifics.
>
> "As an organization we are certainly moving in a direction that takes
> into
> account all the resources," Lyons said. "We are seeking to improve, if not
> maximize, net public benefits. Our analysis is not focused solely on
> timber
> production.
>
> "It's not what we take out of the woods, it's what we leave behind that
> really matters."
>
> The coalition's lawsuit relies on a new but increasingly influential
> theory
> among ecologists that it is possible to put a monetary price on the public
> benefits that flow from healthy ecosystems, such as providing habitat for
> commercial species, protecting drinking water reserves, providing
> recreation
> and helping control global warming.
>
> It comes at a time when the federal timber program, in which the Forest
> Service auctions off its trees to commercial companies, is under challenge
> on
> many fronts. The Clinton administration is considering sweeping new forest
> policies aimed at protecting the last pristine stands of trees in roadless
> areas, and anti-logging forces have proposed legislation in Congress that
> would restrict logging and road construction in tens of millions of acres
> in
> national forests.
>
> But some conservationists have complained that the administration's
> approach
> exempts major forests from protection, and the legislation has virtually
> no
> chance of being enacted because pro-logging lawmakers control committees
> in
> the House and Senate that have jurisdiction over forests.
>
> Instead, the plaintiffs in the suit are seeking to force the Forest
> Service
> to stop logging until it obeys what they say are the requirements of
> existing
> laws and rules.
>
> In documents prepared for the lawsuit, John Talberth, the executive
> director
> of Forest Guardians, presents the results of a broad review he conducted
> of
> the professional literature describing what he called generally accepted
> standards for measuring the values of forests and the costs of logging
> them.
>
> He also presents results of a survey of hundreds of timber sale
> documents
> obtained from the Forest Service, which he said demonstrated that the
> agency
> "has failed to incorporate significant information about the
> socio-economic
> values of unlogged national forests into timber sale program decisions."
>
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