[GreenYes] Re: [CRRA] RE: [ZeroWasteCommunities] Correct Link for The End of Garbage, i n Fortune Magazine, 3/19/07

[Neil Seldman <nseldman@no.address>]

way to go dan. I'll live in your state any day.

see you soon.

Neil
On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Dan Knapp wrote:

> To All:
>
>
> Interesting article.  Goes right along with my company's purpose,  
> which we print on every sales receipt and in many advertisements:   
> "To End The Age of Waste."  Thanks to Gary Liss, Marc.gunther, and  
> Mark Gagliardi for getting Fortune Magazine's "The End of  
> Landfilling" to my computer.
>
> Most of the quotes were from people around here; most of the  
> examples, too.  Congratulations to all of you on your magnificent  
> accomplishments!
>
> Now how about the next step for California?
>
> The Sierra Club has just said it wants a phaseout of landfilling.   
> Here's a fast-track approach:
>
> Step 1.  The State takes back all remaining permitted airspace for  
> waste burial ("landfilling") on the grounds that most if not all of  
> the current permit holders are wasting it by burying mishandled  
> resources.  This is urgent because all landfills pollute scarce  
> water and air resources.  All extant permits for this burial  
> airspace would need to be revoked at once to avoid charges of  
> favoritism and to make management manageable.  Hey, that happened  
> to Urban Ore back in the bad old days when our six acre Compost  
> Farm's permit to occupy the surface of our old closed urban  
> landfill was revoked.  Why not do the same to the garbage companies?
>
> Step 2.  The State declares a moratorium on any additional  
> permitted burial airspace and nullifies all permit applications for  
> same.
>
> Step 3.  Hereafter, the state manages the grandfathered permitted  
> airspace as a public resource for the public benefit, and charges  
> fees for use of its wasting asset sufficient to provide a surplus  
> for waste replacement technologies, including prominently:
>
> Step 5.  A network of purpose-built permitted zero waste resource  
> recovery parks designed on the small-business Australian and New  
> Zealand models and handling the full range of discarded commodities  
> using a full range of source-separation-based and labor intensive  
> collection technologies.
>
> Step 6:  Open up the surface area of all former landfills for the  
> broad uses outlined in Step 5 above.
>
> Now that would be something big!
>
> Dan Knapp
> Urban Ore, Inc.
> Berkeley, CA
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Gagliardi, Mark wrote:
>
>>
>> here's the actual link
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/ 
>> 2007/03/19/8402369/index.htm?postversion=2007031406
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ZeroWasteCommunities@no.address  
>> [mailto:ZeroWasteCommunities@no.address] On Behalf Of Gary Liss
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:36 AM
>> To: crra_members@no.address; zwia@no.address;  
>> GreenYes@no.address; ZERI-US@no.address;  
>> sustainablebusiness@no.address;  
>> ZeroWasteCommunities@no.address; p2tech@no.address;  
>> p2@no.address
>> Cc: marc.gunther@no.address
>> Subject: [ZeroWasteCommunities] Correct Link for The End of  
>> Garbage, in Fortune Magazine, 3/19/07
>>
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:08:05 -0400
>>> From: "Marc Gunther" <marc.gunther@no.address>
>>> To: "Gary Liss" <gary@no.address>
>>> Subject: Re: The End of Garbage, in Fortune Magazine, 3/19/07
>>>
>>> Thanks, Gary...but it's not the right link.
>>> I will keep the link up to date at my blog so you can send people  
>>> there www.marcgunther.com
>>>
>>> cheers, Marc
>>
>> At 11:01 AM 3/14/2007, Gary Liss wrote:
>>
>>> Apologies for Cross-Postings
>>> The end of garbage
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you imagine a world of zero waste? Cities and towns across  
>>> the world - and a surprising number of companies - have adopted  
>>> that goal, says Fortune's Marc Gunther
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> for story, go to: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/ 
>>> fastforward/index.html
>>>
>>> Gary Liss
>>> 916-652-7850
>>> Fax: 916-652-0485
>>> www.garyliss.com
>> Gary Liss
>> 916-652-7850
>> Fax: 916-652-0485
>> www.garyliss.com
>>
>>
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