[GreenYes] [CRRA] Zero Waste San Diego tackles global warming with recycling

[Gary Liss <gary@no.address>]

Apologies for Cross-Postings

This is a good idea for others to do as an Earth 
Day event.  You can buy a DVD of Inconvenient 
Truth and show it for free at your local 
library.  As long as there's no charge, I 
understand this is legally OK.  Then invite a 
local Zero Waste expert to talk about how to 
followup in adopting Zero Waste locally, by your 
community, your business and at home.

Gary

>To: crra_members@no.address
>From: RicAnthony@no.address
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:44:32 EST
>Subject: [CRRA] Zero Waste San Diego tackles global warming with recycling
>
>Peninsula Beacon  News_ (http://www.peninsulabeacon.com/)
>
>Zero Waste San Diego tackles global warming with recycling
>Blake Jones
>January 25, 2007
>
>Post-it notes containing remnants of a long-forgotten to-do list. The empty
>cereal box lounging on the counter. A cardboard toilet paper roll. These
>items  have something in common: They are often 
>overlooked when it comes to recycling.
>
>According to the city's Environmental Services 
>Department, San Diegans throw away enough 
>recyclables each year to completely fill Petco 
>Park five times over.  The additional and 
>unnecessary waste shortens the Miramar 
>Landfill's lifespan by  seven months a year. 
>Currently, the landfill is expected to reach 
>capacity by  2012, forcing the city to seek 
>another location to bury its trash.
>
>Zero Waste San Diego, a local chapter of the nonprofit California Resource
>Recovery Association, would just as soon make 
>landfills obsolete ­  finding a
>second use for all trash. Though an ambitious 
>proposition, the idea is not so far-fetched.
>
>According to Laura Anthony, Zero Waste's chair, the issue of reducing waste
>beyond current levels is not a problem of access to donation centers.
>â??I think people need to look at their waste 
>more and take more responsibility for it, Anthony said.
>
>In fact, the city provides blue recycling bins to single-family residences,
>and for those without recycling pick-up, 
>recreation centers serve as drop-off
>locations, including Robb Field in Ocean Beach.
>
>Zero Waste is currently experimenting with a pilot program on the peninsula
>to increase recycling and decrease waste. According to Anthony, the group
>plans  on addressing the Ocean Beach town 
>council and planning board in the hopes 
>of  creating a "zero waste community." The 
>grassroots effort will focus on organizing 
>residents and like-minded nonprofits to work 
>toward the shared goal of increasing recycling 
>and reducing waste, with the hopes of affecting policy  at City Hall.
>
>One of the first educational events in that vein is a free screening of the
>much-talked-about movie "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Point Loma library at
>6  p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31. The screening will 
>be followed by a discussion about ways the 
>community and  its residents can reduce 
>greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental 
>consultant Richard Anthony, billed as an 
>international expert on resource management with 
>more than 30 years in the field, will host a 
>question-and-answer session following the movie.
>
>Laura Anthony said the discussion is an important part of the event because
>Al Gore's movie does not thoroughly address the simple solutions to global
>warming. "We want to bring together people who 
>are interested to talk about it and  give them a solution," Anthony said.
>
>On selecting the film for the first movie screening, Anthony noted that
>global warming is a "sexy term" at the moment, 
>one that has prompted people to engage in the 
>debate about preserving natural resources. 
>Recycling plays a big part in that dialogue, she 
>continued, as it conserves air, water and land.
>
>But recycling is not the only answer. Driving a hybrid, turning down the heat
>  in the winter and buying local, organic foods are other methods of taking
>action. "It's all connected," Anthony said.
>
>The second installment in the library movie series, "Our Synthetic Seas," is
>  about plastics in the ocean. It will take 
> place in February. The library is
>located at 3701 Voltaire St. For more information, call (619) 531-1539.

Gary Liss
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com  
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