[GreenYes] [ZERI-US] worldchanging article on zero-waste

[Gary Liss <gary@no.address>]

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Note: ZWIA is mentioned in World Changing article on Zero Waste on 3-20-07


Pay As You Throw: More Interest in Zero-Waste Efforts

<http://www.worldchanging.com/sarah_bio.html>Sarah Rich
March 20, 2007 2:05 PM

We talk more and more often these days about the 
potential danger of half-steps toward sustainable 
practices. Now that the idea of being greener has 
infiltrated most corners of the business world, 
we're at a critical point where thinking only 
part of the way to a true solution means settling 
for something that may never get us all the way there.

What are some of the all-the-way solutions we're 
talking about? You could call them "The Zero's" 
-- 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//005948.html>zero-energy, 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//005645.html>zero-carbon, 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//002381.html>zero-emissions, 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//003173.html>zero-waste. 
The only way to surpass total elimination of the 
harmful byproducts of our lives is to create ways 
to 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//004815.html>suck 
up our own waste and 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//000571.html>reverse 
the damage. But acknowledging that there are 
enormous hurdles between halting our current 
momentum, and getting the pendulum to swing the 
other way, going for zero is probably the best 
combination of a solution that is both 
high-impact and quickly-attainable for the 
average individual, city or business.

<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402369/index.htm?postversion=2007031406>Fortune 
Magazine recently ran an article about the smart 
business move that is zero-waste, and the "total 
makeover of the global economy" that will be 
required in order to obliterate the concept of 
throwing things away. In a garbageless economy, 
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//001387.html>industry 
functions like a biological system in which one 
manufacturer's byproducts are another's fuel (or 
even the fuel for the same process) -- what Bill 
McDonough and Michael Braungart describe as 
"waste=food." And the advent of such a 
neobiological system may amount to "The Next Industrial Revolution."

For more, go to: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006316.html

>To: ZERI-US@no.address
>From: Lucas Gonzalez <lgs0a@no.address>
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:16:06 +0100 (CET)
>Subject: [ZERI-US] worldchanging article on zero-waste
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>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006316.html
>
>there are more articles there, but this is full of good links
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