Waste Reduction

Synergize for Advanced Solutions

What are the next steps in reducing waste? This group is devoted to developing more advanced solutions to reduce, reduce, and recycle more effectively. How does your region reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics, toxics, batteries, techno-trash, and other difficult-to-recycle items? To what extent is the difficulty a product of not having technical people ...learn more

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next step in waste reduction

"I guess it would be to design waste out of economics. To create wealth from waste rather than the the way around. It would be a nice way to combine ecological and economic recovery and could go for r" ...more

blindspotter commented 5 months ago

Washington State Electronics Recycling

"Thanks everyone for being in the Waste Reduction group! I know we're all busy doing good things to reduce waste in the real world. My intent with the group is mainly to fascilitate quick" ...more

Janine commented 7 months ago

Waste to Profit and other NBIS resources online

"EXCELLENT resources on the NBIS site: http://www.nbis.org/resources.php See the program for turning waste into profit! There are other resources there regarding zero waste and lif" ...more

Janine commented 8 months ago

BRITA filter recycling

"GREAT NEWS!!!!! Company Chlorox is now taking back their used Brita filters!! See press release: http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/takebackthefilter/BritaFilterRecycleReleaseFINAL.p" ...more

Janine commented 8 months ago

Campaign for computer reuse in Seattle, USA (Cascadia bioregion)

"Washington State, USA has greatly improved its capacity to reuse electronics and prevent its waste. See www.ecyclewashington.org and also postings to the group Recycling Leaders Connect."

Janine commented 8 months ago

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Are we making the best use of WiserEarth?

HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE WISEREARTH Janine's observations after 17 months on WE ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE UNDERUTILIZED The most powerful aspect of WE is its multilingual search engine. Do we have metr ...more

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End Bottled Water - Annotated Links

What is happening with bottled water campaigns... World Wide Water Common Nestle pulls plug on controversial bottling plantThe Associated PressPosted: 09/10/2009 05:54:21 PM PDTSACRAMENTO, Calif.—Th ...more

edited by frankpatton 2 months ago

New: Cradle to Cradle + 1

hi, it would be good to create an area of interest called cradle to cradle under the existing topic 'Sustainable Design' see http://www.c2c-supporters.org/ for more info... cradle to cradle ...more

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Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web...

Mobilizing Generation 2.0 is a practical and immediately useful guide for nonprofits, political campaigns, organizers, and individuals who want to better understand how to use Web 2.0 technologies. In ...more

Book

edited by maianhha 12 days ago

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

What is the Story of Stuff? From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of St ...more

Video

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Lifecycle Building Challenge

Enter the Lifecycle Building Challenge online competition, to shape the future of green building and facilitate local building materials reuse. UPDATE: The 2009 winners have been announ ...more

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From credit crunch to planet crunch - or revival?

Paper and slides for the Middle East Waste Summit, May 26th-28th 2009. How to quickly take care of waste, toxics, pollution, loss of resources, loss of nature, climate change AND run a vigorous econo ...more

Presentation

edited by blindspotter 3 months ago

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo ...more

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