Special half-day ZERI Workshop

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Special half-day ZERI Workshop on Nature's Best Sustainability Technologies and Natural Systems to help industry be more sustainable, create more green jobs and increase their bottom line.  Key concepts that will be highlighted include:

• Why nature doesn’t have waste, and why we do
• Why systems must take priority over products and processes
• Inputs, outputs, abundance, and resilience
• Merging social, economic, and environmental values

Background on Instructors

Mark Myles is co-founder and principal of Sustainnovation Consulting, which assists business organizations to establish programs across all facets of sustainability.  He is a Certified System Designer with ZERI, for whom he volunteered for a year in Ecuador to establish systems to create organic compost from solid waste.  Prior to his involvement in sustainability, he held several engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard.  He is a founding member of the Concord (MA) Climate Action Network.

Dick White left a long career as a professor of astronomy at Smith College to become a sustainability advocate.  He is a Certified ZERI System Designer and has contributed to organizing and teaching ZERI certification training, as well as shorter ZERI workshops.  He resides in Durango, CO, where he served as founding Chair of the Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado, among other climate protection and sustainability activities.  

ZERI-US Steering Committee

Tom Bepler, Margo Covington, Gary Liss, Mark Myles, Erinelle Sanborn, Dorna Schroeter, Harvey Stone, and Dick White. 

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* The price of the ZERI workshop is not included as part the full registration for the GRRN Recycling & Zero Waste Conference 2009. To attend this workshop, please be sure to add it during the registration process.

Thanks to our 2009 Conference Sponsors
EL Harvey & Sons, Inc. - Environmentalists Every Day
insinkerator			California Resource Recovery Association
	Resource Recycling	Northern California Recycling Association	Global Recycling Council
Urban Ore	Green Office Systems	HDR, Inc.	Product Policy Institute
eco-cycle	Earth Circle Boston, MA	Institute for Local Self Reliance	Biocycle Magazine	Sure-Close Foodscrap Collection Container
	Bob Gedert
Reuse Alliance		Save That Stuff	iWasteNot systems	Environmental Finance Center