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Zeri LogoSpecial 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

Agenda - Wednesday, October 21, 2009


Instructors: Dick White and Mark Myles, ZERI System Designers Certified by Gunter Pauli, Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives (www.ZERI.org)

Cost: $125 *

Wednesday, October 21 2009 8:30 to 12:00

Discount: $100 for additional individuals from the same family/organization; use promotion code "GROUP".

8:30-9:00 am
Networking and introductions 
9:00-9:30 am
Sustainability and Unsustainability (Dick)

  • Review sustainability definitions
  • Sustainability as integrating the environmental, social, and economic
  • Symptoms of unsustainability
    •     The Natural Step (TNS) resource/demand funnel - why we're heading for unsustainability unless society changes
  • TNS Four System Conditions for sustainability
  • Strategies for sustainability
  • ZERI
9:30-10:00 am
Systems as Business Models (Mark)
  • Natural Step operating conditions
  • Natural systems: the 5 Kingdoms of Nature
  • Mimicking Nature: ZERI case studies
10:00-10:15 am
Break
10:15-11:00 am
Systems thinking: collaborative hands-on exercise (Dick)
11:00-11:45 am
Elements of ZERI systems (Mark)
  • Using or mimicking natural systems - case studies
  • Novel technologies, biomimicry
  • Methodology
  • Economics in integrated systems
11:45-12:00 Feedback and evaluation

 

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

Thank you, E L Harvey!
EL Harvey & Sons, Inc. - Environmentalists Every Day

Thank you, Insinkerator!   Thank you, CRRA!
insinkerator   California Resource
Recovery Association

  Thank you, Resource Recycling!
Thank you, NRCA! Thank you, GRC!  
  Resource Recycling Northern California
Recycling Association
Global Recycling
Council
 
Thank you, Urban Ore! Thank you, Green Office Systems! Thank you, HDR, Inc.! Thank you, Product Policy Institute!  
Urban Ore Green Office Systems HDR, Inc. Product Policy Institute  

Thank you, eco-cycle! Thank you, Earth Circle! Thank you, ILSR! Thank you, BioCycle Magazine! Thank you, Sure-Close Foodscrap Collection Container!
eco-cycle Earth Circle
Boston, MA
Institute for
Local Self Reliance
Biocycle
Magazine
Sure-Close Foodscrap
Collection Container
Thank you, Reuse Alliance! Bob Gedert Thank you, Save That Stuff, Inc.! Thank you, iWasteNot systems! Thank you, Environmental Finance Center!
Reuse Alliance Save That Stuff iWasteNot systems Environmental
Finance Center

 


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