10.21.09 | Devens, Massachusetts: ZERI Workshop on Nature’s Best Sustainability Technologies
The great thing about this event is that you can get a chance to attend the 2009 Grassroots Recycling Network Recycling and Zero Waste Conference in Devens, Massachusetts on October 18-21, 2009.
The half-day ZERI Workshop focusing on Nature’s Best Sustainability Technologies and Natural Systems to “help industry be more sustainable, create more green jobs and increase their bottom line.”
Its worth noting that ZERI’s founder Gunter Pauli has been focusing on Nature’s 100 Best, a project he is working on with Janine Beynus President of the Biomimicry Institute.
Key concepts that will be highlighted at the workshop 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
Instructors: Dick White and Mark Myles, both are ZERI System Designers Certified by Gunter Pauli, founder of Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives
Cost: $125 ($100 for additional individuals from the same family/organization ; use promotion code “group”.)
As a cooperating organization, ZERI-US is able to offer a $50 discount on registration for the rest of the GRRN conference (not for the ZERI workshop) if you would like to attend the whole event. Enter “partners” in the “promotion code” box. The same $50 discount is available for early registrations for the full conference received by September 15.
Please note that reduced hotel rates will remain in effect only until September 23. Please Register Now and reserve your room.
ZERI-US Steering Committee: Tom Bepler, Margo Covington, Gary Liss, Mark Myles, Erinelle Sanborn, Dorna Schroeter, Harvey Stone, and Dick White.
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.
Please note that the Content here is the not the original. It has been taken from a posting in the ZERI US Discussion Group, but modified by the author and put in a blog format.