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[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

SBCC Center for Sustainability "Cities As the Solution" series,
 Waste & Recycling for a Better World Workshop on Video (click on to 
view below)

As a part of the ongoing "Cities As the Solution" series, the Santa 
Barbara City College(SBCC) Center for Sustainability presented "Waste & 
Recycling for a Better World" on March 25 & 26, 2011.

We are happy to be able to share with you three presentations from the 
workshop: Albe Zakes of Terracycle, Nikhil Arora of BTTR Ventures, and 
Janet Unruh from the Institute of Material Sustainability (IMS), as they 
share their wisdom of viewing /nothing /as trash, but instead always 
seeing waste as a resource, as nature and ecosystems do.
/ * **In nature, there is no such thing as waste, but as humans, we 
produce nearly 220 million tons per year.* /

   View on Facebook: 
   Center for Sustainability Facebook: 
   http://www.facebook.com/pages/SBCC-Center-for-Sustainability/195585370466944?v=wall

   *or* 
   View On Vimeo: 
   *Waste & Recycling Workshop/Albe Zakes of TerraCycle/SBCC Center for
   Sustainability* 
   http://www.vimeo.com/25581801 
   Albe Zakes, the 25 year-old Global VP Media at TerraCycle, Inc., the
   world's leading 'upcycling' company. Trash to cash, TerraCycle
   recognizes the massive potential in garbage, diverting millions of
   pieces of non-recyclable trash going to landfills each year by
   "upcycling" into eco-friendly products. Featured in National
   Geographic's "Garbage Moguls" TerraCycle gives new meaning to
   eco-capitalism. 
   Terracycle: terracycle.net <http://www.terracycle.net>

   *Waste & Recycling Workshop/Nikhil Arora, BTTR Ventures/SBCC Center
   for Sustainability* 
   http://www.vimeo.com/25493318 
   Nikhil Arora, 23, of BTTR Ventures, is a recent grad of UC Berkeley,
   who with business partner Alex Velez, gave up careers in investment
   banking to start an urban farm growing gourmet mushrooms from coffee
   waste. Their newest product, the Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden kit,
   is carried in over 90 Whole Foods Markets. Since starting BTTR
   Ventures they have diverted more than 10,000 pounds of coffee
   grounds per week from the waste stream. Turning waste into a
   resource, they are proud of being eco-entrepreneurs and providing
   jobs in their inner city community. bttrventures.com
   <http://www.bttrventures.com>

   *Waste & Recycling Workshop/Janet Unruh of the Institute for
   Material Sustainability (IMS)* 
   http://www.vimeo.com/25440376 
   We've all heard of peak oil, but what about peak hafnium, or peak
   terbium? Janet Unruh, author of "Recycle Everything, Why We Must,
   How We Can", believes that everything can be recycled 100% -
   provided we learn how to design things properly and set up the right
   systems for materials recovery. Please join Janet, as she spends a
   Saturday workshop with co-presenters, students & community members
   exploring in depth the question, Can everything be recycled? She
   says with good engineering, imagination and innovation, yes it
   can...rebk.org <http://www.rebk.org> 

(special thanks to Logan Nevitt of Commongood Media, for filming & 
editing the workshop)


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