[Lapg] Save the Date!/March 25 & 26/Waste & Recycling for a Better World/SBCC Center for Sustainability

Sun Mar 6 07:12:05 PST 2011

SBCC Center for Sustainability "Cities As the Solution" Series:
Waste & Recycling for a Better World
March 25 & 26

Emacs!

Evening Talk, March 25, 7-9:30pm 2011
Keynote Speaker, Albe Zakes from TerraCycle, Inc.
SBCC Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium, West Campus
Admission $5
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All Day Saturday Event, March 26, 9am - 4pm
Morning Plenary/Afternoon Break-Out Sessions with:
Albe Zakes of TerraCycle; Nikhil Arora from BTTR Ventures; & Author, 
Janet Unruh
Admission, $30 general/$20 Students
SBCC Campus, East Campus

         Meet the young eco-entrepreneurs who can change the way you 
think about trash.  And those who can help you understand recycling, 
why we must, and how we can.  Please join the Santa Barbara City 
College Center for Sustainability as it continues its "Cities As the 
Solution" series with "Waste & Recycling for a Better World" on March 25 & 26.

         The event starts on Friday evening with keynote speaker Albe 
Zakes, VP Marketing from TerraCycle, Inc., a company that makes 
useful products from garbage and is now at the forefront of the 
eco-capitalist movement.  Zakes will share the entrepreneurial 
adventure he and TerraCycle company founder Tom Szaky have 
experienced together as they created a company that's good for 
people, good for profits, and good for the environment.

A follow-up event takes place on Saturday March 26 beginning with a 
morning plenary session, followed by afternoon break-outs that 
includes 3 dynamic speakers in the world of Waste & Recycling:
Albe Zakes, 25 year-old Global VP/Media from TerraCycle, Inc., the 
world's leading 'upcycling' company, which converts waste materials 
into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers 
worldwide.  TerraCycle upcycles and recycles traditionally 
non-recyclable waste, including drink pouches, chip bags, tooth 
brushes and many more. TerraCycles innovative "Brigades" programs 
encourage community organizations to participate in trash retrieval 
while earning cash.  Paying out more than a million dollars last year 
alone, the Brigade programs are partially funded by corporate 
sponsors like KRAFT, Starbucks, and Mars.

Nikhil Arora, 23, BTTR Ventures, a recent grad of UC Berkeley, who 
with business partner Alex Velez, gave up potential careers in 
investment banking to start an urban farm growing gourmet mushrooms 
from coffee waste, in a downtown warehouse.  Their most recent 
product, the Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden kit, is carried in Whole 
Foods Markets nationwide. Since starting BTTR Ventures they have 
diverted more than 10,000 pounds of coffee grounds per week from the 
waste stream, being paid by coffee houses to do it.  Trash to cash, 
they are proud of creating & providing jobs in their urban community.

Janet Unruh, Executive Director of the Institute for Material 
Sustainability, MA Engineering and Technology Management, and author 
of Recycle Everything, Why We Must, How We Can. We've all heard of 
peak oil, but what about peak hafnium, or peak terbium? Hafnium, 
which is important in computer chips, could be depleted by 2017, and 
terbium, used in florescent light bulbs, by 2012. Unruh believes that 
everything can be recycled 100% - provided we learn how to design 
things properly and set up the right systems for materials recovery.

In nature, there is no such thing as "waste," but as humans, we 
produce nearly 220 million tons per year.  Come learn a better way, 
to not only recycle, but upcycle, diverting billions of pieces of 
garbage from our landfills and incinerators, while generating income 
and creating jobs.

The evening talk takes place on Friday, March 25, 7-9:30pm at the Fe 
Bland Forum on the SBCC West Campus.  The Saturday event, March 26, 
9am - 4pm will be at the SBCC PS101 Building on the East Campus, 721 
Cliff Drive.

Sponsored by the SBCC Center for Sustainability

Event Info: Margie (805) 965-0581, ext 2177,  email 
msbushman at sbcc.edu;  http://sustainability.sbcc.edu

More Info/Websites/YouTubes:
Trash Trivia:
http://www.co.cass.in.us/ccswd/trivia.htm

TerraCycle: www.terracycle.net
BTTR Ventures: www.bttrventures.com
Janet Unruh: www.howtorecycleeverythingbook.com

TerraCycle featured on Good Morning America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaKoBuVZ_AI&feature=related
TerraCycle segment Discovery Channel: s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpTVF-3uFQ&feature=related
TerraCycle Plastics episode of Garbage Moguls on National Geographic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meV-clgVnJ0&feature=player_embedded#at=16

BTTR Ventures on BBC World New:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oq0rAzlDi8&feature=related>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oq0rAzlDi8&feature=related 

Janet Unruh:
Executive Director; Institute for Material Sustainability
Recycle the World: One Woman's Vision
http://www.enzymepdx.com/2010/recycle-everything/
By Matthew Singer

RADIO INTERVIEW
Program: Recovery Zone
program date: Wed, 12/22/2010

http://kboo.fm/node/25693

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