This month's issue includes... Cradle To Cradle Remaking the Way We Make Things Keystone STARS Providing playground safety grants in PA The 3rd Annual Partners for Sustainable Development Marketplace Exceptional Products Don't know who to call to recycle something hard to recycle? Where to take batteries, who akes packing peanuts, tires, etc in your area. Most counties & states have a recycling coordinator Try this: GOOGLE: "recycling coordinator" + "your_state_name" Cradle To Cradle Remaking the Way We Make Things In short, it's an effort to refashion architecture and industry so that they emulate the ecosystems found in the natural world. An example: A regular old building acts much like a machine, powered by a central furnace and releasing sewage and other waste out through pipes. By contrast, an eco-effective building mimics a tree, drawing power from solar energy and using plant systems to purify effluents into clean water. "Waste equals food," goes a Cradle to Cradle mantra, suggesting a world where everything industry churns out can either be composted, reused or recycled into something else. A good chunk of today's environmental law, William McDonough argues, doesn't aim for this ideal. Instead, he says, it sets out to make something less bad--reducing pollution and so on--rather than encouraging a fundamental redesign to turn the bad thing into something good. From: Business In The Beltway Cradle To Cradle To Washington by: Andrew T. Gillies. For more information, http://www.forbes.com/manufacturing/2004/12/15/cz_ag_1215beltway.html Keystone STARS is now offering grants to purchase rubber mulch or rubber pavers for playground safety surfacing. The program recognizes Department of Public Welfare (DPW) regulated child care providers that exceed state health and safety licensing requirements. Pennsylvania licenses child care centers and group day homes that have seven or more children unrelated to the operator. It registers family day care homes that provide care for four to six children unrelated to the provider. For more information, please visit: http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/child/childcare/keystonestarchildcare/default.htm The 3rd Annual Partners for Sustainable Development: Recycling and Waste Reduction in Ohio conference will be held October 18-20, 2005 at the Bertram Inn & Conference Center in historic Aurora, OH. The partnership is made up of 2 state agencies and 4 statewide organizations: the Association of Ohio Recyclers, Buckeye SWANA, the Ohio Association of Litter Prevention and Recycling Professionals, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Organization of Solid Waste Districts of Ohio. Collectively, the partners set an agenda of topics that bring our memberships together for discussion, education and growth. For more information call 740/397-7652; by email at Dshew@wastealternatives.net or online at www.aor-omex.org Marketplace Exceptional Products Rubber Mulch for many uses, including: Horse Arenas, Playground Safety Surfacing, Landscaping and even Dinosaur Digs!One step into rubber mulch & you'll see there's nothing else like it! Please visit: www.closetheloop.com for information on this and other fascinating recycled products! Rubber Timbers, Pavers, Plastic Fencing, Wine Bottle Cheese Board with decoupaged wedding invitation, Promotional Cardboard Pens & Denim/Money Pencils, etc. Inspirational Quotes: "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Freedom is not free All gave somesome gave all" Author Unknown A Peaceful & Happy 4th of July!, - Close the Loop |
