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Bag Bans and Mandatory Recycling: Big Wins for Zero Waste in Alameda County!
On Wednesday night, the Alameda County Waste Management Authority adopted two major Zero Waste ordinances that we are thrilled to announce. The first ordinance requires that larger businesses and multi-family properties recycle. The second prohibits the free distribution of single-use plastic bags at stores that sell packaged food.
Read Stopwaste.org’s news release for more details:
http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=33&recordid=294
And Californians Against Waste has a great summary as well: http://www.cawrecycles.org/whats_new/recycling_news/jan26_alamedaco_ordinances
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Economics of Happiness Screening Next Thursday, 2/2/12
Join us for a film and discussion about The Economics of Happiness, next Thursday, 2/2/12, from 7-9pm. The film describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, an unholy alliance of governments and big business continues to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people all over the world are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.
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Pacha’s Pajamas Comes to the Ecology Center, This Sunday 1/29/12
Join our Farm Fresh Choice crew for some dynamic storytelling with authors Aaron Ableman and Dave Room. Pacha’s Pajamas brings the voices of nature to the stage through story and music, engaging youth in a conversation about the environment and how we depend on each other. Bring the next generation of environmental leaders down to the Ecology Center Store, this Sunday 1/29/12 at 3pm!
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“Adrift in the Wake of Kyoto” Climate Change Discussion, next Thursday, 1/26/12
The science is clear but there is a serious disconnect with the pace world negotiators are taking to secure a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or in preparing for the grave threats posed by climate change. Join Andy Katz, Sierra Club delegate to the recent UN climate negotiations in Durban and EBMUD Director, for a report-back and conversation about the state of the negotiations. Come hear about the importance of our state and local work for climate protection and where clean energy and jobs fit in. Following a talk and Q&A, we’ll engage in discussion about state and regional climate issues and how we can be effective locally in the face of international inertia.
For more details about this free event, click here.
[Photo of Oxfam "Hungry for Climate Action" by Oxfam International ]