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'Zero Waste: A Permaculture Perspective on Waste Management'

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Peter Burgess
Thursday April 4 at 6 pm, Friends Hall: What does a sustainable approach to waste management look like?
medelste@ramapo.edu
Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:47 AM
MASS: Masters in Sustainability Studies

presents

'Zero Waste: A Permaculture Perspective on Waste Management'

Shabbazz Jackson and Josephine Papagni

Thursday April 4, Friends Hall

In 'Zero Waste: A Permaculture Perspective on Waste Management,' Shabazz Jackson and Josephine Papagni present a sustainable approach to the topic of waste. In this view, materials are cycled---reused, recovered, cycled back into use--not disposed of. Jackson and Papagni's company, Greenway Environmental Services, has worked with college's and communities to create important pilot projects in the region. Their interest is in building community capacity, not just solving waste problems but addressing the social changes required to implement new behaviors toward consumption and waste. Based on principles of permaculture, they have been able to achieve a dramatic reduction to waste streams while enabling sustainable land management and food systems. Their model program in Poughkeepsie, New York, began with work at Vassar College and has grown to address materials produced by three colleges in the city. They have developed the ability, not just to talk about, but to achieve zero waste systems. In their lecture, this husband and wife team will showcase their approach and the principles that underlie it. They will then discuss several cases studies that apply these principles. These include applications to homesteads, college and community practices and instituting municipal zero waste programs.

Fifth in the Spring 2013 series of seven presentations at Ramapo College of New Jersey:

Creating a Sustainable World: Voices of Key Practitioners #2

Free and Open to the Public

Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Studies Program and
Masters of Sustainability Studies
Director, Institute for Environmental Studies
Ramapo College of New Jersey
505 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ 07430
G419
201-684-7745
http://www.ramapo.edu/masters-sustainability/