CT DEEP Solid Waste Advisory Committee
(SWAC)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
9:30 a.m.
Phoenix Auditorium, 5th Floor
79 Elm Street, Hartford
AGENDA
9:30 am Convene
● Welcome and Introductions
□ Chris Nelson
● Greening DEEP Event
□ Mary Sherwin, Office of the Commissioner
● Greeting from the new Deputy Commissioner
□ Macky McCleary
● Debris Management Lessons from Hurricane Irene
□ Frank Gagliardo
□ Gaby Frigon
□ Karl Reichle, Town of South Windsor
● Regulation Development Update
□ Mark Latham
● E-Waste Program Status
□ Mark Latham
□ Evelyn Silva
● Reissuance of General Permits
□ Lauren Jones
11:00 am Adjourn
NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, February 29, 2012
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Teleconference Info: 20 Lines open at 9:30 am
Participants calling in will be able put calls through and comment/ask questions.
Please keep your phone muted unless offering a comment or asking a question.
If your phone doesn’t have muting capability, you can enter *6 to self
mute/unmute on the conference line.
Toll-Free Call-in Number: 866-712-2081
Participants’ Passcode: 1754584#
For copies of past SWAC agendas, presentations and handouts, please go to
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2718&q=332500&depNav_GID=1646
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Access the CTDEP Website:
● State Solid Waste Management Plan: www.ct.gov/dep/swmp
● Agency Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee: www.ct.gov/dep/SWAdvComm
2011 Schedule - Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee Meetings:
Committee meetings are typically held at the CTDEP Headquarters 79 Elm Street – Phoenix Auditorium, Hartford, CT 06106. Please subscribe to the listserve to make sure you are notified of upcoming meetings.
● February 28, 2012
● April 24, 2012
● June 26, 2012
● September 25, 2012
Become a member of the Advisory Committee
The Department is seeking broad representation of stakeholders to serve as members of the Advisory Committee and all are welcome to be members and attend regular meetings. To join and stay informed of the Advisory Committee activities and topics, please subscribe to our DEP-SWAdvComm listserve by following the steps outlined below. You will receive e-mail notification of meetings and related postings.
To subscribe to the Listserv: Send an email to imailsrv@list.state.ct.us Leave the subject line blank In the body of the message, type (or copy & paste) the following line: Subscribe DEP-SWAdvComm YourFirstName YourLastName (Substitute your first and last name in the line above) You will receive an e-mail confirmation that you have successfully subscribed to the listserv.
For more information, please contact Chris Nelson at 860-424-3454 or at chris.nelson@ct.gov .
ECC Sustainable Inventors Club & Biomimicry will become a 4H details TBAS
Open forums, encourage everyone to participate and share their views. Forums extend an opportunity for youth to have a voice. Forums increase personal learning and help participants come away with new ideas and insights. Forums help build solidarity. By attending these events young people become more connected. When people come together to discuss issues of common concern, ideas get exchanged that become catalyst to action and new collaborations.
December’s Speaker is a Biomimicry speaker, architect and a friend of mine! He’s out of state until December. I I’ll announce that date at our Nov Inventors Meetup!
Why does our :Sustainable Inventors Club” have an emphasis on Biomimicry?
“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. It’s the process of looking at a leaf and trying to figure out how to make a better solar cell.
Biomimicry has been going on for a long time. Think about the Wright brothers looking at turkey vultures to learn about drag and lift in flight.
Now biomimicry is becoming one of the ways that engineers, product designers, and architects do their work. It’s mainly because people are looking for more sustainable ways to do things--to sip energy instead of guzzle it, to save materials, to do things in less toxic ways.
Organisms know how to do these things. After 3.8 billion years, life has learned what works and what’s appropriate on the planet. And that’s what the people trying to redesign our world are looking for--so we can live here in a way that enhances this place.” Source
How can people get involved in biomimicry? See Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/janine-benyus-biomimicry-is-innovation-inspired-by-nature
Important Links to watch!
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
http://instantwatcher.com/hulu/shows/273
Please Read
Imagine designing a shovel, football, shoe, window, car, or any everyday object enhanced by Biomimicry - look around! Check out: Tools for Creative Thinking and Decision Making - http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm or Get Netflix and watch (Future By Design) or (Objectified) and get creating on paper please and bring your nature inspired design along! Examine the evolution of everyday products and green storming ways to redesign them more sustainably.
Next month - wind turbines, with a Biomimicry whale of a twist! US scientists discovered that the tubercles -- the scalloped edges on humpback fins -- result in 32 percent less drag and an 8 percent rise in lift when compared to a smooth fin. Humpback whale flipper.
A Resource: AskNature is the world's first digital library of Nature's solutions, organized by function, that can serve as an educational and cross-pollinating tool as well as a collaboration forum among biologists, engineers, designers and other innovators. http://www.asknature.org/media/image/192
Milford Environmental Concerns Coalition Says Stay informed via email
In the past, the ECC News Letters and notices to friends went through broad postal mailings to all current, relevant members. For environmental & budgetary reasons, we are discontinuing this practice, and have created an email distribution list to quickly, efficiently and economically distribute information to our friends and public.
To continue receiving these notices, you must use one of these notification methods:
The preferred method is to join our ECC Email list. To do this:
· Address an email to ddmiddens@gmail.com.
· On the subject line write ECC list.
· In the body of the email, type the words: subscribe Milford ECC List, then leave a space and type in your full name (this must appear on the same line).
2. If you don’t have access to email, you can continue receiving our newsletter and monthly notices. The paper versions of our newsletter will be available at the Milford Library.
If you have any questions or problems joining the email distribution list, contact the DD Vasseur Milford ECC Chairwoman by phone at 203-283-1441 or by email at ddmiddens@gmail.com
December’s Speaker is a Biomimicry speaker, architect and a friend of mine! He’s out of state until December. I I’ll announce that date at our Nov Inventors Meetup!
Why does our :Sustainable Inventors Club” have an emphasis on Biomimicry?
“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. It’s the process of looking at a leaf and trying to figure out how to make a better solar cell.
Biomimicry has been going on for a long time. Think about the Wright brothers looking at turkey vultures to learn about drag and lift in flight.
Now biomimicry is becoming one of the ways that engineers, product designers, and architects do their work. It’s mainly because people are looking for more sustainable ways to do things--to sip energy instead of guzzle it, to save materials, to do things in less toxic ways.
Organisms know how to do these things. After 3.8 billion years, life has learned what works and what’s appropriate on the planet. And that’s what the people trying to redesign our world are looking for--so we can live here in a way that enhances this place.” Source
How can people get involved in biomimicry? See Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/janine-benyus-biomimicry-is-innovation-inspired-by-nature
Important Links to watch!
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
http://instantwatcher.com/hulu/shows/273
Please Read
Imagine designing a shovel, football, shoe, window, car, or any everyday object enhanced by Biomimicry - look around! Check out: Tools for Creative Thinking and Decision Making - http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm or Get Netflix and watch (Future By Design) or (Objectified) and get creating on paper please and bring your nature inspired design along! Examine the evolution of everyday products and green storming ways to redesign them more sustainably.
Next month - wind turbines, with a Biomimicry whale of a twist! US scientists discovered that the tubercles -- the scalloped edges on humpback fins -- result in 32 percent less drag and an 8 percent rise in lift when compared to a smooth fin. Humpback whale flipper.
A Resource: AskNature is the world's first digital library of Nature's solutions, organized by function, that can serve as an educational and cross-pollinating tool as well as a collaboration forum among biologists, engineers, designers and other innovators. http://www.asknature.org/media/image/192
Milford Environmental Concerns Coalition Says Stay informed via email
In the past, the ECC News Letters and notices to friends went through broad postal mailings to all current, relevant members. For environmental & budgetary reasons, we are discontinuing this practice, and have created an email distribution list to quickly, efficiently and economically distribute information to our friends and public.
To continue receiving these notices, you must use one of these notification methods:
The preferred method is to join our ECC Email list. To do this:
· Address an email to ddmiddens@gmail.com.
· On the subject line write ECC list.
· In the body of the email, type the words: subscribe Milford ECC List, then leave a space and type in your full name (this must appear on the same line).
2. If you don’t have access to email, you can continue receiving our newsletter and monthly notices. The paper versions of our newsletter will be available at the Milford Library.
If you have any questions or problems joining the email distribution list, contact the DD Vasseur Milford ECC Chairwoman by phone at 203-283-1441 or by email at ddmiddens@gmail.com
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