BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-8453
SEQUENCE:8453
CREATED:20040203T182500Z
DESCRIPTION:Part three in a speaker series on waste on a global scale:\nGARBAGE AND 
 GLOBALIZATION - Join us for an evening with anti-waste activists from 
 around the world.  The third installment in our speaker’s series will 
 feature:\n* Sonia Mendoza of Mother Earth Unlimited in the Philippines.  
 Sonia will speak on her recent efforts to ban garbage incineration  in the 
 Philippines, and her work in implementing the country’s first 
 “Ecological Solid Waste management Plan” \n* Shibu K. Nair of the 
 Thanal Conservation Action &information Network., India.  Shiubu will focus 
 on the Zero Waste Kovalam initiative, including efforts to ban disposable 
 plastics, source separation of waste, biogas, chicken farm projects, and 
 the promotion of self-help organizations utilizing waste materials to 
 create crafts and other goods \n* Zini Derrick Mokhine, Earthlife Africa, 
 South Africa.  Earth Life Africa is a grassroots organization that focuses 
 on  information distribution and public organizing.   Zini will discuss the 
 group’s plans to implement sound waste management practices near 
 Johannesburg and the rest of Southern Africa. \n\nIt is impossible to 
 understand the waste crisis in the third world without considering the 
 larger economic processes which drive the growth of garbage.  Across the 
 globe, poor countries are facing the expansion of non-biodegradable garbage 
 on an unprecedented scale. This can be attributed largely to four factors: 
 (A) the little controlled import of waste materials for disposal, (B) the 
 increased import of inexpensive consumer goods designed with disposable 
 packaging and  (C) the unregulated production of non-biodegradable wastes 
 on a national scale (D) the ongoing loss of rural livelihoods and the need 
 for urban migration.  The latter three are widely explained away as part of 
 the process of integrating poor nations into the “global economy,” or 
 as part of the condition known as “modernity.”  In either situation the 
 results are the same: the growth of pollution and environmental health 
 hazards. \n\nAt 7pm.  Suggested  donation $5, no one turned away for lack 
 of funds.  Proceeds will benefit the Zero Waste Fellowship, an project 
 initiated  by the Ecology Center Recycling Program and The Global Alliance 
 for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) to train environmental activists from 
 the global south in sound recycling and waste management strategies. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/8453.php
SUMMARY:Garbage and Globalization
LOCATION:Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/8453.php
DTSTART:20020711T020000Z
DTEND:20020711T040000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR