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BERC invites you to visit us at booth 1201 in the Sacramento City Convention Center and join thousands of representatives from California government and the commercial sector gathering for the 2008 Green California Summit and Exposition. The event is designed to support statewide efforts to build clean and sustainable communities.
Keynote speakers for the event will be Rick Fedrizzi (April 8), founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council and Hunter Lovins (April 9), co-author of Natural Capitalism and founder of the non-profit Natural Capitalism Solutions.
The exhibition hall will feature over two hundred companies providing green products and services, ranging from green cleaning supplies and energy efficient lighting to freeway-worthy electric vehicles. The floor will also feature an information center that highlights government sustainability programs, green economic alliances and private sector initiatives.
The Summit’s education program, which begins on April 7 with a series of pre-conference training sessions, will cover topics ranging from water conservation and green building to climate change and transportation planning. Presenters will include a wide range of state and local officials and national experts.
The keynote presentations and the exhibit hall at the Green California Summit and Exposition are free to registered attendees.
The Summit will be held on April 7, 8, & 9 at the:
Sacramento City Convention Center
1400 J St
Sacramento, CA 95814
To register, or to obtain information about the education program, visit the Green Technology website at Green-Technology.org
Posted: Mar 25, 2008 |
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On July 1, 2007 California became America's first state to initiate a mandatory recycling program to cut down on its mounds of plastic bags.
Under legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine -- Assembly Bill 2449 -- and signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year, supermarkets, pharmacies and other major retail outlets must provide recycling bins to make it easier for customers to recycle their bags.
Many California supermarkets and retailers -- including Safeway, Raley's, Ralphs, Whole Foods supermarkets and Wal-Mart -- have already made plastic-bag recycling bins available in anticipation of the new law.
Californians dispose of 19 billion plastic shopping bags each year, creating litter, clogging landfills and presenting major environmental challenges.
The effort is being hailed by plastic-bag manufacturers, who say the recycling effort is reducing a glut of bags and providing a reservoir of plastic to remanufacture into other products. For example, recycled bags are melded with wood shavings to make weather-resistant lumber products.
Under the law, California will require supermarkets, pharmacies and other stores using plastic bags to make the recycling bins available if the stores have more than 10,000 square feet of retail space and $2 million or more in annual sales.
The legislation, however, doesn't require consumers to recycle their plastic bags. Nor does it pay them for recycling.
Once plastic grocery bags were touted as an alternative to paper bags and the destruction of trees needed to produce them. But the bags, which don't decompose in landfills, are piling up.
Posted: Feb 29, 2008 |
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