[Scpg] Tonight!/Young Eco-Entrepreneurs @ Cities As the Solution Series/Waste & Recycling Event/March 25 & 26

[Margie Bushman, Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability]

Evening Talk, March 25, 7-9:30pm 2011
Keynote Speaker, Albe Zakes from TerraCycle, Inc.
SBCC Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium, West Campus
Admission $5
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Event info: http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
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All Day Saturday Event, March 26, 9am - 4pm
Morning Plenary/Afternoon Break-Out Sessions with:
Albe Zakes of TerraCycle; Nikhil Arora from BTTR Ventures; & Author, 
Janet Unruh
Admission, $30 general/$20 Students
PS 101 Building, SBCC East Campus



Albe Zakes, 25 year-old Global VP/Media from TerraCycle, Inc., the 
world's leading 'upcycling' company, which converts waste materials 
into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers 
worldwide.  TerraCycle upcycles traditionally non-recyclable waste, 
including drink pouches, chip bags, tooth brushes and many more. 
TerraCycles innovative "Brigades" programs encourage community 
organizations to participate in trash retrieval while earning 
cash.  Paying out more than a million dollars last year alone, the 
Brigade programs are partially funded by corporate sponsors like 
KRAFT, Starbucks, and Mars.
TerraCycle segment Discovery Channel: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpTVF-3uFQ&feature=related


Nikhil Arora, 23, BTTR Ventures, a recent grad of UC Berkeley, who 
with business partner Alex Velez, gave up potential careers in 
investment banking to start an urban farm growing gourmet mushrooms 
from coffee waste in a downtown warehouse.  A new BTTR Venture 
product, the Grow Your Own Mushroom Garden kit, is carried in Whole 
Foods Markets nationwide. Since starting BTTR Ventures more than 
10,000 pounds of coffee grounds per week have been diverted from the 
waste stream, being paid by local coffee shops to take the coffee 
grounds away.  Trash to cash, they are proud of creating & providing 
jobs in their urban community. Founders Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez 
were named "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25" by Businessweek.
BTTR Ventures on BBC World News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnmposUN4A

Janet Unruh, Executive Director of the Institute for Material 
Sustainability, MA Engineering and Technology Management, and author 
of Recycle Everything, Why We Must, How We Can. We've all heard of 
peak oil, but what about peak hafnium, or peak terbium? Hafnium, 
which is important in computer chips, could be depleted by 2017, and 
terbium, used in florescent light bulbs, by 2012. Unruh believes that 
everything can be recycled 100% - provided we learn how to design 
things properly and set up the right systems for materials recovery.





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