Portia M. Sinnott, Executive Director (since 2022), Former President and long-term Board member. Portia is a Zero Waste advocate consultant that co-leads teams working with the USEPA, UN-Habitat and a variety of jurisdictions and businesses. Favorite projects include the EPA Zero Waste Community Assessment Framework. She serves as Development Director for Zero Waste USA, and Co-Founder and Executive Director of LITE Initiatives – the sustainable practices group that operates Zero Waste Action – Sonoma County and Community Bikes – now 20+ years old.
Author: Bonnie Betts
What’s Fair: Funding for Food Recovery, 6/25
Zero Waste Entrepreneurs Lessons Learned, 4/25
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Join us for a compelling conversation with three SF Bay Area Zero Waste entrepreneurs — Matt, Amy, and Nikki — as they reflect on the struggles, lessons, and adaptations that came with the COVID-19 lockdowns. From brick-and-mortar shops to online school supply sales, these local changemakers share how they weathered the storm and what the future holds for businesses rooted in Zero Waste values. 🌱
Let’s learn from their journeys and support the success of businesses that are building a better, waste-free world. ♻️
Agenda:
5 PM – Networking
5:30 PM – Interview
6:15 PM – Audience Q&A
What is Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)? 3/25
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The ZWAC Show is interviewing Baani Behniwal, the Carbon Drawdown Director at The Climate Center! 🌎✨ We’re especially curious about Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)—a process that involves injecting carbon dioxide into deep underground reservoirs. Could this be a real climate solution? Has the Climate Center explored its potential?
Get the latest insights from Baani and bring your questions!
Tonight’s Recycling Archive Reading from program director Susan Kinsella of late Kathy Evans, a Berkeley native who fought for its nationally recognized recycling program.
Agenda:
5 PM – Networking
5:30 PM – Interview
6:15 PM – Recycling Archive Reading
Professor Discusses Recycling In Ancient Cultures, 2/25
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The ZWAC Show is hosting Prof. Allison Emmerson of Tulane University to explore recycling in ancient cultures! A Roman archaeologist, she studies waste, urban margins, and marginalized communities in ancient cities. Professor Emmerson is particularly interested in the “marginal” aspects of ancient urbanism, not only literal city edges and the activities they attracted, such as waste management and the treatment of the dead, but also the people who have been marginalized both in ancient life and in modern reconstructions of it, including women, the enslaved, and the subelite.
Professor Emmerson’s first book, Life and Death in the Roman Suburb, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America’s James R. Wiseman Book Award in 2022. Emmerson directs the “Pompeii I.14 Project,” an excavation that examines the development of the city prior to the catastrophic eruption of 79 CE, focusing especially on issues of social interaction and civic infrastructure.
Agenda: 5:00 PM Networking 5:30 PM ZWAC Show begins