NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RECYCLING ASSOCIATION Thursday, September 17, 2015 Submitted by: Jennifer Cutter Location: John Moore’s Office, 1970 Broadway Ave., Oakland NCRA Board member attendees: President Laura McKaughan, Jessica Connolly, Doug Brooms, Jessica Robinson, Arthur Boone, Steven Chiv, Tomer Shapira, David Krueger, John Moore, Alex Hoffman, and Jennifer Cutter (arrived 6:50 p.m.). NCRA Administrative Staff: Juliana … Continue reading “BOD Meeting Minutes, September 2015”
NCRA Tours Masonic Homes’ Innovative Composting and Woodlands By Nicole Gaetjens, Sustainability Coordinator at Mills College and Ellen Hopkins, Zero Waste and Composting Consultant NCRA members Ellen Hopkins and Nina Salvador and Tri-CED Recycling employee Raquel Archuleta led eight other NCRA members on a tour of an on-site composting system in July. Located on 250 … Continue reading “Masonic Homes’ Composting Tour”
MOORE’S MUSINGS A semi-monthly feature, exclusive to NCRA News, from NCRA general counsel and board member John Moore, concerning recent legal decisions relating in some manner to Zero Waste. WHY YOU NEED LAWYERS By John D. Moore, NCRA Vice President and Legal Counsel, Henn, Etzel & Moore, Inc. A few months back I reported about … Continue reading “Why You Need Lawyers”
Zero Waste Advocacy The Zero Waste Advocacy Committee (ZWAC) is NCRA’s action arm to strive towards zero waste. We encourage communities to incorporate waste reduction, reuse, recycling, salvaging, and composting as the principle parts of their discard management systems. We advocate long-range policies that facilitate these practices. We try to rock the boat NCRA style. … Continue reading “ZWAC Committee”
DOUG BROOMS, NCRA MEMBER SINCE 2013 I’m a Bay Area native. I grew up in Oakland, received a BS Degree in Engineering at San Francisco State in 1970, and a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1972. One of my favorite defining moments was when I worked as a student engineering trainee at … Continue reading “Member Interview – Doug Brooms, 08/14”
