In honor of North Bay Zero Waste Week, NCRA is collaborating with Zero Waste Sonoma, Zero Waste Marin, Reuse Alliance, United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay/Petaluma Recycling Center and Zero Waste Action – Sonoma County, to organize the Rohnert Park Reuse and Repair Fair Clothing Swap.Sloane Pagsl of Zero Waste Sonoma is the lead organizer, joined by NCRABoard Members Alina Bekkerman, Casey Fritz and Xinci Tan as well as ED Portia Sinnott – wearing herZero Waste Action hat.
The Fair will be heldSaturday, October 12, 2-5pm at the Rohnert Park Library. NCRA members and associates are invited to attend. Please consider volunteering. We need help with promotions, setup, monitor and cleanup. Sign-up here.
NCRA has been a Recycling and Zero Waste trailblazer since 1978! You can help develop the cutting edge by applying to serve on our 11-person Board of Directors! Five positions will be open this January. Three members are stepping down.
We are seeking candidates that are familiar with NCRA and have actively participated in a committee and/or attended at least one board meeting in the last 12 months.
The October 1 deadline has been extended to October 8. Candidate statements will be posted on the website and in the mid-October newsletter. Ballots will be sent out to current members November 15. Results will be announced in December – first to the candidates and then via the December newsletter.
For more details, please visit the Elections page.
The Membership, Engagement and Activities Committee ispleased to announce the
Annual Member Appreciation Picnic
and Beach Cleanup Saturday, September 21
Non-Members welcome!
Cleanup, 10am – 12pm
Picnic, 12:30-3pm
East Bay Regional Park District Encinal Beach, Alameda Point Shoreline
190 Central Ave, Alameda, CA 94501
NCRA will provide:
vegan/vegetarian food options (TBA), water and beer
Please bring a salad or dessert for 8.
This is a Zero Waste event:
Bring Your Own Essentials:
utensils, plate, napkin, water bottle… Also, buckets, grabbers, small shovels and bags for the cleanup.
Join us for a day of environmental stewardship, networking,
tamales and more! Family, kids, friends and dogs welcome!
Non-members are encouraged to chip in $5 per adult.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Welcome to attend just the picnic or just the cleanup.
Thank you to all that voted! The new, more streamlined NCRA Bylaws passed with 99.4% of the voters voting for ratification and 0.6% against!
Those that voted against ratification are welcome to contact the Executive Director if you have not already done so. If you were concerned that the policies listed in the 2019 Bylaws would be lost, rest assured these past policies will be included in the Policy Manual currently under development.
As you can see from the SimplyVoting letter posted below, only 53.5% of the NCRA membership voted. Unfortunately, many hours of staff and board time were required to get a slight majority. In the future, we need to make it even more clear to all members – new and old, that voting is an expectation of membership.
Thirty-nine, or possibly more, people attended the May 16 Annual Meeting including 14 via Zoom! Most were members, though as usual, non-members were also very welcome. We hope all enjoyed the program and the 2024 – 2025 brainstorm, pictured in the photo below.
NCRA Annual Meeting Brainstorm, 5/16/2024. Photo by Freddy Coronado.
Thank you to all that were involved in the planning – especially the Board Members – current and past, that led the meeting, worked to make the dinner, program and Green Drinks a success, plus the staff working behind the scenes.
Cheers to StopWaste for again being our host, and Angelina Vergara and Jeanine Sidran of StopWaste for collaborating with us!
The presentation was well received – it can be viewed at the end of this post.
Below, Bailey Hall, Co-Chair of the Zero Waste Advocacy Committee and Legislative lead presents with Gwynn Mackellen her co-organizer for the NCRA Goes To Sacramento Day.
NCRA Annual Meeting, ZWAC Leaders Bailey Hall and Gwynn Mackellen, 5/16/2024. Photo by Freddy Coronado.
Volunteer with NCRA!: NCRA is mostly a volunteer group. Want to help out – for an afternoon or more? Some tasks are quick and easy, while others are complex with steep but satisfying learning curves. Committees usually meet monthly via Zoom. Each is detailed in depth in the presentation below and generally on the website. The meeting schedules are in each newsletter.
Save The Date: This meeting is held every May, generally on the third Thursday. An interesting, interactive event, it is where we start settings the course for the coming year. For some of us, it is as much fun as Recycling Update.
In honor of North Bay Zero Waste Week, NCRA is collaborating with Zero Waste Sonoma, Zero Waste Marin, Reuse Alliance, United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay/Petaluma Recycling Center and Zero Waste Action – Sonoma County, to organize the Rohnert Park Reuse and Repair Fair Clothing Swap. Sloane Pagsl of Zero Waste Sonoma is the lead organizer, joined by NCRA Board Members Alina Bekkerman, Casey Fritz and Xinci Tan as well as ED Portia Sinnott – wearing her Zero Waste Action hat.
