Calendar of Events

CAFR now provides a Grants Calendar to keep our members up to date on upcoming grant submission deadlines.

If you have information on events, workshops, conferences or grants, send the details to Amy Randell for posting below.

 

DATE EVENT LOCATION
May 15, 2008EPA's Recycling and Solid Waste Management Educational Series
Policies and Programs to Increase Municipal Recycling

EPA is hosting the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy to provide training and a networking opportunity to State and Local governments, non-governmental-organizations and other stakeholders. The Web Academy is a monthly educational series to learn directly from experts working throughout the country about the issues, projects, and practices for creating successful waste management programs.

For more information: http://www.epa.gov/region1/RCCedu/

Online
May 18-20, 2008

2008 Colorado Summit for Recycling
Recycling and Climate Change: Strategie to Reduce Adverse Impacts

Keynote Speaker - Monday, May 19
Auden Schendler, the Aspen Skiing Company
“Trench Warfare, Not Surgery: Implementing Sustainability in the Real World”

Keynote Speaker - Tuesday, May 20
David Allaway, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
"Recycling and Climate Change ... It's the Economy, Stupid!"

St. Regis Resort

Aspen, Colorado

June 11

10:30am to Noon

FREE Compost Workshop
Kids Worm Composting

For more information or directions visit www.bouldercountyrecycles.net

RSVP to slambright@bouldercounty.org or 720-564-2242

Boulder County Recycling Center
1901 63rd St.

Boulder, Colorado

June 12

6:00pm to 8:00pm

FREE Compost Workshop
Worm Composting - Great for apartment and mountain dwellers.

For more information or directions visit www.bouldercountyrecycles.net
RSVP to slambright@bouldercounty.org or 720-564-2242

Boulder County Recycling Center
1901 63rd St.

Boulder, Colorado

June 19, 2008EPA's Recycling and Solid Waste Management Educational Series
Recycling in Schools/Curriculum

EPA is hosting the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy to provide training and a networking opportunity to State and Local governments, non-governmental-organizations and other stakeholders. The Web Academy is a monthly educational series to learn directly from experts working throughout the country about the issues, projects, and practices for creating successful waste management programs.

For more information: http://www.epa.gov/region1/RCCedu/

Online
June 19

Noon to 1:30pm

FREE Compost Workshop
Composting 101

For more information or directions visit www.bouldercountyrecycles.net
Please RSVP to Eco-Cycle at genevieve@ecocycle.org or 303-404-2839

Broomfield Recycling Center
225 Commerce St.

Broomfield, Colorado

July 17, 2008EPA's Recycling and Solid Waste Management Educational Series
Financial Implications of Recycling

EPA is hosting the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy to provide training and a networking opportunity to State and Local governments, non-governmental-organizations and other stakeholders. The Web Academy is a monthly educational series to learn directly from experts working throughout the country about the issues, projects, and practices for creating successful waste management programs.

For more information: http://www.epa.gov/region1/RCCedu/

Online
August 21, 2008EPA's Recycling and Solid Waste Management Educational Series
Green Purchasing

EPA is hosting the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy to provide training and a networking opportunity to State and Local governments, non-governmental-organizations and other stakeholders. The Web Academy is a monthly educational series to learn directly from experts working throughout the country about the issues, projects, and practices for creating successful waste management programs.

For more information: http://www.epa.gov/region1/RCCedu/

Online
September 18, 2008EPA's Recycling and Solid Waste Management Educational Series
Using Incentives to Promote Recycling

EPA is hosting the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy to provide training and a networking opportunity to State and Local governments, non-governmental-organizations and other stakeholders. The Web Academy is a monthly educational series to learn directly from experts working throughout the country about the issues, projects, and practices for creating successful waste management programs.

For more information: http://www.epa.gov/region1/RCCedu/

Online
September 21-24, 2008 27th Annual NRC Congress & Expo Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2008 America Recycles Day Nationwide

Grants

DUE DATE GRANT DESCRIPTION SPONSOR
April 4, 2008 Recycling Bin Grant Program

The program supports local community recycling programs by providing bins for collecting beverage container recyclables in public settings. The grant program is open to government, civic, school, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. The online application for the Spring 2008 cycle will be open for submissions beginning Monday, March 3, 2008, and will close Friday, April 4, 2008. Recipients will be announced on Earth Day, April 22, 2008.

NRC with support from The Coca-Cola Company