Calendar of Events

The SCSCC is an evolution of the annual "Fort Carson Community Sustainability Conference" that has attracted hundreds of participants every year since 2002, through conference partnerships including regional non-profits, governments, and sustainable technology providers. Catamount Institute, with support from Fort Carson, is hosting this conference. The focus is on sustainability issues for all of Southern Colorado, hence the new name Southern Colorado Sustainable Communities Conference.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Explore integrating site redevelopment approaches into practical, profitable and sustainable land use solutions. The annual one and a half day conference provides a forum to share information and form partnerships. It attacts over 240 attendees representing private and public industries and the government from accross Colorado and the surrounding states.

Aurora, Colorado

11:00pm to Noon

Session One: Getting to Know You: The Ins and Outs of the Plastics Industry

This seminar is designed for the recycling program that would like to improve their plastic recycling techniques. Get real tips from the industry to make sure your program is operating free of kinks and at full profit potential. Learn about plastic recycling resources to make your job easier. Leave with a check list of possible program improvements.

Each session is offered twice, but you need only attend the session once. Alternate date: January 7. Individual registration is required for each session. To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.plasticsrecycling.org/webinar/

11:00pm to Noon

Session Two: Plastic Recycling: Switching to All Bottles Collection

This seminar will present a step by step approach on switching to all bottles recycling collection. Participants will learn from case studies and will leave with a to-do for easy implementation. Session will provide definitions, specifications, and sorting tips.

Each session is offered twice, but you need only attend the session once. Alternate date: January 14. Individual registration is required for each session. To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.plasticsrecycling.org/webinar/

A two-day online-only event focused on how leading organizations can adopt better energy management practices to cut cost, while at the same time adopting clean energy alternatives.

• A virtual exhibit floor and virtual booths
• Live Q&A with leading energy experts
• FREE to register and attend

11:00pm to Noon

Session Three: Working With the Middle Man: Tools for Efficient Plastic Recycling

Participants in this web-based workshop will learn how to get the most out of hauler contracts. We'll also discuss when it might be better to market plastic bales directly. Discussion of contract provisionsthat are beneficial to the community, including reducing contamination, sharing revenue, and monitoring performance.

Each session is offered twice, but you need only attend the session once. Alternate date: January 21. Individual registration is required for each session. To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.plasticsrecycling.org/webinar/

8:30am to 10:30am

How can we work together to prepare the next generation for stewardship?

CAEE is proposing a new network - for those specifically working to engage our youth in stewardship and action. Please join us for this discussion about what would be valuable to you in this kind of sharing community. Will it facilitate partnerships? Would professional development be beneficial? How about a sounding board when you want to try something new?

Join us to network, discuss issues, share ideas, and leverage our strengths to ensure the next generation of stewards. Please send your RSVP by Wednesday, December 10, 2008, to CAEE at outreach@caee.org or 303-273-9527.

Denver, Colorado

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Renewable Energy from Organics Recycling – Highlights from BioCycle 2008

11:00pm to Noon

Session One: Getting to Know You: The Ins and Outs of the Plastics Industry

This seminar is designed for the recycling program that would like to improve their plastic recycling techniques. Get real tips from the industry to make sure your program is operating free of kinks and at full profit potential. Learn about plastic recycling resources to make your job easier. Leave with a check list of possible program improvements.

Individual registration is required for each session. To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.plasticsrecycling.org/webinar/

11:00pm to Noon

Session Two: Plastic Recycling: Switching to All Bottles Collection

This seminar will present a step by step approach on switching to all bottles recycling collection. Participants will learn from case studies and will leave with a to-do for easy implementation. Session will provide definitions, specifications, and sorting tips.

To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.plasticsrecycling.org/webinar/

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Venue Recycling – Stadiums & Convention Centers

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, starting January 18, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate.

11:00pm to Noon

Session Three: Working With the Middle Man: Tools for Efficient Plastic Recycling

Participants in this web-based workshop will learn how to get the most out of hauler contracts. We'll also discuss when it might be better to market plastic bales directly. Discussion of contract provisionsthat are beneficial to the community, including reducing contamination, sharing revenue, and monitoring performance.

To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.plasticsrecycling.org/webinar/

This is the Largest Conference & Exhibition in North America for the Composting, Wood Waste & Organics Recycling Industry.

Houston, Texas

The 2009 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit (RMSS) will provide a learning and networking forum for participants from campuses in the Rocky Mountain region (CO, NM, UT, WY, MT, ID, AZ) to advance sustainability.

Boulder, Colorado

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Green Marketing Claims

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

School Chemical Cleanout

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Climate Change and Waste

Now in its seventh year and five cities, the events bring together 175,000 attendees to the world’s most authentic green living shows which demonstrate a commitment to sustainability through extensive event-greening efforts. There’s something for everyone - family and teen activities, green film festival, live music, organic food, 150 speakers and workshops, a green marketplace with more than 350 local and national green businesses, and dozens of community and nonprofit groups.

Denver, Colorado

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Returns on Recycling Investments (jobs, revenue)

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Industrial Materials Recycling 101

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Biodegradeable Plastics 101

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Sustainable Product Outlook

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Source Reduction – A Vision for a Zero Waste America

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

NPEP Chemical Flow Analysis Tool

12:00pm

In the wake of storms, floods, tornadoes, fires, and other disastrous events, communities must determine how to quickly perform waste clean-up operations. While much debris may be recyclable or re-usable, time may be too short to allow for responders to separate recoverable materials from waste that is sent for landfill disposal. Counties and local emergency planning groups are encouraged to apply for grants, not to exceed $7,500, that will be used to develop community-specific or area-specific debris recovery plans. This grant opportunity is meant to support ongoing efforts by the State of Colorado’s Division of Emergency Management to bring attention to the importance of debris management planning

It's never BIN easier ... to recycle! Need beverage container recycling bins for your local park, school, office or special event? The Coca-Cola/NRC Recycling Bin Grant Program supports local community recycling programs by providing selected grant recipients with containers for the collection of beverage container recyclables in public settings. Selected grant recipients will receive actual recycling bins instead of funding.

October 31, 2008

2:00pm

The grant is intended to fund research that will increase or improve recycling techniques and technology; create marketable uses for discarded materials, including but not limited to, strategies pertaining to waste tires; address problems caused by inappropriate disposal of solid waste materials, including but not limited to, waste tire stockpiles; and, make use where possible of the research capacities of Colorado institutions of higher education.

The application for the FY 2009 Advanced Technology Grants program is now available at the following link: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/el/p2_program/atgprog.html

Please e-mail to cdphe.ppp2@state.co.us if any questions.

In an effort to support innovation by state environmental regulatory agencies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting pre-proposals from the principal environmental regulatory agency for each state government, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories for “the State Innovation Grant Program,” an assistance agreement program. This solicitation applies to Part One of CFDA 66.940 - a competition to support projects that promote the testing of innovative approaches in state permitting programs that strive to create a more performance-based regulatory system, promote environmental stewardship and beyond-compliance business operation, and/ or promote a culture of creative environmental problem solving.

The objectives of the Solid Waste Management Grant Program are to: 1. Reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources in rural areas; 2. Improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.

NOTE: Rural areas are defined as any area not in city or town with a population in excess of 10,000, according to the latest decennial census of the United States.