Powerpoint Presentations
- "The Story of Broke" by Annie Leonard, an 8-minute video about the broken U.S. economy & how to fix it by investing in clean, green solutions.
- Biomass Electricity: Clean Energy Subsidies for a Dirty Industry, Biomass Accountability Project, June 2011.
- Zero Waste Is Doable, Durham [Canada] Regional Council, April 6, 2011 (presented as an alternative to an unpopular Covanta Garbage Incinerator proposal.)
- INCINERATENOT (16 You Tubes) by Paul Connett & Alan Muller from Neighbors Against the Burner presentation on November 29, 2007.
- Incineration vs. Alternatives by Paul Connett, PhD, November 2007
- Dioxins and Incineration 2007 by Paul Connett, PhD, November 2007
- Towards Zero Waste, Package Reduction by Maureen Hollar, MnTechnicalAssistance Program, 2008.
- Burning Issues in Waste Disposal: Incinerators in Disguise, Greenaction/GAIA, February 2009.
- NAB Powerpoint Presentation Re: HERC Expansion by Alan Muller/Tom Welna, July 21, 2009.
- NAB Powerpoint Presentation to RCAP by John Curry/John Schatz, October 2007
- Powerpoint Presentation to NAB Public Meeting by Alan Muller, June 2007
- "The Story of Cap & Trade", by Annie Leonard, a ten-minute, highly-accessible video about why Cap & Trade is NOT a solution to global warming.
- The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard, a 20-minute, highly-accessible video about how to move toward sustainability and zero waste.
- Dioxin! What Citizens, Workers & Policy Makers Should Know, YouTube from Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, 2010.
- Detroit Faces Decision on Trash Incinerator, NPR's All Things Considered, June 05, 08.
- Closing Detroit Incinerator, Largest in U.S. by Detroit Free Press, 3-part video, May 29, 2008.
Please note! IT AIN'T OVER YET . . . Still Burning: You Mean the Incinerator's Still Going? [in Detroit, MI], MetroTimes.com, September 2, 2009 . . . BUT, good news! The Covanta Burner in Detroit Has Been Shut Down! (See updates below.) UPDATES: City of Windsor to Join Detroit Incinerator Fight, The Windsor Star, November 24, 2011.Snuffed: With No Fanfare, Detroit's Incinerator Quietly Shuts Down, metrotimes.com, October 13, 2010. Detroit Residents Getting Burned by Polluting Trash Incinerators, treehugger.com, June 11, 2010. Clean Air, Good Jobs & Justice for All: Action to End Detroit's Wasteful Incinerator, Zero Waste Detroit, June 26, 2010. Environmental Justice in Detroit & Beyond--Fighting the World's Largest Trash Incinerator, hesperian, July 20, 2010.
- America's Climate Choices, National Research Council of the National Academies of Science & Engineering, May 2010.
Organizations
- Alternative Energy News
- American Environmental Health Studies Project
- Biomass Busters (Newsletter for November 2010)
- Biomimicry Institute (Emulating Nature's Best Biological Ideas to Solve Human Problems)
- California Resource Recovery Association
- Californians Against Waste
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Center for Health, Environment & Justice (Dioxin Info)
- Climate Crisis Coalition -- Twin Cities
- Dogwood Alliance (focuses on damaging practices & new solutions in sustainable forestry)
- Earth911.com (sound tips for recycling, reusing, reducing)
- Earthtechling
- Earth Track (monitors environmentally-harmful subsidies)
- Energy Information Administration (branch of U.S. Dept. of Energy which provides Independent Statistics & Analysis)
- Energy Justice Network
- Envirogy (global energy policy from a Canadian perspective)
- ETC Group (advocates for global diversity & food security)
- FIT Coalition: The Right Policies for Renewable Energy Now (distributed energy)
- ForestClimate.org (highlights climatic impacts of deforestation, including from forest biofuels)
- Friends of the Earth (info on dangers of nanotechnology)
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
- Grassroots Recycling Network
- Green Delaware
- GreenFaith (Interfaith Partners for the Environment)
- Health Care Without Harm (Alternatives to Incineration)
- Incinerator-Free (Citizens Vs. Incineration in Lake County, IL)
- Inhabitat (a weblog devoted to smarter & more sustainable design)
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Minnesota Renewable Energy Society (MRES)
- Minnnesota Solar Energy Industries Association, MNSEIA
- Mother Nature Network
- Natural Resources Defense Council (dangers of nanotechnology)
- Network for New Energy Choices (net metering & interconnection)
- No Biomass Burn
- People for Less Pollution - Vermont
- Physicians for Social Responsibility - Oregon
- Plug In America (info about electric cars)
- Post Carbon Institute (dedicated to helping individuals, families, businesses, communities, and governments understand and manage the transition to a post-carbon world)
- Prevent Cancer Now - Canada
- Product Policy Institute (Product Stewardship)
- Rainforest Rescue
- Renewable Energy World
- Residents Environmental Action Committee for Health (REACH)
- Rocky Mountain Institute (seeks efficient & restorative use of resources)
- Science and Environmental Health Network (the Precautionary Principle)
- Solar Energy Industries Association, SEIA
- Stop Spewing Carbon
- Tiny Green Bubble (eco news on global warming, organic food & climate change)
- Toxics Link (Environmental NGO bringing toxics info to the public)
- UK Without Incineration Network (groups opposing expansion of waste incineration in UK)
- Zero Waste America
- Zero Waste International Alliance
- Zero Waste -- MN Resources: http://www.twincitiesfreemarket.org/, http://mnexchange.org/index.htm, http://www.freecycle.org/group/US/Minnesota
Other Articles and Publications
- Burning Public Money for Dirty Energy, GAIA, November 2011.
- More Jobs, Less Pollution, Recycling Works!, November 14, 2011. For full 54-page report, click here.
- The Burning Issues with Biomass by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network, November 2011.
- 127 Organizations, Including the Sierra Club, Oppose Incentives for Incineration, NC Central Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club, 1/22/11.
- IEA Stunner: Global Subsidies to Dirty Energy Top $550 Billion a Year, grist, June 7, 2010.
- Incinerators: Myths Vs. Facts, GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives), December 2010. A response to an ill-informed NYTimes article of April 12, 2010.
- Biomass Incineration Has "Unacceptable Health Risks" & Drives Up Health Care Costs, EnergyJustice.Net, June 2009.
- Stop Incinerators - North America - 2009 in Review, GAIA, January 30, 2010.
- Biomass Plant Misses Deadlines: Will the Plant Move Forward?, Valdosta Daily Times, April 3, 2011.
- Letter Opposing Incineration to Congress from Valdosta, GA NAACP, September 23, 2010.
- Let There be LED's, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 15, 2009.
- Going Green has become Tactical Necessity for U.S. Military, The Economist, December 12, 2009.
- China's Middle-Class Rise Up in Environmental Protest (vs. rubbish incinerator), Telegraph.co.uk, November 23, 2009.
- Global Innovation Commons: A New Database of Patent-Free Technologies Will Make "Green Innovation" More Available to All, On the Commons, November 18, 2009.
- New Study in Science Predicts Largescale Deforestation from Accounting Rules in Cap & Trade Bills, by Timothy D. Searchinger, Research Scholar at Princeton University, May 29, 2009.
- With Billions at Stake, Trying to Expand the Meaning of 'Renewable Energy' by Felicity Barringer, New York Times, May 24, 2009.
- Environment: Big Increases in Mercury & Other Toxic Releases, The Center for Public Integrity, March 19, 2009.
- Dangers of Industrial Produced Biofuels, Energy Justice Network, January 15, 2009.
- GAIA's Statement of Concern on Waste & Climate Change, November 2008.
- Incinerators Trash Public Health Report, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, June, 2008.
- Recent References on Ambient Pollution & Human Health Effects, by Dr. Ian Greaves, Occupational & Environmental Health, Univ. of MN, July 2008.
- Stop Trashing the Climate, a report by ILSR, GAIA & Eco-Cycle for World Environment Day, June 5, 2008.
- Access "State of the Air Report: 2010" by the American Lung Association.
- Find "Myths and Facts about Biofuels" by Organic Consumers Association at: http://www.organicconsumers.org/BiofuelsFacts5.pdf
- Dousing the Flames: Communities Unite Globally to Lock Out the Incinerator Industry A growing number of communities around the world are examining conventional notions of waste, and they want to reduce waste creation and mandate safer handling of waste.
- Health Effects of Waste Incinerators Waste incinerators should not be put in cities where air quality is already compromised and people are suffering health effects.
- National Movement to Stop Buying Energy from Garbage GrassRoots Recyling Network (GRRN) provides national leadership in the effort to promote Zero Waste and to stop labeling garbage incineration a "renewable" source of energy.
- Report Attacks World Bank for Backing Waste Incineration
- Philippines First Country in World to Ban Waste Incineration Nationwide, The Goldman Environmental Prize, 2003.
- Read about "Biomass Burning & Global Change" in NASA's Environmental Science and Technology, March 1995, at http://science.larc.nasa.gov/biomass_burn/globe_impact.html
- Greenaction for Health & Environnmental Justice & Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) have produced current & detailed research documents on incineration.
- Incinerators In Disguise: Case Studies of Gasification, Pyrolysis, and Plasma in Europe, Asia, and the United States 4/06
- Gasification, Pyrolysis & Plasma Incineration Fact Sheet http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/documents/Factsheet_IncinInDisgu...
- Thermoselect Gasification Incineration Reality Check Fact Sheet http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/documents/Factsheet_Thermoselect...
- County Dumps Plan for Waste-to-Energy Plant at Buena Vista, Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 13, 2008.
- Santa Cruz County Unanimously Ends Project, Greenaction, November 18, 2008.