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UCLAx – class 9

For our ninth class we return to our normal class room, but at an alternate time and date. This week was a make-up class required due to a scheduling conflict. We continued discussion of an earlier topic – waste reduction – and transitioned to resource preservation.

In previous classes where waste [...]

review: MiaGreen session 1

Friday’s opening session, titled Successful Entrepreneurial Approaches to the Current Green Economy was a pretty fun way to start the morning. It was a panel discussion moderated by Lilian T. Chiu, CEO of Morgan Environments and current President of the Society for Marketing Professional Services South Florida; the three panelists were Greg [...]

UCLAx class 6

To understand cradle to cradle concepts, it’s helpful to first get a good feel for how our current cradle to grave industrial system works. This week’s class extended discussions begun during previous classes regarding waste reduction, and was focused on the grave – or what happens to all that trash.

Four weeks ago, [...]

Garbage Dreams

Image by Sergenious

The population of metropolitan Cairo is approximately eighteen million. It’s a city the size of New York City, without a city-wide trash collection system. Let that sink in for a minute. It’s a city with a population similar to New York City but without vital infrastructure and no government trash management [...]