Free Webinar on Reuse & Repair: Creating New Jobs and Enterprises through Zero Waste
On Wed., April 7 from 2 – 3:30 PM ET, the Zero Waste Committee of Warren County, NY, a project of the Clean Air Action Network (CAAN) of Glens Falls, will host an important, free Zero Waste Webinar focused on local economic growth through reuse and repair enterprises and programs. Download the flyer and pre-register at http://www.cleanairactionnetwork.org
Neil Seldman, PhD, director of the Waste to Wealth Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and a founding member of CAAN, will moderate the webinar panel, which features four of the country's leading repair and reuse entrepreneurs, researchers and activists from across the country:

• Elizabeth Knight, based in the mid Hudson Valley, is the co-author of The Repair Revolution: How Fixers are Transforming Our Throw Away Economy.

• Mark Foster is the founder and director of Second Chance, Baltimore's thriving building deconstruction and resale social enterprise.

• Mary Lou Van Deventer operates Urban Ore, Inc., the iconic materials recovery enterprise started at the Berkeley (CA) landfill. She is also an environmental writer.

• Jacob Hannah is the coordinator of ReUse Corridor, a network of businesses, universities and local and state economic development agencies serving rural Appalachian communities in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.

Around the country, social enterprises—businesses with a social mission—are turning reuse and repair, and deconstruction into engines of job creation and job training for hard-to-employ populations, while also achieving meaningful environmental goals. Some of these businesses have been credited with reducing the recidivism of formerly incarcerated employees to practically zero.