Powerpoint Presentations

• 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.
• 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.            Update:  Detroit Residents Getting Burned by Polluting Trash Incinerators, treehugger.com, June 11, 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
• 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
• Earth911.com (sound tips for recycling, reusing, reducing)
• Earth Track (monitors environmentally-harmful subsidies)
• Energy Justice Network
• FIT Coalition: The Right Policies for Renewable Energy Now (distributed energy)
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
• Grassroots Recycling Network
• Green Delaware
• 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)
• Network for New Energy Choices (net metering & interconnection)
• No Biomass Burn
• 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
• Residents Environmental Action Committee for Health (REACH)
• Science and Environmental Health Network (the Precautionary Principle)
• Stop Spewing Carbon
• Toxics Link (Environmental NGO bringing toxics info to the public)
• 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

• 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), April 2010.  A response to an ill-informed NYTimes article of April 12, 2010.
• Stop Incinerators - North America - 2009 in Review, GAIA, January 30, 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.

1. Incinerators In Disguise: Case Studies of Gasification, Pyrolysis, and Plasma in Europe, Asia, and the United States 4/06
2. Gasification, Pyrolysis & Plasma Incineration Fact Sheet http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/documents/Factsheet_IncinInDisgu...
3. Thermoselect Gasification Incineration Reality Check Fact Sheet http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/documents/Factsheet_Thermoselect...
4. County Dumps Plan for Waste-to-Energy Plant at Buena Vista, Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 13, 2008.
5. Santa Cruz County Unanimously Ends Project, Greenaction, November 18, 2008.