Comments on: Vancouver’s ‘Bright Green Future’ looking pretty dull.

By: No BS

No BS — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:11:59 +0000

Green Briefs. Am hearing from lots of Zero Waste advocates being “excluded” from Metro’s Zero Waste Scam (oops conference) in March. Micro managing wasting has brought us to the brink of building factories for incineration. Now, this too will be micro managed from the top down to create a Metro Vancouver faux Zero Waste conference that has nothing to do with promoting Zero Waste. How about a Zero BS conference, learning and sharing how community Zero Waste works around the world and in other communities? It’s a stacked deck, a rigged card game. And our environment and taxpayers will be the worse for it. These ZW posters are the tip of the iceberg! WTE is taxpayer funded snake oil.

By: No BS

No BS — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:05:24 +0000

ADMIN:

I could not agree with you more. As more and more of our fellow Canadians have discovered, many levels of our government have become quite dysfunctional. On one hand, these levels of government have to be “fiscally conservative”. But on the other hand, billions of our, I must repeat this part, “OUR” tax dollars are funding pie in the sky boon-doggle trial and error projects that are often supported by “junk science”. What it really comes down to is some of our elected officials who’s pals and buddies hatch these goofy plans together, not to serve their constitutes but to fulfill some favor or back room deal that is more often then not ego driven, are serving their own self interests. One of the most beautiful places on earth, Vancouver BC is now being viewed as going backwards to try make energy from burning garbage. How does a wacky idea like this see the light of day? And it must be noted, who is promoting this. If your elected representative supports building taxpayer funded Garbage Burning Incinerators, then the proof that this is safe must be brought forth, no? In any burning situation, the source of fuel must be monitored and regulated. But the feedstock is garbage. Each scoop full dumped into the burner will not be the same. So how do toxic emissions going up the stack get safely screened out? The source is always changing. And all that toxic ash, where does that go to? Thanks Green Briefs for the opportunity to share with your readers what Metro Vancouver is trying to do. For our children’s sake, should we not error on the side of safety? Zero Waste is not achieved by pasting up fancy (or dull) posters. This reminds me of the old commercials boldly stating “4 out of 5 doctors recommend smoking these” types of cigarettes. The line is long to find some “expert” willing to sell us all out to get a payday. We need to inform ourselves.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/01/26/destroying_forests_for_no_gain/

http://www.ted.com/talks/van_jones_the_economic_injustice_of_plastic.html

By: admin

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:21:51 +0000

Thanks, ‘No BS’! I agree that ‘waste-to-energy’ is not ‘zero waste’. Let’s hope we can mobilize the fight against these garbage burners and make better product design, recycling and resource recovery the way to the future!

By: No BS

No BS — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:38:09 +0000

Maybe the posters are dull because the message is full of dung. How on earth did these folks elected in Metro Vancouver think that building $500,000,000 taxpayer funded Garbage Burning Incinerators and somehow selling it as (LOL) Zero Waste would or should look like? I suspect knowing what we know now, Reverend Jim Jones wanting to sell his message way back when might have also had drab dull posters as well. Burning the planet is not how we get to Zero Waste. And “drinking the Kool-Aide” is not how ya get to heaven! How about”Getting to Zero Waste with no B.S.” Funny thing, when you actually look at Zero Waste web sites and speak with Zero Waste professionals and experts, Metro Vancouver’s version of Zero Waste compared next to what ZW really looks like, maybe the poster should read, “Zero Waste in Metro Vancouver, Cheap and Easy. Any elected official that thinks building incinerators is a good idea should be tossed next election. Especially the ones who keep referring to the “science” showing polluting the air-shed is somehow good for us and the planet. We are being asked once again to “drink the Kool-Aide”. Do your own research? There is no burning with ZW!
http://zerowasteinstitute.org/
http://www.zwia.org/
http://www.zerowarming.org/article.php?id=259

By: Adam Abrams

Adam Abrams — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:52:20 +0000

Nice work, Lorne! The city should be red-faced about this green campaign.

Also catching up on your earlier blog posts… it’s been more about the Twitter links for me last couple of months. Really insightful stuff.

And I smiled when I saw that your lucky winner of the iPod was none other than aRno! Too funny.

All the best and stay green,
Cosmo