@YannR Lifestream

#zerowaste session was awesome .... few notes and resources #sxsw

Another nice session on how social change and internet are creating a huge opportunity for the good.

250 millions tons per year or 6lbs of trash per person => how to get to 0 lbs into the landfill everyday.... you can live a life with Zero waste -
Landfill is the most expensive way to dispose. Compost is the most expensive input for farmers. Wholefoods is trying to reduce their waste by 10% every year. Recycle has not made it to the cultural conscience-ness.

1- Getting rid of addictive habits - the more stressed out we are, the more we consume fast and produce waste (fast food, packaging...) #watch what we consume, daily.
2- reduce, reuse, recycle

Sweet examples based in Austin:


http://www.soldesignlab.com/ is installing solar station across town for people to charge bikes & electric vehicles. Started from the increasing need to recharge all electric vehicles across cities. Beth Ferguson architectural design student started retrofitting old gas station into a 'solar pump', creative project is fully active at http://www.soldesignlab.com/ - The solar pump tells you real time what is the consumption of the device being charged to increase awareness. Bicycle is the focus to start those solar stations before moving to cars.


http://www.re-char.com Jason Aramburu leads bio-char - taking agricultural waste, burn it and re-inject into the grounds that can increase yield by 200% crop rechar - Small scale distributed works best to reduce collection energy spending.

Resources:
http://slowfood.com
http://localharvest.com
http://austinenergy.com
http://ifixit.com
http://eatwellguide.org
http://epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/

There is a great opportunity for an online platform to collect information on sustainable practices put in places by local communities. No comprehensive platform exists today. There should be a way to simply get people and communities to compete online about their macro-level zero waste improvement... with social media based input.