Natural Capitalism - Sarasota

 

We spent time on February 22, 2006 during the Natural Capitalism Seminar developing ideas on the following two topics: 

• 1) Ideas for implementing natural capitalism in communities
• 2) Ideas for implementing natural capitalism in businesses

 

Waste/reuse/recycling Ideas

• Incentives for locally-harvested wood to be provided for local markets (current method for fire prevention = trees removed and burned)
• Downed trees as a resource
• Bacteria digester for ethanol
• Re-building waste utilization, i.e. markets for recycled structural materials.
• Landclearing waste = on site landscaping and mulch
• Waste resource exchange (also a network solution)
• Waste website exchange (mentioned by another group)
• Internet posting board of production and waste to match people (third mention by a third group)
• Create a building salvage program and incentives
• Identify shared waste stream partners
• Recycling - trackable reuse
• Build financial incentives for "take-back" programs for products
• Give people a chance to remove resources from houses - resave ahead of bulldozers
• Conversion of fish and seaweed into usable products.
• Collect data on input and products and by-products (a.k.a. waste) as part of the permitting process.
• Mulch - tree companies deliver to individuals or companies rather than pay at the landfill (lower the use of cypress mulch)
• Create a waste/by-product database to stimulate an impact on the community (fourth mention by a separate group).
• Molecularization of waste into salable gases.
• Co-locate landfill sites and businesses that could utilize its waste recycle (zero-waste intent)
• Ask developers of forested land to stockpile mulched biomass for later use by home buyers and landscaping of common areas in that development.
• Local database for waste products (5^th mention -see below on networks)
• Composting initiative