Learn about the positive impact reuse can have on your state, community, organization, or business Triple Bottom Line!

Who Should Attend: Materials management professionals, nonprofit organizers, state/community/tribal leaders and activists, business owners, and others wanting to advance reuse in their communities.

Description: States, communities, organizations, and companies are realizing that incorporating sustainability strategies into their programs and operations brings positive benefits to people, the planet, and economies (“profits”)—the “triple bottom line”. Reuse can foster both environmental and economic sustainability. Reuse conserves resources by extending product life cycles, and it presents the world with exciting entrepreneurial business models that benefit the social good. Reuse: a Triple-Bottom Line Solution will present insights into the many benefits of reuse and ways to measure these benefits.

Presenters and Topics:

Meeting the Triple Bottom Line - the Community ReUse Center Model

Diane Cohen, Executive Director, Finger Lakes ReUse, Inc.

Fix-it Clinics—Bringing Communities Together

Nancy Lo, Hennepin County

ReUse on Campus

Stacey White, Sustainability Coordinator, University Operations, University of Minnesota

Reuse – Metrics, and Impacts

Colleen Hetzel, Solid Waste Principal Planner, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

For more information: Athena Lee Bradley, NERC at 802-254-3636/athena@nerc.org.

Funded in part through a United States Department of Agriculture grant.