Southwest Network for Zero Waste
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Southwest Network for Zero Waste. Open for business! P2Rx - Phoenix, Feb. 27, 2004. About Us. Hosted at the University of Texas Dr. David Allen’s Center for Energy and Environmental Resources. Pickle Research Center Scientific research institution. Current Taks. Rapid response form up,
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Southwest Network for Zero Waste Open for business! P2Rx - Phoenix, Feb. 27, 2004
About Us • Hosted at the University of Texas • Dr. David Allen’s Center for Energy and Environmental Resources. • Pickle Research Center • Scientific research institution
Current Taks • Rapid response form up, • Website is nearing release • ZeroWasteNetwork.org
Contacts • Thomas Vinson-Peng – Project (program) coordinator.. • Vince Torres – Primary Investigator. Ensures quality of the grant, and deliverables. • David Greer - Funded by the TCEQ. Will be helping with measurement and data collection for TCEQ and other states. Technical assistance.
Website • zeroWasteNetwork, org, com, net. • P24U.org (other variations unavailable). • PreventPollution.com
Fusebox • Modular format • Easy to modify • Basic Fuses • Queries • Display screens • actions
Hosting • External host in March,
Migration – • Many files • Backed up on TCEQ drives, UT drives and CD’s. • Sorting through the directories for “gold” • Most of the information was transferred.
POTW Topic Hubs – • Being developed through in-kind contributions of the TCEQ. • David James is making three websites that will each serve a different function, and tie the content to our topic hub. • Strategy is to make boilerplate pretreatment programs that can be used by municipalities that don’t have a pretreatment program.
Case Study Database – • Reorganized the database to eliminate inconsistent categories. • Updated database is not responding to the Cold Fusion server. • Will resolve upon migration.
Homes Across America • In-kind contributions, Heidi Wittenborn of TCEQ prepared an extensive case study which included building specifications that can be used by a builder interested in incorporating the features.
Grant Modifications • P2 data collection • project modifications
Building Capacity • Partnerships • Additional Funding
Priorities • Website • Presentations/promotion • Three-year plan • WEBSITE