by wasteforlife | Apr 19, 2023 | spt, standing people together
In the winter of 2020 we began working with the Sullivan County Land Bank to help revitalize a 4-acre wooded property in Monticello, NY that had become a hazardous dumping ground. Progress, of course, was subject to fits and spurts as COVID tore through the community,...
by wasteforlife | Dec 17, 2019 | spt, standing people together
We haven’t been back to Buenos Aires since 2014, which is going on 9 years now. Of the many things that have stayed with us and continue to inspire us are the examples of the Worker-Recuperated Enterprises. This is not simply because these factories have been...
by wasteforlife | Jun 2, 2019 | standing people together
So, after a couple of years of planning and preparing, we are now half-way through our very first Sullivan County based Forest Exploratorium for kids! Our eight-week Saturday Forest Play sessions for K-6 have as a recurring theme, ‘The power of myth and the forces of...
by wasteforlife | Nov 19, 2018 | news, spt, standing people together
For most of my adult life I’ve been teaching University students who are great at math. Even if they are slow on the uptake about the potential impact of their work on the environment and on others, they are great at sums. But I’ve become concerned about children who...
by wasteforlife | Oct 31, 2018 | standing people together
“Wind inside of wind inside of wind” was how one participant described the ‘visioning soundscape’ exercise during the Critical Conversations around Trust (https://www.wasteforlife.org/2018/05/10/trust-a-conversation/) event. As ephemeral as...
by wasteforlife | Oct 31, 2018 | design, engineering, sri lanka, technology
Over one year ago we wrote a post, Proof of Concept (https://www.wasteforlife.org/2017/09/28/proof-of-concept/), detailing the replacement of an asbestos toilet block roof with our prototype composite roof made from waste HDPE plastic reinforced with rice husks and...
by wasteforlife | May 10, 2018 | spt
Standing People Together – WFL’s newest program – and Build UP (http://howtobuildup.org/) are hosting a 3-day event June 14th-16th. Working with community: Critical conversations about trust bubbled up as a topic at the January 2018 Engineering,...
by wasteforlife | Sep 28, 2017 | design, engineering, sri lanka
On 23rd August, after months of planning, designing, testing, and coordinating – not to mention years of prior materials research – Paul Burnham joined our team members, Ashok Thayalan and Reddy Pramathanath in Jaffna to help replace an asbestos toilet...
by wasteforlife | Aug 22, 2017 | design, engineering, sri lanka, technology
Paul Burnham (http://www.paulburnham.com.au/) arrived in Colombo yesterday and heads up to Jaffna tomorrow to work with Ashok and Reddy on our asbestos-replacement roof project. Chern NG, our in-house Perth architect, designed the corrugated roof that Ashok and Reddy...
by wasteforlife | Jul 31, 2017 | sri lanka
I’m thinking about dengue fever today. I thought about it last week, and the week before that, but I’m more focused today. Let me explain. For almost three years, we’ve been working on a project whose funding protocols required submission of an extensive...
