Zero Waste Home: Living Waste Free with Bea Johnson

From Austin Resource Recovery and the Imagine Austin Speaker Series –

Mark your calendars! On February 15th, 2017, the Imagine Austin Speaker Series, in collaboration with Austin Resource Recovery, will host Bea Johnson for an exciting event at the Mexican American Cultural Center. The speaker’s talk, Zero Waste Home: Living Waste Free with Bea Johnson, will center around her tribulations and secrets to achieving zero waste for her and her family. She will discuss the importance of applying the 5 R’s (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot) and aims to shatter misconceptions around the zero waste lifestyle as well as the health benefits, and time and money savings.

Program Schedule:
6:30pm – Sign-in
7pm – 8pm – Program
8pm-8:30pm – Q & A

Parking:
Parking passes will be available at the Cultural Center entrance to place on your dashboard. We highly encourage you to find alternative transportation to the event by carpooling, walking, biking or taking the bus. The Mexican American Cultural Center is a five minute walk from the stop for routes 17 & 22 at the corner of Red River and Cesar Chavez.

About Bea Johnson:

Bea Johnson and her family are dedicated to living a Zero Waste lifestyle; they generate a mere quart of waste per year (between four people!). Through her blog and with her book, Zero Waste Home, Bea inspires a growing international community to live simply and take a stance against needless waste.

Her passion and positive outlook have earned her appearances on TV and in publications around the world. Grand prize winner of “The Green Awards” in 2011, she regularly speaks at universities, corporate events and conferences. She has become the spokesperson for the Zero Waste lifestyle or, as The New York Times puts it: “The Priestess of Waste-Free Living”.