Rogat+-+Memo+-+Historicizing+a+Project

Michelle Rogat

Historicizing a Project, Timeline, Diachronic Snapshot


 * 1925 - The Country Club of XXXX was established
 * 1960's - Surge of the Environmental Movement - brought new legal and social demands to businesses (Fletcher & Carrow)
 * 1972, June - UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm - emergence of international environmental law
 * 1972, October - Clean Water Act - resulted in "Best Management Practices and Integrated Pest Management" (Fletcher & Carrow)
 * 1980's - US financial downturn - affected business strategies and practices (Lampman)
 * 1987 - The Audubon Society of NY State was "reborn", which later became Audubon International (Lampman)
 * 1988 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created
 * 1991 - Start of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for Golf Courses (ACSP)
 * 1992, June - Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit, Agenda 21
 * 2002 - Earth Summit 2002, Johannesburg - US did not attend rendering summit almost pointless
 * 2008 - US financial crisis - again affected business strategies and practices (Lampman)
 * 2010 - Getting Green Done written by Schendler
 * 2012, June - Rio Earth Summit 2012 (or Rio+20) - key global leaders such as US, Germany, and UK did not attend, ended with nonbinding agreements
 * 2012, fall - I enrolled at RPI and started working at the Country Club of XXXX, gaining the perfect position for this research project
 * 2013, fall - Start of this thesis work in Sustainability Research Design, RPI
 * 2014, Jan 1 - Connecticut will start to divert organics to organics recycling facilities under their state's Public Act 11-217, which required large commercial waste generators (more than 104 tons per year) to divert food waste if they were within 20 miles of a licensed facility, and their state's   Public Act 13-285, An Act Concerning Recycling and Jobs (Serfass)
 * 2014, spring - Continuing thesis work in Senior Projects, RPI
 * 2014, summer - Continuing and finishing thesis work by the beginning of Fall 2014
 * 2014, July 1 - Vermont implements new law of "Act 148, An Act Relating to Establishing Universal Recycling of Solid Waste, which borrowed the Connecticut model of applying the law to large generators, but took it a couple steps further by gradually ratcheting down the threshold from 104 tons per year of food residuals all the way down to all food residuals in 2020." (Serfass) The next question is when will these kind of laws start being implemented in NY State.