Axis Training Calendar

Stay abreast of MRC Trainings, speaking engagements, and additional training opportunities via the AXIS Training Calendar.  Here you will find links to webinars, conferences, trainings, and workshops.  You can also submit industry related trainings for addition to the calendar by contacting the MRC.

 March 2012

13 – Resource Recovery Educators of Michigan (RREM), 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. TBD.  For more information contact Saundra Porter-Riley

Spring into Recycling - A forum for addressing current topic, technical or policy based issues.   Lansing TBD

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Non-MRC sponsored training:

New MEECS at MSTA!Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS) unit trainings 
Scheduled during the Michigan Science Teachers Association (MSTA) annual conference on March 9-10, 2012.

Trainings will be held on each of the updated MEECS units:

• Air Quality & Climate Change,
• Ecosystems & Biodiversity,
• EnergyResources,
• Land Use,
• Water Quality, and
• Outdoor Education.

• 9:00am to Noon – Ecosystems & Biodiversity
• 1:00pm to 4:00pm – Water Quality
• 4:00pm to 5:00 pm – Outdoor Education

Saturday March 10, 2012

• 9:00am to Noon – Energy Resources
• 10:00am to 11:45am – Land Use for Elementary Teachers
• 12:30pm to 3:30pm –Air Quality & Climate Change

Radisson Hotel and Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan

For Whom: Teachers and non-formal educators are welcome to enroll
Cost: MEECS training and new MEECS materials are FREE to MSTA conference registrants!   You must register for both. To register for the conference, please go towww.msta-mich.org/conference; then register for MEECS training atwww.michigan.gov/deqworkshops.

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May 2012

8-10 MRC 30th Anniversary Annual Conference & Trade Show - Amway Grand Plaza, Grand Rapids

June 2012

12 – Resource Recovery Educators of Michigan (RREM),10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. TBD.  For more information contact Saundra Porter-Riley

September 2012

11 – Resource Recovery Educators of Michigan (RREM), 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. TBD.  For more information contact Saundra Porter-Riley 

Other Conferences, Webinars, Conference Calls, and Training

National Recycling Coalition Sustainable Materials Management Webinars, July 2011 through July 2012.

2012 Plastics Recycling Conference, March 21-21, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia

2012 Resource Recycling Conference, August 28-19, 2012, Austin, Texas.  This year the conference is alligned with the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling, the National Recycling Coalition and the Recycling Organizations of North America.