Below are a few special photos at a recent event at the PS8 Robert Fulton School in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit our New York Photo Album – http://www.runforoneplanet.org/photos.php?album=34_newyork – to see even more of these amazing kids!
Below are a few special photos at a recent event at the PS8 Robert Fulton School in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit our New York Photo Album – http://www.runforoneplanet.org/photos.php?album=34_newyork – to see even more of these amazing kids!
Join us with eco-performance apparel company Atayne for a special event on Wednesday, November 19 at Potomac River Running Store in Ballston (Arlington, VA).
The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a Run for One Planet presentation and Q&A, followed by a 6:30 p.m. 30 minute Fun Run with Matt and Stephanie. The event will culminate at 7 p.m. with some socializing and refreshments back at Potomac River Running. The event is free and open to the general public, but please RSVP to events@atayne.com.
Atayne will donate 10% of all on-site sales of their tops to Run For One Planet.
The Potomac River Running store’s Ballston location is at 3924 Wilson Blvd in Arlington, VA.
by Chris Tilley
More and more cities have set goal for how much waste they are diverting from the normal waste stream. San Francisco has set a goal of 75% diverted. As stated in last weeks article some numbers on the breakdown of your average waste:
A number of cities are using industrial scale composting operations to deal with the organic component of the waste stream.
First up is Transform Composting. They provided the worm composter that Matt and Steph are using on the Eco-RV. They also design, build and equip these industrial composting facilities. They are currently designing a 200 tonne per day facility in Welland Ontario and have another 200 tonne per day facility under construction in China.(source) Composting involves microbes and those need air to do their job. Transform compost holds the patent on the AirFloor that allows air in to the pile.
Second up is the Edmonton Facility. They are the largest composting facility in North America capable of processing 1200 tonnes per day.(source) The website has an excellent diagram of the process plus lots of pictures.
Third up is Wright Environmental Management. They make in vessel systems where you but the waste in one end in a continuous fashion and compost comes out the other end. They also have a good animation on how their system works. Each of their tunnels is capable of processing 25 tonnes per day. The two in the picture above together can process 50 Tonnes per day. One of their clients is Walt Disney World who in 2004 composted 5600 tonnes of food scraps from its restaurants. They then use some of that compost on site.(source)
One of the big questions is do these places smell? Done right they don’t. All of these systems have computer monitoring to watch temperature, moisture, air flow and other variables to keep the smell down. What smells do occur can be dealt with filters.
So these places are coming. Doing or own composting in our backyard or balcony is still best as you don’t have the carbon dioxide emissions from trucking the waste. However this is much better than just throwing it in the garbage to go to a landfill.
We have a new favorite hotel called The Double Tree on King Street in Delaware and a new favorite person with the name, Michelle. She is the front desk manger who kindly offered a room for not one, not two, but THREE nights while we spoke to more schools here in Wilmington, Delaware!
Her support, the home baked cookies and the feeling of staying at home made our time here restful and spread-our-selves-out-a-bit-full! It’s amazing how being able to get out of 28 feet and spread yourself around a hotel room makes you feel good. Thanks Michelle!
Another series of schools and kids made our stop over totally awesome! Nurse Gloria and the kids at Corpus Christi School shared another hour with Steph and I speaking about ways to help our Planet. Our event was even filmed for a segment on the evening news, which made the kids really excited. We had word from Nurse Gloria that we are now included in the school’s daily prayers too. Thanks for the support!
Day 2 had us at Wilmington Montessori School, who were just that day starting their own full stream recycling program – way to go you guys!
Under now very rain soaked skies we said “farewell” to Delaware and ran towards our next, and most intimate school event the Susquehanna Adventist School, and began running southward towards Baltimore, Maryland and our distant destination, Obama’s new house in DC!! (He told us that he’d gladly meet with us after the transfer of government and how we could all work together to solve the climate issue. He also said Al would be there and was excited for us visiting Washington. Then I woke up from my dream, sorry folks. I used to have simpler dreams about beaches and drinking tropical drinks. These days, my dreams are of the desire to have these discussions with people like these to help the Run for One Planet maximize our tour and get the message out there!)
Anyways, we spent a very (NOT) restful night sleeping right here in Downtown Baltimore, parked on the side of what turned out to be “yell at your friends right beside you and across the street” road. We were caressed to sleep with everything from, some positive Gangsta Rap, busses using this street to idle for extended periods of time before going about their routes, as well as, someone slowly and drunkenly reading our signage on the RV to his girlfriend, over and over and over again. Our spot on the pavement brought us some nature though. It came complete with pounding rain and very intense light sources we thought were an early sunrise but turned out to be (for safety reasons the police officer told me when I asked if it was ok to park here) overhead lights.
As I type, another in what counts up to at least 10-20 fire trucks that have screamed by for most of the night (not forgetting their twinkly lights and festive sounding sirens) lilting us to slumber. I think we’re on the main path for emergency vehicles here in our “pavement spot amongst nature”.
We hope you all had as good of sleeps as we did and this finds everyone rested and ready to tackle their particular Saturday activities. I hear that Whistler and the local hills opened today! Say hi to our favourite city by the sea and don’t be afraid to shoot us an email to say hi!
Steph and I were running together yesterday and decided to get married on the spot because a sign we read said “marriage works and your kids will be smarter as a result”. Just kidding on us getting hitched, but the sign was surely there. We were feeling pretty far from home though because the East Coast is pretty different than the West coast with so many people stuck in with each other and not a lot of open space. We actually saw 3 deer eating between massive manufacturing plants a couple of days ago with 2 massive 8 lanes (in each direction) freeways cutting their eating forest in half. It made us stop and just take in this tiny piece of nature and wonder where they lived and how would they get to safety?
It’s a struggle we’re all in to make sure we leave enough wild spaces for the generation coming up and the next after that. It can’t be our first priority any longer to take as much as we can and not think about anyone else behind us.
We hear the Carolina’s are less populated and closer to the ocean. We’re pumped! I have a parting thought, or request to be exact, purchase a tree and plant it somewhere you know will be protected as a result. It may look like a small act. It will have a huge effect. Our friends at Eco Neutral Eco Restoration can set you up with one of their projects. Christmas is coming. It’s an amazing gift to give someone.
So long from the natural surroundings that are, Baltimore. O, here comes another fire truck! Did I mention we haven’t had a shower since the Double Tree? Stinky.
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