"Little Live Earth"
Verfasst von Live Earth am 28 August, 2008 - 20:12
For Girl Scouts Morgan S. Wilcox, Katie Shriver, and Anna Plattner, planning an environmental festival to raise awareness within their community was their response. “Two years ago, when I started planning my Gold Award Program, I thought of organizing an environmental festival,” said Wilcox. Two years later, on 7.07.07, “I got the idea for a name for the festival—Little Live Earth,” reminisced Wilcox.
So on August 9, 2008, a partnership of local businesses, musicians, speakers, and volunteers gathered under the guidance of Wilcox, Shriver, and Plattner to demonstrate their concern for the environment and express their interest in working together to make a difference. Their booths depicted a broad range of environmental concerns, ranging from biodiesel fuel to vegetarianism to locally-produced honey. Educational speakers, including Dominic Frongillo of Caroline in Tomkins County and Taury Smith of Albany, provided the attendees with necessary information on the significance and impact local changes can have on a global scale.
Little Live Earth enabled community members to earn a reusable cloth bag in exchange for making various pledges such as switching incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones, planting a tree, or walking instead of driving for a day, as well as taking taste tests that demonstrated the small taste difference but large environmental difference between organic cookies and those that have been processed multiple times. Beyond that, Greenville resident Art Harm brought his personal 1978 Mercedes that he runs on biofuel, using leftover oil from local restaurants, instead of diesel.
The girls’ efforts were not only appreciated by the community, but by the local town government as well. “I thank these girls for the effort they put it. This is a fine day—I really learned a lot,” said Councilman Richard Bear.
The inspiration from Live Earth and the hard work, dedication, and lessons learned in planning the Little Live Earth event from arranging vendors, sponsors, musicians, and volunteers, will serve them well as they go out and make a difference on a global scale.
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TEAM TO RACE CARARRA PAN AMERICANA ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY (Kitchen Grease)
NEW HAVEN, CONN. – The racing team of Kip Moncrief and Mike DeVine is entered to run the La Carerra Pan Americana, a Mexican road race this October as the first team in history competing in a race car that runs on grease.
Under the name SolShine Alternatives, the team will drive a converted 1959 Mercedes 190D diesel from New Haven to the start of the race in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico fueled by waste vegetable oil picked up along the way. A second grease car, a 1984 Mercedes 300sd, will be the chase car carrying fuel and supplies, and a documentary film crew.
Moncrief, 24, is the Manager of Operations for Connecticut BioFuels, the largest for-profit waste oil collectors and distributors in Connecticut. He is also a member of the Sports Car Club of America and a lifelong auto sports enthusiast who has grown up racing road courses like Watkins Glen and Limerock, and short track ovals like Monadnock, N.H., and on the off season ice races cars with the Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club on various lakes in upstate New York.
DeVine, 25, has lived and worked in Jackson, WY since graduating from St. Lawrence University in 2005. While in school his focuses were global climate change policy and sustainability. He attended the UN COP10 meeting on global climate change in Buenos Aries, Argentina as well as the UN COP11/MOP1 meeting in Montreal, Canada in association with Earth Council Geneva to promote their e-learning programs.
The team's goal is to spread the word about alternative fuels and highlight their dream that racers will be able to drive competitively and green in the future.
KIP QUOTE -"I’ve grown up doing the most racing I could afford, now with the cost at the pump and also to the environment we need to find a way to keep our sport alive. Racing is a bug I caught a long time ago. It’s a dream to do it professionally, but it would be a nightmare to not be able to do it at all. I plan on racing until the day I die; but I also realize things need to change in the automotive industry and our own personal consumption patterns for the sport to survive.”
MIKE QUOTE - “Environmental changes and market pressures are forcing companies to "Go Green," or come up with creative new ways of doing business sustainably. As a result the markets for many new alternative sources of energy will emerge in the near future. As they do we would like to see them develop in a way that is truly sustainable and good for the environment.
SolShine is a 501C3 organization dedicated to educating the public about alternative energy and all of the options for a more sustainable society. The race is being funded by the drivers and by charitable contributions. To donate, or for more information, visit www.solshinealternatives.org.