RCBC Conference 2010 at Whistler
Many positive thoughts on the RCBC conference @ Whistler Westin Hotel. By the way, if you decide you don’t need your room tied or cleaned, the Westin will donate $5 to www.carbonneutral.com, seems like a reasonable gift in lieu of making my bed and replacing 1 day old practically unused towels.
In any event, the most postive experience yet (other then Urban Impact winning the Private Sector award – yeah!) was meeting Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer a couple who lived waste free for 1 year. Can you believe it? Amazing and inspirational. The premier of the film is tomorrow at the RCBC Conference and the Vancouver Premier is on Saturday May 29 @ Granville 7 Cinema.
The movie trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/3301133
Their website: http://cleanbinproject.com/
I admire and applaud what they have done!
Ferris Elementary / Richmond School District wins the $500 prize
Earth week school tours came to an end on April 23, 2010. Two tours a day for five days, does not really sound like much, I was exhausted! I have to say keeping 25 + kids and their supervisors interested and engaged in a recycling facility tour is a challenge. Some of the kids get it in an instant and ask outstanding, engaged and interesting questions. Others, well, you just have to keep working the stories and the angles to interest them and to get them excited about waste diversion and recycling.
Earth Day (week) Tours at Urban Impact
Four tours done and six to go (I have two a day all week). So far so good. I find when I am “touring” it sometimes takes me one tour to get into the groove again and engage with the kids fully.
Urban Impact is paying for all the classes to be bused into the facilities (Richmond M-W, New Westmisnter Th & Fr). This year we have also raised the stakes of the tours, we are offering a $500 prize for the class that provides us with the 5 ways in which they as a class can reduce waste and 5 ways in which they can personally reduce waste. In addition to the grand prize we give away prizes for the 3 best questions (each tour) and a cool non battery flashlight (curtesy of Science World) for the best science question asked. It certainly seems to motivate the questions.
I enjoy the tours, often the questions inspire some blog topics. In addition the energy and interest of the kids is envigorating and a challenge for me! Keeps me on my toes.
Here are a couple of the good questions:
- Does recycling reduce the power we consume?
- What does Urban Impact do reduce power consumption?
- What does Urban Impact do to achieve zero waste?
- Is it more important to reduce or recycle?
- Why did you start Urban Impact?
Fun questions to answer!
Does Urban Impact let economic considerations over ride environmental considerations in your business?
This is the question that was asked of me on a tour of the Richmond Plant on Thursday March 30, 2010 by a Grade 10 Trek Student (Prince of Wales Secondary in Vancouver). Great question! I thought that this was an insightful question.
I certainly had to think about a worthy answer.
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