Bottle greenhouse update #2

Wow! This thing is incredible and it's taking SOOOO much time. We've cut and washed well over a thousand bottles and have more to go. The frame is still unfinished and won't be for a few days just because the sheer size of the project required more people than we were able to muster. But you know what? We're moving along and we'll keep plugging away for the rest of the semester.

We will post more pictures soon and possible video soon.

To hear a story on some Earth Day activities, listen to this story put together by the Ohio River Radio Consortium that includes two of our members, Garrett Eisenhour and Jason Usdin, as well as people in Indiana and Kentucky.

To see some more of it come alive, come to Kid's Earth Day tomorrow, April, 24th, at the HUB lawn.

Sustainability Now: "Climategate" Friday February 26th

I am co-hosting Sustainability Now radio on the Lion 90.7 fm with Mike Shamalla (Graduate - Landscape Architecture). We air on Fridays from 4-5 pm. Last week we had three student activists including our own Jared Blumer.

Today, we will be talking to Ed Perry, the Global Warming Campaign Outreach Coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation. We'll be talking about the "Climategate" dust-up, something I obviously have some pretty strong ideas about. Read the show preview here.

You can follow our progress on our blog linked above. Tune in Fridays 4-5 pm to 90.7 or stream it online.

Voices coverage of Blue Gold

This month's Voices of Central Pennsylvania features our watershed, our "Take Back the Tap" work from October 14th (join us on Facebook), and our screening of Blue Gold. Read the whole article here in a pdf.

Collegian article about our efforts

Water bottles are in the news again.....and so is 3E-COE. Daily Collegian reporter Phenola Lawrence wrote a great article about our efforts to get water bottles banned from Penn State. In this article, Peter, Associate Dean Jackie Edmondson, Professor Madhu Prakash, and I were all quoted about the necessity of such a ban.

It's important for the administration to know that this issue is not something that's going to slip under the radar. Thanks to all involved in supporting this effort- it is easy to fight for a cause like this in numbers. It's important for us to keep up the pressure on this. I welcome any thoughts for another demonstration or activity we might do to raise awareness.

We are in Voices!

This months Voices of Central Pennsylvania has some hot stuff in it. Like what? Like 3E-COE of course (pdf)! They also have a spot on Eco-Action's work to get Penn State out of its contract with Kimberly-Clark at the same link. Heather Simmons also has a piece in about energy saving techniques. Keep up the good work.