I still want the T-shirt!!!

Letter I just emailed to Sustainable.ufl.edu:

Are you doing this program again next year?  I only managed to get 3 of the 6 cards needed for the t-shirt!  I still want the t-shirt!  Thank you and have a good day.
 Sincerely,
Michele

 I am such a sucker for a free t-shirt!  Especially one from Sustainabilty@UF because they like to use American Apparel for some of their giveaways and I love me a soft, cotton, AA t-shirt.

Biodegradable Funereal Urn

A morbid idea for this Wednesday.  This biodegradable urn keeps the ashes separate from the seed (a pine tree, but any seed can be used) and the ash apparently helps encourage growth in the soil.

Nashville Bicycle

I am totally in line to win a frisbee from Nashville Bicycle, a bike rental in town, so cool!

Happy Earth Day!

I'm going to be blogging from the earth day festivities in Centennial Park in beautiful Nashville, TN!  Don't have enough phone juice to U-stream like I was hoping, but that's life.

Keep watching for updates!  I'll post on Facebook and the twitters.  Enjoy Earth Day however you plan to enjoy it!

Happy Gator Earth Day!

It's University of Florida Earth Day and, hey, here's University of Florida president, Bernie Machen, talking about sustainability (sorry he looks so small in the picture), and some other pictures of stuff I saw on the Plaza of Americas today on my way into work. Also, the Sustainability Hut was there but didn't have time to take their quiz to get a punchcard towards a t-shirt.

I even U-Streamed the event, in my effort to learn how to liveblog on U-stream, I updated Facebook with the update, but there were no viewers.  I have to start an aggressive campaign to get people to subscribe to the UF U-Stream channel (it doesn't exist, yet, but I'm going to start one).

As I was leaving, they were giving out an award to President Machen and his missus, as well as Sustainable UF coffee mugs stuffed with a rolled-up t-shirt to give to other helpers of the campus environment.  I want a coffee mug and a t-shirt, dammit!  I help the environment!  Whatever!

 The terrarium necklaces were the cutest!  They were little disposable plastic sauce containers strung through with colorful cotton string, containing a blog of wet soil that you could add small lichen and what-not to the thing.  One of the people who had organized the table had his terrarium necklace for over 3 weeks.  Pretty cool idea - it would be great for older kids, I think.

Earth Day 2014

Hello out there - i've been a bad blogger, and my apologies for not updating AE.  But, I have good news!  I'm going to be celebrating Earth Day 2014 with dear friends in, of all places, Nashville, TN.  The celebration takes place at Centennial Park, site of the Parthenon (which I've been to!), and I'm looking forward to seeing lots of hippies and eco-freaks.  I think I'm going to try live blogging the thing while I'm there - posting more often and uploading videos. Maybe I can connect with whatever social media stuff is happening there and help with on-the-ground reporting!