April 8 2010
Roby and I gave up our day off to help the interns out with their educational tours. Every other Thursday in April and May several schools come to our campus for a 2 hour educational program about renewable energy and sustainable living. We set up 7 different stations and we each man one of them and spend 10 minutes with each group before we rotate them to the next one. These are 8 and 9 year olds so you can only hold their attention for so long, and when there are almost 100 of them total your goal is not to turn the campus into a free for all. By the time we each got to the 6th and 7th group, we were doing everything to just keep them in the near vicinity. Roby was in charge of the Compost Section, and I operated the one and only solar-powered carousel ride in the world. We also had a photovoltaic, worm composting, chicken husbandry, solar cooker and natural building work station.
Thankfully the weather held off for us and we had a beautiful day for the kids.
Amazing the number of kids who have solar panels on their homes and actually compost their food scrapes. This community in Mendocino County is pretty progressive and an inspiration to see the next generation gets it. Hopefully through our workshops and tours we will be able to spread the word to our visitors and they will take it home to their communities.
We had them roasting marshmallows on a parabolic solar cooker and making their own natural cobb building blocks for a home. We knew mud and sticky things would make the kids happy!!!
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