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Green Fracking? “We don’t have time for that”

May 30, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

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In my research about Fracking, I stumbled over this article

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/03/140319-5-technologies-for-greener-fracking/

When I started introducing Recycling into schools, all I heard over and over was ” we don’t have time for that”, as if it took more time to put the can into the recycling bin versus the trash can.

Thinking long term, and thinking for the better of the people rather then the better pocket book of a few is something that we MUST have time for.

Fracking North Carolina is one step closer to Fracking in New York

May 30, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

I just read the very depressing article about North Carolina fast tracking Pro-Fracking legislation.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/north-carolina-republicans-move-quickly

I am shivering to think when this topic is coming up in New York again. Astorino has made it clear that he is Pro-Fracking.

And it is not that the dangers of fracking are not known or proven over and over, because even the people that are doing it, practice the NIMBY (not in my back yard).

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/21/3316881/exxon-ceo-protests-fracking/

So, if he doesn’t want it in his backyard, why do we allow ANYBODY to put it in OUR backyard.

Let’s be clear, there is absolutely no way that pumping poison into our environment is controllable or “good for the economy”.

Yonkers considering Styrofoam ban and School Lunch Recycling Program

May 28, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

Last night We Future Cycle had the opportunity to present the school lunch recycling program to the City Council of Yonkers.

http://view.earthchannel.com/PlayerController.aspx?&PGD=ynkny&eID=206

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in New York State with 24,000 students in 39 schools. All schools are using exclusively EPS (Styrofoam) disposable trays. Which means every school is producing depending on size between 15 – 30 bags of garbage per lunch.

Every. School. Every. Single. Day.

Councilman Michael Sabatino is trying to change that. He has proposed to eliminate all single use food Styrofoam items over the next two years. A wonderful proposal.

The School Lunch Recycling Program offered by We Future Cycle changes the way schools organize lunch. Instead of teaching the kids to “just throw it out”, students are taught to empty extra liquids into a bucket and sort their drink container, then students empty their left over food into the compost bucket and stack their tray. Simple. Continue reading Yonkers considering Styrofoam ban and School Lunch Recycling Program →

We Future Cycle Presentation at Sound Shore Environmental Summit May 10, 2014 now on Video

May 23, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

Update: The Video link, courtesy of LMC TV in Mamaroneck is now available to be viewed.

http://lmctvny.swagit.com/play/05202014-1491

We Future Cycle presents at about 35 min into the program.

RYE, N.Y. — Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker (D-Rye) will host the Sound Shore Environmental Summit on Saturday, May 10, in Rye.

Parker will host the event starting at 10 a.m.at the Jay Heritage Center at 210 Boston Post Road in Rye. The event promises to include a number of elected and municipal officials and environmental leaders from different organizations and advocacy groups. The summit is open to the public.

“Discussions at the summit are expected to cover a number of issues, and there will be short presentations from Sustainable Westchester, Energize NY, Save the Sound, We Future Cycle and Grassroots Environmental Education,” representatives said in the press release.

Parker chairs the Westchester County Board of Legislators Environment & Energy Committee.

New Paltz Students making a HUGE difference with Move Out Recycling Program

May 22, 2014 wefuturecycle 1 Comment

This face book page ( ttps://www.facebook.com/newpaltzrecycles) was just shared with me. It contains the most amazing and heart warming stories of how students can truly make a huge difference. They have organized “Move Out Programs” to reclaim all the things that accumulate in a dorm room over a year but may not need to be dragged home to mom and dad’s.

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They organized “Recycling Carnevals” and “Bike Swaps” Just incredible, check them out.

How to teach kids about Sustainability

May 22, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

Education is the key.

We only protect what we love,

We only love what we know,

We only know what we learn about.

So you want to be a good role model and teach kids—whether your own, nieces and nephews or a classroom—how to respect nature, be mindful of the waste they create and more. In short, to teach them about sustainability. And have fun doing it. Where do you start?

http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/10/teach-kids-about-sustainability/

How to Recycle (Almost) Everything

May 15, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

Pleasantville Recycles is an organization formed by a group of Pleasantville, NY residents to: “increase the use of Pleasantville’s current programs through better community education, enhance our current program, and identify and develop new programs and systems to reduce, re-use and recycle.

They have created a fabulous resource “A-Z Recycling Guide” that helps you figure out how to recycle those items you can never figure out quite what to do with, from packaging peanuts to useless phonebooks and from medications to batteries. Check out the list at:

http://pleasantvillerecycles.org/recycle.html

New Rochelle Elementary School Reduces Garbage to 2 Handful Through Recycling

May 12, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

The Daniel Webster Elementary School in New Rochelle rolled out the School Lunch Recycling Program. This school has 600+ kids and generated around 13 bags of loosely mixed garbage.

Principal Melissa Passarelli and Assistant Principal Greg Middleton are big supporters of environmental change and have volunteered to be one of the New Rochelle pilot schools to help pave the way for a general roll out in September to all remaining schools.

The program is simple. Teach children to sort their lunchroom waste into different recyclable categories.

The center aisle is now sporting a station lining up first a bucket to dispose all left over liquids, a bin for milk cartons, a bin for Commingled Recycling, a Compost bucket and a place to stack trays.

The students learned in class about this program and were eager to put their knowledge to the test. A lunchroom monitor helped the kids along during the learning phase and soon she will be able to take a back seat and enjoy the show of children sorting for the environment. As the kids become more and more on auto pilot when it comes to sorting, we will introduce more education around the environment.

The key to the program is adult supervision, and Dr Korostoff, Superintendent of schools authorized the additional hourly help to make this change happen.

Continue reading New Rochelle Elementary School Reduces Garbage to 2 Handful Through Recycling →

Thanks to Counterspace, “School Lunch Recycling” is now “We Future Cycle!”

May 1, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

After 4 years of operation under founder Anna Giordano, the “School Lunch Recycling” organization had become so much more. The program now included composting in its school lunch offering, and the Waste Free Classroom program had taken off. As well, Anna was joined by partner Ashley Welde, who brought communications and technical expertise to the mix. With a much broader vision and ambitions goals, the organization demanded a new name and identity.

Anna and Ashley met with designing and branding visionaries Christina Collins and Brett Collins from Counterspace to come up with a new name and logo. Within minutes, the name “We Future Cycle” was born, and the logo shortly followed. We are so grateful to Christina, Brett, and the whole Counterspace team for donating their time and wisdom to We Future Cycle. Thank you!

New Rochelle School District Garbage Reduced 23% Since Recycling Was Introduced

March 27, 2014 wefuturecycle Leave a comment

These are my comments shared with the New Rochelle Board of Education on March 25th, 2014.

Dear Board,

I have been coming to speak here now for about 3 years, the first time in June of 2011. I shared with you then, that I realized how much garbage the kids were generating in the lunchrooms. How mindless they were throwing everything out, how there was no recycling can in sight anywhere, how the students were trained that everything around them was disposable and all they had to do is throw it mindlessly in the garbage.

Continue reading New Rochelle School District Garbage Reduced 23% Since Recycling Was Introduced →