Written by green1 on Oct 17th, 2008 | Filed under:
Green Shows Green events
On October 25th there will be an Energy Savings Fair in Lexington MA from 9AM until 3PM. The Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition and the Lexington Climate Action Committee are sponsoring the event. National Grid is one of the sponsors, it seems like they have their hands in all sorts of Green Events!
For more information on this event please visit the Global Warming Action Coalition’s website.
If you plan to attend the Energy Savings Fair, feel free to stop by the booth with the energy efficient windows and say hi to me!
Written by green1 on Jul 20th, 2008 | Filed under:
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Green Shows Green events
Last night I attended a concert at the Comcast Center in Mansfield MA. The Steve Miller Band was playing and the crowd was a good mix of people from teenagers to 60-70 year old. In my opinion the diversity of the crowd was perfect in order to see how many people used the recycling bins next to every garbage can.
My observations were somewhat casual since I did not have a team of people monitoring every garbage can and recycling bin with scales and other scientific tools. I could only use my eyes to determine how full the recycling bins were in comparison to the garbage cans. My entire “survey” consisted of 4 trips to buy bottled water and two other random walks, in total maybe 6 trips past 10 or so garbage stations.
The end result was that not one recycling bin contained more recycled cups and bottles than the one in the picture. The garbage cans were about 1/3-1/2 of the way full—-WHY? The trash cans were side by side with the recycling bins, I can’t think of an easier way to provide people with a way to recycle other than manning the garbage stations with recycling Nazi’s. The concert had ads on their giant TV’s requesting that people use the recycling bins so I feel that they did everything in their power to promote recycling.
Instead of an informative blog post, I will close this with a list of questions:
What more can a concert venue do to promote recycling?
Why do people choose to place their recycling trash in garbage cans?
Why do people recycle at home but not in public?
