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Trash for Teaching is a 2007-2008 member of the LA Unified School District Arts Community Partnership Network; a collaborative group that promotes the rigor, joy and discovery in artistic expression, teaching and learning. “Trash for Teaching has become a valuable resource…exposing students to artistic collaboration, flexible thinking, and inquiry-based explorational learning.” “..[Trash for Teaching] sent a very important message to my students that problem solving and design are about creative use of what is at hand, not fancy store bought kits.” “We (staff) were just as excited as the students to explore all of the possibilities.” – Staff and students of Coliseum Elementary News Links: KNX Radio Interview (launches new window with sound player)
Trash for Teaching at the Natural History Museum's Family Fun Day
In his book, which inspired the Collapse? exhibition, Jared Diamond identifies one of the five sets of factors that can contribute to a society's collapse as environmental damage caused by people themselves (inadvertently or not). This tree, created from what has been deemed by manufacturers as “trash”, explores the notion of sustaining our environment and thereby our society through the creative reuse of discarded materials. As a collaborative project, it encompasses the notion of societal cooperation in the prevention of what Diamond has described as a social collapse. Visit the Natural History Museum site at: www.nhm.org
Treasure Truck Now Operating on Vegetable Oil! Vegetable oil fuel systems benefit the environment in several ways. Since vegetable oil is a renewable resource it does not deplete our ever- shrinking supply of fossil fuels. Additionally, there is no sulfur content in vegetable oil, which is the major carcinogen associated with diesel fuel. Vegetable oil plants absorb more carbon dioxide from the air during their growing cycle that is released when the oil is burned, this means that vegetable oil does not produce excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (this is referred to as carbon neutral). (Source: www.greasecar.com) Using waste vegetable oil to fuel vehicles also prevents waste vegetable oil from filling up our landfills. According to a 1998 study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory an average fast-food restaurants in any major U.S. city generates about 22 pounds of waste grease each year, per city resident. The National Biodiesel Board, a trade group in Jefferson City, Missouri, estimates that more than 2.5 billion pounds of waste cooking grease are available annually. The next time you get a visit from the Treasure Truck you might get hungry for tacos - you can't miss the veggie oil aroma! |
