Log:
Today was a busy day at CCAT. First, I spent time removing those pesky weeds and invasive species and then for a change I actually got to put native plants into the ground. Rosie and I were successful at moving the vermicompost to the CCAT site, which was quite the task. My favorite part of the day was the kids’ day. Hooray for kids! It was such fun to see little ones get excited about a pedal powered tv, a solar fountain, a short walk in the woods, story time, worms, playing with musical instruments, and pedal powered smoothies. Kids are so joyful, it’s amazing what a good exhaustion you feel after working with them. My work today at CCAT was the ideal mix for me, hands on work in the morning and the excitement of little people in the afternoon. Exhausting maybe, but joyful just the same .
My evening was enjoyable as well, as I attended the Arcata Crabs baseball game. It was great to spend time with my housemates and co-workers together. We saw an amazing sunset as well. A few folks in the crowd claimed to have felt the earthquake, I was not among them. Some personal issues with relationships have come up in my life this evening, and the only thing I can do is have faith that in proximity to trial lives resolution. I’m finding more and more that traveling requires you to have this belief.

Questions:
-How many colleges are pursuing sustainable living demonstrational residencies?
-What can SENS’s involvement in Roots&Shoots teach CCAT? (Roots&Shoots is a children’s initiative that focuses on environmental education and service projects. The Berea Ecovillage has a Roots&Shoots chapter. Roots&Shoots was created by Jane Goodall.)
-Some very qualified gentlemen from Oregon visited CCAT today and invited the co-directors to a conference. The conference they are holding sounds like it would be very interesting for me, but at what point is it not sustainable to travel to conferences?

Links of the day:

• Humboldt Crabs Baseball Team


• Berea Tree Snakes Roots&Shoots


• Roots&Shoots International website