Welcome!
Columbia's Earth Day Festival will be
held on Sunday, April 25, 2010.
Rain Date Sunday, May 2, 2010

Eco Avenue Schoolhouse Schedule

The Eco Avenue Schoolhouse is a new place on Eco Avenue this year. Take a few minutes on Earth Day to sit down at our shade canopy and learn about a sustainability topic of your choice and meet the folks who are working in the area. The choices are broad so you may return for seconds. Our presenters are all local volunteers and most have booths on Eco Avenue where more in depth information can be located. The schedule is as follows:

12:15pm
Housing Choices — Sustain Mizzou will raise the issue of the true cost of where you live. This approach uses the total costs including transportation and energy when choosing an apartment.

12:30pm
Solar Power — Vaughn Prost of Missouri Solar Applications will present practical solar energy for your home.

12:45pm
Composting — Steve Callis, a volunteer for the city public works will give you a short overview of backyard composting and direct you to additional resources.

1:00pm
Urban Hens — The Center of Urban Agriculture will present on keeping chickens in town. Now that it is legal to keep up to 6 hens in the city limits how do you get started?

1:15pm
Green Burial — Bob James of Ozark Avalon will present an overview of the environmental costs of conventional burial and the alternatives. You can still be an environmentalist even after your lifetime.

1:30pm
Worms — Kathleen Huser owner of Environmentally Sound Products of Missouri will tell us about vermicomposting or composting with worms, a way that anyone, including apartment dwellers can compost without odor or mess.

1:45pm
Geo Thermal — Jim of O2 Geothermal will tell how the stored energy of the earth can heat and cool your house year round for very low energy costs. Ever wonder what ground source heat pump?

2:00pm
Renewable Energy — Dick Parker of the LWV energy Matters Committee will present on Renewable Energy For Columbia's Electricity. Learn about public and private ways to help chart the future.

2:15pm
Housing Choices — Sustain Mizzou will raise the issue of the true cost of where you live. This approach uses the total costs including transportation and energy when choosing an apartment.

2:30pm
Green Burial — Bob James of Ozark Avalon will present an overview of the environmental costs of conventional burial and the alternatives. You can still be an environmentalist even after your life time.

2:45pm
Solar Power — Vaughn Prost of Missouri Solar Applications will present practical solar energy for your home.

3:00pm
Worms — Kathleen Huser owner of Environmentally Sound Products of Missouri will tell us about vermicomposting or composting with worms, a way that anyone, including apartment dwellers can compost without odor or mess.

3:15pm
Urban Hens — The Center of Urban Agriculture will present on keeping chickens in town. Now that it is legal to keep up to 6 hens in the city limits how do you get started?

3:30pm
Renewable Energy — Dick Parker of the LWV energy Matters Committee will present on renewable energy for Columbia's electricity. Learn about public and private ways to chart the future.

4:00pm
Composting — Steve Callis, a volunteer for the city public works will give you a short overview of backyard composting and direct you to additional resources.

4:15pm
Geo Thermal — Jim of O2 Geothermal will tell how the stored energy of the earth can heat and cool your house year round for very low energy costs.

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