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At ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in southern Oregon we formed a partnership
with the regional group that had been conducting an Earth Day celebration
every year. Holding the event on museum grounds gave greater possibilities
for indoors and outdoor educational exhibits. One of the pieces I
particularly enjoyed was the attempt to make the entire event a zero waste
experience. Rather than putting trash cans (and recycling bins) all around,
we created a sustainability station. Each type of trash, compost or
recycling was accompanied by volunteers and signage to explain what would
happen to that item next. We used compostable utensils, and these were
gathered and then placed into a grinder and added to the food waste and
paper compost. The resulting mixed compost was then stored on site to be
used for landscaping on the museum grounds.

We deliberately made the bins for trash very small...the idea was to ensure
that most waste was recycled or composted.

One of the issues with Earth Day events in the early spring is the weather
can be difficult in many parts of the country. Holding a sustainability
celebration in the summer might take some time to catch on but might be a
great shift, and if started here in Portland I for one will attend!

Chris


Chris Wallace, Associate
David Heil & Associates, Inc.
4614 SW Kelly Ave., Ste. 100
Portland, OR 97239
(p) 503.245.2102  (f) 503.245.2628
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From: Kyrie Kellett <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Informal Science Education Network
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:36:26 -0700
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Subject: Sustainability related events?

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Hello all, 

OMSI has a grant to do eight sustainability-related events between the
summer of 2012 and summer of 2014.  We're currently researching similar
events that other museums or organizations have done.  If you have hosted or
heard of wonderful events of this kind, please tell me all about them.
(Actually, if you know of really lame sustainability-related events, that
would be helpful, too.)

To give you a little bit more context, here are some of the criteria for the
events we plan to host:
- Target audience: families with children 10+ (primarily English and Spanish
speaking families, all events and related programs will be bilingual
Spanish/English)
- The focus of the project is on family and community level action here in
the Portland Metro area. In particular, all of the public deliverables
(including an exhibit and outreach campaign) aim to encourage sustainable
decision making by helping people understand how to weigh the social,
economic, and environmental impacts of their decisions.  Events should
encourage people to practice decision making and using skills necessary to
make more sustainable choices. Skills could include basic "critical
thinking" skills to more concrete skills such as how to plan your bus route.
- The "themes" in the related exhibit, which we plan to mirror in the
events, are transportation, food, stuff (consumption and waste), and the
home (personal energy and water use).
- Events should have a fun, positive, creative feel about them and focus on
how more sustainable choices can have social, financial, and environmental
benefits for you, your family, and your community.

Thank you!

Kyrie

Kyrie Thompson Kellett
Exhibit Developer 
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
503.797.4633 

Explore an exhibit as unique as you are-Identity: An Exhibition of You now
on exhibit Sept. 25-Feb. 6




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