Our video is almost done!

Today we filmed our video that we are going to enter into the Carbon14 Environment Award contest! I think it came out really well. Some highlights include Marcos the Landfill ripping off his sunglasses in shock, my lovely handmade fake bag of compost, and of course, Alex in a banana suit. We are just waiting on Sean to edit it and put the music over the background, and it will be complete! When it is uploaded to the website, I will post a link so that everyone can go vote for it!

Special thanks go out to Christopher Stern for stepping in to be our Compost Vessel guy at the last minute!

Carbon14 $50,000 Environment Award

Today, Ashton, Blake, Polly, Amy, Marcos, Alex, Sean (our fabulous SIFE representative) and I all met at the University to practice the 1-minute movie we're filming next week to enter into Carbon14's Environment Award contest. It looks like the video is really going to be great, and it's due by February 28th. Once all entries have been submitted on the 28th, voting will begin. So, here is a link to the website: Carbon14 Environment Award. A round of voting will commence, and the top 20 videos will be reviewed by the judges. After that, there will be five videos to vote on, and the winner of that round will receive the award. So don't forget to vote for us! I really do think we have a fair chance, our video is informative and entertaining (at least in my opinion).

In other news, we'll be starting our exciting waste audit on Monday -- for about a month, we will be collecting food waste from the different restaurants in the Student Union and weighing it to try and get a good estimate for how much food waste we'll need to plan for. Once we have that number, we will be able to submit it and the business plan to the university administration, who will (hopefully) then allow us to buy a composting unit. Woohoo!