Delivering the Land Grant Mission in an Urban Setting

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Delivering the Land Grant Mission in an Urban
Setting
A day in the life Greg Drury Wholeness for
Humanity
July 14, 2008Happy Bastille Day!
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Urban Locavores Small Changes
The word of year 2007 according to
Oxford American Dictionary expand meaning
awareness
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300 Urban Stakeholders

• Stakeholders include
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• City of Annapolis
• DC Government
• Service for Peace
• Friends of the Earth
• League of American Bicyclists
• Cultural Tourism DC
• DC Downtown and Riverfront BIDs
• University of the District of Columbia
• Potomac Peddlers Touring Club Bike Club
• OTHERS IPM Centers, CCLC, Audubon International

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• List of organizations and titles
• Last few events in DC region
• Since January 2008
• Become Partners and Stakeholders
• Leaders in regions to bring back information
• Spread word to join or request EcoTour
• Out of over 300 registrants only a few listed
• Building a movement rather thanfill in blank

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08 Participants Company-Title

• 8A06 Anc-advisory neighborhood commissioner,
  AIA-Manger for Allied Organization Outreach,
  American University-Student, Anacostia
  Riverkeeper, Anacostia Watershed Society-Project
  Coordinator, Annapolis City Hall, ARINC-Engineer,
  Burt Hill-Graduate Architect, Cambridge
  Systematics-Transportation Analyst, Capital Sun
  Group-Vice President, Casey Trees-tree planting
  program coordinator, Centers of
  Medicare-Medicaid, Cesar Chavez PCS-student,
  Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind-Marketing
  Coordinator, cox graae Spack Architects-architec
  t, CulturalTourismDC.org, DC City Council-Dir. of
  Constituent Services, DC Metro Police-Bike
  Division, DDOT-Dep Assoc Dir, TPPA, Delphi
  Solutions 

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08 Participants Company-Title

• District Department of the Environment, doctors
  community hospital-mrs, Earth Day
  Network-Education Coordinator, EarthRights
  International-Managing Director, Earthwatch
  Institute-Learning and Communication Manager,
  Ecoagriculture Partners, Eco-Green Living-owner,
  ELEMENT Design, Elizabeth Aurelia
  Interiors, Emerging Markets Group-Development
  Specialist, Environment Energy
  Reporting-Reporter, Environmental Justice and
  Climate Change Initiative-Campus Climate
  Challenge Coordinator, EOM Clean City-Program
  Specialist, EPA-sector leader, EPA-Regulatory
  Impact Analyst

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08 Participants Company-Title

• EPA Water Office, Executive office of the
  Mayor-Program Specialist, FDA federal
  government-public health analyst, Fox Lawson
  Associates-HR Consultant, Freddy Mac-Designer,
  General Dynamics GM Fuel Cell Car, hello-biker,
  HTO-Bike Shop Coordinator, ICRC-Assistive
  Technology Engineer, IEDC-Research Associate,
  IIE IMC, Phillytech, Indigo Engineering
  Group-Green Engineer, Keep Washington DC
  Beautiful, KGP Kimball Office-Business
  Development Manager, Live Green-President, Low
  Impact Development Center-Environmental Scientist

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08 Participants Company-Title

• Low Impact Development Center- Executive
  Director, Meditative Spaces, Meridian
  International Center, MG Associates-Principal,
  Mount Rainier Bike Co-op-Founder and Manager,
  Navigant Consulting, Ndemay Graphics-Owner,
  Office of Planning-Community Planner, Office of
  Planning (OP)-City Planner, OPIC-Senior
  Investment Insurance Officer, Outdoor
  Education-Assistant Director, PCG, Phoenix
  Bikes-Director, PPTC-Chair, Progressive Asset
  Management-Green Investing, Public Health
  Foundation-Program Administrator, Ralph J.
  Duffie-Director of Development, retired-supreme
  boss (or so I'd like to think), self 

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08 Participants Company-Title

• Service For Peace-Chapter Director, Smithsonian
  Institution-Museum Specialist, Social
  Environment Change-The Green Fairy, Social
  Security Administration-systems analyst, Social
  Security Administration-systems analyst, Spokes
  Etc.-Sales, Spokes etc-Mgr., Student Conservation
  Association, Teva, The Architect for the
  Capitol-Deputy Director for Planning, The
  International Ecotourism Society-intern, The JBG
  Companies-Senior Vice President, The Preston
  Partnership, TIES-Director of Communications,
  Trips For Kids PG-Program Coordinator, U of
  MD, U.S. Air Force-civil engineer

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08 Participants Company-Title

• Univ of Pgh Cancer Institute-Director Center for
  Env Oncology, US EPA-Biologist, US EPA Office of
  Pesticide Programs, US Forest Service-National
  Fire Plan, US govt., US PTO, US
  Treasury-BEP-Police Officer, USGBC-LEED
  Coordinator, Wachovia, Wallace Center at Winrock
  International-Program Associate, Washington
  Gardener Magazine-Editor, Well Mind Association
  of Greater Washington-Researcher, Westar
  WaterWorks, LLC, WKDR-Attorney, Woodmont Asset
  Management, Inc.-President, Workforce Development
  Bureau-Staff Assistant, WWF-Program Associate,
  Zipcar-Regional Marketing Manager

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Locavore local awareness sustenance

• When Rebecca Hanmer, former Director of the
  Chesapeake Bay Program,
• Recipient of the Presidents Distinguished
  Federal Executive Award and twice received the
  Presidents Meritorious Federal Executive Award.

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Locavore local awareness sustenance

• In a pre interview as presenter at the 2006 WFH
  Environmental Conference (at UDC) one thing stuck
  with me, she said (paraphrased) we throw
  millions of dollars at the Bay to clean it up and
  it doesnt make a bit of difference. (Bay Report
  Card is still low)
• Our goal raise awareness for no fee, using
  little money, everyone does just a little bit in
  their back yard and make a big difference.

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Integrated Theme

• Give Broad View of Urban Opportunities for going
  green
• Teaching, Researching and Extending Beneficial
  Information to Residents
• Working together to implement Green programs
  and projects

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Wholeness for Humanity

• Declaimer Not Technical
• Bring many partners together from different
  venues to play nicely together
• Federal and Local NGO/Government
• Activist, Citizen, Intergenerational, Interfaith

(WFH) is dedicated to bringing together
corporate, government, faith-based and other
community groups to promote common goals, create
strategic partnerships, and serve as a learning
portal through conferences, fairs, lectures,
media, service events and celebrations.
Wholeness for Humanity provides uplifting,
practical and value-enhancing knowledge regarding
health, environmental stewardship, social
justice, and peace.
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Lifestyle one example

• Car less
• Bike and Clean Transportation
• Weight Loss Body more efficient
• Exercise Better cardiovascular
• Food Conservation - PU Daily vs. qty.
• Local - More Interactive, connected with
  community and nature

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Hummer VS Vege

• According to Environmental Defense, if every
  American skipped one meal of chicken per week and
  substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon
  dioxide savings would be the same as taking more
  than a half-million cars off U.S. roads.
• Another eye-popping factoid is that eating one
  pound of meat emits the same amount of greenhouse
  gasses as driving a Hummer 40 miles.

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Nitrogen in Chesapeake Bay and tidal tributaries

• One third comes from atmospheric deposition
• Cars and trucks
• Power plants
• Small combustion engines
• 25 percent from agricultural runoff
• 10 percent from urban landscapes

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Conservation is a lifestyle

• 1 Mile Ride From Home
• More than one quarter of car trips in the United
  States are shorter than one mile, as we noted in
  Seven Wonders.

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Health Relationship less meat

• It takes 10 to 16 pounds of grain to produce a
  pound of meat.
• The cost of raising this grain is enormous,
  requiring a great amount of land, water and
  fertilizer.
• Animals can't digest this corn well belching and
  farting cows are responsible for about 16 of
  methane,

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Health Relationship not only meat

• Eating Green initiative regarding vegetables and
  fruits over meat (by the way, Im an omnivore) 
• Mass produced chickens, turkeys, hogs, dairy cows
  and cattle all face the same issue of huge levels
  of antibiotics, bovine growth hormones, crappy
  feed, atrocious living conditions, etc. its
  not just meat (beef)
• There is much activity going on with regards to
  purchasing your food locally from farmers via
  farmers markets and community supported
  agriculture

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Health Relationship long term

• What gets passed on to us such as steroids and
  'stress' from abuse plus the effect of meat
  getting compacted in our colons over years which
  breeds toxins that cause sickness and the many
  other related deleterious health effects and
  also poor immune and digestive systems, poor
  levels of good bacteria, too many antibiotics
• Can this help us be in better shape to ride our
  bikes, to have a clear mind to make a bigger
  difference in society, and increase are
  longevity. 

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Health Relationship all flows to the Bay through
our lifestyle

• Just that - Health is the cornerstone of these
  EcoTours
• How do all these issues circle back and link to
  Environment, Social Justice and Peace?

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Local Food whats changing

• Policy and funding recommendations by states,
  growing demand of restaurants and supermarkets
  for locally grown food
• Nationwide this year market was 5Bil by 2011
  year 7Bil according to Package Facts a publisher
  of food market research
• Food sales were nearly 17B in 2006 up from 1Bil
  in 1990 according to the Organic Trade
  Association
• Fresher food just tastes better, hasnt been on a
  refrigerated truck for a week makes a big
  difference

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Local EcoTour

• WFH EcoTour Local municipality by bike, hike
  and/or boat ride (free and by clean
  transportation) that features successful
  environmental projects to duplicate in another
  region and additionally may include planting,
  beautification, social justice, peace, music,
  food, town hall meeting, environmental play,
  school visit, and one or more host partners.

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Urban Environment Successes

• Take notes - blueprints back to municipality and
  recreate
• Public Awareness
• What Government can do
• What you can do

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Some accomplishments

• Annapolis repeated EcoTour many times
• Starting Cable Show focusing on the EcoTour
  program. I start my TV show on June 20th.  It's
  called "The Annapolis Green Team". 
• LEED certified Signs posted at National Stadium
  through Larry Silvermans efforts
• St. Michaels EcoTour run by Potomac Peddlers Bike
  Club for the 10th year was transformed into an
  EcoTour and had 185 riders and next year is
  planned as an EcoTour for 400 rider capacity

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EcoTour-Community

• Anacostia EcoTour-Social Justice
• Annapolis EcoTour-Boaters
• Green Building EcoTour-Corporate/work
• Interfaith EcoTour-Faith based
• 8 WARD EcoTour-Political
• Embassy EcoTour-International/cultural
• St. Michaels EcoTour-Biking
• CHESAPEAKE WATERSHED ECOTOUR
• Councilmember WARD/LGAC EcoToxic Tours

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8 WARD EcoTour-Political

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8 WARD EcoTour-Political

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Whatever Happened to the Dead Zone

• Cause and Effect
• Low dissolved oxygen levels in the Chesapeake Bay
  and its tributaries are a direct result of
  nutrient pollution, principally nitrogen. 
  Nutrients from sewage treatment plant effluent,
  agricultural runoff and other sources enter the
  Bay and stimulate population explosions, or
  blooms, of microscopic plants called
  phytoplankton, or simply algae. When these
  algae die they sink to the bottom, and the
  decomposition process removes oxygen from the
  water. Despite limited success in reducing
  nutrients during the 1990s, there is no evidence
  of overall water quality improvement in the Bay
  and its tributaries.

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Scorecard Outreach, Education, Quantify
Awareness, Results of Programs

• Green Landscaping
• Clean Transportation
• Energy Efficiency and Conservation
• Eating Green

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Proposed 2008 WFH Environmental Conference

• Platform whole program Chesapeake Watershed wide
• Within DC GreenFest with over 20,000 participants
  (busy election year combine events)
• Pre conference debate with US EPA and Friends of
  the Earth (UDC)
• Scorecard kiosks enter you in raffle for prizes
• Town Hall Meeting
• Educational Play Whatever Happened to the Dead
  Zone (of the Chesapeake Bay)
• 80 of presenters Cultural Diversity, Female and
  Youth
• Partners and stakeholders in programs present and
  participate

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CHESAPEAKE WATERSHED ECOTOUR

• Includes developing similar local EcoTours as
  those above in each municipality

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700 mile Chesapeake Watershed EcoTour Target
Areas

• Cooperstown, NY
• Oneonta, NY
• Scranton, PA
• Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Hazelton, NJ
• Pottsville, PA
• Harrisburg, PA

• Lancaster, PA
• Baltimore, MD
• Washington, DC
• Annapolis, MD
• Salisbury, MD
• Cape Charles, VA
• Virginia Beach, VA

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8 WARD EcoTour

• Model for Watershed EcoTour Program
• Long ride concurrent Clean Busses and 40 Bikers
  for 40 miles (hard ride)
• 8 EcoActive Stops with guides
• Involve Town Hall Meeting, Intergenerational
  Educational Play, Group Lunch, Networking, SAG
  Vehicles/Bike Mechanics, etc

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Future US Watershed EcoTours

• Great Lakes Ecosystem
• Gulf of Mexico
• Long Island Sound
• South Florida Ecosystem
• Puget Sound Basin

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Example of EcoTour in DC
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Anacostia EcoTour Stops

• US Department of Transportation Green Roof

• Virginia Ave Community Garden

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Sample Fact Sheet US DOTGreen Roof

• Roof Contractor Gordon Roofing
• The greenroof includes various drought-resistant
  succulents planted in a mixture of sand and
  engineered soil. Approximately 136,000 sedums
  were planned for this project, 72 cell size and
  included
• Sedum Floriferum Kamtchaticum
• Sedum Spurium Tricolor
• Sedum Spurium Fuldagult
• Sedum John Creech
• Sedum Album Coral Carpet
• Sedum Acre Gold Moss
• Sedum Linaris Blue Spruce
• The new Department of Transportation Headquarters
  facility is located near the Navy Yard in
  Southeast Washington D.C.

• Project Name U.S. Department of Transportation
• Year 2007
• Owner JBG Properties
• Location Washington, DC, USA
• Building Type Municipal/Government
• Greenroof Type Extensive
• Greenroof System Single Source Provider
• Roof Size 69000 sq.ft.
• Roof Slope 1.5
• Access Accessible, Private
• Submitted by Wayne Mills
• Designers/Manufacturers of Record
• Plant Supplier Waynes Wholesale Nursery
  Architects Corush, Sunderland, Wright
• Plant Installation Davey Tree Co. Soil
  Supplier JK Enterprise Landscape
• Supply

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What CES programs apply?

• Virginia Ave SE Community Garden Extremely
  local and cheap food soil nutrient enhancement
• Uses freeway right-of-way space. Other comm.
  gardens sometimes use vacant building lots. In
  these cases, the garden adds helpful nutrients to
  the soil and can help control erosion
• Neighborhood grown produce helps
• Create more consumer control over the produce
  sold in stores,
• Reduces transportation costs and pollution of
  market grown produce,
• Gives urban low income families the skills and
  confidence to grow produce in their own yard,
• Saves the resident money, gives them outdoor
  exercise, increases appreciation of Nature.

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• Judys Solar Home

• Eastern Market

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What CES programs apply?

• Eastern Market Bringing the rural economy into
  the city
• Local and regional foods by local farmers.
  Have a fresh tomato.
• Judys Solar House Home alterations to make it
  more energy efficient
• Solar panels on roof hidden from street, hence
  no problem for a historical area
• A number of salvaged materials used on the
  interior
• Energy efficient kitchen appliances installed
  energy efficient heating system.
• Tankless hot water heater

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• RiverSmart Home WARD 6

• Kingman Island

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What CES programs apply?

• Ward 6 RiverSmart Home Modifications to reduce
  water runoff. Very important in cities
• rain barrels to collect rain runoff from the
  roof.
• loose brick patio area - allows the rain the
  percolate into the ground easier less runoff
• plants and grass kept healthy to help hold rain
  water.
• Kingman and Heritage Island Nature haven in
  the inner city
• 40 acre and 5 acre area created in 1916 via
  dredging of the river
• many uses proposed for it over the years,
  including an airstrip and an amusement park
• Current plan Park, wildlife habitat, trails,
  and environmental education center

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• Hydrogen Fueling Shell Station

• Lady Byrd Johnson Park

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What CES programs apply?

• Benning Road Bridge and Shell Hydrogen Station
  Alternative transportation modes
• Renovated bridge is bike and pedestrian friendly
• Only pollution-free fueling hydrogen station
  in the metro area. Go fill up
• Access point to Kingman Is. including Langston
  golf course

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• Anacostia Park - Urban Tree House

• Marvin Gaye Park

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What CES programs apply?

• Marvin Gaye and Lady Bird Parks A ribbon of
  green in urban Anacostias ward 8
• Part of a linear park system running into the
  Anacostia river
• includes an extended bike path connecting many
  parts of Anacostia
• Major upgrading to make it cleaner, safer, and
  linked to other green spots

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• Nationals Stadium

• Poplar Point

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What CES programs apply?

• Poplar Point - on the Anacostia River eastern
  side waterfront
• 110 acres - now in grass and woods being
  transferred from Fed. Govt to DC govt
• Proposal is to develop about 70 acres with 40
  acres as a urban park. Some want no
  development
• Baseball Stadium/Park A newly constructed
  green facility seeking LEED certification
• underground water filtration system
• green roof drought resistant plants
  conserving water usage
• energy efficient stadium lights.
• many regional materials less transportation
  costs and many recycled materials
• accessible by public transport parking for car
  pools and fuel efficient cars

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Summation - Spiritual Component?

• "Our personal consumer choices have ecological,
  social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to
  re-examine some of our deeply held notions that
  underlie our lifestyles."David Suzuki - science
  broadcaster and environmental activist.
• Integrity, do whats right for Humanity if you
  contribute to future generations do you benefit?