[Lapg] Fwd: Need Eco-Vols for X Games 11

[Joan Stevens]

--- Marialyce Pedersen <marialycep at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:37:15 -0700
> Subject: Need Eco-Vols for X Games 11
> From: Marialyce Pedersen <marialycep at earthlink.net>
> To: X Games Vols? <marialycep at earthlink.net>
> CC: Marialyce Pedersen
> <marialyce.pedersen at disney.com>
> 
> Hello friends!
> 
> My colleagues at the Disney1s Environmentality
> office and I have been
> working together with our ESPN X Games team, to
> 3green2 their upcoming event
> (X Games 11, August 4-7th, 2005), and ensure maximum
> recycling diversion as
> well as lots of environmentally preferred
> purchasing!
> 
> I1m contacting you because we could really use some
> more good
> 3Environmentality Volunteers2 later this week, to
> help out with
> environmental initiatives at the events, being held
> at the Home Depot Center
> in Carson and the Staples Center in downtown L.A.
> 
> Event participants will have the opportunity to sort
> their compostable paper
> cups, trays and food scraps, from their recyclable
> bottles & cans, from
> their just-plain-garbage for the trash, at more than
> 200 three-way container
> stations located in the outdoor event areas at the
> two venues.
> 
> Environmentality Volunteers will don new X Games
> Environmentality t-shirts,
> and then be posted around the events, to help guests
> get it right, and hand
> out 3Got Caught Recycling2 coins which can be
> redeemed at the TRASHed
> Recycling Stores for super-cool (a.k.a., 3dope2 or
> 3phat2) prizes donated by
> X Games athletes and sponsors. We1ll also need help
> staffing the stores,
> handing out prizes, and checking Recycling Fact
> Quizzes, that can also be
> turned in for stuff.
> 
> Or, you could support our L.A. County Smart
> Gardening Team--they will be
> stationed at the 3Compost X1s2 (planter boxes filled
> with compost from
> Community Recycling), teaching people what
> composting is, why it1s such a
> beautiful thing, and how they can do it in the
> backyard too! My colleague
> and friend Deborah Orrill and her co-workers from
> the California Integrated
> Waste Management Board will also have a 3Zero Waste
> California: X the Waste
> 052 booth, demonstrating some of the amazing
> recycled-content products now
> available (and handing out neat recycled gifts too).
> 
> We WON1T ask you to actually empty any of the
> containers, I mentioned the
> new & styley t-shirt you will look good in, you1ll
> get fed at the Volunteer
> Catering tent, you1ll probably get to see ME in
> action, and you1ll be there
> in the midst of the X Games extreme action sports
> (insane skateboarding,
> biking, motorcycling, surfing and beyond), educating
> people who may not know
> what composting is or why #5 plastic to-go boxes are
> not locally recyclable.
> 
> I hope you1ll consider signing up‹or forwarding this
> to anyone you know who
> might be up for some eco-hero/ine-ism (must be 18 or
> over-except for Soren)!
> 
> On a personal note, supporting this event greening
> is an amazing dream come
> true for me, having attended SO many events in the
> past, which although
> entertaining, generally left me sad and frustrated
> at the end, seeing the
> volumes of both recyclable and unrecyclable trash
> left behind on the event
> grounds for cleanup crews to collect and then send
> to the landfill. To at
> last be proactively addressing this, with a group of
> really dedicated,
> environmentally conscious, mostly young, 3extreme
> event organizers2 who work
> year-round in support of the incredible athletes
> being showcased at the X
> Games, has been an honor, a privilege and an extreme
> career highlight.
> 
> Thank you one and all for reading this and making it
> onto my 3green2
> recipient list: every little bit you do does make a
> big difference!  Love,
> Marialyce
> 
> 
> > To learn more about X Games Environmentality
> volunteering and to sign up, see
> > item #05 at:
> >
>
http://www.xgamesvolunteers.com/s_volunteer_roles.html
> > 
> > Disney1s Environmentality (my department1s
> website) can be found at:
> > http://www.disneysenvironmentality.com
> > 
> > For more on the TRASHed Recycling Store, see:
> > http://www.globalinheritance.org
> > 
> > Check out the Action Sports Environmental
> Coalition, to learn about
> > eco-athletes in action:
> > http://www.asec.org
> > 
> > To read about the X Games, see:
> > http://www.expn.com
> > 
> > And, there1s a California Resource Recovery
> Association technical council that
> > I serve on, established just to encourage venue
> and special event recycling,
> > at:
> > http://www.crra.com (click on Technical Councils,
> then Venues & Special Events
> > Council‹VSERC) 
> 
> Peace OUT!
> 


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