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o Because it’s “Coffee for Conservation!” o You preserve critical migratory corridor habitat. o You help farms stay in the hands of local farmers! o You promote environmentally sound growing practices! o With every pound that you buy, you donate to conservation, education and social programs that bene½ t the Monteverde community and forest. o Farmers receive a fair market price! o And you get delicious coffee! Fall / winter 2012-13 Issue 8 Regeneration Stuff — Contents —

4 Defi nition: Stuff 5 A Slice of the System 7 It’s Not Just a T-shirt 9 Eco-Thrift 11 To Get What You Need 12 Wrap It Up 14 Activity 15 The Flip Side of Saving 16 Keeping Cool 18 Tiny Homes Make a Big Bang! 20 Bosque Para Siempre 22 Summer in a Jar 23 DIY 24 Recipes

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2 Regeneration Change the World Kids Who We Are

REGENERATION REGENERATION is the magazine of Change the World Kids. The mission is to promote an ecologically and socially responsible lifestyle, and to encourage local and global environmental activism for future generations. Change the World Kids Change the World Kids is a group of youth in middle and high school dedicated to making the world a better place through humanitarian and environmental projects. We are an independent, 1046 Atwood Lane diverse, teen-run non-pro t organization. Our work enables us to learn life-skills and offers Woodstock, VT challenges that have changed our lives, our families, and our communities. 05091 (802) 457-2622 Over the past twelve years we have provided tens of thousands of hours of volunteer service, locally and globally. For example, we help individuals in need by stacking wood, weatherizing homes, making Chief Editor: emergency meals, digging ditches for solar power, Katherine Tucker installing clotheslines, working with special needs children, helping people with serious illnesses get back on their feet, baking cookies while keeping someone Staff: company, repairing substandard housing, doing yard Anna Ramsey work, providing free baby-sitting, offering community dinners, and more. We work for free. Asa Waterworth Finn McFarland Through our project Bosque para Siempre, we are conserving and replanting a migratory rain Kristin Ramsey forest corridor in Costa Rica, critical to the survival of indigenous species and neo-tropical migrants Peter Wilson from the United States and Canada. Towards this effort, we have raised over $215,000, and planted Spruce Bohen 1,065 trees in one day! Internationally we have a number of humanitarian initiatives. The largest is Teale Bohen Teens Connecting Continents, helping children in Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Columbia to overcome the challenges of poverty, violence, and disease by building Violet Spann youth programs; providing quality education, supporting health initiatives, and promoting hope in rural and urban communities.

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changetheworldkids.org 3 Defi nition: Stuff

Stuff. Deeply and dramatically, it’s the essential elements and substance of the universe. The essence of anything is its stuff. It’s the raw materials from which things are created, the possessions of our lives, and, interestingly, the essence of one’s character and nature. “We are such stuff/As dreams are made.” (Shakespeare)

Take a trip. Packing bags can take days, because we care about having our stuff with us. Stuff helps us feel comfortable and prepared. Move from your home. Decisions about what stuff to bring can make the move feel overwhelming. Particularly about stuff that you aren’t using, but are saving. For posterity.

Material goods can change life for the better. And yet, getting what you want versus getting what you really need can be a complicated dilemma. Printed, broadcasted and online merchandising encourages us to purchase. The newest trendy items are featured in store after store. Are they actually bargains or burdens? The developed world has a culture of consumerism.

Governments are greatly in uenced by the producers of stuff, !  the movers and shakers of commerce. We are in uenced by  '*-&*()'+-, 2013 the multitude of producers and marketers that encourage us to consume more stuff. Sometimes even people in the  ". government tell us to shop for stuff as a response to an    emergency.    "!!    The global economy is driven by stuff. Production, promotion,          packaging, policy, and procedure. Gadgets and goodies. Stuff propels societies but de es socio-economic logic.  !" %  ! $ "!"  ! Retail and resale. Second-hand or new. Hand-made or      manufactured. Home-preserved or big-business processed.   %.% Minimalist or super-size. Will a revolution against a throw-away    mentality and need-more philosophy result in a sustainable solution to the objects in our lives? #   ""!% $     Stuff is a global superstar that has changed the biodiversity, topography, and human cultures of our earth and that plays a huge role in our future. ! ! /  7024563871

4 Regeneration A Slice of the System I am a green rubber band. My existence began on school year. The next morning, I bounced in the bus to school. a rubber plantation in the tropical forests of Thailand. There I jostled around in the darkness of the boy’s pencil case until the workers harvest rubber from hundreds of para rubber just before lunch, when the boy pulled me out. Looping me trees. This is done by cutting a gash into the side of a tree and around his thumbs, he stretched me, pulling one of my ends collecting the milky sap that falls into coconut shells in half. back, and then aimed me at a nearby boy. When he shot, I  ew It’s a natural process at my beginning, but after that? Judge for through the air, but instead of hitting the boy’s target, I sailed yourself! right past, straight into the trash can. There I was stuck, and no Once collected, the natural rubber from which I am one jumped to rescue me. My owner never came to get me, made was shipped to 25 factories nor any other person. in South Africa. Unfortunately, I realized I would never be rescued, the workers who unpacked me never be used for any of the were not very gentle, as they purposes for which I was created. were forced to work in horrid Someone tied up the trash bag and conditions. The factory stank carried it outside,  inging it into the of something awful, and the refuse dumpster. Later that day, a workers worked painful 12 hour smoky machine dumped the bag days, averaging about 60 hours a into the garbage truck. The hydraulic week. In that factory, multicolored arms in the truck squeezed the trash synthetic pigments were added to together, compacting it until I was the rubber to create all sorts of so stuck that every bit of me was hues. Our batch, a bright green, compressed. I was mashed against a was extruded through a long tube, shattered iPhone. forming a 40 foot long hollow The truck came to a stop at the noodle. The rubber was sliced San Francisco port, and our compact into hundreds of thin sections of different lengths, making me. section of trash was loaded into a large shipping container. I From there, the other bands and I were packaged and sent heard the clank of a hook, and then felt the container swaying across the world via large freighters. in the air towards a freighter. There was a hard thump as we Millions of pounds of red rubber bands were sent were set down on the deck. The ship was loaded, and we to the US Postal Service to hold the mail together, but not were on our way. me. No, I was shipped off to one of the 1,500 Staples of ce For days we motored across the Paci c, until we supply stores in the US. There I languished for months, until stopped on one of the Hawaiian Islands for fuel. As soon as it was time for students to go back to school. Back to school we were  lled up, we set out to sea again. For a day more, we shopping is when students and families respond to marketing cut a dirty wake through the ocean, and  nally made landfall. ads by purchasing millions of pounds of school supplies from Our freighter was unloaded in Laos, but that was not our independent and chain stores across the US. My blue, orange,  nal destination. No, from Laos, we were trucked north to red, white, and brown companions started  ying off the shelf. Myanmar, a country with acres upon acres of land lls, and When there were only three green rubber band packets left, there, our shipping container was unloaded. I felt myself rolling somebody bought me! down a steep incline, and ending up stationary. I tried not to I was taken to my new home and put straight into feel useless and hopeless. I would probably be stuck there for a little boy’s pencil case with a clump of new pens, pencils, about 20 years, until the UV rays of the sun combined with erasers, and highlighters, all brand new and ready for the wind and rain, causing me to disintegrate into the earth. changetheworldkids.org 5 But then, there was hope! Coming towards me was a young boy, dressed in rags, wading through the  lth. He walked along, picking apart anything he saw that might hold value. Using a stick to pry open our cube of trash, he reached his hand deep into the belly of the cube. His hand brushed against me! Alas, he grasped the iPhone beside me. Sustainable iPhone in hand, he slogged off, leaving me. I slowly sunk into the mountain of trash, and there, I was left to waste away. Woodstock -Peter Wilson Sustaining Environment, Claassen, A. (n.d.). Conditions of Employment. Retrieved November 4, 2012 from The South African Labour Guide: http://www.labourguide.co.za/conditions-of- Economy &Community employment/hours-of-work-and-overtime-389

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6 Regeneration It’s Not Just a T-shirt

Every product that enters our lives has what they call a  elds with no protection from pesticides. Uzbekistan is one ‘hidden history’- an undocumented inventory of wasted of the world’s largest exporters of . In order to meet or lost materials used in its production, transport, use, the government imposed cotton production quotas, millions and disposal. of Uzbekistanian children are forced to leave school and pick ~ Paul Hawkens, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins cotton. is another common fast fabric. Because A T-shirt sits under the  uorescent lights of a it is not made out of plant material, polyester does not department store. It is freshly folded atop a precarious stack require pesticides, but its production is far from ecologically of identically styled shirts. Being a “must have” for the season, perfect. Cozy  eeces, long underwear, and Gore-Tex outdoor this shirt is anticipated to  y off the shelves. It is surrounded clothing are all made from synthetic polyester. Polyester is the by a maze of new clothing, all stacked and hung in order of most commonly used manufactured  ber. It is made from color and size. Flashy banners are placed throughout the store petroleum in an energy intensive process. This process emits to advertise incredibly cheap deals. gases such as Volatile Organic All of these clothes are a part of Compounds (VOC’s,) into the the” ” industry, the air. Manufacturing polyester uses equivalent of fast food. a large amount of energy and Generally, fast fashion water. A vast amount of water clothing is not manufactured in is used in the cooling process of the US. This particular clothing has this woven plastic material. come from China, where it was A T-shirt sits under the made cheaply and in large quantities. dappled shade of a Baobab tree Because it is made inexpensively, in Africa. It lies in a haphazard fast fashion clothing wears out easily, heap left by a boy who neglected and is therefore disposed of more quickly than higher quality it while playing in the hot sun. On its front in bold lettering is clothing. People buy more of this clothing because it is cheap, the name of an American football team. This shirt came in a and disposing of it creates huge amounts of waste. In the US, large shipment of used clothes from the US. The African boy’s 12 million tons of textile waste is thrown away every year. mother bought it for him in the local African village. Today, 70% That equals up to 65,000 truckloads of clothing! of the world’s population out ts itself in used garments from The department store is a maze of colors and designs. other countries. Shirts are available in a variety of shades. The colors are fun, but In the US, only 12 to 15% of people buy used sadly they are costly to the environment. It takes 256 gallons clothing. The good news is that thrift shop sales in the US of water to produce one T-shirt. A large amount of this water are growing at 5% per year. Among teens and young adults, is used to dye the shirt. Fixatives, which are the substances “thrifting” is a trendy way to  nd unique clothing. The Council used to keep the color of a T-shirt from running, often drain for Textile Recycling estimates that every year people from factories and pollute rivers and sewers with toxins. purchasing used clothing save 2.5 billion pounds of post- Most fast fashion clothing is made of thin cotton. consumer (e.g. anything cloth) from going into the Tremendous quantities of pesticides are used to grow non- waste stream. organic cotton. It uses the most pesticides of any crop in the Evening sunlight shines upon a T-shirt in a local shop world. One third of a pound of pesticides is used to make that in a small town in the US. The T-shirt has been touched and single shirt. In developing countries, farmers work in cotton handled by shoppers throughout the day, and is now freshly changetheworldkids.org 7 folded for opening time the next morning. This T-shirt is new, but it is not an article of the fast fashion industry. It is made out Facts about Clothes of organic cotton and produced in the USA under fair trade •Factory workers In China for companies standards. This means that it is manufactured using sustainable such as Wal-Mart, J.C. Penny and Nike are methods that offer workers living-standard wages. As it is paid as low as 13 cents an hour. made out of organic cotton and natural dyes, this shirt uses absolutely no pesticides in its production. •Americans throw away 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per person, per year. In many ways, what you wear makes a global •It takes 1,800 gallons of water to make one statement. Before impulsively buying an inexpensive, trendy pair of . piece of apparel, such as the cheap T-shirt, consider its long- term impact on our planet. Sustainably produced clothing may •The carbon dioxide emissions from making initially cost more; however, it is likely that you will enjoy those one pair of jeans equals driving 78 miles in a items for a longer period of time. Purchasing clothing locally is car. best, but a speci c garment not locally available can sometimes be found “gently used” by searching the Internet. Buy recycled •Every year, approximately 550 million tons of municipal solid waste (garbage) is created for the least impact. Bottom line? Style yourself eco-friendly! in the US, and 12 million of this comes from -Spruce Bohen textiles www.apartmenttherapy.com/donating-169341 www.monolake.org/waterconservation/ •Only 15% of the 12 million tons of textile united bers.wordpress.com/tag/compadre-club/ waste is reused or recycled.

     

8 Regeneration Eco-Thrift

Your new clothes are old clothes, and your stunning equipment, such as a baby stroller, costs a tiny fraction of the new sofa is not really new? To many people, shopping at original price. You get satisfaction from your great  nds, and second hand stores would be unthinkable. They fear unhygienic your purchase often supports a charity or organization. For surroundings, questionable quality, or even being seen looking example, at the Rutland Open Door Mission in Vermont, pro ts through – or wearing - someone else’s clothing. These people from their thrift store account for 80-85% of the money used miss out on the wonders of “thrifting,” the lingo coined in to run their Veteran’s shelter. Lukana’s Dream in Bethel uses 1990s California to describe shopping for used goods. proceeds from its thrift and global exchange store to support In the past  ve years, the number of people who go impoverished communities around the world. LISTEN’s thrift thrifting without self-consciousness on a regular basis has grown stores in Lebanon, NH and White River Junction, VT help dramatically. First Research estimates that annual revenues of support their social service programs. second hand shops in the US total $13 billion. While retail You frequently  nd treasures, one of a kind or perfectly stores close due to the downturn functional pieces, and some in the economy, in the past two happy buyers have found an years alone the number of resale actual treasure at a thrift store. shops has increased by 7%. Artists In California, a person bought an rap about trips to the thrift shop, original Jackson Pollock painting and celebrities tweet about the for $5, that later was assessed cool vintage things they’ve found for a value of $50 million. A there. What once was considered purchase of a $4 picture frame taboo for some is now a national led to the buyer’s discovery of pastime for adults and teens, one of the original 500 copies and a necessity for many. In the of America’s Declaration of smallest towns and the biggest Independence folded behind the cities, people rejoice over their frame’s painting; it sold at auction discoveries of soft  annels, ugly for $2,420,000. holiday sweaters,  oor lamps, and Reusing rather than vintage t-shirts. buying new clothing and items What type of person cuts your carbon footprint, thrifts? Shoppers span socio- saving resources, reducing economic ranges and generations. Savvy shoppers who want manufacturing pollutants, and eliminating the petroleum used to save money. Buyers who love a bargain. People who want in production. Thrift store stock usually comes from the greater to purchase something that can’t be found in superstores or local community so requires less energy in transportation. retail shops, something unusual or retro. A consumer research Billions of pounds of fabric waste are kept out of land lls by  rm, America’s Research Group, calculates that 16-18% of those who make used clothing purchases. Americans will shop at a thrift shop this year. This is impressive, While shopping at thrift stores is a good habit, since they estimate that only 11.4% will shop in factory outlet donating to thrift stores can be a somewhat different story. malls and 21.3% at major department stores. Without donations, thrift stores would not exist, and the Searching through jumbled racks and bins at thrift charities and organizations that they support would lose a fair stores, yard sales, and  ea markets can be challenging, so why amount of income. However, thrift stores often receive more go thrifting? 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Everyone on the planet has basic human needs - to eat, more than a small oven and a makeshift sink, or an outdoor  re, drink, rest, and be safe; how did living in America come to involve a pot, and makeshift utensils. In her 10’ x 12’ kitchen in Sicily (no so much stuff? For example, you pick up this magazine by chance, microwave, small refrigerator, wood burning enameled stove for maybe in the waiting room of a dentist’s of ce, where a  at winter cooking), a woman prepares dinner for six. .Stuffed garden screen television  ashes an ad for a new-and-improved product peppers with Italian sheep cheese, cauli ower with pasta drizzled to make your life better and easier. You check your smartphone with local olive oil, baked  sh fresh from the Tyrrhenian Sea, sun- for messages. Later, you unlock your car dried tomatoes and celery that she with an anti-theft key, drive to shops preserved in oil. Slow Food and  ve star and home using your new GPS gadget, from this small kitchen. Elsewhere in the turn on your computer to catch up on world, in the mountains of Vietnam, a emails, and make use of any number farmer prepares a quick dinner of rice of appliances to construct your dinner. and  sh, caught from a neighboring river Your use of stuff never really stops, even and quickly steamed in a pan over a when you turn off the TV after viewing warm  re. Later he and his family will sit the last of the approximately 1,500 down on the  oor to eat dinner served commercial messages you received on traditional raised mats. in the day, and go sleep among many Imagine doing the same sort of pillows. While the above scenario is an comparison of bathrooms or bedrooms exaggeration for some, for many Americans this lifestyle is reality. of the cultures and socioeconomic classes across the globe. We buy what we want compared to what we need. As Sometimes it’s clear that better stuff is needed. If the drinking Americans we consume more “stuff” per capita than anywhere water is unsafe because of bacteria or toxins, a  lter system else in the world, equivalent to 300 shopping bags full of raw of some sort is needed, and that might be a one-cup or a materials each week. That’s incredible. Additionally, the United multiple gallon  ltration unit. But often we acquire things that States is home to a mere 5% of the world’s people, and yet are unnecessary, things that we desire. Why? Because the stuff is we are responsible for the consumption of an astounding interesting, cool, inexpensive, pretty, sensational, or any of dozens 30% of our world’s resources. Facts like these become easier of reasons, none of which have the primary consideration of to visualize when viewed through a more personal lens. need. Material world, material girls and guys. The developed Many American kitchens, with their spacious countertops, world is exempli ed by its stuff. Envied by some, vili ed by others. chrome appliances, and refrigerator door water dispensers are What we need to do is reach a reasonable compromise windows into how we meet a basic need. What might we see between wants and needs. Between sustainable and unsustainable through the kitchen window of a four person American family? use of resources. I am just beginning to understand the bigger Stack (more than 4) of dinner plates, dessert plates. Stacks of big and implications of building partnerships and working on projects that smaller bowls. Many glasses, tall, short, narrow, wide, plus many mugs. have social and economic goals, rather than a strict philosophy Serving platters of many sizes. Cabinets of pots and baking dishes. that  nancial success is selling more of your stuff to make money. A drawer full of eating utensils. Dozens of cooking utensils. Recipe Bottom line dichotomy, stuff does not make happiness, and you books - maybe a dozen or more. Appliances that use electricity: need stuff to live. What choices will you make? freezer with an ice maker, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, toaster, -Katherine Tucker toaster oven, food processor, blender, mixer, coffeemaker (maybe http://www.worldwatch.org/node/810 the coffeemaker is hand-press). This is standard fare. In addition, http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Americans-Consume-24percent.htm http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/american-food-consumption-statistics- often there are personal favorites, such as a slow cooker/crock pot, infographic/ waf e iron, mandolin, or hand mixer. http://www.outreachworld.org/Files/Curriculum/sea_food_and_culture.pdf In many areas of the world, a kitchen consists of nothing Photo by: Phebe Meyers (Naviti, Figi)

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Neon green, teeny bags. See-through shopping but if plastics aren’t being recycled, they still  ll the land lls. sacks that are purses. Boxes  tting into boxes that fold to For packaging a bundle of items, such as napkins, be  owers. Once upon a time, before there was plastic, many manufacturers switched to stronger, thinner plastics; cardboard or Styrofoam, people used natural resources however, they cannot use these for food products on hand for packaging, such as baskets made from reeds, because the thinner the plastic, the less material between pots from clay, and boxes from wood. In 1035AD, paper the food and all the germs living in the grocery store. was widely introduced as packaging, when a Persian traveler Currently we are only using thin biodegradable plastics visiting markets in Cairo saw produce, spices and other for things such as eating utensils and food packages. merchandise being wrapped in paper for customers. In the Natural resources are used widely in food packaging. early 1800s, steel and iron was crafted into cans, and in Steel cans are used for foods, paint, and beverages. the 19th century  berboards were introduced as cartons. Paperboard made from plant  ber is one of the most The twentieth century brought plastics and polymers. broadly used materials to package things like cereal or Now, it’s packaging gone wild, maybe to our detriment. granola bars. Aluminum is commonly used in beverage cans Consider just a thin slice of packaging, containers and foil. Cryovac plastic is made from plants and is used that directly hold stuff for us to eat or use. If you are at to vacuum-seal food, keeping it fresh and nutritious longer. the store buying disposable cups for a party, do you choose Now consider another tier of packaging, the paper, plastic or Styrofoam? Let’s start with Styrofoam. packaging that holds or keeps safe the packages that Styrofoam cups have the best insulation of the three, but actually hold stuff. Bags at cash registers. Boxes and cases for they are made with chemicals that are bad for you and are advertising. Containers and boxes for shipping. Protective known to contribute to global warming. A 2007 test reveals materials in the boxes from shipping. A two inch computer that some hot water inside a Styrofoam cup contains a USB drive is  tted into printed boxboard four times its harmful chemical called “styrene”, and the temperature size, and then this boxboard with its attractive advertising of the water is said to have a lot to do with it. Not good is sealed in an even bigger stiff plastic case. Thousands of for your coffee, tea, or cocoa! In many cities, including San goods are put into custom-made corrugated cardboard Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Portland, Santa Monica, Santa frames, which are glued into marketing boxes, surrounded Cruz, and Seattle, the use of Styrofoam containers in by stuf ng to protect the items during storage and restaurants is outlawed because of how environmentally transport, and  nally put into a larger shipping box that unfriendly they are. In addition, Styrofoam cups never may be coated with a petroleum-based waterproo ng, At deteriorate, so they take up signi cant space in land lls. stores, the large boxes are unpacked, the goods but on Paper cups are more expensive than Styrofoam. shelves, and then put into a shopping bag at the register. Some are not recyclable because they have a wax “Would you like paper or plastic today?” Many coating, or a micro-thin plastic layer to make sure that grocery store baggers don’t bother to ask this question drinks don’t seep through. Some paper cups are any more. Since they were  rst introduced in the 1970’s, biodegradable. Paper cups take more material by weight plastic bags have taken over more than 80% of grocery to ensure proper insulation than Styrofoam or plastic store market, because they are strong and inexpensive. Less Plastic cups are the cheapest of all three than a cent! Some are reused as trash can liners, “doggie materials, but they cannot be used for hot drinks. Some bags,” and carriers of clothing, books and school lunches, are biodegradable or recyclable, if they are the right kind But many end up clinging in trees, clogging drains, blowing of plastic, but not all are recyclable. Plastic is usually very along streets, or just dumped into land lls where they sit for strong, so it offers sturdiness while it is also lightweight. 100 years or more, leaking toxins. Sadly, many plastic bags Since plastic is so light, less fuel is required in transportation. are found  oating in oceans, and inside bellies of sea turtles. The thinner the packaging, the less land ll space is taken up, Not surprisingly, packaging has come to be symbolized

12 Regeneration by waste. Today the recycling rate of paperboard cereal and as my notebook and scarf, making them dif cult to contain. granola bar boxes is 49%, and the recycling rate for steel cans Items sit on custom-designed corrugated couches inside is only 16%. Often grocery baggers use  ve or six bags when their boxes, surrounded by blankets of cushioning packaging. . only two are necessary. About 80-85% of United States citizens And, if you’ve traveled recently, you’ve probably seen people , participate in some form of recycling, which is pretty good. using machines that wrap luggage in layers of plastic sheeting. ; But the vast amount of packaging materials heads to land lls. When a package travels, it’s exposed to weather, so items s Bags and boxes attract consumers, and the effectiveness are sealed in plastic, and their boxes are wrapped in plastic. of this form of advertising has created an explosion in design. Basically, it’s too much. Although the shopping bags . Shopping bags (function: to carry purchased goods) are a painted with biodiversity – animal spots and stripes, tropical s main form of advertising, since bag carrying customers walk leaves dripping pearls of rain – are stunning, and the careful . around endorsing boxing, . the store or cushioning, . product. Graphic and sealing t designers create makes it r logos and possible s artwork that f o r i t e m s sends powerful to arrive r. messages – and undamaged, e attracts attention t h e r e i s t of potential so much r customers. packaging e There are lots of that it r shopping bags. should make s Approximately us wonder. g 5 trillion bags Might it f are made in the US per year. Boxes (function: to protect the be possible to reduce the amount of packaging waste by product from damage) also come in all sorts of clever shapes, producing and buying things locally? What would happen sizes, colors, and materials to distinctively advertise the item if we insisted that most – or all – packaging materials inside. Fragile boxes made of origami folds. Liquids contained were recyclable and made of sustainable resources? t in plastic containers that look like barbells or guns or holiday Guess what! The early packing peanuts were actual t ornaments. Hard cases that look like coconuts or bananas. peanut shells. A third tier of packaging is due to our global economy. -VioletSpann The things we purchase are often made in countries far r. http://www.greendustries.com/unido.pdf from our hometown, and the shipping industry had already y http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2284584 dramatically increased over the past two centuries before , outsourcing and trade policies exponentially increased the y number of goods that we transport globally. FedEx ships s more than 3.4 million packages, and 72 million pounds of Amazing Fact! e goods per day. Products leave by sea or plane and arrive by The largest sheet of bubble wrap is 600 square or truck. Lots of miles of travel require careful cushioning , feet. The amount of bubble wrap made each year packaging. This is an industry in itself, generating rolls of g would stretch from the earth to our moon. r bubble wrap, shredded post-consumer waste generated from www.bubblewrap.com recycled or end rolls of paper, and “peanuts” made of PVC s www.answerbag.com . squishy worms or tiny Styrofoam cupped disks. Charged with static electricity, these cling to things in the environment, such

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14 Regeneration The Flip Side of Saving

Peeping out of the top of an over owing trash bag is usually on a monthly basis. Of the 58,000 self-storage facilities a stuffed bear, its melancholy eyes following your gaze, stitched worldwide in 2009, 46,000 were located in the United mouth forming a sad smile. Many people would take one look States. Now there are more than 2.35 billion square feet of at that bear and want storage space in the US. That’s to rescue it from the equivalent to a land area three trash. They remember times the size of Manhattan their favorite stuffed Island! According to the Self- animal or one loved by Storage Association, one a child dear to them. in ten US households now Hugging the bear tightly rents a storage unit. Many during a thunderstorm, people can’t bear to part with playing with it when their belongings; however, parents are having one the collapsing economy has of their “serious talks,” created an opportunity for dressing it up and having Americans to reassess the adventures. Would you throw something out on the street if loads of stuff we accumulate. This may involve rolling up the you were that attached to it? Would you save it, even if you door of a storage unit to move our property out of our knew that you’d never actually need or use it again? possession. Personal things with deep memories or meaning In other times and cultures people were much less behind them have sentimental value, and often people consider likely to bind their memories to saved stuff. They simply didn’t these the most valuable of their possessions, even if the things have as much stuff! Personal memories were stored inside are tattered or of poor quality. The value is in emotional one’s mind and heart. Things such as the environment, weather, sentiment, not function or dollars. We love things best of all people, smells, and sounds triggered the deep feelings common because of their associations to people and experiences. The to sentimental memories. Lacking libraries and museums,  rst day of school. Traveling to Europe with family. Best friends. storytellers, bards, musicians and playwrights all were keepers Tough times. Family heirlooms. Some have monetary value or of cultural history and memories, and they passed these to remain useful, and others do not, such as a thumb- given upcoming generations. Now we have attics, basements, and in  rst grade or a throw-up bucket never used at hospital. I storage areas dedicated to our personal histories. Plus with have most of my stuffed animals from when I was little. I don’t cameras, SNAP, and that moment is captured, forever available play with them anymore, but I still keep some on my shelf. to look at and remember. Sentimental stuff brings up powerful emotions. Does tying deep feelings to stuff make us more In our culture it’s hard to remember when most super cial? It certainly promotes a consumer culture. Does things lasted for decades – or centuries. Now it seems what you have and save de ne your personal worth? For me, cheaper to discard rather than repair broken items, and then I value the experiences that I share with friends more than buy new replacements. We seek the latest thing, and toss the the presents that they give to me. Since it’s dif cult to let go less trendy. Studies of our garbage show that 99% of what of sentimental stuff, perhaps we should go back to giving of we purchase will no longer be in use in six months or less. ourselves, the true thing worth saving. The side effect of our throw-away culture is an ever growing -Teale Bohen mountain of waste. On the other hand people save things http://www.nytimes.org for sentimental value and create households of clutter. Since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/selfstorage many homes have neither attics nor basements, people store http://www. selfstorage.org/SSA/Content/Navigation/about sentimental things off-site. The business of storage units is booming. Self-storage is an industry in which space (rooms, lockers, containers and/ or an outdoor space) is rented to individuals and businesses, changetheworldkids.org 15 Keeping Cool

It’s mid-November and a crisp morning with the the  rst early frost hits, we still harvest cold-hardy vegetables, temperature just below freezing; why am I outside pounding such as chard, kale, leeks, winter squash, brussel sprouts, in spikes with a small sledgehammer? Ultimately, two reasons. I carrots, and beets. am an advocate for food justice, the af rmation that everyone Two years ago during a regular delivery to the food should have accessible, fresh, and affordable healthy food, and shelf, one of the group asked what locally grown produce was food that is available during the winter. produced in The answer was little or a fair manner. none. This sparked a quest And I am to  nd a long-term solution, a member with the challenge to provide of Change the produce without using the World non-renewable energy or Kids. We are precious funds on a fancy building a cooling system. root cellar to After a bit of research online help insure and with knowledgeable that people local farmers, we quickly in our greater realized that an old community fashioned root cellar was have access to healthy, locally produced food year round. It’s a the best option for keeping produce at a constant humidity great project that helps meet a big need. and temperature throughout the winter using nothing other After helping launch a community garden four years than the insulation of earth. We sought a steep north-facing ago, Change the World Kids currently maintains two large hillside, and settled on the bank behind the Woodstock vegetable gardens in the Woodstock Vermont area, growing Elementary School. This had the bene t of a partnership with vegetables for needy families. Starting each June, we deliver the school’s Farm-to-School program, which integrates local produce to our local food shelves, and by early July we deliver food into their cafeteria and nutrition studies. over a hundred pounds a week to provide community members Good site, but it required many permissions and with fresh, chemical-free (not certi ed organic because of the permits. A root cellar is such as ours is like a cave. A minimum costly certi cation process) vegetables, instead of canned. To of three feet of dirt needs to surround the walls on all sides say that these deliveries are heart-warming each week is an and the roof. Using our scribbled notes and photos, a Change understatement. Clearly the food is appreciated. One time the World Kid digitally designed the structure. We reviewed when we arrived late, the shoppers cheered - they’d thought the plan with local architects, Michael Ertel and Chris Miller, we might not be coming. Use of food shelves across the and a local structural engineer, John Kamb, who helped nation has increased dramatically. Vermont’s increase this year determine speci cations to bear the heavy load of dirt on the was 20%, and the crowded waiting room at the Woodstock roof. All volunteered their time. Food Shelf certainly indicates the growing need. Change the World Kids Food Justice committee So we till, plant, weed, tend and harvest. Not only do members presented the project to the Woodstock Elementary we grow traditional favorites, such as beans and tomatoes, School Board, the Woodstock Design Review Board, and the and stomach- lling crops including corn and potatoes, but we Woodstock Village Development Review Board. Interested plant vegetables that people on tight budgets consider extras, and enthusiastic, they granted approvals. The day we received such as lettuce, fresh herbs, arugula, and hot peppers. Once our  nal permit from the State of Vermont, we were ecstatic 16 Regeneration – and ready to dig! Excavation began in August 2012. Change the World Kids cleared the bank with weed whackers. We enlisted the     help of a local builder Erik Tobiason and excavator Craig      '(& ($('+('&)) &# &(") !%*& ) & )&#) !% &##*!&%&.)*&+()*&()!% %&,( %&% %  !* !,(+%*!&%

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   !$$%*!&%#(/#!% '(& ($&(%+$('#)*!) '*) &# (!** !#*() % *+(%) * $ !%*& *&&* (+) ) Mosher, who both volunteered long hours. Mosher’s powerful #+%   ) % $&( &+ % (&' & (!** !#*() * *  excavating machine bit dirt away from the hillside, and then, &&'1) %&,(%%&%)*&() as we feared, hit solid rock ledge. A team of Change the   World Kids removed enough ledge with long drills, chisels and +)$&* ##)&%*!% $!#')*!!* /) &+# (/#&##//&+%(/#$&* ##)*%/&*  hammers that the project could continue. &+(''(##/ 0(&+))* &##*!&% ,%*) It was an incredible process, a learning experience  that regularly put us outside our comfort zones. We helped % !"  $! to bend rebar, shovel tons of gravel, build frames for concrete, " "!!!"     ""$! #"  saw timbers, and compact the gravel  oor. To pour the roof retaining wall, we created a bucket brigade and hoisted over 100 buckets of concrete. For twenty-eight days, we took turns watering the roof to help it cure to its maximum strength. We inscribed our group’s motto in the cement: “Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.” So sweating but with cold  ngers, I’m happily hammering together the last section of retaining wall. After        that, we install the roof membrane and the door. It should all be done by the end of November. Winter storage vegetables from  our garden and a couple of farms are in temporary storage at      various locations. The day that we put the  rst produce into         the root cellar will be one of the biggest celebrations of my          life. "(&#""-+".#+-0./&* ("%*$" PS. We’re already planning Phase Two. This involves a “Plant */%",,"-(("3"3+*! a row” effort to encourage donations of produce, and +)" %" '+0//%")0(/&)"!&-".+0- ".&*/%" ++,4.*"20./&* ("&1&*$++) the creation of an outreach effort, including a digital kit 0,,"-1(("3#++! ++,      and workshops, to encourage teens and adults in other  &*/%&/"&1"- /  +*/0*!3  communities to consider similar projects to meet food justice needs in their areas. -Anna Ramsey

changetheworldkids.org 17 Tiny Homes Make a Big Bang!

“One, two, three, four.” I sat in the big, old armchair of consumerism, some might say driven by it. Third, this leads with my eyes covered waiting for my cousins to  nd their to clutter of the space and of our lives. Smaller will de nitely hiding places. “28, 29, 30! Ready or not, here I come!” I stood limit the clutter and might help to make life more simple, less up and looked around the living room of my family’s vacation hectic, more sustainable. home on the beach in Rhode Island. I quickly tried to strategize. Big homes have huge carbon footprints, using What was the quickest way to search through every room tremendous amounts of energy and costing mega-bills to and closet, under every bed and behind every door of this build or purchase and maintain. Tiny homes are easily heated two story, 2200 square foot, house? I had no idea. All I knew with alternative energy systems, and their tiny scale makes it was that if wasted my time searching possible to build or retro t a home through every corner of this house, my using an imaginative and personal cousins would be hiding for hours. design with careful craftsmanship But the real question is why at a small cost. do we need such large houses, let alone If a tiny house under vacation homes? The average American 100 square feet is unimaginable house is 2700 square feet as of 2011. for you, how about a slightly Here in Vermont, we have both the larger ,but still small, home? A smaller and upper ends of that average. One-room cabins California architect lives in a vintage 25’ Airstream trailer that are both primary residences and secondary getaways. One he renovated into a cozy, 158 square foot custom home, that family megastructures measuring more than 11,000 square includes his of ce; at 6’4” he’s comfortable, and his emphasis feet are frequently vacation homes, and feature additions such on sustainable building materials, such as sustainable redwood, as bowling alleys or theaters. tiles, and bamboo, reduces his carbon footprint even further. According to Jay Shafer, founder of Tumbleweed Tiny A 400 square foot handcrafted house in Woodstock, NY House Company, small homes offer a simple lifestyle that’s incorporates massive oak beams and materials salvaged from as much of a luxury as he ever needed. His 89 square foot local churches, and has two big rooms downstairs, one a house, 25 times smaller than my family’s vacation house, is kitchen, and one a multipurpose living area, and a bedroom located in California and is complete with a bathroom, kitchen, and bath upstairs. A 1977 home is 640 square feet with two sitting area and bedroom. His experience of growing up in a bedrooms, and it is built to maximize views and sounds of huge house, and having to deal with all the extra maintenance, the stream on its site. Frequently, RVs are primary residences inspired his small living. in the tiny home category, perfect for people who downsize In Olympia, Washington, Dee Williams built an 84 and want their house to be in more than one place, enabling square foot home in 2004 after deciding to try to reshape the them to live near children or family, or to follow the seasons social expectations many Americans have today. Costing only (although the driving isn’t particularly sustainable). Small $10,000 to build, Williams now pays a total of $8 a month traditional New England capes housed big families not long for heating, and electricity comes from her solar panels for ago, and small mobile homes  t families across the nation. free! Not only has she reduced her carbon footprint, she has A number of companies are building to meet reduced her consumerism, which she considers liberating. the increasing demand for micro, tiny, or small homes. The Before you say, “No way that I could live in such a Tumbleweed Tiny House Company has 18 house designs, small space,” consider what might have driven these tiny home 9 of them on wheels, including Victorian, rustic, and starkly owners to shrink their lodgings. First, our current super-sized modern styles that are all tiny and ef cient. They also offer a lifestyle is detrimental to our planet. Second, our culture is one slightly larger 400 square foot log cabin. V2world creates small

18 Regeneration structures from highly customizable steel-frame modules. Architect Ross Chapin designs small house neighborhoods around a community common area. The typical age range for US tiny house owners is under 25 or over 45, although families, often with pets, across the globe live in tiny homes or apartments. Still trying to  gure out how people  t all of their stuff and meet living needs? Many tiny houses have high ceilings and loft bedrooms. Maximizing the use of vertical space increases storage. Bathrooms have the design ef ciency commonly found in Europe. Furniture design is clever, enabling pieces to have multiple functions and the tiny spaces to morph into larger areas. Big windows reduce the separation from the big outdoors. The one thing common to all tiny home dwellers is that they have dramatically reduced the amount of stuff that they own, or never accumulated stuff in the  rst place. Not everyone is ready to sell his or her home and move into or build a tiny one, but contemplating your use of space can inspire changes that make your home more sustainable. Are there areas that you use infrequently? Removing an unused bookcase may make available wall space for passive solar windows. Perhaps a basement corner can be converted to a root cellar to store winter vegetables without using electricity. But perhaps the simplest way to downsize is to carefully consider new purchases. Do you really need the new iPhone when yours still works perfectly well? The key to living in a small place is not to have a lot of stuff. It’s a kind of freedom. And that concept is good for our environment and is feeling good to more people in our part of the developed world each year. The Small House Society monthly e-newsletter has has increased its number of viewers by 80 times since 2002. So consider this: less might just really be more. -Finn McFarland GEORGE WOHLGEMUTH http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/us-home-size.html LANDSCAPES http://news.yahoo.com/video/secondact-20246210/second-act-jay-shafer-20910195. http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/sustainable-happiness/living-large-in-a-tiny-house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+eZM2G-PfEbc&feature+player_embedded gwlscape.com http://realestate.msn.com/blogs/listedblogpost.aspx?post+667dc226-24d8-4bcd- Post Of ce Box 475 Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

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20 Regeneration Bosque para Siempre facts photos by Phyllis Arata-Meyers and Stephanie Ambrose – There are 100 endemic species in the corridor the change the world kids and other organizations are working to protect – Epiphytes make up 30% of the rainforest – A single tree in the rainforest can hold one ton of dry weight in vegetation – There are 600 known kinds of butter ies in Monteverde – Rainforest trees have extremely shallow roots because only 1/10 of a percent of the nutrients are below the topsoil – 50,000,000 year old bat fossils have been discovered – There are 45 species of bats in the US, approx. 10 species in New England, and over 60 species in Monteverde – One bellbird can call 2,000 times in one day (that’s 3-4 times a minute for 10 hours) – There are 76 species of avocado in Monteverde – Three-wattled bellbirds can learn different dialects, and some are even bilingual!

changetheworldkids.org 21 Summer in a Jar Passing the pickle jar around the Thanksgiving table friend’s house, and we helped her family make jam from with family and friends. Opening a jar of dilly beans in the fresh blackberries. The process was simple, and without dead of winter. Having a burst of summer  ll your mouth. adding almost anything to the berries, the jam was delicious. Yum. We rode home and practically ran to the woods to collect I discovered canning when my family had a huge more wild blackberries. Once we had enough in our buckets, bushel basket of thin, crisp green beans, fresh from our we cooked them on the stove and poured this peanut butter garden, sitting on the kitchen counter. We knew that it was companion into jars. The canning process was so easy that impossible for us to eat all of them before they spoiled, and we kept picking more of the vegetables and berries that we all of our friends and family members had gardens with string liked and canning them. beans of their own. I knew that canning was an option be- Canning food has many bene ts. When your veg- cause my grandparents used to can their produce and keep etable plants are producing proli cally, it’s a great way to save it for months without it spoiling. Also I had tasted pickled your over-abundant produce so that it doesn’t spoil. Picking green beans previously and loved berries gives extra purpose to a them, when relatives would bring walk. When you need a gift for jars as contributions to our meals someone, a jar of canned goods at Thanksgiving or Christmas. We is a perfect present. Jam, jelly, decided, as a family, that we would pickles, relish, chutney, spiced fruits give canning a try. in syrup, brightly colored veggies My mom and I went to in water or oil, and sauce. When the store and picked out two you need something easy and fun packs of mason jars that  t the to do, canning is a great use of length of our beans. We borrowed time. If you want to make some my grandfather’s old enameled extra money, you can sell your boiling water canner. It had been canned goods at farmers mar- collecting dust in his basement. We followed my grand- kets, although you need to label them properly. Canning and mother’s recipe that had been passed down to her from pickling your abundance of produce offers an abundance of generations of Vermont cooks and canning families. After bene ts. Pick up some jars, and start your caning process! You the process, we set out the  nished jars, and admired them. won’t regret it. It was extremely satisfying to see them all lined up, thinking PS. Our dilly beans and jams are still  ying off the that we would have these delicious vegetables throughout shelf. I’m going to some and surprise people with them the cold months of winter. for special occasions – and if my hiding place is successful, I’ll We put them in a cupboard in our kitchen to be keep one or two for spring treasures. stored until needed. A few weeks later, we decided to open -Kristin Ramsey a jar. They were delicious! I couldn’t believe that we had made them. During the next few days, jars started disap- pearing to family members and friends who came by. Not only did the recipients enjoy them, but they started asking for more, asking for the recipe, and asking how we got the idea. They were a hit! The beans were a perfect gift and a healthy little treat for everybody. Soon we ran out and had to go back to the store to buy more jars. Several batches of beans were pickled and stored away. Later in the summer, my sister and I went to a 22 Regeneration Do It Yourself Preserve Vegetables by Pickling The Steps and Canning 1. Fill the canner with cold water to within 4 inches of the Keeping foodstuffs fresh. For millenniums, our sur- top. Put this on the stove to boil. vival depended on preservation of food during the cold – or 2. While the water is heating, wash the jars and lids in hot hot – months. Pre-historic man and early civilizations used water. Once the water in the canner is boiling, use the ice for refrigeration. Salting, sun-drying, and smoking. Submer- tongs to put the jars into the canner, and boil them for sion in oil, fat, or honey. Sugar and vinegar both helped create 12 minutes to sterilize them. Take the jars our and drain an environment that prevents spoilage by bacteria. Root them. cellars retarded food from spoiling. In the 1600s, preserving 3. off ends of beans, and clean the beans if necessary. food in an airtight container by canning became an inexpen- 4. Measure red pepper  akes, dill seeds, mustard seeds, and sive and effective way to keep foodstuffs fresh. Try it! garlic into clean jars. Kristin’s Delicious Dilly Beans 5. Pack beans as tightly as possible into jars. If they are not (Pickled Green Beans) tightly packed, they will  oat towards the top when the liquid is added. What You Will Need: 6. Combine salt, vinegar, and water in a large saucepot, and 12-15 half pint or 9 pint canning jars plus jar lids and screw- bring mixture to boil. bands 7. Ladle hot liquid into jars, leaving ½ inch headspace. Put 21 quart waterbath canner or a pot tall enough that the the lids and screwbands onto the jars and tighten. water will cover jars by at least 2 “ 8. Then, put the jars into the canner and process them for Canning tongs ten minutes in the boiling water. Use the tongs to take Ingredients: the jars out, and put them on a rack to let them cool. • 2 pounds fresh green beans 9. Remove the screwbands, and make sure tops of lids are • ¼ cup salt sealed when the jars are cool. If not, refrigerate and eat • 2 ½ cups vinegar within 2 weeks. • 2 ½ cups water • 1 clove garlic per jar • ½ teaspoon red pepper  akes per jar* • ½ teaspoons dill seeds per jar* • ½ teaspoon mustard seed per jar*

*if jars are ½ quart- 1 tsp. for quart size Yields about two quarts

changetheworldkids.org 23 recipes Stuffed Apples 6 apples 1 ½ C cider ½ C dried cranberries or cherries ¼ C. walnuts, chopped ¼ C. sugar ½ tsp. cinnamon ¼ tsp nutmeg Preheat oven to 350° Core the apples, and place them in a baking dish. Pour the cider over the apples. In a bowl, mix the cranberries and walnuts. Divide this mixture among the six apples and stuff the center of each apple. Mix the sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and sprinkle this mix over the apples. Place in the oven. Bake for 30-45 min. basting every 15 minutes.

Root Vegetable Tagine 1 tsp. turmeric 1 ½ Lbs. potatoes, cut into 1” 1 C. dry chickpeas cubes 1 tsp. coriander seed ¾ C. dates, pitted and chopped 1 tsp. cumin, ground ¾ C. dried apricots, chopped 3 Tbs. cinnamon ¾ C  gs, chopped 1 Ts. cardamom seed 3 Tbs. almond butter ¼ tsp. dried red pepper 1 tsp. sea salt ½ C. olive oil 6 garlic cloves, minced 1 onions, chopped 1 C. carrots, cut into ½” chunks 1 C. beets, cut into ½” chunks 2 celery stalks, chopped Put chickpeas in a large pot, and cover with 4” of water. Bring to boil, and then simmer until  rm, but not crunchy. Drain. Preheat oven to 350° Grind and mix together the coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom and red pepper. Put 3 Tbs. of this mix in the food processor with the garlic cloves and olive oil, and puree to a smooth paste. Put the chickpeas in bowl, and them with the puree. Cover and let marinate for 1-3 hours. In a tagine or a clay or iron baking dish with a lid, put the chickpeas mix, onions, carrots, beets, celery, potatoes, dates, apricots,  gs, almond butter, turmeric, and salt.. Pour in enough water just to cover everything, and bake for 1-1.5 hours, until all the vegetables are tender. Remove from heat, and let sit 10 minutes. Serve in bowls. Serves 8

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