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Hi folks!
Just checking in and giving you an update from algae country. I've been on the road for a few weeks as an ambassador for the Chlorophyll Collective, building temporary algae farms, wrangling algae and piss water, and educating lots and lots of festival goers. It's been a really incredible experience too!
I landed in Utah one week before the Utah Burn (aka Element 11) began. In that time I collected all the supplies for it and then built it: a 6-algae tube exhaust capture simulation with a shaded star dome behind it for an educational center. It was beautiful and wonderful and a total success!!! I posted 2 pictures of preliminary sketches of the installation here on this tribe already, but still have yet to post my pictures of the Element 11 installation. I will get around to it soon, I promise! A friend of mine took a picture of it (and me) and posted it here on tribe.net recently, so I copied it into my blog if you want to see it. Yes, he caught me in costume and made me pose with the algae tubes.
I'm a funny looking bunny! :P
Just a few days after the Utah Burn I finally (and right on time) found a ride to the Colorado Burn (aka Apogaea) in a tiny little Ford pickup truck, driven by my new wonderful friend Tasi. Due to lack of space and time left for setup, I scaled down the installation BIG TIME and drove 13 hours from Salt Lake City to Front Range, Colorado. We got there kind of late at night on Friday, but found out that there were a lot of resources available to us to help us speed up our needed setup time. Saturday morning, shortly after waking, I got help erecting a portion of a carport frame and had algae tubes hung, plumbed and filled with spring water within just a few hours. I turned on the CO2 for just a few minutes to show the audience how the manifold functioned and to minorly carbinate the water to stimulate the algae growth. The bags of spring water could not be lit up that night for lack of traveling lighting, so I did not bubble them much while the installation was open to the wandering masses. Even so, the next day the water in the bags had begun to turn NOTICABLY green!!! It was really remarkable how fast the algae began to show up and grow on the CO2. Sunday afternoon the festival ended and everyone left except us and the setup crew. I made friends with so many of the people who organize and setup Apogaea! I also got to teach them about algae while we relaxed by fire after the sunday night burn (we burned a "man" for the crew). The ranch (aka the Happy Ass Ranch) out there in Front Range is in need of some algae solutions and has asked me to help them get the right information they need in order to implement them. They're building a shower house soon and want to be able to keep the run-off out of the water downstream. This seems like an algae solution that I'm going to be helping with a lot! I'm glad too, I think it's wonderful. :-)
To acknowlege and express gratitude, I want to tell you that funding for this part of the endeavor came from Dr. Friendly, Mad Poet aka Joe Rigney, and Dr. Geo Delaney! Thanks so much guys for supporting this project! It has really made a difference and opened people's eyes to the potential uses of algae, other natural solutions and combined technologies to combat global warming as well as air and waterway pollution. Sooo many people have gotten really excited and are starting to talk about the possibilities they have with their communities to take their access to environmental remediation to the next level. The Chlorophyll Collective is becoming well known in the best of circles, and many opportunities head our way as more and more people find out about what we are doing. Thanks again for supporting this.
We left the Apogaea site at the Happy Ass Ranch on Monday, June 11th and we drove several hours to Paonia, to the site where the Dreamtime Festival is held at the Wolcott Family Ranch. This is where I am writing this from!
Since the last Dreamtime Festival last July, this ranch has worked to convert itself into a sustainable farm and an eco-village. Much of the sustainable infrastructure is in place, but there are still some solutions they are working on; remediation of agricultural runoff and grey water are some of them! (hooray for algae!) There are several yurts in a meadow near a large outdoor kitchen, dining room and large community yurt. All of the people living in this village are currently volunteering for the upcoming Dreamtime Festival or the Wolcott Family Ranch. I have been planning on building an exhaust-capturing algae farm for Dreamtime for several months now, but Dreamtime has not been able to provide funding up front for the building of this project. Now that I'm here and I've talked to them about what algal solutions can be in place in time for the festival, it looks much more doable! They have quite a bit of the necessary construction gear, supplies and even a few ranch hands around here to help build and setup the system.
To accomplish this job, I could really use some consulting advice from my team back in Berkeley, as well has some on-site support for the 2 weeks before the festival and the clean-up endeavor after the festival. I know that several members of the Chlorophyll Collective said they were planning on coming to the Dreamtime Festival... are you still coming? Just wondering if I need to recruit more volunteers to help me, because I can if they are needed! Let me know who is still coming. I need to know. Email me here on tribe or directly. :)
I will be leaving the Ranch next monday to spent a couple weeks in Salt Lake City earning money and visiting some family members visiting from the East coast. I'll return to the ranch at the end of the first week of July, to continue with the building of their algal systems and complete construction of a large heat exchanger for cooling the exhaust from 2 biodiesel powered generators for their main stage.
Help me write up a blurb for Dreamtime to advertise what we're doing for their festival! They want their use of our system to be highly publicized and will help us get the word out--- maybe we can help them with the wording?? Sarah? Can you help? :)
Living here while I work on the algal solutions for the Wolcott Family Ranch and build the algae farm system for Dreamtime is WONDERFUL. Living a dream, truly. I love the eco-village vibe and the work it takes to keep it going. I love teaching about eco-friendly algae solutions and pollution remediation!!! I miss San Francisco, but in order to stay there I must continue to live my dreams and DO THE WORK. I know the funding will continue to arrive to support my doing this work, so I can maintain rent payments for a place to live in the bay!
Tonight I will upload my pictures and empty out my camera so I CAN take more pictures. Sorry, no pictures from me of Apogaea! But, I'm sure there will be many posted by other people. :) The installation for Apogaea wasn't as impressive, but it was there and it was effective.
I'll be back in the Bay area again at the beginning of August (unless funding comes through to fly there and back sooner). Otherwise, I'll be here at Dreamtime through the whole month of July and the event: July 19-22. If you want to come actively be an algae farmer and educator, COME! You can camp here and get 3 square meals a day while you assist us with implementing algae solutions. The vibe here is incredibly high and incredibly transformative. Please come! You will love it!
I miss you and I'm sending so much love to you my friends,
Call me if you want to get in touch. My phone usually works here and sometimes I even get to charge it. :)
LOVE!!!!
Meggio
aka
Omega
Just checking in and giving you an update from algae country. I've been on the road for a few weeks as an ambassador for the Chlorophyll Collective, building temporary algae farms, wrangling algae and piss water, and educating lots and lots of festival goers. It's been a really incredible experience too!
I landed in Utah one week before the Utah Burn (aka Element 11) began. In that time I collected all the supplies for it and then built it: a 6-algae tube exhaust capture simulation with a shaded star dome behind it for an educational center. It was beautiful and wonderful and a total success!!! I posted 2 pictures of preliminary sketches of the installation here on this tribe already, but still have yet to post my pictures of the Element 11 installation. I will get around to it soon, I promise! A friend of mine took a picture of it (and me) and posted it here on tribe.net recently, so I copied it into my blog if you want to see it. Yes, he caught me in costume and made me pose with the algae tubes.
I'm a funny looking bunny! :P
Just a few days after the Utah Burn I finally (and right on time) found a ride to the Colorado Burn (aka Apogaea) in a tiny little Ford pickup truck, driven by my new wonderful friend Tasi. Due to lack of space and time left for setup, I scaled down the installation BIG TIME and drove 13 hours from Salt Lake City to Front Range, Colorado. We got there kind of late at night on Friday, but found out that there were a lot of resources available to us to help us speed up our needed setup time. Saturday morning, shortly after waking, I got help erecting a portion of a carport frame and had algae tubes hung, plumbed and filled with spring water within just a few hours. I turned on the CO2 for just a few minutes to show the audience how the manifold functioned and to minorly carbinate the water to stimulate the algae growth. The bags of spring water could not be lit up that night for lack of traveling lighting, so I did not bubble them much while the installation was open to the wandering masses. Even so, the next day the water in the bags had begun to turn NOTICABLY green!!! It was really remarkable how fast the algae began to show up and grow on the CO2. Sunday afternoon the festival ended and everyone left except us and the setup crew. I made friends with so many of the people who organize and setup Apogaea! I also got to teach them about algae while we relaxed by fire after the sunday night burn (we burned a "man" for the crew). The ranch (aka the Happy Ass Ranch) out there in Front Range is in need of some algae solutions and has asked me to help them get the right information they need in order to implement them. They're building a shower house soon and want to be able to keep the run-off out of the water downstream. This seems like an algae solution that I'm going to be helping with a lot! I'm glad too, I think it's wonderful. :-)
To acknowlege and express gratitude, I want to tell you that funding for this part of the endeavor came from Dr. Friendly, Mad Poet aka Joe Rigney, and Dr. Geo Delaney! Thanks so much guys for supporting this project! It has really made a difference and opened people's eyes to the potential uses of algae, other natural solutions and combined technologies to combat global warming as well as air and waterway pollution. Sooo many people have gotten really excited and are starting to talk about the possibilities they have with their communities to take their access to environmental remediation to the next level. The Chlorophyll Collective is becoming well known in the best of circles, and many opportunities head our way as more and more people find out about what we are doing. Thanks again for supporting this.
We left the Apogaea site at the Happy Ass Ranch on Monday, June 11th and we drove several hours to Paonia, to the site where the Dreamtime Festival is held at the Wolcott Family Ranch. This is where I am writing this from!
Since the last Dreamtime Festival last July, this ranch has worked to convert itself into a sustainable farm and an eco-village. Much of the sustainable infrastructure is in place, but there are still some solutions they are working on; remediation of agricultural runoff and grey water are some of them! (hooray for algae!) There are several yurts in a meadow near a large outdoor kitchen, dining room and large community yurt. All of the people living in this village are currently volunteering for the upcoming Dreamtime Festival or the Wolcott Family Ranch. I have been planning on building an exhaust-capturing algae farm for Dreamtime for several months now, but Dreamtime has not been able to provide funding up front for the building of this project. Now that I'm here and I've talked to them about what algal solutions can be in place in time for the festival, it looks much more doable! They have quite a bit of the necessary construction gear, supplies and even a few ranch hands around here to help build and setup the system.
To accomplish this job, I could really use some consulting advice from my team back in Berkeley, as well has some on-site support for the 2 weeks before the festival and the clean-up endeavor after the festival. I know that several members of the Chlorophyll Collective said they were planning on coming to the Dreamtime Festival... are you still coming? Just wondering if I need to recruit more volunteers to help me, because I can if they are needed! Let me know who is still coming. I need to know. Email me here on tribe or directly. :)
I will be leaving the Ranch next monday to spent a couple weeks in Salt Lake City earning money and visiting some family members visiting from the East coast. I'll return to the ranch at the end of the first week of July, to continue with the building of their algal systems and complete construction of a large heat exchanger for cooling the exhaust from 2 biodiesel powered generators for their main stage.
Help me write up a blurb for Dreamtime to advertise what we're doing for their festival! They want their use of our system to be highly publicized and will help us get the word out--- maybe we can help them with the wording?? Sarah? Can you help? :)
Living here while I work on the algal solutions for the Wolcott Family Ranch and build the algae farm system for Dreamtime is WONDERFUL. Living a dream, truly. I love the eco-village vibe and the work it takes to keep it going. I love teaching about eco-friendly algae solutions and pollution remediation!!! I miss San Francisco, but in order to stay there I must continue to live my dreams and DO THE WORK. I know the funding will continue to arrive to support my doing this work, so I can maintain rent payments for a place to live in the bay!
Tonight I will upload my pictures and empty out my camera so I CAN take more pictures. Sorry, no pictures from me of Apogaea! But, I'm sure there will be many posted by other people. :) The installation for Apogaea wasn't as impressive, but it was there and it was effective.
I'll be back in the Bay area again at the beginning of August (unless funding comes through to fly there and back sooner). Otherwise, I'll be here at Dreamtime through the whole month of July and the event: July 19-22. If you want to come actively be an algae farmer and educator, COME! You can camp here and get 3 square meals a day while you assist us with implementing algae solutions. The vibe here is incredibly high and incredibly transformative. Please come! You will love it!
I miss you and I'm sending so much love to you my friends,
Call me if you want to get in touch. My phone usually works here and sometimes I even get to charge it. :)
LOVE!!!!
Meggio
aka
Omega
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