Press Conference:
The Sustainable Living Outreach Bicycle Tour meets Capitola's First Straw-Bale House
Wednesday, November 21
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
508 Oak Dr.
Capitola, CA 95010
Contacts:
Barbara Graves (831) 462-4303 or Capitola@dancin.biz
Adam Hammes (515) 491-0706
Kristin and Mark Sullivan (831) 477-0571 or sully@cruzio.com
How about a Thanksgiving story Santa-Cruz-County style? Are your readers grateful for our beautiful environment and would they appreciate learning how to keep it that way? Write that story for your newspaper!
This Wednesday, eighteen Ambassadors of the Environment from Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society will stop in Capitola on their 700-mile bicycle tour. Come meet them to find out why, and take a tour of the county's first straw-bale house while you're at it!
Bring a photographer to capture these photogenic,
committed young adults.
The conference, house tour, and reception are hosted by the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of Capitola's Commission on the Environment, Kristin Sullivan and Barbara Graves.
"What better way to be 'home for the holidays' than in a straw-bale off-the-grid Capitola house with more than a dozen young people committed enough to bicycle 700 miles to promote a vision of a sustainable future for us all? To me, this is the real spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday: Gratitude for our precious resources."
-- Barbara Graves, Vice-Chairperson of Capitola's Commission on the Environment
For more about last year's Sustainable Living Outreach Bicycle Tour and photographs:
http://www.oceanfutures.org/of_blog-post.asp?ID=61For more information about the Ambassadors of the Environment Program (part of Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society)
http://www.oceanfutures.org/ofs/aote.phpFor a media kit concerning the organization:
Go to
http://www.oceanfutures.org/media_kit.asp and click “View”
beneath "Ambassadors of the Environment" PDF
“By delivering our program via bicycles, we demonstrate our commitment to alternative transportation and sustainability. Along our route we educate about 2,000 students in close to 30 different schools with outreach activities: interactive pictorial tours of our journey as well as hands-on
workshops.”
-- Adam Hammes, Ambassador of the Environment
The Bike Tour team is sponsored by Ocean Futures Society, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA. The OFS serves as a base of operations while the team works with various schools that participate in the AOTE program at El Capitan Canyon.
The Sustainable Living Bicycle Tour is sponsored by Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society, a global non-profit organization responsible for establishing AOTE youth programs in Marin County, Santa Barbara and Catalina Island, California, Hawaii, Cayman Islands, Brasil, France, Greece and aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises to French Polynesia and Alaska. In addition to working with students at public and
private schools that have AOTE experience through attending a field program, tour members will also be speaking at several universities and at other community events along the route. At each stop, a slide show and curriculum activities will be delivered, reinforcing the AOTE philosophy and principles of sustainability. Hands-on workshops that are age and grade appropriate include “Creating a New Garden/Compost Area,” “Alternative Transportation,” “Protecting Our Coast,” and “Greening Your School.”