Earth Summit
November 6, 2008

Clean Valley’s Ninth Earth Summit for high school students will be held November 6, 2008. Earth Summit began with the planning of an 18 year old intern from City School, Lexie Levin, and has grown like a wonderful vine. Students are selected by their faculty on scholarship, merit and interest. Participants in the event are from the Valley’s high schools. Schools eligible are those in Botetourt County, City of Roanoke, City of Salem, County of Roanoke and the Town of Vinton, public and private. Registration is limited; it is truly a privilege to attend.  There are presentations and workshops for the day.

The hands on reuse and redesign of clothing.		Lights, Camera, Action - Public Service Announcements

Last year’s workshops consisted of the making of a public service announcement for RVTV; a lively presentation of how the economics work with up front costs of green ventures and the back side of the financial benefits of green planning. They also learned how to make clothing from T shirts without any sewing “Rescued 2 A T”.

Storm water education was a topic and green building entered the scene with a panel of experts. The Department of Environmental Quality “guys” presented water quality tests showing tubs of good living water creatures found in our streams.