The Tahoe Project – Nominated for $50K Grant from Pepsi
Do you think Tahoe is a special place? Help keep it that way by supporting The Tahoe Project , a sustainability project up for a $50K grant from Pepsi’s nationwide Refresh Everything contest; in which case the nation has until July 31, 2010 to vote for the project. The top ten most-voted for projects will each receive a $50,000 grant to fund their efforts. This grant would initiate expansive efforts towards creating sustainable living practices within South Lake Tahoe.
The Tahoe Project would strengthen our community using sustainable living practices through education and implementation. To be awarded a $50,000 grant from Pepsi would be not only an honor, but one large leap forward for the future of Tahoe. Please vote today and tell everyone you know who loves Tahoe! Pepsi will ask for your e-mail address, name and birth date, you can vote everyday and you’re increasing our chances to bring funding directly to Tahoe, a town that vibes something unique, wonderful, and unexplainable. The next step is to tell everyone you know and encourage them to vote for The Tahoe Project.
“Tahoe as a community shares a common interest: the love for the mountains. Our distinct environment has qualities and characteristics in which people travel from all over the world to observe,” said project director Aria Benham. “Tahoe is a destination; a place to live, a place to visit, a place to love. The challenges of living in the mountains range from harsh winters to short summers, high altitudes, and frost in July; all of which make it hard for locals to lavish in edible gardens and year-round bike riding. The Tahoe Project will increase community involvement through: educational workshops, increasing education within the local school district, creating demonstration sites for hands on learning, and provide a community center where ideas, creativity and action connect and expand sustainable living within the Tahoe basin.”
To sustain ourselves we must support ourselves by providing food, water, shelter, and other necessities; we can only do this through the care and maintenance of our natural resources. By creating a non-profit that is aimed towards sustainable living practices, The Tahoe Project will strengthen the withstanding community by educating and implementing various projects throughout the local area. Sustainability is a term used to describe diversity and productivity over time, therefore the creation of a non-profit would begin projects in the South Shore and ultimately carry them throughout the Tahoe region. The diversity of projects range from building greenhouses in the schools, creating a high altitude cold seasoned seed bank, providing bikes and bike trailers, composting, implementing renewable energies such as solar and wind, providing reusable grocery bags, rain and snow catchments, providing education through classes such as Building 101, Yoga, Nutrition, Cooking, Plant Propagation, Worm Composting, and Cob Building. Skills and education are elements that will be passed on for generations. Through skill share we will learn to sustain ourselves just as most do around the world, adapting to, rather than fighting, the climate which surrounds us.
