Monday, April 11, 2011

Lunchertainment...Club Green celebrating Earth Day a little early on April 13th with Tobey Russ...during the three lunch waves!


Club Green is celebrating Earth Day a little early on April 13th
with a program in the Library Learning Commons
featuring Tobey Russ!

  We will all be enjoying a Spring Break vacation day
on April 22nd which is the actual Earth Day.

Come hear about Tobey Russ' really cool and green job!

     Tobey Russ - is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Forest First Holdings which is a private company developing large scale sustainable forestry plantations in Latin America. The company has established it’s initial plantation in the North Eastern plains region of Colombia on 70,000 hectares along the Meta and Orinoco rivers. As the plantation matures, wood will be shipped down river where it will be chipped and then shipped to electric utilities in the United Kingdom and in Europe as a source of renewable energy.
     Prior to joining Forest First Mr. Russ has held various senior management positions in the commercial insurance and financial services industry over the last 25 years.

     Mr. Russ will be speaking about the developing opportunities in "Eco-Capitalism" - how the private sector can help drive environmental improvement while making an attractive return on investment. Sustainable forestry is becoming an increasingly important, carbon neutral, fuel source which will also provide much needed social and economic benefits in developing countries. As forests disappear around the world and non-renewable energy prices continue to rise, forestry has become a very attractive investment option.

Please email or call to have your class come join us!

Thank you to all those involved in the Second Annual Celebration of Poetry and Jazz!

       



A big thank you goes out to the classes of Ms. Radler, Mr. Liepolt, Mr. Miller, Ms. Barrington, Mr. Tippy, Mr. Garaghty, Ms. Robbins, Ms. McNamee, Ms. Fernandez, Ms. Kochefko, Mr. Lawrence, Ms. Noonan and all the other free period students who participated by reading at the Second Annual Celebration of Poetry and Jazz on Friday.

  
An especially big thank you goes out to our Mr. Mariconda and SHS Jazz Band students: Danny Pravdel, Harry Zec, Mike Ljungberg, Brian Hershey, Austin Alianiello, Cole Manley, and Jon Loeb who did a fantastic job of sharing their musical talents with us on Friday. The best news is that all these jazz students are juniors and have already volunteered to play again next year at our third annual!

See lots more photos and videos on the LLC Flickr link (middle ot the LLC page!)