KAB provides resources and education to inspire individuals &
the Austin community toward greater environmental stewardship
the Austin community toward greater environmental stewardship
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Cultivating Leaders
2011 TOURS January 24 - BFI/Allied Waste’s Material Recovery Facility Volunteers discovered just how loud recycling can be as they toured a Material Recovery Facility and were astounded by the amount of material processed each day. Click here to read a blog one of the guests wrote. KAB Program Links: Event Recycling, Longhorn Recycle Roundup, School Recycling, Activity Kits-Recycle Matters February 15 - Organics by Gosh “Good compost is like fine wine” (the slower and longer the aging process the better) was one of the many memorable quotes from the tour guide as volunteers walked between mounds of mulch and compost. Click here to see photos. KAB Program Links: Neighborhood Beautification Grants, Tool Shack, Activity Kits – Compost Critters, Event Recycling June 6 - Lake Leaders On-the-Water & Aquatic Nursery Is it possible to be on a boat and swimming at the same time? Yes, when you’re head is swimming with all of the native plants that you just learnt: Pickerelweed, Jamaican Saw-Grass, Arrowhead, Buttonbush, & more. Click here to read the blog. KAB Program Links: Clean Lady Bird Lake, Adopt-a-Creek, Community Cleanups, Clean Creek Campus, Seed Savers June 11 – BioFiltration
July 31 - Splash! Exhibit
October 16 - Recycled Reads Tour and Book Repurposing Workshop
Future Field Trips: To learn about upcoming tours fill out our volunteer application and write Cultivating Leaders in the “other” box. |
The Cultivating Leaders Field Trip Series was started in 2011 to provide KAB’s volunteers in-the-field information on topics they are passionate about. For example, instead of viewing a powerpoint with recycling statistics scrolling down the page, volunteers don hard hats to tour a Material Recovery Facility and watch thousands of plastic bottles get compressed into a bale weighing 600-2,000 pounds.