Piping Out the Poop
Earth Day this year was officially Wednesday, April 22nd. Did you get your green on? Well, it’s not too late. I’ve seen in recent years Earth Day transform into Earth Week with green activities and events spread out over many days. Now if we can only get that kind of effort happening the remainder 51 weeks of the year, that would be progress!
That being said, Earth Week was especially fun for me this year. As you may know, I was invited to be the business voice of “green” and the environment on the PBS program New Mexico In Focus. It was a thrill to be part of a passionate panel discussing topics from water to coal to fracking to the future. We could have kept on talking for hours but host, Gene Grant was super skillful at keeping us reigned in. Not a small feat…
The line of panelists in addition to myself were journalist Laura Paskus, attorney Laura Sanchez-Rivét, and UNM graduate student Mackenzie Greene-Powell. The three segments can be viewed via these links or the embedded videos at the end of the article:
PBS New Mexico, New Mexico In Focus: Episode 840: New Mexico’s Energy Future
One of my favorite segments of the show was revealing how a Roswell, New Mexico company is “piping out the poop” from seven dairies and processing it into a bio-gas that will be used for fueling city buses. Isn’t that phenomenal? From manure to mass transit. In green marketing, that’s what we call “waste to product”. Taking something that would normally be discarded, trashed or buried somewhere, and turning it into a useful product. That, to me, is the future of business. Oh what fun it is to work with companies and products like that. And I do! Like Growstone™, a New Mexico-grown company that takes discarded glass out of piled-up landfills and transforms it into a high-performance growing medium. Yes, recycled glass can grow your plants. What’s not to love?
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Keep it Green!
Carolyn Parrs
NM In Focus: Earthday 2015: New Mexico’s Energy Future, Part 1
NM In Focus: Earthday 2015: New Mexico’s Energy Future, Part 2
NM In Focus: Earthday 2015: New Mexico’s Energy Future Part 3