Friday, August 6, 2010 at 11:09PM 
I was so Honored to accept the award from the Botanical Garden of the Ozark. I want to again thank the Mayor, David Wright the director from the Parks dept, Danielle Shasteen, Scott Kemmerzill and my beautiful wife Jeannie.
The whole event was great and I am proud to have received this wonderful award. I already bloged about the award so here are the pictures.
Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 10:36PM 
There will be a ceremony in my honor this Friday. I was very honored to be nominated and overwhelmed that I won. Several city officials nominated me for this wonderful award. Big thanks to Danielle Shasteen, Roland Pinault and Scott Kammerzell as well as the Mayor of Bentonville Bob McCaslin for nominating me.
The Botanical gardens of the Ozark has awarded me with a "Gardenfest Award" "Longstanding Green Leadership Award" (as i mentioned before) we are finely having the BIG Ceremony. The award ceremony was held April 24th of this year but due to a rain storm that knocked out the power to the gardens the ceremony had to be rescheduled. After a week or two they chose June 19th. Sadly my family and I had been planning a trip out of town for that week and there was no real way to change the our plans so I had to miss the ceremony. After talking to the gardens they said if I pick a place and a time they could hold a small ceremony. So I asked Downtown Bentonville Inc. If I could have it at the August First Fridays? And they said they would be honored to. I contacted everyone involved and the show is on.
this Friday at 5:00pm on the Walton Arts Center stage. A small group from the Botanical Gardens will present me with a 5ft tall Dogwood tree and a plaque with my name and award on on it. I will then donate the tree to the city to be planted in Orchard park. A large park being constructed just down the road from the square. The Mayor along with the the Director of the parks and recreation dept. will be there to except my tree as a donation into the park.
The tree will be planted in a beautiful park and will provide clean air an shade to everyone.
I normally don't like all this attention but everyone tells me that I deserve it. I look at it like this, If others can see what all I do to help Save The Planet! Then maybe they will do more to help out as well. So I guess the attention will help save the planet too. I hope :)
Bentonville, Ecogeeco, Mayor, Ozark Garden, Park, award, event, tree planting in Award, Event, Feature, news, welcome Permalink Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 8:00AM My family and I went out to run some errands the other day. While driving I looked down at the odometer and realized that we where almost to the 5000 mile mark. So we decided to drive around until we hit the mark. What a great pollution free drive.
It got me thinking of all the stuff that we have driven to with out 1 ounce of pollution going in the air or on the ground. It also helped me remember all the great events and volunteer events that I attended.
My car is how and why I became the Eco Hero. I know it sounds weird but around here no one else owns a car like this. Also not to many of these cars are direct solar like mine is.
So when schools started to ask me to bring my car by and show it to the kids it made me realize that I had a unique opportunity. I had children with sponges for brains that could change the future wanted to see what the future could be! But the car alone wasn't going to get them interested in saving the planet so ECOGEECO was born. It took some convincing to get teachers to sign up for me to visit there school. Originally they had me come by to show the car and that was it. Now they have a green haired person that drives a huge golf cart and talks about gas made from algea and showing worm poop in an old soda bottle. After a few teachers signed up and I went to more events people in the community started to notice me. After a while it started getting harder to schedule all the events and I had to start to turn them down because I was already going to be at 3 that day.
Being the Eco Hero is not about being famous but instead it is about helping anyway I can anywhere I can. I hope to show people that the world can be a better place if we all just try a little and work together. But the famous part is helping a little :)
My journey is still just starting and I plan on doing this for as long as I possibly can. The world is getting there but it needs help. Every little bit counts!
A special thanks to everyone that has helped me on my way and a very special thanks to my wife for believing in me when told her that I was going to dye my hair green and talk at schools. She is my inspiration.
Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 2:23PM 
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Improved safety for athletes and a reduction in the number of injuries and death from heat related causes for all ages.
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• Children should have adequate access to water throughout the school day to maintain proper hydration • Athletes should have frequent water/sports drink breaks • Athletes should be able to get a drink at any time during practices • Coaches should be trained in heat illness prevention and emergency procedures • Parents should understand their child’s hydration needs and encourage proper hydration |
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Promote proper hydration and prevent heat illness through education and supporting activities
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Quick note... This makes event #49. I am so close to the marker of 52!
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 11:20AM
RE Baker Elem, Asked me to at their Earth Day On the Square event. Everyone had a lot of fun and the whole event tuaght us all so much with all the various activities.
Check out all the pics my Wife took.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecogeeco/sets/72157623791992125/
