YMCA at White Rock Green Team's Blog

This week was unfortunately cut short on me by a death in my family. Because of this I missed most of the week at said relative’s funeral. I missed the trip to the Red Cross, but heard it was great for both our CITs and the guys at the Green team. One thing I was able to do this week was to help the team craft a presentation for the Y’s board. Hopefully we can dispense some valuable information to our forty board members and let them know what they can do to go green. I also plan to give our Y’s manager some basic ideas about how to conserve power (and save some money) at our Y.

The biggest thing that we can do is simply to turn up the thermostat a few degrees. They keep it very cold here. It is so cold that several staff members feel the need to go outside just to warm up. Just keeping the place so cold wastes enough power, but the icing on the cake is that the two huge doors that lead into the uncooled gym are constantly open. So cold air is constantly spewing into the open air. Perhaps we can save some money simply by turning up the thermostat a little.

The second week just ended and I’m starting to get used to this. We’re getting a routine together and the days are getting longer. We hand an interview with the Advocate, a local magazine that focuses on Dallas area businesses. All of us on the team talked in the interview and it went pretty well.

Bad news, no unhealthy food at the Y. Because they’re trying to promote health and set an example for others, all fast, and fried foods are banned at the Y. I enjoy a healthy snack as much as the next guy, but fried foods have a special place in my heart. They will be hard to give up totally while at the Y, but I guess it’s for a cause. Go green, get healthy, get happy, that’s what we’re about.

Tyler

This week we were all with Camp Uluwatu (say that five times fast) which is the 3-12 year old kids. Juana and I worked at our own station that Carol (le boss) had us set up. We had the kids draw pictures of their favorite animals and ended up with more made up animals than a Dr. Seuss story book. One of the kids I was with drew about six dragons… which of course lead to us talking about who would win in a fight. As it turns out dragons with super flame amour beat up on sky dragons (duh).           

In other news, we accidentally left our laptops in our office. This sounds innocent, but our office can’t lock, and the laptops are prized possessions. Carol found them in our office and wasn’t having it. So she took the laptops and acted like they were stolen, then when we couldn’t find them and we, um had a discussion with her. If they are ever lost for real, she will throw us into a chasm, where there will be flames and gnashing of teeth. On the whole it was a good week.