Thursday, December 28, 2006

We had another nice Christmas Tree-Cycling promotion radio promotion this morning on Star 102.1 with Frank Murphy. We covered many of the same issues.

- posted by KKB Staff at 10:00 AM

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

We had a nice call in promotion on the Phil Show for the Christmas Tree-Cycling.  We got to cover most of the issues such as the pros and cons of live trees vs. fake trees, the need to bring yard waste and other organics to a designated recycling/composting center (such as the Knox County Greenwaste Facility) instead of putting them in the landfill and that open burning is becoming more restricted and will likely be banned in the future.  Tree-Cycling is set for January 6th.

- posted by KKB Staff at 4:45 PM

Friday, December 15, 2006

KKB interviewed Rachel Roberts for a summer '07 internship.

- posted by KKB Staff at 9:15 PM

Thursday, December 14, 2006

The regular meeting of the KKB Youth Advisory Board will be held this afternoon at 4:30 at the Fulton High School library.

- posted by KKB Staff at 8:30 AM

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

The Real Yellow Pages from Bell South and Keep America Beautiful have entered into a partnership to increase phone book recycling.  In order to help the effort the Knoxville Zoo will offer a ticket discount to anyone who recycles a phone book at the Zoo during January 2007.

- posted by KKB Staff at 11:15 AM

Friday, December 8, 2006

This was the really big day.  Was it because of the great accomplishments being recognized at the national awards luncheon?  NOOOOOOOOO!  It was because Elvis visited.  The KAB mid-year forum will be held in Memphis in August 2007 and Elvis (no, really) and members of the Tennessee delegation passed out information to the group.   Below Elvis and the Tennessee delegates are waiting in the wings to enter the arena.



A little later we did have the national awards luncheon with lots of winners from Tennessee.  Keep Knoxville Beautiful picked up the Distinguished Service Citation (3rd best in the nation) for affiliates serving a population of 200,000 or more.  Below: Shawn Bible picking up a national award for TDOT's highway beautification programs, Edith Heller receiving several awards for Keep Tennessee Beautiful and Mary Lee picking up a First Place affiliate award for Keep Kingsport Beautiful.  The big surprise was for Judge Larry Potter of Memphis receiving the Iron Eyes Cody Award for his work on the bench as an Environmental Judge and for promoting environmental courts across the nation.  He has also been a tireless advisor to other judges and law enforcement officials on the value of prosecuting environmental cases.  Congratulations to Judge Potter.

- posted by KKB Staff at 9:15 PM

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Today there we a number of sessions covering recycling, cigarette litter, phone book recycling, promoting consistent national marketing of recycling terms, practices and symbols and more.  Pictured below center are our state leaders: Shawn Bible of the TDOT Highway Beautification Department and Edith Heller, Executive Director of Keep Tennessee Beautiful.



Thursday evening the whole Tennessee delegation went out to eat at a really eclectic restaurant that featured belly dancers who twirled flaming batons.  After making sure we knew the location of the nearest exit we all enjoyed the show.  There were no serious injuries.  We were disappointed that the Space Shuttle launch was cancelled due to low clouds.  It would have been the first night launch in years and is quite visible from the Orlando area.

- posted by KKB Staff at 9:45 PM

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

The conference sessions started today. 





The most interesting presentation (to me) covered the earnings of companies listed on the Dow Sustainability Index.  These companies are apparently outperforming the Dow Industrial Index on earnings.  There are a lot of variables to look at but it certainly encourages investors and companies to look at their sustainability goals.

- posted by KKB Staff at 10:15 PM

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

It's time for the Keep America Beautiful National Conference.  Joyce and I traveled to Orlando today for the KAB conference that starts tomorrow.  We got here around 9 a.m. and spend the day at Sea World.  Sea World is a conference sponsor and we are having a reception there on Wednesday.  Today we got to see Shamu and the other killer whales do their show.  It was really neat.  Here are some pictures of Shamu and other Sea World exhibits:





- posted by Tom at 9:45 PM