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Alright, welcome to In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast
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briefing of all the goings ons, ins, and rounds, what's going to do at Sudbury School.
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So today was, it started out cold, still a little bit cold in the shade, but quite warm
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in the sun.
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We do have our construction on Walther has come parallel to the tent, so that made announcements
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in J.C. a little bit more annoying than it's been.
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In particular there are these trucks that, you know, dump stuff, let's call them dump
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trucks, and the doors kind of swing, boom, boom, boom, boom, afterwards.
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That's really quite annoying.
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Let's see, in announcements we announced that there are dancers coming on Wednesday using
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our field for a few hours.
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They have use for the carriage house bathroom, so school meeting members should stay out
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of the carriage house during that time, and we'll air it out when they're all done.
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Let's see, we also announced that Josh, our staff member who has been online at the beginning
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of the year and kind of took a leave of absence during the middle, is now going to be back
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in person starting on Wednesday.
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Was planned to start next Monday, but Ashley will not be in this week, so he moved up his
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timetable.
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Let's see, what else.
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Yeah, J.C. was a long one, we got through six or seven cases, and yeah, the team did
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great.
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Stan, everything stayed on focus, was very efficiently run, had a lot of different people
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coming and going, and it only took an hour, and yeah, so that was nice.
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Let's see, what else.
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There's been a lot of slack line work, and also the green safety dude has come out of
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retirement and is now a crucial player in all the goings ons in and around here.
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I suspect that tomorrow at school meeting where we'll have to change the rule about
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not playing with the safety green dude.
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So it goes.
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Let's see, what else.
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Oh, we also had a visiting student start this today, a very young one, and hopefully that
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will go well, that's definitely for the fall.
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And what else, I think there was a Frisbee game earlier, that's cool, lots of ball kicking.
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And oh yes, and we're expecting a delivery of mulch today, there was an attempt last
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week, but the hydraulics failed.
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So today we're hoping to actually get our mulch.
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All right, so today is Millions Monday, so I thought I would do a quick computation on
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compost.
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So I've just installed a big compost bin at my home, and got me thinking about how much
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we could be composting.
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So over the past few years, I've been taking compost here to Arts and Ideas.
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We have a compost area in the back that the chickens love.
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And I would say I bring somewhere between one and two gallons every week of compost.
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So I'm probably a little on the high side for vegetable consumption relative to the
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US population.
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So we'll just go with one gallon.
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So if you have one gallon of compost a week from every household, how many gallons would
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that be?
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Well, so there's roughly 300 million people, 340.
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And one third of that, roughly the household number, so let's say about 100 million.
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And so it's 100 million gallons of compost that we could be composting every week.
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And then let's multiply that by 50.
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So sounds like 5 billion gallons of compost over the course of a year.
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And over a decade, that would of course be 50 billion gallons of compost.
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So yeah, compost, it adds up.
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All right, well, that was Millions Monday for you.
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And I hope everyone's having a good one, and I will see you when I see you.