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Closing the Loop:
From Waste to Wealth and Clean Energy for
Sustainable Rural Communities
Free Webinar
Join us on April 17th
1:30 - 3 pm (EST)
To register for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6089793981239413249
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Description
Located in rural northeastern Maryland, West Nottingham Academy (WNA) is an international boarding and day school (grades 9-12) with 130 students from 21 countries, 9 states, and surrounding counties in Maryland. As a Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education Certified Sustainable School, WNA engages with regional partners and neighbors in its efforts to be more environmentally sustainable and contribute to building more sustainable and viable communities. These connections open opportunities for educational, volunteer, and service-learning partnerships for students and faculty.
One such partnership is with Kilby Farm and Creamery, one mile from campus. Kilby Farm serves as an outdoor classroom for WNA and accepts WNA food waste to feed their methane digester, generating clean energy and fertilizer for the farm. The school helps to “Close the Loop” by purchasing products from Kilby Farm.
Closing the Loop: From Waste to Wealth and Clean Energy for Sustainable Rural Communities will discuss a range of strategies that can assist farms and rural/small town communities in becoming more environmentally sustainable and viable. Through the application of best management practices for handling livestock manure and diverting food scraps from rural/small town wastestreams, farms and communities can “close the loop” and help build markets for locally produced products.
A preview of WNA's Student Environmental Council (SEC) Documentary Film, Closing the Loop: From Waste to Wealth and Clean Energywill open the webinar.
Presenters
Virginia Kennedy, PhD, WNA’s Director of Sustainability Programs and Curriculum
Students from WNA’s Environmental Policy and Action Class and Student Environmental Council
Bill Kilby, Kilby Farm and Creamery
For more information: Athena Lee Bradley, NERC at 802-254-3636/athena@nerc.org.
Funded in part through a United States Department of Agriculture grant.
Athena Lee Bradley, Projects Manager
Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. (NERC)
139 Main Street, Suite 401
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Tel. 802.254.3636
Resource for Sustainable Solutions
www.nerc.org 
NERC Blog
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