It's Almost Summer!

It's almost summer! I have only one more week of school. But my fundraising project will continue all summer and into next fall. I still have 5 more mountains to climb. The next mountain I'm climbing, my sixth for the project, is going to be Mount Moosilauke, which is 4,802 feet high. We'll do it in a couple of weeks. This is the most southwestern of the White Mountains and I hear that it has a really cool view at the top. The Appalachian Trail also goes right over this mountain. My Papa is going to come with us on this hike, which means there will be three generations on this hike. Maybe you've read his blog, The Right Thing.

I just got a new gear sponsor for my project. Klean Kanteen makes stainless steel water bottles. They gave me a few. I used some on my last hike up Cannon Mountain, and we auctioned two on eBay to help raise more money for the project. Thanks very much, Klean Kanteen!

One really exciting thing that happened recently is that one of the high school teachers from my school (her name is Tara) and one of her students, Kristin, invited me and my mom to see a survey and report they did about transportation at our school. Since my school is a charter school it has lots of people from different towns, which means that more people use cars to get there. Also, our school has a van that they use to take the sports teams to different places. And that uses a lot of gas. Tara and Kristin wanted to talk with me about maybe using the money from my project to try to convert one of the school vans to run on vegetable oil. We're going to talk more about it over the summer.

Green Tip #4 (sorry I didn't put one in my last blog posting): We had a heat wave in Massachusetts this week. Instead of using air conditioning in the summer, try to use fans. We don't have air conditioning in our house. Fans use less energy to run, and they keep you cool because of evaporation. Click here to find out more.