The smell of coffee, and the promise of caffeine, wafts through the air as the pot on the other side of the kitchen gurgles. Inside the galley of the house barge, Nozzy and his fellow crew members, Rachel Loomis and Callie Schaser, sit quietly at the kitchen table as the eerie glow of 7 a.m. (Photo by Joshua Bickel/Columbus Dispatch) Cleaning up Ohio’s ‘living life force’ Callie Schaser grills some chicken for dinner on Tuesday, Jin Cincinnati, Ohio. With more than 11 million pounds of trash removed over the years, and more than 1.6 million trees planted by over 120,000 plus volunteers, it is hard to argue against that logic. “Because really most people, I think, are good, right? And this is one of those cool things that creates an outlet for people to do good.” “It really is this powerful, cool thing, where we’re keeping it fun and not getting too serious about it,” he said. Nozzy sees LLW’s mission as a bonding experience between one another and our natural resources, along the river towns and muddy shorelines of rural America. Pregracke and his crew have carved out a small pocket of positive change despite the fractured politics, runaway misinformation and a generous dose of scientific skepticism. (Photo by Joshua Bickel/Columbus Dispatch) “And I think if more people thought about conserving America’s resources in that way, more would do it.” A small plant winds its way up a fence on the barge where discarded plastic bottles and styrofoam cups are kept until they can be properly disposed on Wednesday, Jin Cincinnati, Ohio. “Recycling should be marketed as patriotic,” he added. “I think the new ‘green’ is red, white and blue,” said LLW’s founder Chad Pregracke, who sees America’s rivers as a “living life force.” It’s a source of drinking water for more than 5 million Americans and a body of water experts say is polluted by a layered and systematic “environmental death of a thousand cuts.” Most of that garbage – 355,953 pounds, or 63% of it – came from the Ohio River. last year, including the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee, Rock, Illinois, Des Plaines and Cuyahoga. Powered by a dedicated 10-person crew aboard a barge, they collected over half a million pounds of trash across seven rivers throughout the U.S. Living Lands and Waters is many things: a 23-year-old environmental non-profit, a band of modern-day deckhands living on a barge nine months of the year, educators who host watershed conservation initiatives and workshops and even, a group of tree-planters. The organization says it’s the only non-profit doing “industrial strength” river clean-up in the world. Nicknamed after Nos – the Monster-manufactured, NASCAR-sponsored energy drink he used to down religiously – Nozzy has seen a lot during his 15 years working for Living Lands and Waters. Rachel Loomis is reflected in a window on the barge as she cleans out a john boat at the end of the day on Tuesday, Jin Cincinnati, Ohio. “Time to hand it over,” the 44-year-old said, recalling the government’s concern that the mortar, potentially still live, had to be detonated. Coast Guard showed up at the volunteer’s house. They took it home with them, Nozzy remembers. The 19th century bomb was hauled up from the river by a volunteer during a clean-up years ago. “Oh yeah, the weirdest thing we ever found was a Civil War-era mortar shell,” Nozzy said. Nozzy has also found a couple of saran wrapped horse heads, just floating along the water. Last season’s haul racked up 60,206 pounds of scrap metal, 1,413 tires and 114 milk crates. Nozzy, a crew member working aboard a trash-collecting barge, is never quite sure what he’s going to pull from the water. Knee-deep in the muddy banks of the Ohio River, Mike “Nozzy” Coyne-Logan squints through the hazy sunlight poking through the July morning fog. Including too, making up four or more blocks and moving them around in front of you to see what arrangement YOU like best.SILVER GROVE, Ky. This is how we’ve planned our quilts for centuries, drawing/coloring and Playing. Then Play! Draw turning every other block so that the white squares are touching the color-stripe SIDE of the blocks next to them, not ever touching another white square.Įtc. Now play! Do a drawing where the white blocks touch the white squares of the blocks just above & just below - meaning too that the colored stripe panels will be sitting next to the color strips of the block next to them. Remember to take off the outside seam allowances when drawing it, I usually use one graph block to be one inch of drawing a block. Now using lots of different colors, draw & then color in this block. If you can find graph paper with 1/4 inch squares, it’ll be easier. Love this block! For those wishing to see a full quilt, to get an idea if how it could look - get some graph paper & colored pencils.
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