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Local Students First to Use Award Winning Green Technology in Marin County

April 27, 2011, Mill Valley, CA Pieter Hoff, inventor of the award winning Groasis Waterboxx, will plant seeds with students of Ring Mountain Day School to celebrate Earth Day and break ground on the schools

garden project. Selected by Popular Science as one of the top 10 inventions of 2010, the Groasis Waterboxx, is an intelligent water incubator that produces and captures water from the air through condensation and rain. It has been hailed as a pioneering and sustainable way of planting without energy and scarce ground water. Mr. Hoff, who published a book in 2008 titled CO2: A Gift From Heaven, believes planting 5 billion acres of trees would be enough to offset annual emissions of 10 billion metric tons of CO2. The Waterboxxes have been installed throughout the world, including 800 in Joshua Tree National Park, where they are nourishing native mesquite and saltbush plants. We can use the box to reforest California, and we can use it to restore our water tables to safer levels again, says Hoff.* While policymakers debate climate, tomorrows leaders and thinkers of our country are looking to the future using Hoffs innovative system right here in Mill Valley. These Groasis Waterboxxes will be the first to be installed in Marin County. After the student planting is complete, there will be a separate forum and Q&A with Mr. Hoff for local business and environmental advocates. Those interested in attending this forum please contact Karen Lefurgy for more info.

Ring Mountain Day School is a kindergarten through eighth grade program in Mill Valley. Ring Mountain Day School is a student-centered program which creates a dynamic learning environment to stimulate creative thinking, motivate academic excellence, and instill a lifelong desire to learn.

*from article by Debra Kahn in Scientific American, July 1, 2010