Groasis Waterboxx - Marin County Students Use Award Winning Green Technology

1. FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
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
school’s
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,
tomorrow’s
leaders
and
thinkers
of
our
country
are
looking
to
the
future
using
Hoff’s
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