Reflection

How I Feel at Times:

It’s my surfboard

And I wash away

I float in the middle in an

Ocean of decay

Tides are rough, pieces of my

Board float away.

Stuck in the middle of the sea;

I have no one to talk to or

listen to me. My skin is wrinkled

From the water, no searches,

not even a bother! I see the sea

Serpents that float under me,

Reading my mind, hatred and animosity

even the goldfish judge a fall

the smallest ones are the worst of them all!

looked to them and made me small.

The ocean is too big for m

In time try not to sink in the sea

and let time tell what it’ll do for me!

-Javonne Garcia, Crew 3

Field Crew Season 2010

CREW 4 (GREEN CREW)

The Green Crew's objective is to make existing homes more energy efficient. In the last two weeks we've learned to use equipment that is necessary to run energy audits. Learning how to use a blower door may be the easiest of what we've done thus far. There are more challenging tasks that have presented themselves in the past two weeks. One includes crunching numbers to determine the most effective amount of insulation to put in the roofs of these homes. In addition to finding the point of diminishing returns (balancing the cost of insulation with the potential energy saved), we've had to take into consideration what type of insulation should be used and the most effective blower machine to use. We want to insulate as many homes in the least amount of time as possible. In our third week of work we presented our finding to our partner in this project, the Taos County Housing Authority. This week we will begin to follow up with them to ensure that the materials we need to make those homes more energy efficient. Until we can begin to tackle the insulation of these homes, we will continue to run energy audits and practice our people skills.
-Karen Mirabal, Crew 4