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[Carl DuPoldt <cdupoldt@yahoo.com>]

Each week during the month of November, the Riordan Clinic will 
celebrate its 35th anniversary by unveiling innovative programs and 
community awareness projects. On November 22, in an effort to promote 
healthy living to area youth, the Riordan Clinic announced the "Health 
Is..." essay contest for Wichita 5th graders.

The first "Health Is..." contest was introduced as part of the Clinic's 
25th Anniversary Celebration in 2000. It was wonderfully successful, 
with winners sharing thousands of dollars in prizes and benefiting from a
 greater appreciation of health.

he 2010 "Health Is..." essay contest is open to any 5th grade student in
 USD 259. Students are asked to write an essay communicating what health
 means to them. Essays will be judged on originality, clarity, 
motivational impact, and emphasis on health (verses focus on disease). 
Entries are due by 1/21/2011. Winners will be announced 2/22/2011. 
Monetary prizes totaling $1700 will be awarded to the top 3 entries and 
their supervising teachers. The first place entry will be published in 
our March 2011 issue of the Health Hunters Newsletter with readership of
 4800.

Information about the contest will be sent by the USD 259 Health Services 
Coordinator to elementary school nurses,
 who will disseminate the information to 5th grade teachers. Questions 
about the contest should be directed to Tiffany Hurley at 
thurley@riordanclinic.org. 

Riordan Clinic 

3100 N. Hillside Ave. - Wichita, KS 67219 - (316) 682-3100 - 
http://www.RiordanClinic.org





      
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(From a comment I made on Facebook):

Many aquatic plants could probably withstand and process/purify level 5 
municipal sewage mixed with stormwater (household, commercial waste plus 
runoff water from streets, roadsides (highways), parking lots, etc.). At 
least they could start the purification process reducing the effluent 
from level 5 to something lower. Then the effluent can be processed by 
progressively more aggressive biological systems known as living 
machines and constructed wetlands. At some point this purified or 
semipurified water could be made suitable for use in a Green Cooling 
System. I see this GCS as essentially a "section of natural forest with 
complete integrated functional ecosystem" installed on a rooftop.
i.e. a glorified "swamp cooler" that uses dewatered air chilled in a 
machine that circulates that air through chambers cooled by evaporating 
water (high pressure spray). A green system could simply use water in 
radiators installed in a building's living space that cool instead of 
heat in summer and heat instead of cool in winter, obtaining heated 
water from solar collectors. The Green Cooler would consist of an 
ecologically appropriate multi layered simulated forest
complete with fountains, waterfalls and rock-embedded stream courses 
(watercourses) allowing the water to cool and purify as it is first 
exposed to the sun then watercourses wherein temperature would be 
reduced through contact with stones embedded in the bottom and sides of 
the streams and along the waterfall then become further cooled and 
purified as it flows over and through plant ecosystems and biologically 
active soil to finally filter through a deep layered bed of stone, 
gravel, sand and bioactive aerobic fine soil (siltation pond fines
aggregate, 100 mesh to 300 mesh) to finally be captured in a catchment 
for filtering an pumping throughout the pipes leading to the radiators 
in all the living space. Small, efficient, low pressure "whisper" fans 
powered by small individual solar photovoltaic collectors mounted in a 
room's windows connected to a small battery, could circulate air through 
the radiator to cool or heat a room's complete interior.
Talk about stacked functions! Same system provides heat in winter and 
cooling in summer with the added benefit of becoming part of a city's 
public park system providing citizens with a prime ecotourism site
and (fourth function) an educational site for students on any level and 
especially those participating in curricula that includes architecture, 
green building (contractors), landscape architecture,
planning and design/construction (three different professions),
urban gardeners, permaculturists and ecology.