Cobb Benches

While the whole e-waste collection event was going on, volunteers from ECHS were assisting
Ray Cirino, to build cobb benches.

Sarah Laimen, a green ambassador teacher at ECHS, met Ray Cirino in the street at venice.
When He asked her about what permaculture is and how she feels about it?Permaculture is a
sustainable way of life. As they talked they came up with a way to bring this conception ECHS.

Jon (sophomore) and some other ECHS students described a cobb bench to be a bench made
out of dirt, water, clay and hay(straw). The elements around us, mix it all together which makes
it all turn hard like a rock. It is resistant against weather and crazy kids. The volunteers found
this as a fun and environmental activity that they enjoyed doing.

Ray Cirino said that the cobb benches were able to last up to 200 years. When created they
take up less energy. He plans on getting about 300 of the ECHS students to finish the rest of
the process. Because this is the first step of a revolution. He is going to guide us through
this whole process. As he stated "I'm going to teach you how to crawl, run, then fly".














THIS IS BY MELISSA HIGAREDA
SHE IS A NEW HELPER
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