History — The Dirt Therapy Project
We truly value the experience of sharing our passion. Our journey is one of singletrack, enduro lines, park laps, and high fives. Learn more about TDTP is this short documentary.
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in 2018 Jonathan was knee deep in grad school, working a corporate job and had two young children. Stress was a constant. On a whim Jonathan jumped on craigslist and purchased a “vintage” Kona MTB.
The rest is history…..
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TDTP establishes an advisory board and builds relationships with Bicycle Heaven, Specialized, Kill Cliff, and Spider Mountain Bike Park. We’re developing some speed at this point!
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With COVID in full effect, our operational model needs a little adjusting, but we never stop shredding. Our program grew with adding chapters in North Carolina and Colorado. TDTP also hosted our first large scale (18 riders) trip to Angel Fire Bike park in New Mexico, as well as a stellar trip to Bentonville Arkansas.
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2021 was a big year for us. We added chapters in Utah and Arkansas.
Our program also saw a return to Angel Fire NM, this time riding the lost lake trail, bike park, and spent the 20th anniversary of 9/11 riding the South Boundary IMBA Epic together. -
Forging ahead and securing new partners has given us amazing growth potential and allowed us to better provide for our veteran brothers and sisters. We have a solid calendar lined up for this year, we will be venturing to Bentonville in June, and back to New Mexico in September!
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We are growing exponentially and are always looking for our 2023 partnerships and adventures to carry us forward! Reach out and be a part!
Jonathan Hagerman, founder, is a combat veteran that had the pleasure of serving in the United States Marine Corps from 2009-2013.
During his enlistment Jonathan deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and found himself in the middle of Sangin, Afghanistan supporting 3rd battalion, 5th Marines. After Separation from the Corps, Jonathan completed his undergraduate and Graduate degree programs (MBA) at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Jonathan has a lovely wife who is the co-founder and biggest supporter of The Dirt Therapy Project.
Alexandra Hagerman -when Jonathan presented the idea to her about starting a non-profit she was very supportive of the idea and is always happy to give back to our nation’s veterans. Alexandra is a proud graduate of San Diego State University where she studied during their time in Southern California. Alexandra is many things, among them, a wonderful mother and wife, comedian, reader, baker and patriot. Alexandra is proud to be able to serve Veterans with The Dirt Therapy Project.
the eco-web project that’s much more than the Green Facebook.
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5th October 2010
Mark Shearer and Nick Gardner
Project Dirt co-founders Mark Shearer (left) and Nick Gardner
Forget impersonal internet interactions, Project Dirt is connecting green initiatives in real life to make environmental change at a local level a reality
Social networking sites have moved human interaction into the digital sphere – friends are no longer people you’ve necessarily met face to face and personal worth is judged by the number of names on your profile, not the quality of your relationships with them.
This is just one reason why Mark Shearer is determined his environmental community website Project Dirt will never be the Green Facebook. Its aim is not only to connect local environmental projects in the ether, but also to help people start up or get involved in eco work on the ground.
‘Project Dirt is about learning from real people doing real projects,’ he says.
‘If you want to get involved in environmental work you can see how others are going about it, and the general public can see what’s going on too.’
Set up in Wandsworth in 2008, it is the brainchild of Shearer and Nick Gardner, a charted surveyor and consultant respectively, who met in 2005 through a shared interest in the environment. Both 26 at the time, they were looking for a green project to get involved in, and landed upon the idea for a website to make precisely that kind of decision easier.
‘We looked into it and discovered a huge wave of people doing things, but none of them speaking to each other and none of their projects actually open for the general public to look at and learn about. And there wasn’t a lack of info out there about green issues, there was too much, and a lot of it contradictory. We wanted to make things simple and tangible, so people could see what was going on and access information direct from the source.’
Growing the grassroots
The site is free to use: members sign up, create their own project page and then are able to network, share information, search for volunteers and, increasingly, access funding streams.
With 375 member projects and more than 1,000 events posted in the past 18 months, the site is rapidly becoming the place to be for new and established green groups.
Projects range in size from one or two members (Brixton Cornercopia) to more than 100, such as Food Up Front. As news of the site has spread so too has its membership, beyond its Wandsworth base to Lambeth, Islington, Camden, Hackney and Westminster. Project Dirt Liverpool is already underway, Bristol has expressed an interest too and a new, larger site is planned for next year.
Shearer is determined not to overreach himself, however. ‘We want to make sure the new site is ready before we grow to other cities – it’s important to keep the core firm. The internet’s great for learning what someone in Japan’s up to, but no substitute for meeting people and seeing what they’re doing. Having Project Dirt at a local level has been key to its success so far.’
The site’s attraction – and its inviolable rule – is its neutrality: projects have their own branding and thinking, using the site only as a platform.
This also benefits local authorities, who now have an interface through which to interact with and offer funding to grassroots projects in their areas – as Shearer points out: ‘If they’d set up a network themselves, no one would want to know.’
Green in the mainstream
Unlike other environmental projects, Project Dirt is run as a limited company rather than a charity or non-profit. Although no trading is taking place at the moment, Shearer envisages revenue being generated in the future from subscribers such as local authorities and companies – ‘those who are able to pay – it will always be free to members and groups. We’ll reinvest a good percentage of any future profits through a formal pledge in the company papers’.
With its co-founder’s enthusiasm for the green scene as an ‘emerging sector’ and a ‘great business opportunity’, is there a danger that Project Dirt will go the way of Green & Black’s or Innocent and be snaffled up by a corporation keen for a greener image? It already has an ongoing relationship with footwear giant Timberland, after all.
Shearer is keen to dispel any question of selling out, pointing out that the site lives and dies on its standing among its members.
‘We have seen a spate of companies with poor CSR records buying into others to improve their images, but you can’t sell your souls. Timberland has provided us with a £10,000 grant this year, which has benefited up to five projects, but before we make any decisions we ask a steering committee of project administrators to give us their honest answer – funding or nothing? And we need to take their views seriously: if Project Dirt loses its integrity then it loses everything.
‘If someone were to step in tomorrow – a brilliant partner that our members approved of – then we could build the new website and help get even more projects off the ground. I would quit my day job in a flash to work on this full time.’
What its members say…
Sue Sheehan, green community champions officer, Lambeth Borough Council/Hyde Farm Climate Action Network
When a community group or project starts up, their first thought is often to get a website: not only can you do that really easily on Project Dirt but you can also network with other people running similar projects to get advice.
It’s been a really good resource in bringing like-minded people together and helping them do what they want to do. It’s helped to create more activity and feels very supportive. Lambeth Borough Council recommends it to all its community groups and when we had a funding round made it a requirement that successful groups joined up. I like the local feel of it, and there is something about developing organically. It’s the fact that you can fill in gaps locally, network with people at a local level. It’s not just a virtual space – it’s more important than Facebook because a lot of people meet in real life as well.
Dan O’Neill, Transition Town Wandsworth
Mark and Nick have created a unique platform for community cooperation and facilitated a whole host of activity in South London. Transition Town Wandsworth couldn’t have come into the world without it, and the community garden we’ve created – Wandsworth’s first – would have been starved of participation were it not for the grassroots ‘word on the street’ supplied by Project Dirt.
It’s allowed me to meet and work with a great bunch of people doing invaluable work for nothing more than the satisfaction of involving themselves for the betterment of their communities – it didn’t require any politician making a call to action. I host three projects on the site and have watched them grow over the past two years. There’s a massive appetite for change out on the streets and it is forums such as Project Dirt that are allowing those wanting it to find like minds; it is only by coming together that it can happen. Long may it continue: a genuine backyard revolution.
Eifion Rees is the Ecologist’s acting Green Living Editor
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History of the town of Gryazi, Lipetsk region
History of the city of Gryazi, Lipetsk region Gryazi is a city in Russia. Population 46.4 thousand people. (2009) The administrative center of the Gryazinsky district of the Lipetsk region. The city is located on the Matyra River, 20 km southeast of Lipetsk.
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On the pages of our site you can get acquainted with the history of our city. Here you will find the latest news about the life of the city. We are glad to all the guests of our site and hope that these pages will help us to establish new interesting contacts, and you —
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12.2022
The Department of Property and Land Relations of the Lipetsk Region adopted Order No. 131 of 09.11.2022 “On approval of the results of determining the cadastral value of land plots in the Lipetsk Region and the average level of cadastral value for municipal districts (urban districts) of the Lipetsk Region” (published on 11/17/2022 on “ Official Internet portal
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07.11.2022
The branch of Rosseti Center PJSC — Lipetskenergo opened a new communication channel for representatives of the business community. It will be possible to use the new service on the websites of municipalities and the Department of Economic Development of the Lipetsk Region. An interactive banner of the Lipetsk branch of Rosseti Center allows you to apply electronically for
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24.10.2022
Dear bastards! We present the final concept of the improvement of Pravda Street. The concept was prepared as part of the All-Russian competition for the best projects for creating a comfortable urban environment, included in the federal project «Formation of a comfortable urban environment» of the national project «Housing and Urban Environment».
Pravdy Street — the main pedestrian street
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07.10.2022
In connection with the work on the repair of the heating main on the street. Pionerskaya in the period from October 10 to October 31, 2022, the movement of cars and pedestrians along the street will be limited. Communal in the area of the shopping center «Slava». We apologize in advance for the inconvenience caused.
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28.09.2022
In connection with the entry into force from September 1, 2022 of the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 03.02.2022 No. 92 «On Amendments to Certain Acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on the Provision of Public Services and the Maintenance of Common Property in an Apartment Building» we report the following. Decree
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09/28/2022
In accordance with Federal Law No. 237-FZ of July 3, 2016 “On State Cadastral Valuation” (hereinafter No.
237-FZ), a state cadastral valuation of land plots in the Lipetsk Region was carried out. You can get acquainted with the draft report on the results of the state cadastral valuation on the official website
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27.09.2022
Gazprom Gas Distribution Lipetsk JSC recalls the basic rules when using gas appliances: — constantly monitor the condition of the smoke and ventilation ducts, keep the chimney cleaning pockets clean; — check the presence of draft before switching on and during operation of household gas-using equipment; It is forbidden to use gas-using equipment
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23.09.2022
Order No. 40 of 21.09.2022 Download
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15.09.2022
The administration of the city of Gryazi informs in connection with the repair of the bridge across the river. Matyra in the city of Gryazi in the period from September 15 to September 21, 2022, it is possible to stop the movement of vehicles on the bridge at night from 00 to 04
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09/01/2022
We would like to inform you that from August 31, 2022, towards the new school, located at the address: Gryazi, st.
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«Mud project»: new_vodokachkin — LiveJournal
Did you, I suppose, think that there is no need to design mud at all, it forms by itself with the assistance of a bit of human gouging? So I, frankly, so naively thought before today’s reading of local news (I got there in the evening), but Vladimir Svet-Vladimirovich — you, of course, understood that this is not about Mayakovsky? — He explained to me popularly that everything is not so simple and unambiguous! nine0002
The urban dirt of b-state-saving E-burg is not khukhr-mukhr for you, but a mysterious phenomenon of reality, which for a year has been the object of close study and the deepest scientific research, which, just about, will shed light on the evolution of the Universe and other equally fundamental aspects of knowledge.
Here, evaluate the modest intermediate result of the work of the scientific community:
«17 causes of dirt: scientists from the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences figured out what turns Yekaterinburg into Gryazburg» (https://www.e1.ru/text/gorod/2017/12/25/53305821/).
Moreover — «Researchers gave recommendations to the mayor’s office on how to defeat it» !
However, the victory turned out to be not as close as we would like, four years without a couple of weeks have passed since that publication, and the WHO is still stalling on the same section of the long road from the past to the future …
And here is a new milestone —
«A scientist from Yekaterinburg asked Vladimir Putin about the dirt on the city streets» (https://www.e1.ru/text/science/2021/12/09/70304321/).
This was published just at the time when my fellow factory workers and I, sparing no effort, accomplished labor feats in order to erect an insurmountable barrier against diseases that threaten the health of the Russian people and some other peoples.
And, of course, the president answered him… There, in the note at the link, there is such a concentration of delightful things that I can’t help but quote almost in full
«On Wednesday, December 8, Vladimir Putin met with the participants of the Congress of Young Scientists. The key event of the outgoing Year of Science and Technology was held at the Sirius Center in Sochi, where a scientist from Yekaterinburg, Andrian Seleznev, who has been studying urban dirt for more than 15 years, asked the President about it.» nine0108
(15 years of research — and still a «young scientist»! Not otherwise, comprehended the secret of eternal youth, at least scientific!) object of monitoring. On the other hand, it is social: the city of Yekaterinburg — we had a history, you probably heard the artist [Slava ATGM] hung signs at the entrance to the city of Gryazburg. The population is periodically interested. Various social movements arise about this: «Here, we are tired of living in dirty cities, «said Andrian Seleznev.
— But Yekaterinburg is not the only city in Russia: it is dirty in Murmansk, in Rostov-on-Don, in Vladivostok this year we went to Novosibirsk. It is sometimes called Pylesibirsk. But on the other hand, the issue of dirt is a management issue, for managing the quality of cities and amenities. nine0108
— what is the syllable, huh?! «Dirt as an object of monitoring» … It’s all sorts of soulless people who simply remove it, but this method is not good for us!
«I completely agree. There is nothing to add here,» replied Vladimir Putin. «There is both a social aspect and an ecological one.»
And then comes the pearl of presidential wisdom, which even the publishers from the regional portal highlighted in capital letters:
«»The social aspect grows out of the ecological: the more harmful this substance, the worse people live from the point of view of the environment»
Vladimir Putin»
Wow, who would have guessed if not for the Bunker President! so that she does not die, earns.
One of the fifteen created scientific and educational centers (REC) operates in the Urals, which was established to conduct applied scientific research and create world-class developments. Andrian Seleznev also asked why regional authorities and big business cannot be the customers of scientific research. And he noted that the Soviet system of scientific research institutes has become obsolete and engineers should deal with the assessment of technological readiness in cooperation with scientists. «
— exactly right! The Soviet health care system, too, as you know, has outlived its usefulness… The Soviet system of housing and communal services has outlived its usefulness even earlier… And what about the obsolescence of research institutes still have not guessed, only the young scientist opened his eyes to this flagrant omission to the president and colleagues!
“I propose to create councils or some kind of advisory bodies at the REC that could seek application for the results of scientific work, engage in their implementation, cooperate,” the Ural scientist suggested.
science to make technology. I am ready to get involved in the work, to become, perhaps, the secretary of such a council.» nine0108
«To make technology out of science» — this guy pushed it powerfully! Especially from his favorite science of mud
Well, okay, to hell with him, with this mud specialist, who clearly has mastered the technology of beating the bubble for that nonsense in which he has been working for 15 years (and probably intends to continue such a non-dusty occupation). What attracted special attention was absolutely oligophrenic reasoning of Zeroed, for some time now he has become an expert on all issues … even those that he hears about for the first time. Well, yes, of course, the president in a modern state most often plays the role of decoration, a kind of talking sign (few exceptions do not make the weather). But, fir-trees, if the «sign» drives a blizzard like the one quoted above, and other persons of big politics surrounding it do not see anything abnormal in this, this eloquently characterizes the generalized intellect of the so-called elite, at least in this state.
