Last chance to vote for Tahoe Pepsi Project
Saturday is the last chance to vote online for a 24-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman who is in the running for $50,000 from the Pepsi Refresh Project to create a nonprofit in Lake Tahoe promoting a sustainable community.Aria Benham, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, is ranked 198 out of 1,300 accepted entries for Pepsi's online contest. The top 10 online vote-getters receive $50,000 to get their dreams off the ground.Pepsi is giving out $1,300,000 each month to fund ideas.Among Benham's proposals:* Three greenhouse projects within the local school district.* Provide access to used bikes for inexpensive, flexible and human-powered transportation. Provide bike carts to locals for free use to and from grocery stores as well as any other needed use.* Creation of a high-altitude cold climate seed bank.* Use recyclable clothing to create usable shopping bags; ultimately eliminating the use of plastic bags within the community.
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