Environmental Club sponsors a host of events for Earth Week
By: Ashton Simmons
Issue date: 4/22/08 Section: News
"If there's any one Environmental Club event people should look into, it's Earth Week," urged freshman Katia Satterfield, vice president of public relations for DePauw's Environmental Club.
Earth Week, a week-long series of events dedicated to environmental sustainability, will be hard to miss. From the "landfill" in academic quad Monday to the Nature Park clean up on Friday, Earth Week activities will be visible on campus throughout the week.
"DePauw and Greencastle as a community have been making strides towards sustainability; Earth Week is intended to both emphasize how far we've come and to suggest ways in which we can still improve," said DEC secretary Kate Wright, a freshman.
Earth Week kicked off Monday morning with the creation of the "landfill" in academic quad, where DEC members dumped and sorted trash to illustrate the problems associated with landfills. Student volunteers sorted recyclables and compostables from 19 trash bags and reduced the non-recyclable waste to eight bags.
Monday was titled "RRR - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Day." The events continued with a discussion by Ted Fares, director of facilities management, and Tony Robertson, assistant director of facilities management, entitled "A Short History of Campus Sustainability through Facilities" at noon in the academic quad. According to freshman Anthony Baratta, DEC president, Fares and Robertson have been instrumental in putting together Earth Week.
Ellen Augustine's speech, "Stories of Hope in Tumultuous Times," rounded out Monday's activities at 7:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. Augustine presented stories of people who have implemented sustainable and ethical practices in their businesses. She encouraged students to promote sustainable ideas wherever they work or to start businesses that follow these practices.
"It is nice to know that some businesses care and are doing things like that," said Tiffany Nichols, DEC secretary.
Today is "Environmental Education Day," which will focus on increasing awareness of environmental issues and steps that can be taken to improve sustainability in Greencastle.
Earth Week, a week-long series of events dedicated to environmental sustainability, will be hard to miss. From the "landfill" in academic quad Monday to the Nature Park clean up on Friday, Earth Week activities will be visible on campus throughout the week.
"DePauw and Greencastle as a community have been making strides towards sustainability; Earth Week is intended to both emphasize how far we've come and to suggest ways in which we can still improve," said DEC secretary Kate Wright, a freshman.
Earth Week kicked off Monday morning with the creation of the "landfill" in academic quad, where DEC members dumped and sorted trash to illustrate the problems associated with landfills. Student volunteers sorted recyclables and compostables from 19 trash bags and reduced the non-recyclable waste to eight bags.
Monday was titled "RRR - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Day." The events continued with a discussion by Ted Fares, director of facilities management, and Tony Robertson, assistant director of facilities management, entitled "A Short History of Campus Sustainability through Facilities" at noon in the academic quad. According to freshman Anthony Baratta, DEC president, Fares and Robertson have been instrumental in putting together Earth Week.
Ellen Augustine's speech, "Stories of Hope in Tumultuous Times," rounded out Monday's activities at 7:00 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. Augustine presented stories of people who have implemented sustainable and ethical practices in their businesses. She encouraged students to promote sustainable ideas wherever they work or to start businesses that follow these practices.
"It is nice to know that some businesses care and are doing things like that," said Tiffany Nichols, DEC secretary.
Today is "Environmental Education Day," which will focus on increasing awareness of environmental issues and steps that can be taken to improve sustainability in Greencastle.
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