Final Project : Student Activist & Action

For your viewing enjoyment!

 The Clemson University Student Sustainability Community has a variety of identifying characteristics.  Like all communities, each has a common thread. 

Action

The common among the uncommon. 

It deserves it's own post.

enjoy.

Earthday 2011 Organic Clemson Locally Grown Leadership

Window Painting Downtown Clemson 

Friday, April 22
Happy Earthday! Clemson University students are hosting the 2nd Annual Earthday event from noon to 4 PM at the Hendricks Center Grand Ballroom.  Originally scheduled at the Carillion Gardens and North Lawn, the event has officially been relocated to avoid seasonal showers and the cooler accompanying weather.

Organic Clemson University locally grown student leadership 

is nurtured and raised though collective 

sustainability awareness activities.

Dirt to Food...What happen's in between?

Code Academy students ready to work! 

Shot angle supports the new experience

SENECA    Dirt has been associated with being impure, foul or unclean.  Through advertising and rhetoric, generations have received misinformation "our soil is bad"!  The truth is  "dirt supports our existence". Without the the soil and earth we would perish.

DIRT to FOOD Project  The name of the project is a study in and of itself.  D2F is a CU student lead organization dedicated to increasing sustainability, creating a food network and educating Clemson University & surrounding areas about fresh, local grown food.

Volunteers help students
connect to food sources

D2F is working with students at Code Academy in Seneca.  According to, Brittany Lusk, March 4th was just the beginning!  The Greenhouse Repair and Seeding activity was the start of a big things at Code!  The D2F workday marked the beginning of a larger project to reach the Code Academy students.

Tropos: 7 shots to perfection.
This shot took 7 tries to get comfortable!

Connecting the students with the season, D2F actively connects staff and students with a big idea: Our food has been super engineered to be cheap and plentiful while providing little nourishment.  

The Dirt to Food Projects seeks to connect with the community and reconnect where a disassociation from the source of of all of our food...dirt.

March 11, friday- D2F is helping Code Academy students install the Early Spring Gardens.  Set up begins at 11AM with activities lasting till 2:30PM.

Code Academy is located at 905 South Oak Street, Seneca, SC.  For directions, call: (864) 886-4435.

You Can Dig it!

A New Day...Recycling Day!

Internationally Recognized Symbol
 Designated for Recyclable Materials

Recycling: Wednesday 8:25A.M. Check!

Presently, I am the only one in my apartment complex choosing to recycle. Remembering garbage day has always been a pain - smell and mess, not to mention the ooze from the inevitably leaky bag. You-all know what I am talking about!

Desk side window, see the truck...run, Leigh, run!  I dash to the curbside to meet my Recycling Engineer!  Mitchell has been working the route for 5 years.  Mitchell smiled when I asked about his route.  Multitasking, sorting and smiling with pride, he told me that he has seen pickup of recyclables steadily increase!  Mitchell's route originally ran till 11a.m.; Now, he's on the clock til 1p.m.  Mitchell's job is the next phase in 'Greening" our Clemson community.

The CU Sustainability Community Students for Environmental Action (SEA) are conducting the Annual Cooper Library Trash Audit.  See you 8a.m. till 10a.m. on the Cooper Library Bridge.  SEA's effort will show how many recyclables end up in the regular trash cycle.

'Round here, Garbage Day has been officially replaced with Recycling Day! 

Weekly Bag Count: 7

CLEMSON DNA: Sustainability Code Endures!

 

President's Commission on Sustainability - Every other Tuesday, attendance encouraged.

Sustainability.  What is this exactly?    Have you ever heard any one utilize this word in a daily conversation.  "... My mom's sustainability in the kitchen really says it all!", "Grandma really is sustainable", or  "Wow, look how economically sustainable those Jones live!" How do we recognize it in practice?

With A Sense of Urgency...

 I woke up to change the world" 
-Students For Environmental Action


On the Clemson Campus, numerous people are buzzing over the topic of the Millennium - Sustainability.  But really what does "that" mean?  Ask any two people on campus and you will get a two distinctly different answers. "Sustainability" makes for great articles, conversation and debate. 


After hearing a student express 'sustainability is a joke'.  I finally faced the apathetic realities and thoughts of the greater Clemson student community. I awoke.  Rather than be discouraged, I have chosen to recognize a community calling for help and people responding.  Numerous groups have mobilized through student organization connections and a grassroots community is forming.