Hello there! My name is Kristen
Larson and I am the recently-hired sustainability intern at Ripon College. I am
an Environmental Studies and Anthropology double major as well as being a
member of the Ripon college dance team and a sister of the Alpha Chi Omega
sorority. I also teach Zumba classes!
I have
always been interested in the environment and its protection. As a kid I would
get upset when people did not recycle or when I saw garbage thrown into nature.
As I grew older I became aware of more environmental issues as well as the
solutions they required. Sometimes looking at all the environmental issues can
be overwhelming and leave you feeling helpless, but you just have to remember
to do your part. I believe that each individual can make a change and, as one
of my favorite quotes says, “the people who are crazy enough to think they can
change the world, are the ones who do”. By working as Ripon’s sustainability
intern I hope I can start to make that change.
I am incredibly excited to get
started with an Eco Rep program here! This will be a peer-to-peer project aimed
at fostering sustainability within the dorms. I will be posting updates as the
project goes along. Working with Prof.
Hamzé (the campus sustainability coordinator), we hope that this program will
be taken seriously and continue to grow even once I’m graduated! If we can make
sustainability something that students on this campus think about as part of
everyday decisions, if we can integrate it into the very culture of this
campus, I feel we will have done a great service.
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