Hello!
We finally got our ‘eco rep program’ (name as yet to be
determined) started! We have ten great Ripon students working with me: Robert
Enright, Aspen Geheber, Samantha Klein, Mariah Everts, Mikayla Huesman, Mamadou
Toure, Ricardo Jaimes, Shannon Marchiando and Sophia Rodgers. Six out of the
ten were able to attend our first meeting and they seem as enthusiastic as I
am! They already had questions and suggestions.
We are working on coming up
with a name and logo to identify ourselves with. I also gave them our first
assignment. We will be checking all the campus buildings for placement of
garbage and recycling bins and the labeling around them. In these same places
we will be monitoring the water fountain stations for how many water bottles
are saved each day by using reusable containers. We will be working heavily
with data because, as Professor Hamze likes to quote, “you can’t manage what
you can’t measure”!
I am also very excited because I found out I can attend a Midwest regional
conference on Sustainability in Decorah, IA on November 7-9th! I
hopefully get to stay on campus and hear from students across the Midwest
working on programs similar to this one!
I also had a talk with Professor Diane
Beres about the Costa Rica maymester dealing with sustainability and
development. It is a wonderful opportunity for any students and especially for
environmental studies majors. I told her I would help promote the project and
maybe be able to go myself! Anyone who is interested can feel free to contact
her or professor Hauge for more information. Also, look for posters about an
information meeting coming up! That’s all the news I have for now!
Your
friendly neighborhood sustainability intern,
Kristen
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