Introduction

Hello, we are The Green Team! Our group members are Patrick, Blake, Abby, and Shania.

Patrick is a senior Hospitality Management Major. Blake is a first year student and plans on double majoring in psychology and business. Abby is a first year student and currently is an undecided major. Shania is first year student as well at Penn State Berks and is majoring in Accounting. We all have enjoyed working with the Berks County Conservation District and learning about composting.

 

Research

Our research issue was SDG 12 – responsible consumption and production. With this issue, we investigated ways that we could improve our consumption and production. Currently, throughout the world people are consuming a lot and we see that consumption and production is a major problem. People throughout the world are consuming and producing so much that they would need multiple Earth’s just to meet their needs. We want to reduce our consumption and production and our goal was to find ways where we could do just that. One way that we discovered we 

 

could reduce our consumption and production is we could start using composting in our lives.

Here is our narrated research presentation: Research Project – Green Team.pptx

Service

For our service project, we volunteered our time at Oak Brook community garden. We helped Tanya, who was in charge of the Oakbrook community garden, and Veronica, who worked with the Berks County Conservation District, pull plants out of the garden and cut them up. We also flipped the compost pile. Another task that we did was, take the compost out of the bin and condense it to another one. By doing all of this we were able to gain some insight about how helpful composting can be for the environment.

Here is our service video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZFdB7uGnfq7l_9ciFM06bNf01TNQQPB/view?usp=share_link

Reflection

Overall, The Green Team really enjoyed participating in the EACAP project. We really enjoy getting to work with and know our MSU counterpart the No Limits team. They were very cooperative and they were very fun to work with. What we gained from our service and research is new knowledge and insight into composting. We now understand how using composting can be very beneficial and can greatly improve the environment. We hope to see future generations participate in composting and as a result, improve our environment.