The First Step to Change, is to Educate. – Sustainably Green (May 2, 2016)

We walked into this class at the beginning of the semester completely unaware and oblivious to the issues that surround us today or have even surrounded us for centuries. We all cause damage even though we don’t mean to. We get caught up in ourselves and the everyday drama that we fail to acknowledge all the harm we cause on the environment. Sustainably Green’s focus was food waste and we were all disgusted and truly blown away by how overlooked this issue really is. We encourage you to take a couple minutes out of your busy day to learn about the damage that is caused by wasted food and hopefully you will be just as inspired as us to fight against food waste.

READY FOR EARTH WEEK!!! – Sustainably Green (April 18, 2016)

Yesterday our team along with some friends went around and raised some awareness by covering our beloved buildings with some eyeopening facts and quotes about a serious of issues. These issues include paper waste, trash, and recycling. Hopefully you have all noticed them around campus and take your usage into consideration. We are so ready to continue raising awareness during Earth week. Wear Green Be Active! Be sure to post any picture of your green acts on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #SustainablyGreen.

 

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Poster work and Survey collection 4/14 – The Green Lion

On 4/14 we finished collecting our data and got all 50 surveys back. Since we have the surveys we started putting the data into numbers and started working on our poster. We covered our poster with green paper and started updating it with information about Food waste on campus and how food is wasted in general.

Introduction Post – The Green Lion

We are The Green Lion and we intend to work with the Penn State Sustainability Project, and working either on the Sustainability Webpage or with the Food Recovery Network. Our team members include: Chris Nicholas, Yajas , Frank Moreno.

 

Introduction to the team members:

 

Chris Nicholas – Hi guys, I’m a sophomore here at Penn State Berks, and I’m studying Information Sciences and Technology. I’m the team leader for our group. Aside from my interest in technology, I have a passion for cars as well.

Yajas – Hi guys, I am a freshman majoring in Marketing. I am the communicator of the group and my interests are video editing and business.

 

Frank Moreno – Hello guys, I’m a freshman here at Penn state berks, and I plan to major in criminal justice.  I’m the logger for the group and my interest are sports, cars, and education.

Food Recovery Network: Coming Soon

Team COMS, Rachel Behm, and Jackie Kanaskie are proud to announce that we, along with other EACAP teams, have spent this past semester paving the way for the Food Recovery Network to flourish on campus during fall 2015. A large part of our endeavors this past spring semester involved raising awareness of food waste through surveys, observational studies, posts on social media, and our Earth Day event held in the Gaige building.

We strive to eliminate food waste in as many ways as possible including swapping the less popular food from Tully’s for a more desirable option, taking leftover Tully’s food at the end of the day and redistributing it to homeless shelters, and, eventually, introducing composting to Berks campus. Also, Team Sailor Moon explored ways to turn leftover oil into energy.

The Food Recovery Network will have a strong group of students behind it. We have been in contact with the Food Recovery Network for the past few months learning about what it will take to begin our own chapter. We also collected a list of student names and email addresses and received very positive responses towards the initiative the Food Recovery Network is taking.

Team Final Wrap Up (Sailor Moon) 5/1/2015

Sailor Moon’s mission comes to an end, but we will never stop taking actions.

 

After Earth Day presentation…

Team Sailor Moon did another presentation in the class to give a review of what we have done and what we have learned throughout the missions. We also acknowledged the missions of other leagues. Team Sailor Moon believes that we can do more, in addition to reducing food wastes. Such as planting trees, building houses for birds, and cleaning the trails. We feel a responsibility to take every baby step to protect our Mother Earth, the planet we lived on!

 

In Conclusion

The problem of food waste is a global problem, it is around you. You can find the problem not only in the cafeteria, but also in every building on the campus. Students throw away leftover drinks and snacks. Residents in the dormitory dump lots of out-of-day foods every week. Sometimes they forget to separate the garbage, which makes recycling works difficult. Sailor Moon cannot let the evil demon damage our environment. We made observations, interview, and surveys to learn more about the food waste. We want to inform people about the problem around us and encourage them to take actions to save our foods. Food preservation is an act of respecting the farmers, who bring foods to our dinner table. Food Saving is also an act of reducing greenhouse gas in the landfills. You cannot imagine how many foods we can save, and how much we can do to help the poor, the hunger.

 

 

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Earth Day Presentation (Sailor Moon) 4/29/2015

 

 

 

On the day of Earth day presentation

Because of the weather, we changed our place of presentation to the Gaige building. In the hallway, people can see a lot of post boards created by several groups. They all have important missions to complete, and they presented the contents about the missions to every one. We all have the same purpose: Love our planet.

The Team Sailor Moon sets up the table with attractive post board. Guess what the special gift is? It is skittles! We offer visitors skittle to eat. Depending on what color they pick, they will do one thing, which is from the section “What can You do” on our post board, correspond to the color. One visitor, a pretty little girl, came to our presentation and picked a red skittle. From the poster board, the corresponding red bullet point states: “Supervise someone who does not finish their foods”. This means that you need to tell the person, who left their foods, to finish their plates! Cannot make it to the presentation? Don’t worry, here are the lists that you can do to reduce food wastes! Try to pick a skittle and find the corresponding one on the following list:

  • Supervise someone who did not finish their food
  • Learn more about food waste, hunger, and poverty
  • Eat as much as you can, and do not waste the food
  • Don’t get too many foods if you cannot finish them
  • Save the rest of the food and recycle them yourself
  • Donate one of your meals to the local food bank, or simply, poor people
  • Spread the words to your friends and family about food recovery
  • Try to have one meal for one day to experience the hunger from which 805 million undernourished people had suffered
  • Have one post about food recovery and food waste on your social network
  • View one video about food waste on YouTube
  • Spend one day to work directly with poor people, or being a volunteer of the food bank

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See how much you can do? Team Sailor Moon believes that you can do a lot more than this! Beside this, every visitor can learn about our project by looking through our poster, and talking to our members. We talked about our missions and our research on clean energy. It has been a great experience on Earth day presentation!