Category Archives: Penn State Berks Sustainability Team

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Ready, Set….

  By Asher Charles Fair • October 28, 2016 , ,

 

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As a group, we further discussed our plan about how we are going to go about the EACAP project and broke it up into more specific parts.

We still plan to distribute to about 10 people a list, where they will write down a large amount of things that they use, what they use that can be recycled, and what they actually recycle. This list will be formatted in the form of three columns, and was made today. The columns will consist of one of each thing listed above: what people use, what recyclable products they use, and what they actually recycle. We will then construct a graph for the 10 people with three lines: one with total things that they use, another with total recyclable things that they use, and another with things that they actually recycle. We will note how much larger the overall usage of recyclable materials is in comparison to the overall recycling to better understand how important it is that we make people aware that waste reduction needs to take place.

We will then write blurbs/short articles about each of the six initiatives (Bee Hives, MOBIUS Recycling, Food Recovery Network, Rain Barrels, Paper Waste Reduction,  and Bat Houses) on the Sustainability website providing an overview of each initiative and adding an appropriate image to each. The images were all gathered this morning.

Knowing that our graphs will most likely show that not everything that needs to be recycled gets recycled by the people we survey, we will also mention how improvements in terms of increased recycling and waste reduction will help each of the initiatives be more successful not only at Penn State Berks, but anywhere.

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Finding the Answers

  By Allison Claire Stauffer • October 28, 2016 ,

For our EACAP project today, we met in the library and continued individual research. We discussed aspects about each of our reports and thought of ways they connect to each other. We decided to have two members research the same area instead of different regions.

We Are… THE GREEN MEDIA

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Thrive and Survive Putting in Work

  By Amelia Elaine Seely • October 28, 2016 ,

Today around 11:30 AM the team met in the library to get some serious stuff done. We worked together and collaborated on a lot of different ideas before deciding on a few specific quotes we’d like to write on windows and some specific ideas we’d like to incorporate in our flyers. It was a very good meeting and very productive! A lot of work got done and our meeting finished around 12:15.

 

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Let’s Talk About Research

  By Allison Claire Stauffer • October 26, 2016 ,

Today, The Green Media met in the library to continue research. We discussed how we were finding it difficult to find relevant information on “waste reduction”; the topic was too broad. We decided that each member of the group would develop a more specific idea within our categories (Reading, major cities in PA, United States, and the World) in order to be able to write a final article. All the of the research done will tie in with the topic of food waste. This is where all of our research will come together when looking at the comparison of how different areas are taking action to control waste.

We Are… THE GREEN MEDIA

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Getting Down to Research

  By prb5062 • October 12, 2016 ,

Today we met with the research consultant, Brett Spencer, to discuss the best methods to conduct our research into waste reduction and sustainability. He pointed us the Penn State databases which are free to students and can be found on Penn State’s library homepage. He showed us how to effectively search through these databases to find the necessary information by using search methods that will pinpoint specific phrases in articles, how to use the advanced search tool, and use the citing tools already incorporated into the databases. Brett was a great resource that has given us the confidence to make our project credible by utilizing these databases to find periodicals, videos, and academic journals to support or project.

We are…..THE GREEN MEDIA!!!

 

 

 

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The Environmentalist Stirs Up Plan A

  By Asher Charles Fair • October 7, 2016 , ,
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Loads of cans have been recycled by consumers and are ready to be hauled away to be remade into new and more useful products.

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Our first plan to increase the awareness of the need for recycling involves having a couple of randomly selected individuals record everything that they use on a daily basis that are recyclable. This could be anything and everything that at some point in time can be recycled. It will also include a section of the things that they totally use up that are recyclable, and whether or not that person actually took the time and effort to recycle them or not (things like aluminum cans, paper, etc.)

This plan could turn out very successfully, or it could be flawed, as people could purposely just give us the best possible more “environmentally friendly” answer we could ask for just to gt the project done with, so the plan is to not make it long or boring. Hopefully this will not be the case, and we can make it interesting enough for people to actually want to participate, but we will see what we can do.

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Work, work, work, work, work…

  By Rebecca N Webster • October 5, 2016 ,

Today, we wrapped up our questions on the survey for students living on campus. We viewed the opportunity to be involved in a video about a recycling program, but decided we needed to focus on our individual EACAP project. We’re hoping to get a substantial amount of information from our survey in order to come up with a solution to reduce the mixture of trash and recyclables. We still need to figure out how we will distribute the surveys to students on campus. We are in the process of contacting RA’s in hopes that they can help to distribute the survey, and who doesn’t obey their RA?

 

 

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Vanilla Chocolate Making Plans for World Improvement

  By Aymed Zosire Rodriguez Ortiz • October 3, 2016 , ,

Meeting with Dr. Mahsa Kazempour, who is the head of the Sustainability team at Penn State Berks, our team discussed with her the details of what we will be doing when the fifth graders arrive on campus for their tours and various activities. She talked and gave us different ideas for various activities our team could possibly do with the young fifth graders and how to engage them while teaching them about the environment. Overall our meeting went well and provided our team with much needed clarity to carry on with our project.

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Working out the Kinks

  By ajb6310 • September 28, 2016 ,

As a team we have decided to do research on the current knowledge students on campus have about sustainability, waste reduction, and other general environmental issues.  This research will help us understand what students currently do and don’t know and how they are currently utilizing the waste bins on campus.  During our first meeting we will be coming up questions to ask the students in our survey as well as figure out the best methods to distribute the surveys.

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To Give Back…

  By Samuel David Marks • September 26, 2016 , ,

 

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B and S Incorporated thought of ways that we could contribute to our community and then we were faced with the EACAP project. Our team decided that we are going to join forces with the Sustainability Team here on campus. On October 28, 2016 we have all volunteered our time to help the Sustainability Team conduct a field trip for the fifth graders that will be arriving from Glenside. Together, we will be helping set up stations, cleaning up stations, creating handouts and various other activities to help educate the fifth graders on the environment. Each member of our team is looking forward to helping out and feel honored to be given the opportunity to help give back to our community here at Berks!