Today we got a lot done in class on the EACAP project. Julia started editing the video, Zoey helped her find pictures to include in the video, and Zoey and Fred worked on the research paper.
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Category Archives: SP 15 Teams
Team Clean and Blue’s Presentation
Signing Off on our project (earth Avengers)
In conclusion our team did give its final presentation to the class, which covered e-waste, recycling, how waste is disposed, how waste is reinvented into coal in Kenya and finally our EEACAP project. The whole experience was an exciting one, from volunteering at Blue Marsh to our earth day presentation, basically given an insight to our course mates and the whole student and faculty body on all the activities we had engaged in from picking litter and trail hiking. During our litter task, we got see the different waste left on the roadside, from bottles, plastic caps, plastic bags, cigarettes and even dead birds and snakes. Are people deliberately dropping these items or just not caring? Are the birds dying from choking or swallowing these bottle caps and other foreign objects? The trail yoga gave as the opportunity to see nature, from the woods, lakes and also eagles. This project gave my teammates and I the opportunity to be able to learn about the importance of recycling, the harm of plastic products loitering around and also the harm it causes to animals and the environment
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.
Final post (5/4/15)
Sarahann, Taryn, and myself (Shauna) have finished our EACAP project, we loved helping our environment, and making it more beautiful, we also gained a lot of knowledge with our research, along with listening to our other classmates about their projects! Thanks for following our journey!
Final Post Earth Huggers 5/3/2015
Hello everyone! This is the final presentation on our research and our action to help the environment. Blue Marsh and Road Salt Presentation.
Everyone from Earth Huggers really appreciates the support from the EACAP website here and all the students at Penn State Berks. The experience was amazing and unique. Our group wishes the best of luck to all the future students of Prof. Kazempour who will be helping the environment.
Enjoy your summer everyone!
– Earth Huggers
Final Post (Fantastic Four) 5/3/15
It’s been a fun semester, and we would like to thank everyone that’s been involved including Professor Kazempour and Kathleen from Blue Marsh. We learned a lot during this project. It takes a lot of hard work to keep a place like Blue Marsh going. Just in case you would like to help out, you can contact them at : 610-376-6337. We also learned a lot from out research of Fracking. Its hard to believe that in total they use 72 trillion gallons of water and pump 360 billion chemicals into the ground, which by the way are mostly non biodegradable! ill leave you with this question, is the environmental impact caused by Fracking really worth the economic gain? Thanks again for such a great Semester!
Final Post Team B.T.E.L. May 2, 2015 (Hawk Mountain)
I think I speak for all of my partners when I say we really enjoyed this project. I personally can’t wait to go back to Hawk Mountain after the excavation is over to see what we helped start. I think it’s awesome that we were able to leave a permanent mark on Hawk Mountain, it’s something that will be there forever. Hopefully we started the first of many smoother and handicap accessible paths, allowing everyone to see the beauty which is Hawk Mountain, and all the wildlife there, not only all the birds of prey that call it home.
Final Project
At the end of our assignment we were to go around the farm which was are section and had to open up the bird houses, and if it was not a bluebird that was living in there we were suppose to clean it out so no invasive species lived there.
Final Recap on the ECAP (Bluebirds) May 2, 2015
The birdhouses were checked on one last time today. Most of the house that we cleaned out were still empty. House #3 still has 5 eggs in it, and when house #9 was opened a dead adult bluebird was inside. We do not know why so many birds are dying inside the houses or we would do something to help. This project was very informative and we enjoyed doing it as a group. We hope that with our efforts the bluebird population on campus can continue to grow and be healthy. Thank you for following our Bluebird project and we how you learned something along with us.