Thrive to Survive Reflects

This semester has been a great semester for our team and our project turned out very well! We loved working together and broadening our horizons on these very important subjects. Many important lessons have been learned on waste and about the garbage patch and will effect our lives forever. Every time I drink a bottle of something from now on, I am going to assure it returns to a place that will break it down effectively and safely. This project really helped us with our teamwork and communication skills as it required a lot of outside of classroom work and effort. This semester has been very valuable to our whole team and we have all bonded in a great way!

Out with a Bang

As our final post, we are reflecting on our project throughout the semester. We enjoyed working together and feel we made a difference in how people view food waste and recycling. We wanted to use to media as our major way of connecting to students and faculty on campus. The survey worked well because it allowed us to see how many students take advantage of the trash and recycling services we have on campus. It contributed to our service as well as our research. We designed a petition in order to “make something happen.” Not only did we want to advocate for recycling, but we wanted to contribute to the progress. We have heard from multiple sports teams that there are not enough recycling bins around campus and at sports’ complexes. This petition will hopefully change that. We met weekly in the library to work on our project throughout the semester and this was a big contributing factor to our success as a team.

 

 

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Service Project Fair 11/28

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For class on Monday November 28, we did a service project fair in the Gaige lobby. Here we brought in our finished posters and 2 samples of the different types of stepping stones we are taking to Glenside Elementary are. On our poster we talked about our research topic which was ocean pollution and the different aspects of that as well as our service project with Glenside in thier garden. The two different stepping stones that we brought for the display was one grade level stone and one greeting stone. For the different grade levels, 1st-5th, we decided to do two stepping stones for each grade level. Then for the greeting stepping stones we found six different ways to say hello in six different languages since we already speak English. So we decided to do hello, hola, aloha, guten tag, konnichiwa, ciao, and bonjour. These all are painted either red or blue and then w added a design to these stones.

Presentation Day

We had our first presentation yesterday. Unfortunately, MLR was just MR because L was out with the flu. But everything went well! Many stopped to ask questions and our poster was totally awesome because of how we paint splattered the background. Here’s to hoping our next presentation goes just as smooth!

The Last Stretch!

Everything is winding down so we are working diligently on the poster for the upcoming community day after we get back from break. We have a lot of shocking statistics and photos to present to everyone which have definitely changed our perspective on plastics waste and how much a negative impact our negligence has had on our oceans for decades which is getting worse with each passing year.

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Wrapping Up the Process

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We have put together teasers and articles regarding six topics related to sustainability. Those topics are as follows: Bee Hives, Rain Barrels, Bat Houses, MOBIUS Recycling, Paper Waste Reduction, and the Food Recovery Network. Eventually, these short blurbs and articles will go on the Penn State Berks Sustainability webpage. In the mean time, we set up our own personal website titled EACAP Environmentalist, which you can access HERE, to get a good idea of the work we have done in making people more aware of the importance of sustainability and how it affects various aspects of the environment.

Our poster is almost done. We still plan on adding some facts about our research paper, which was on a totally separate topic: deforestation. The research paper itself is pretty much done. We are also going to present images of our personal webpage (not the official Penn State one) on our poster so people can get a feel for what we were able to accomplish.

In terms of our plan to issue a recycling survey to people to see what they actually recycle out of the recyclable materials that they use, we did not see how this would relate to any aspect of our project and our end goal. We may still do it since it does relate to sustainability, but it will be done on a much smaller scale and as a much smaller portion of our project since it is not the main goal of the EACAP project.

Our Next Stepping Stone at Glenside

Our Squash is certainly working with Glenside Elementary to create stepping stones for each grade level to put in their garden. We have discussed that we are using bigger stones for the grade levels and that we will be doing 2 stones for each grade. Then we decided that we were going to use smaller stones that will have greetings from different languages, which will bring more diversity to Glenside. Each stone will be painted with colors that match the color scheme that is already in the garden. We figured that this would be a great addition to their garden so the students can learn how to say hello in different languages.

Nearing the End

For our meeting outside of class today, The Green Media met in the library to discuss how we will carry out the final presentation after break. We decided to make a PowerPoint in order to present our information clearly to the rest of the class. The picture included in this post is of the wonderful pagers that library hands out so you can start to work on your project in a different location while waiting for a private room to work and focus in!!
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We can see the finish line!

During class today we finished our poster for the presentation in Gaige on the 28th!  We have our articles complete for the sustainability website including the topics of food waste in the American home, EPA’s WasteWise, Food waste and religion, and food waste around the world.  We are excited with how our project has come together, and excited to share our research with everyone else!

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Environments?!? What do you think?!?

On Friday, October 28 my team and I assisted the Penn State Berks Sustainability Team here on campus. B and S Incorporated jumped on the oppurtunity to welcome the fifth graders, staff and faculty coming from Glenside Elementary School in Reading Pa. My team assisted the fifth graders by leading our own paint station. At this station, Ben Sam M and Sam G asked the students to construct a painting of their environment. We asked students what they thoughtimg_1368 of when they heard the word environment and watched over them to make sure that they would not make a mess. Once the fifth graders completed their paintings we took their artwork and left it in front of the window to dry.The whole time this was going on my team was given the task to make sure the students had all of the materials they needed. In between station switches my team and I had to run to the bathroom and wash their brushes and water cups and make sure the station was ready for the next group of kids. Once time ran out for painting Ben, Sam G and I joined the fifth graders on a tour around our campus which ultimately ended once we got to the greenhouse. The fifth graders returned from the greenhouse and my team assisted in cleaning up and packing away the materials that we used for the field trip. Overall, we all agree that it was a fulfilling experience to give back to the community! Each of us believe that the best form of action regarding the environment is to continually spread education and get as many people as possible acclimated to what is happening in our environment today. img_1367