I hope you are all are thoroughly enjoying your study days! Included are the Co-President goals for Antonia Blumberg and Jacob Jensen. Please send an email back to USCenvironment1st@gmail.com with your vote for the position of Co-President by Friday, December 12th.
Also, attached are two potential designs for our free canvas bag giveaway during Earth Week. Please send us any feedback about the designs!
Antonia Blumberg:
Hello!
I haven't been able to make it to meetings this year, so I know I really have no right to run for Co-President, and I'm not really expecting it to happen. But I do want to get more involved next semester because environment issues are, in my opinion, the most important ones of our generation, and will probably be for our entire lifetimes. Some of the things I would like to work with everyone on:
1. Set up more recycling bins around campus (this should be easy, and they are significantly lacking)
2. Collaborate more with the departments, housing, hospitality, basically everyone we can to reduce paper use, increase recycling, initiate more environmental education (what can and cannot be recycled, eating lower on the food chain, no more plastic water bottles!, living with lower impact, composting)
3. On that note... maybe working on a large project to establish a compost pile somewhere on campus. It would be a huge effort, but if we all contributed it's very feasible
4. If composting is a no-go, maybe an small organic garden? I know a lot of universities and schools do it; It would be awesome if we could grow food and then have a little picnic at the end of the year or next semester when things have grown
5. I haven't been here during Earth day, but I think we should do a big celebration for it out at Tommy Trojan... food, t-shirts or pins, posters, someone in a tree suit giving free hugs? yessss
6. This may be far fetched, but it would be awesome if we could get a celebrity to come and talk about their involvement in environmental activism. I know Sheryl Crow has done a lot, and Woody Harrelson (sp?)
Anyways, "they may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." I these are ambitious goals, but they are extremely important to me and I think it would be wonderful if we could accomplish even one of them next semester. I'm really hoping the meetings work with my schedule next semester, and if they don't I may just have to change my schedule!
Thanks for taking the time to read this long email!
Antonia Blumberg
Jacob Jensen:
Hey all, you probably don't know me but I was E1's philanthropy chair in the previous semester. Currently, I'm travelling up the coast of Queensland in Australia after finishing my semester abroad. I'll (hopefully) be graduating in May with a BS in Electrical Engineering. So anyhow, as co president there is one major change I would like to see and that is more discussion of goals/methods. I think at this point we all know that what we do at the personal level can never "save" the environment, and that if civilization continues its current trends we may soon not have an envinronment to save. That isn't to say that being green isn't the morally right thing to do - or that what we do isn't worth it. In fact, what we do is very important. But obviously, we are all still actively participating in a system that is funadmentally flawed and is killing the planet. I think we can assume that the things we are doing to preseve the environement are not going to change the majority of Americans or the corporations who are doing 90% of the damage.Yet we seldom talk about these things, we seldom discuss what I suppose you could call the philosophy of environmentalism. What I am suggesting is that we take part in some contemporary philosophy. In addition to planning out all our events and plantings we should also take part in discussions about how we would TRULY save the earth. I mean, what exactly would it take to dismantle harmful corporations and stop them from functioning in harmful ways? Should we place the needs of our personal careers and education above the needs of our landbase? I believe that this is really important stuff (maybe even the most important), but I just don't think enough people are talking about it.Jacob Jensen
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