2008 Woodie Awards
Student Organization Spotlight: Project Green
Casey O'Brien
Issue date: 3/20/07 Section: News
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Saint Mary's College has become a "greener" campus, due to the vast influence of Project Green. Project Green focuses on making Saint Mary's College a more sustainable campus by influencing students and faculty to be more environmentally friendly.
President Kaitlin Caruso '10 said, "Project Green is an interactive group on campus that raises awareness of how our actions can harm the environment. The framework for our group is comprised of three subgroups: recycling, composting, and emphasizing the use of organic foods on campus." Since March 3, all freshmen have recycling bins in their rooms thanks to Project Green. The group hopes to change the habits of freshman so that they are considerate of their actions throughout their four years here. Members in Project Green "adopt a dorm" in which they monitor the progress of recycling. Possibly by 2008, all dorms on campus will become "green," meaning that there will be recycling bins in every room, suite, or townhouse.
"Changing the ethics of Oliver Hall is a huge focus for Project Green. By collaborating with Sodexho, we are using more organic and nutritious foods," said Kyle Bonderud '09. On April 25, Project Green is hosting an event called "The Eat Locally Challenge!" in which all the food served at lunch will be from local organic farmers.
Raising awareness about how our daily consumption affects our environment is essential to Project Green. Trash Day was an exhibition on February 28, produced by Project Green that showcased the trash produced by Oliver Hall. "As people walked by Dante Quad, they were surprised to see the half-ton of garbage on the lawn. We produce about two tons of garbage a day, garbage which includes stuff that can be composted or recycled. If we composted and recycled everything that could be out of that garbage, it would reduce the amount we throw away by two-thirds," said Caruso. Since Project Green is a relatively new group on campus, the members are still of brainstorming.
"By 2008, Project Green hopes to create organic, permaculture gardens on campus. Organic permaculture gardening is a seemingly-unstructured garden, with a tree sprouting as the center point, and other vegetation surrounding the tree. This creates more fruit in less space and quite a lovely sight as well," said Caruso.
Project Green meets every Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. in Dante 118.
President Kaitlin Caruso '10 said, "Project Green is an interactive group on campus that raises awareness of how our actions can harm the environment. The framework for our group is comprised of three subgroups: recycling, composting, and emphasizing the use of organic foods on campus." Since March 3, all freshmen have recycling bins in their rooms thanks to Project Green. The group hopes to change the habits of freshman so that they are considerate of their actions throughout their four years here. Members in Project Green "adopt a dorm" in which they monitor the progress of recycling. Possibly by 2008, all dorms on campus will become "green," meaning that there will be recycling bins in every room, suite, or townhouse.
"Changing the ethics of Oliver Hall is a huge focus for Project Green. By collaborating with Sodexho, we are using more organic and nutritious foods," said Kyle Bonderud '09. On April 25, Project Green is hosting an event called "The Eat Locally Challenge!" in which all the food served at lunch will be from local organic farmers.
Raising awareness about how our daily consumption affects our environment is essential to Project Green. Trash Day was an exhibition on February 28, produced by Project Green that showcased the trash produced by Oliver Hall. "As people walked by Dante Quad, they were surprised to see the half-ton of garbage on the lawn. We produce about two tons of garbage a day, garbage which includes stuff that can be composted or recycled. If we composted and recycled everything that could be out of that garbage, it would reduce the amount we throw away by two-thirds," said Caruso. Since Project Green is a relatively new group on campus, the members are still of brainstorming.
"By 2008, Project Green hopes to create organic, permaculture gardens on campus. Organic permaculture gardening is a seemingly-unstructured garden, with a tree sprouting as the center point, and other vegetation surrounding the tree. This creates more fruit in less space and quite a lovely sight as well," said Caruso.
Project Green meets every Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. in Dante 118.