Grass roots
Kris Lipari
Issue date: 2/22/10 Section: News
Earth Day events and creek restoration are just two major projects on the Grass Roots club's roster. The club is focused on environmentally friendly or "green" projects on campus and in the SLO area.
The president of the Grass Roots club, Miriam Gill, is a local active environmentalist and current student at Cuesta College who has been with Grass Roots for two years.
She and William White, another club officer, talked recently about the activities and goals of the Grass Roots club. Their focus is on continual progress into more green practices by students on campus and everyone in general.
They also recently teamed up with One Cool Earth to start a restoration project on Pennington Creek which runs along the northern edge of campus. One Cool Earth is a habitat restoration group that plants trees and other flora in areas that need it. They are going to be working on landscaping projects in the area to make it a nice place to walk around, complete with a trail and plaques with information on local flora and steelhead trout.
They hope to make the creek a nice place for students to hang out and study, and to demonstrate how the area would have looked before humans changed it.
Aside from the restoration project, Miriam also said the Grass Roots club is planning a week-long Earth Day event in April. This will entail a workshop on repurposing old clothing, and turning things like pillowcases into clothing early in the week; accepting help for the restoration project; holding the Earth Day Fair complete with booths and a drum circle; and having a workshop about making paper out of recyclables.
The event will be held from April 19-23. Also that week they will be featuring environmental activist Mindy Davis, a member of the Sea Shepherds, as a guest speaker. The Sea Shepherds are an anti-whaling group made famous by the TV show "Whale Wars," however, Mindy Davis was a part of it before the TV show aired.
The Grass Roots club's efforts to make campus greener are very ambitious, but ambition is needed in an area where any improvement is hard fought. They are working hard for change, and with a restoration project being started soon and Earth Day coming up fast, the future is bright.
The president of the Grass Roots club, Miriam Gill, is a local active environmentalist and current student at Cuesta College who has been with Grass Roots for two years.
She and William White, another club officer, talked recently about the activities and goals of the Grass Roots club. Their focus is on continual progress into more green practices by students on campus and everyone in general.
They also recently teamed up with One Cool Earth to start a restoration project on Pennington Creek which runs along the northern edge of campus. One Cool Earth is a habitat restoration group that plants trees and other flora in areas that need it. They are going to be working on landscaping projects in the area to make it a nice place to walk around, complete with a trail and plaques with information on local flora and steelhead trout.
They hope to make the creek a nice place for students to hang out and study, and to demonstrate how the area would have looked before humans changed it.
Aside from the restoration project, Miriam also said the Grass Roots club is planning a week-long Earth Day event in April. This will entail a workshop on repurposing old clothing, and turning things like pillowcases into clothing early in the week; accepting help for the restoration project; holding the Earth Day Fair complete with booths and a drum circle; and having a workshop about making paper out of recyclables.
The event will be held from April 19-23. Also that week they will be featuring environmental activist Mindy Davis, a member of the Sea Shepherds, as a guest speaker. The Sea Shepherds are an anti-whaling group made famous by the TV show "Whale Wars," however, Mindy Davis was a part of it before the TV show aired.
The Grass Roots club's efforts to make campus greener are very ambitious, but ambition is needed in an area where any improvement is hard fought. They are working hard for change, and with a restoration project being started soon and Earth Day coming up fast, the future is bright.
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Miriam
posted 3/11/10 @ 10:06 AM PST
Cool! I actually came across this looking for something else. It's nice to see this might actually be seen!
Nice article Kris.
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