Picture of the Week - January 31st, 2014

 

 

I want spring to show up but since it is still very snowing outside I thought I would share a bit of last spring with all of you.

Announcing the voting members of the Bigfoot Sustainability Committee!

I'm happy to announce the voting members of the Bigfoot Sustainability Committee! This committee was created by your Associated Student Government to increase the representation of the campus community in our ongoing effort to promote sustainability projects here at SCC.

The committee is open to all who want to attend and take part. We greatly encourage anyone who is interested to come to our first meeting on Monday February 3rd at 2:30pm in the ASG Conference Room. More information on this meeting can be found here.

The break down of the committee can be seen below.

First Bigfoot Sustainability Committee Meeting Monday February 3rd

I'm happy to announce that the first Bigfoot Sustainability Committee meeting will be on Monday February 3rd from 2:30pm to 3:30pm in the Student Government Conference Room (Lair - bldg 6 - room 114).

The agenda for the meeting is listed below. I'm looking forward to seeing you all there!

Green Tip of the Week

 

From the University of Washington 

The tip of the week for this week is to ask your classmates or fellow employees if they want to setup a carpool! Carpooling is a great way to save gas, money and help reduce the number of cars trying to park everyday. If you can bike, walk, bus or carpool when you commute to work or school.

Picture of the Week - January 24th, 2014

Another winter time picture! We might have to post some spring time pictures soon!

Green Tip of the Week

"Many of the school’s printers will print double sided to save paper. Also, if printing a power point presentation you can print two or more slides on each page saving more paper."

It is very easy to use a ton of paper here at SCC with all of the powerpoint lectures and other documents we have to print. But you can reduce the paper count by printing on both sides and by putting more then one powerpoint slide on each page. Every little bit helps!

Student members of the committee have been picked

I'm happy to announce that the student members for the Bigfoot Sustainability Committee have been selected and I will be announcing them shortly.

Even if your not a member of the committee your welcome to attend the meetings and make your voice heard and/or help out with the events.

Keep watching for updates!

Picture of the Week - January 17th, 2014

These are some "ice bells" that I found out on Dragoon Creek last year during some field work for the water resources program here at SCC. If you have a picture you would like to see featured on this blog please email it to ascsustainability@scc.spokane.edu.

Green Tip of the Week

This is the first of a new series we are starting for this blog called the "Green Tip of the Week." Each Wednesday a green tip will be posted. Please feel free to send in any suggestions to ascsustainability@scc.spokane.edu or make a comment to this post.

For this week the Green Tip of the Week is:

"Students can get a free bus pass from the cashier's office! This pass works on the Spokane City busses. Check it out, save money and help the environment!"

Picture of the Week - January 10th, 2014

 

Frosty!

 With the snow we got this week I thought this picture fits nicely. Welcome back from winter break and please feel free to submit your own picture to ascsustainability@scc.spokane.edu for next week's picture of the week! Thank you!

We Want YOU! To join the Bigfoot Sustainability Committee!

Last quarter your Associated Student Government voted to create the student led Bigfoot Sustainability Committee. This committee will work to help make SCC more sustainabile by promoting projects like the Student Garden. If your interested in making SCC more green, working on the garden or increasing recycling options to name a few of the possibilities.

The committee is chaired by the ASG Director of Sustainability. The other members are made up of three teachers and three students. The three teachers positions have already been filled (these positions are also volunteer based). Note: We are currently looking for a teacher/staff to fill an open position. This was updated on Januaray 16th.

If your a student and interested in volunteering for the committee please download and fill out the application:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByAVIxYXYtP9RjROSGdvOWs4ZzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Just drop it off at the ASG office in the Lair by January 20th if you want to be considered. Thank you!

Welcome back and... the garden beds are completed!

We finished the raised beds!

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic winter break and awesome time over the holidays. We were busy over the break finishing getting the garden beds out to our site and I'm happy to say that the beds are completed and at their final location! Thanks very much to Emily and Kellie for helping to finish getting the beds in the ground and also thank you to everyone else that helped throughout the fall quarter!

This is going to be an awesome quarter with a lot of projects including getting the garden ready for planting in the spring!