Each year as students move out, there is the opportunity to collect useful items for donation in the community as well as ensuring proper recycling protocol. Move out can be a hectic time as most people are just ready to ditch it and run. Help us make this a more thoughtful, mindful process that ensures […]
Continue readingIntroducing PLAN’s Mental Health in the Movement Series! For Mental Health Awareness Month this May, the Post-Landfill Action Network is hosting a speaker series themed around mental health in the Zero Waste Movement — an important topic as we begin traversing a “post-COVID” reality. We will hear from mental health experts, members of partner nonprofits, previous […]
Continue reading“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lord Join us this Saturday for Sustainable Leadership: Yoga and Herbs for Joyful and Resilient Action May 20th, 3-6pm Are you an activist or leader in your community? Do you strive to balance the needs of […]
Continue readingThe Eco-Reps were back at it this year with the Annual Food Waste Weigh-In where they tracked the amount of scraps people throw into the compost of the dining hall. The data was collected in the Champlain College dining hall on April 3rd, 4th, and 6th from 5-6 pm during the dinner rush. Prior years […]
Continue readingSubmit Earth Day-themed photographs by April 30! With colleges and universities busy this month preparing for Earth Day and the March for Science, we look forward to learning how institutions celebrate Earth Day and sharing these stories with the higher education sustainability community. We invite you to submit Earth Day-themed photos to the Campus Sustainability […]
Continue readingCheck out this great blog post from Dylan Cullen ’17 Environmental Policy, in Peru, studying with The School for Field Studies. “A Quilted Exhibition of Celebration and Sorrow.”
Over the course of three weekday evenings in early April, the Champlain College Eco-Reps sorted and weighed food waste in the Champlain College Dining Hall during the dinner time rush (5-7 pm). During these three sessions, there was a total of 1419 people in the dining hall. From these diners, 201.6 pounds of waste was collected, with an […]
Continue readingEach year as students move out of our Champlain Residence Halls, there is the opportunity to collect useful items for donation in the community as well as ensuring proper recycling protocol. If you are someone who wants to: a) make sure good things wind up in the hands of those who could use it, b) […]
Continue readingIn this our tenth year of Sustain Champlain, we’ve continued making strong headway in making our campus and community a more sustainable place to work/live/study. Here’s a glimpse as to what we’ve been up to: Student Eco-Reps 16 Student Eco-Reps representing diverse academic fields have explored themes including: Waste, Transportation & Conscious Consumption 5 students […]
Continue readingNote: this is the first in a series of blog posts from our student-run Champlain College Publishing Initiative. Look for these and others as we bee-come more aware of our flying friends. What’s the BUZZ? Featuring Bella, the Queen Bee by Jessica Demarest ’17 Oh, hello there. You’re rather large aren’t you? What do you […]
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