Welcome to the Environmental Club in San Jose! We have a pretty exciting semester this fall 2009. Our main project this semester is to help organize Green-A-Palooza, a spectacular three-day event from November 17-19: Sustainable Food Day, the third annual SJSU Recycles Day, and SJSU Bike to School Day, which is hosted by the Environmental Resource Center.
We hope that this event will encourage students, faculty, and our community to look at the waste they generate and in turn we want to show them easy ways to reduce that impact. Our focus for SJSU Recycles Day will be compost and we will have an interesting interactive model for students to learn about the waste system.
So far we have already organized a fun camping trip to Big Basin Redwoods in mid-September, pictures coming soon! We also hope to organize other fun activities such as hikes and potlucks!
Since we adopted William Street Park on William St. and 17th, we will be doing monthly clean-ups and we may even get to plant trees and other native plants. Not to mention–this October’s clean up will be followed by a bike ride–more information to come soon!
Come by and join us at Building BB, 2nd Floor Conference room on Thursdays at 5:30 pm, except on 10/15 (location TBA.) Building BB is situated on 9th and San Carlos, between CVC and the pool.
Although we are not recognized officially this Fall 2009, we continue to meet weekly as part of the sustainability discussion of the I THINK program with the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center. We will be reappealing for recognition in Spring 2010.
Join us and bring your ideas and friends!
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the club feel free to drop us an email or stop by the meeting. If you can’t make it to the meetings, we post our minutes at our Yahoo group and send reminders via Facebook (Ec sjsu)
Julia Kamoroff and Yan Yin Choy
Co-Presidents of the Environmental Club
Ec_sjsu@yahoo.com
