After reading Green Underbelly's blog, I started thinking about how cool it would be if there was a program to use a portion of the campus grounds to grow food for the cafeteria. Sure, it wouldn't be much, but we could definitely fuel the salad bar for a week or two, maybe three, depending upon the growing season out here in Chicago.
So I was talking to my IIT friend, Chris, about this. And, being ever knowledgeable, he told me he'd seen posters for a Sustainability Committee on campus. I'd never heard of it. Of course, that's not surprising. I'm going to school on another college's campus, and no one at IIT seems to eager to tell us Shimer people what's going on. Other than Chris, that is.
Anyway, I was excited about this. There's a group on campus that, like me, is tired of having hall lights on all night long, gets irritated when there are styrofoam bowls in the cafeteria, and really hates it when the sprinklers are watering the grass in the middle of a rainfall. Just as I was plotting to search this group out, Chris comes back with one of the posters. And, lo and behold, there's information about who to contact to get info and get involved, and the time and place of the next meeting. Which happens to be tomorrow. Gotta love the timing.
I'm definitely going to do my best to make it. I'll have to hunt down the building, then hunt down the auditorium in that building. I'll likely be venturing in on my own, which is something I don't like to do, but have been doing more and more lately. And I'm really excited. I want to bring up the idea of growing even a little bit of food somewhere on campus and see if anyone else is interested in finding a way to make it work.
Sounds like a great idea to me! I wish we had something like that at my school, but I think high school kids are too immature to deal with it.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
See if you can find anyone else with an interest in it! Not all high school kids would be too immature. A lot, yes, but not all.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
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So you go to Shimer. Interesting! one of my friends is planning to apply their for next fall. I found the idea of the college very unique. its is good to see alternatives like Shimer.
Good Luck on the meeting !
Yup! Shimer works for me very well. If I hadn't found this school, I most likely wouldn't have attended college at all.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
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I have that same thought fairly often in my building. We were told there would be a moisture meter that would prevent the sprinkler system from turning on when the grass was already wet. It seems to be malfunctioning or nonexistent, as the sprinklers ran in a downpour last week. Bah! So wasteful!
"Never go with a hippy to a second location."
~Jack Donaghy
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
I totally stole it from the poster Chris brought me. "Sick of Watching the Sprinklers Run in the Rain?"
It's not just sprinklers, though... the day after a heavy downpour, they had someone out with a hose watering the already half-drowned grass. I wanted to rant at him about how wasteful it was.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
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Ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!!!