March: Consumption/Purchasing Month
Emma Gildesgame
Committee to
plan things!
GO!
(This committee so far is: Emma, Lizzy, Matt, Kelly, and Erica.
There's room for one more!)
Anna
I'll join this committee!
Anna
Emma Gildesgame
Here's what I have written down from our meeting last week:
-FACTS on Packaging, reusable vs. one time use items, buying in bulk,
solo cups and partying while wasting fewer resources, being aware of
greenwashing, Barrels, local vs. organic vs. "natural", spring break
travel impacts. Lets try go get a list of this together ASAP.
-What's the Impact poster: travel [car vs. train vs. bus vs. plane?],
clothes, school supplies/books, personal hygiene supplies (shampoo?),
electronics (ipod or cell phone?), party supplies (solo cups? how
boxed wine is actually more sustainable than not boxed wine? but...
solo cups...] Let's shoot to have this done for NEXT week. Not this
week. Who wants to do which thing? (The idea is that we find the
environmental impacts and ways to mitigate them.)
-Writing an editorial in the Echo about the idea of WalMart and other
big box stores with historically crappy records getting into Organics.
Is it good because it creates a market for organics, or bad because it
goes towards big organic and places like WalMart are questionable
ethically? I think if a few people got together to do the research and
writing for this, it wouldn't take too long. Take a look at the
controversy about stonyfield farms selling to WalMart.
What do you think?
~Emma