Tomorrow, April 21st from 11AM-3PM is the
1st annual Earth Day celebration on MCV campus at VCU, and I hope you will all come by to say hello! My friends and colleagues Jia, Leyla, and I will have a table at the event promoting the new MCV chapter of
Green Unity, a student sustainability club. We are looking for students, staff, faculty, and community members who want to improve sustainability practices at VCU and the community to put their thoughts and ideas of a sustainable future into action. Whether you have been a long time environmental advocate, or are new to sustainability, MCV Green Unity is the place for us to dream and scheme together to make our world a little better one step at a time. We are giving out one free vegetable plant: tomato, pepper, or cucumber, to the first 200 individuals to sign up for our email list and fill out a bicycle survey.
Special thanks to Strange's Garden Centers for their generous donation of vegetable plants!!!
We will also be doing free face painting for anyone who signs up and fills out a survey. You can also enter for the chance to win one of four Green Unity T-shirts, made of recycled cotton!
MCV Green Unity wants to follow in the footsteps of the Monroe Park campus club, and take on exciting projects like Bayscaping (more on this later),
rain gardens.
green roofs, and increasing access to recycling on campus. We also hope to partner with the other club to establish a Green Mile between the two campuses, which would be a trash-free corridor with a bike path and Bayscaping.
Email me or ask me in person about the Green Mile project to learn more! Have a great idea of your own? Now's the time to put it into action by joining Green Unity.
I went to this event and it was great. Please keep it coming.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your support in coming to this event! We hope to coordinate many more fun and informative activities for VCU and the surrounding community in the future.
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