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Earth Day Celebration Highlights Enviroment
Timothy Bleasdale
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: News
As students went to and from class through Fairfield Way Monday, many stopped to brows the numerous tables and displays setup as part of UConn's celebration of Earth Day 2007.
"[Our Earth Day celebration] has been very successful," said EcoHusky member Melanie Murphy, an agricultural economics graduate student. "We have a good location, very centrally located with people coming and going from class."
Murphy added that the celebration was bigger this year than in year past explaining that three more groups - EcoGarden Club, Forestry and Wildlife Club, and Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) - had joined EcoHusky this year.
The event was organized by EcoHusky student group and involved many other student groups, including SWCS, UConn Cycling Club, Forestry and Wildlife Club, and EcoGarden Club.
This year Earth Day fell on a Sunday but since the University isn't open, UConn held its Earth Day celebration Monday.
EcoHusky student group had the biggest presence at the celebration with a total of three tables, one hybrid car, one massive dumpster filled with shoes and at least a dozen club volunteers milling about the booths explaining the displays to visitors.
The main EcoHusky table presented general information about the club and what it does.
"We want to educate people about what we do as a club so that they can join us as well as about our ecological impact both locally and globally," said Katie Gherard, a 6th-semester environmental science major and EcoHusky co-coordinator.
The EcoHuskies were also showing off the new recycling bins that the club has bought to be placed around campus. According to EcoHusky Bianca Lopez, a 6th-semester ecology and evolutionary biology major, the new recycling bins will be more effective because they are color-coordinated and the openings in the top are shape-specific to the material designated for the particular bin. Lopez says this design will cut back on the amount of trash that is accidentally put in the recycling bins and that the bins will be in place around campus by the beginning of the fall semester.
"[Our Earth Day celebration] has been very successful," said EcoHusky member Melanie Murphy, an agricultural economics graduate student. "We have a good location, very centrally located with people coming and going from class."
Murphy added that the celebration was bigger this year than in year past explaining that three more groups - EcoGarden Club, Forestry and Wildlife Club, and Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) - had joined EcoHusky this year.
The event was organized by EcoHusky student group and involved many other student groups, including SWCS, UConn Cycling Club, Forestry and Wildlife Club, and EcoGarden Club.
This year Earth Day fell on a Sunday but since the University isn't open, UConn held its Earth Day celebration Monday.
EcoHusky student group had the biggest presence at the celebration with a total of three tables, one hybrid car, one massive dumpster filled with shoes and at least a dozen club volunteers milling about the booths explaining the displays to visitors.
The main EcoHusky table presented general information about the club and what it does.
"We want to educate people about what we do as a club so that they can join us as well as about our ecological impact both locally and globally," said Katie Gherard, a 6th-semester environmental science major and EcoHusky co-coordinator.
The EcoHuskies were also showing off the new recycling bins that the club has bought to be placed around campus. According to EcoHusky Bianca Lopez, a 6th-semester ecology and evolutionary biology major, the new recycling bins will be more effective because they are color-coordinated and the openings in the top are shape-specific to the material designated for the particular bin. Lopez says this design will cut back on the amount of trash that is accidentally put in the recycling bins and that the bins will be in place around campus by the beginning of the fall semester.
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