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Eco/Sustainability Issue Team
Current Eco/Sustainability Issue Team Organizers:
Jamiela Isaiah and Nisha Nadkar
Pictured Left: Current Eco/Sustainability Issue Team Organizer, Jamiela Isaiah, during the Go Green Game Day Challenge (second from left).
Pictured Right: Current Eco/Sustainability Issue Team Organizer, Nisha Nadkar, prepares players' helmets with the recycling decal before the Go Green Game Day Challenge (pictured in front).
In addition to the projects and events below, the Eco/Sustainability Team works with
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Eco Reps in Housing and Residence Life
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Physical Plant, Federal Work Study students, Greek life organizations, and others to coordinate recycling efforts on campus
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Environmental Science faculty to understand environmental and sustainability issues as well as promote events
Go Green Game Day Challenge
October 30, 2010
West Virginia Wesleyan v. Glenville State College
Part of national initiative to reduce the amount of waste produced at sporting events- 15 student volunteers assisted men's football game patrons at recycling stations
- Overall, game patrons recycled 114 aluminum cans and 136 plastic bottles
- Wesleyan football players wore the new recycling decal (pictured right) on their helmets during the game
- Water refill stations and prizes facilitated recycling and sustainability efforts
To read the story and watch Jamiela being interviewed, visit http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=88702
Garbage Dreams Movie Screening
February 8, 2011
Fifteen students viewed and discussed the movie Garbage Dreams, which tells the story of a socioeconomically disadvantaged community in Cairo, Egypt that recycles 80% of the trash collected in their community. Students watched the struggle of the Zaballeen people of the community after their government hired three foreign garbage collection companies whose methods were considered more modernized. Students commented that they learned a great deal about recycling in general and about the methods used in the Egyptian community.
Pictured left: Jamiela and Nisha are sporting this season's latest garbage bag style fashion trends to promote their movie night.
Tap Water Challenge
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
10:00am-2:00pm
Benedum Campus Center Plaza
The Tap Water Challenge turns the tables on the bottled water market. Participants take a blind-folded test that pits pricey bottled water against tap water, and most people find that they can't tell the difference! The Eco/Sustainability team is exposing the dangerous reality behind the image of bottled water, and mobilizing people to demand that these corporations stop their irresponsible and dangerous actions. The Tap Water Challenge was developed as a way to educate and engage our fellow community members about this critical corporate accountability, human rights, and environmental issue.
Eco/Sustainability Student Leaders, Jamiela Isaiah and Nisha Nadkar, showed their peers how tap water and bottled water taste similar. Very few participants could correctly identify the difference between the two.
WDTV featured the event in this broadcast: http://www.wdtv.com/index.php/home/local-news/5539-bottled-water-or-tap-can-you-taste-the-difference
