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June 4, 2010
Jimmy Young
There was wider participation at the third annual ecology fair. Environmentally conscious venues such as Bamboo Apparel, TOMS shoes and Tri-City set up tables.
Environmental Club hosted a booth to inform students about composting. Compost can be used as fertilizer for plants, and it contains decomposed meats, bones, plants and organic food waste. TOMS shoes, a company specializing in recycled shoes, set up a booth to promote awareness about recycled shoes.
In addition to environmental clubs, other clubs like Anime Club also participated. Anime Club promoted paper conservation by drawing on recycled paper.
The leadership class contributed to the green movement by using GreenWorks brand name cleaning products to clean their tables in the Student Center.
“[GreenWorks] doesn’t contain all those chemicals like other products [do],” senior Kimberly Chatterjee said.
ASB also set up a hemp bracelet crafting table, where students made bracelets out of hemp, a type of cannabis plant.
“Hemp is environmental and decomposes well. It’s great.” junior Rosalyn Chu said.
Often times hemp is useless and thrown away, but ASB found a fun method to use it.
“[Organizing the ecology fair was] more of collective effort now,” senior Connor Goldstein said. “More clubs [came] together.”
