Even though many of our enthusiastic Enviro Co members ventured abroad spring semester, as a club we remained active!
This spring with the support of the Environmental Studies Department and the EcoRep program we created our first Environmental Film Series. This was an excellent way of presenting high quality information in a relaxing and appealing way, and we believe that films are a great way to share information and ideas about environmental problems and possible solutions. We had a list of outstanding films, great audiences, and are hoping for another film series next year!
This is the list of films that we showed-if you haven’t seen any of them-we highly recommend it!
Crude: Chevron’s Toxic Legacy
Flow: For the Love of Water
Tapped
Coal Country
Food Inc
We continued to run a continual clothing drive for the Mid-Maine Homeless shelter, and over the semester we brought 3 full carloads of discarded and donated clothes. The homeless shelter was very happy and grateful-and folding clothes is an excellent study break!
Take Back the Tap is still going at Colby. Dining Services made a huge step in giving re-usable water bottles to the Athletic Department, and reducing the bottled water use of athletics. We made posters and table tents, and tabled in Pulver, to convince students that bottled water is unnecessary! Two of our films were about bottled water, and I think that everyone who came to see Tapped has decided that the external costs associated with bottled water are far greater than the benefit of convenience.
Off to exciting summer adventures-and looking forward to picking up where we left off in the fall!
