003.A.2 2011 Harvest Festival

The introductory email:

R. Adam Dastrup
Geoscience Coordinator & Full-time Faculty

Chair, SLCC Sustainability Committee

President, ASPRS Intermountain Region

Salt Lake Community College

801.957.4880

http://www.slcc.edu/geoscience

http://www.slcc.edu/green

http://www.twitter.com/AdamDastrup

From: Adam Dastrup
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:29 PM
To: Jennifer Saunders; Tim Sheehan; Mary Keleher; Lawrence Sleight; Norm Clark; Maralie Godemann; Jane Drexler; Lew Jeppson; Howard Ingle; Bob Askerlund; Lori Bonham; Clifton Sanders; Karen Gunn; Carolyn Clark; Lee Brinton; Louise Brown; Kathy McIntyre; Steven Lewis; Mojdeh Sakaki; Peter Iles; Nick Burns; Adam Dastrup; Sharlene Thomas; Tiffany Evans; Deneece Huftalin; Judy Fisher; Rand Webb; Kevin Doney; Gail Jessen; Rachel Colledge; Christine Gonzales; Treva Woody; Jeanne Westgard; Kevin Rusch; Clinton Gardner; Trina Frandsen
Cc: Clinton Gardner; Paula Michniewicz; Kati Lewis
Subject: Harvest Festival & Sustainability Stuff...

Late evening everyone!

I just want everyone to know that this Thursday there will be a Harvest Festival at the original community garden from 11am-1pm. Please tell your circle of influence about the festival and come on out! I'm having my Regional Geography course come out for the event.

Now as for the next Sustainability Committee Meeting, it will be in mid October. There are some things happening lately with the committee that I would like determined and that is why we have not met yet. But just because the entire group has not met doesn't mean things haven't been happening. 

• The community garden received a $10,000 grant late last spring from Grainger and is working on a $25,000 grant from Lowes (thanks Kevin Rusch)! The first garden had some updates and there is now a new garden by the Child Care Center. If we get the Lowes money, we hope to add gardens at Jordan Campus and South City Campus. In the coming weeks the gardens will have compost bins and the second garden will have a Tuff Shed and greenhouse.
• Rand Webb has already hosted his first Recycling Committee for this academic year and is gearing up for Recyclemania and some other events. Nicely done Rand! 
• Sounds like some great things are coming out of the Green Academy and Mary Jane Keleher is working on a new AS degree in Environmental Science. The new introductory course for the Sustainability Certificate is going great with guest lectures from a variety of people on this committee including Jane Drexler, Howard, Ingle, and myself.
• And now we have a Harvest Festival going on thanks in large part to Clint Gardner, Paul Michniewicz, Trina Frandsen, and Kati Lewis. Attached is the flyer created by Kati for the festival. Please post it around where you can and in Blackboard or Canvas if you use it. Or even email your classes and departments about the festival.

So like I said, things are happening at the college! In the coming days I will send out a meeting request for our next meeting in October and it will likely be on a Friday again. I'm so proud of everything that is going on with sustainability at so many different levels and some aspects like recycling and the community garden have taken a life on it's own. So before we meet again, PLEASE start thinking of new and innovative ways to move forward as a committee. There is no need to meet if we just rehash the same old "stuff." So start thinking of new and innovative things we could be doing so we stay lively! With that all said, I hope you are all doing well and hanging in there!