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by Andrew Ruszczyk
SUSTAIN AND GAIN
GOING GREEN, NOT BROKE
Students can successfully become more sustainable by recycling,buying local and changing to efficient light bulbs while saving money in the process
NIKKI WENTLING
nwentling@kansan.com
Soda cans, cereal boxes and milk jugs pile up in corners. Empty shampoo and conditioner bottles are stuffed into overflowing trash cans. A bin of compost festers in the corner.
This is the apartment of a student who wants to be sustainable and environmentally friendly by recycling but can't fit it into the schedule or doesn't know how.
Kim Scherman, a senior from Eudora and president of a University group called Environs that promotes environmentalism, said there are many easy ways for students to be more environmentally friendly in their daily lives.
One of the points Scherman stresses is the importance of buying food locally. She buys produce from the Lawrence Farmers Market and checks the labels of items in grocery stores.
"It's more sustainable to eat local food," Scherman said. "A practical thing for a college student to do could be going to the farmers market on Saturday mornings, meet a couple of farmers and substitute a couple of the things you're using with local foods."
Cassandra Ford, waste reduction and recycling specialist for the City of Lawrence, said buying local foods is an easy change students can make.
"A lot of people think of energy conservation and say they can't afford it," she said. "But it's simple things, too."
Students can learn more about how to save money and energy in their homes and how to make sustainable purchases at the 12th annual Energy Conservation Fair this Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Holcom Park, 2700 W. 27th St. During the past six years, organizers have been working to make it applicable to more people.
“You can go see all of the different topics, find one thing that makes sense to you and your lifestyle and that one thing can make a
Ford said there would be about 40 vendors at the fair, teaching attendees how to do things from installing solar panels and geothermal wells to encouraging switching to CFL or LED light bulbs and taking reusable tote bags to the grocery store.
huge difference," Ford said.
Scherman attended the fair last year and incorporated some of these tactics into her everyday life like recycling.
"I can't just throw things in the trash," she said.
Scherman and her roommates pay a fee for curb side recycling. They were given a bin by a private company to put their recycling in and have it picked up.
Information about how and where people can recycle in Lawrence will be available at the fair.
Kathy Richardson, waste reduction and recycling operations supervisor for the City of Lawrence, said she and her staff gave a presentation to the city commission last week promoting the possibility of establishing a citywide recycling collection service, which would be offered to all residents. Commissioners agreed to accept proposals from private companies and the city. They will make a decision in December, and, if accepted, organized recycling collection would begin in June 2014.
For now, however, Richardson recommends paying for a bin as Scherman does or taking recycling to the drop-off bins located around Lawrence.
Ford recommends attending the fair this weekend to find a simple way to be environmentally friendly. She said everyone could find something they can do to make a change.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
"The topics are all over the place," Ford said. "They're simple things all the way up to huge lifestyle choices. It gives people an opportunity to find something that will impact their life."
Edited by Emma McElhaney
Environs members Margaret Tran and Nolan Kappelman work in the gardens last year. The Environs volunteered to help clean the KU Student Rain Garden by the Rec center.
POLITICALFIBER.COM
BEING GREEN ISN'T EASY
even for young people
Millennials are the most environmentally educated generation to date, but they are actually the least environmentally engaged.
A 2010 Eco Pulse study by the Shelton Group that surveyed 1,000 young American adults found that Millennials' environmental behavior all bad.
Millennials are more likely to be talking about energy and water conservation, preservatives and chemicals in food, global warming and organic compounds.
They're more likely than the overall population to give money to environmental causes than the overall population.
They are buying green products in categories like furniture, baby products, cars, food and beverages.
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They're more likely to support the U.S. signing a treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions, even if it raises their energy bills.
In a longitudinal study by the American Psychological Association that polled more than 9 million young American adults between 1968 to 2009 there was a significant decrease found in care for the environment.
Millennials are three times more likely than Baby Boomers to say they make no personal effort to help the environment.
POLITICALFIBER
Graphic by Ben Pivette
Research by jule Louau
Becoming involved in programs to clean up the environment decreased 20 percent for young people in the last 40 years.
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SOURCE: "Summary of findings from the 2010 EcoPulse Study by The Shelton Group and American Psychological Association's 2012 study, Generational Differences in Young Adult Life Goals, Concern for Others and Civic Orientation."
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For more political news and conversation, visit PoliticalFiber.com. To contact Bion Pirote, email him at ben@politicalfiber.com
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CAMPUS
Wescoe revamp held up
JOSEPH DAUGHERTY
jdaugherty@kansan.com
This summer's drought is one reason the $225,000 renovation of Wescoe Beach is about two months behind schedule.
The renovations will be finished by late September or early October, well after the original completion date of Aug. 1.
Peg Livingood, landscape architect and campus planner, said the extreme heat combined with the LED lighting being back-ordered caused the delay. Some students are upset because during demolition the trees were removed and have yet to be replaced.
Architecture student Dominic Sosinski, junior from Kansas City, Kan., thinks the idea of remodeling Wescoe was a great idea but the execution of could have been better.
"There are a few problems for me. Primarily being the lack of shade," Sosinski said. "Wescoe is literally a beach so to speak. I saw someone walk out there, touch the seats, pull his hand back because of how hot it was and walk back into the shade and took a seat on the stairs."
There are no trees on Wesco right now so students are left outside with no shade. However, that is supposed to change. --
"The trees have not been put in because it has just been to hot," Livinggood said. "With the extreme heat we had this summer, if we planted the trees they would have died."
Livingood added that the trees should be planted in the next couple of weeks. The trees that were in the elevated boxes on Wescoe before the renovations were actually dying because the roots had nowhere to grow, Livingood said. When the new trees are planted, they will be planted directly in the ground thus letting the roots grow and letting the trees flourish.
Former student body president, Libby Johnson initiated the Wesco renovation to make the space more usable for students. One of the main ideas behind the renovations was to create more seating.
"The old Wescoe seating was not really great for groups of people to sit and talk," said Hannah Bolton, student body president.
The remodel includes electrical outlets at each bench that allows students to charge their electronics on Wescoe Beach. Livinggood said that there will be 10 outlets; two for each bench.
Another main goal of the renovations was to make Wescoe more attractive for people walking on campus. Bolton said. It had not been changed since it was built in the 1970s.
Even after learning that the renovations were not finished on Wescoe, students still seem to have somewhat mixed reactions on the changes.
Sosinski said he does not really like the new design. He said that since KU has no "quad," this is KU's focal point
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