By Ashlyne Wilson
Sustainability-based student organizations at ºìÐÓÊÓƵ aim to promote conservation on campus. Here's what they are doing this year.
Blology Club
Toe ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State Biology Club, open to any students interested in biology, concentrates on various topics, induding conservation and zoology. This year, they are partnering with the Environmental Society to bring awareness to recycling. They speak to sb.ldents about sustal nab le habits they can employ at home or In their residence halls. They have been working with the Greenhouse to recycle glass cups and tiles to make terrariums and tiles with plants to sell them on campus this December.
CRICK (Cuyahoga watershed Research Information and Conservation at ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State
CRICK is an organization on campus that works with the Center for Ecology and Natural Resource Sustainability to unite students, faculty, and environmental leaders for the purpose of engaging on research on the Cuyahoga River Watershed.
Environmental Conservation Group
The Environmental Conservation Group, starting in spring 2014, focuses on aiding and hosting environmental conservation projects on campus and in the community. lhis semester, l'ley aided the faculty from the Department of Biology and the Herrick Conservatory in removing an invasive buckthom in the wetland area between Easlway Center and Henderson Hall. They are in the process of planning new projects for the spring semester.
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ lntarhall Councll
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ lnterhall Council is a residence hall association that unites individual hall councils on campus to create a structured environment for residents. Although the group is not focused on sustainability, it advocates several sustainability programs. This fall, the association will partner with Residence Services to promote Do it in the Dark,. which reminds students to conserve energy in their residence halls. In the spring, they will partner for RecycleMania, which is a recycling competition between universities across the country.
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State Envlronmental Society
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State Environmental Society is a new 2014-2015 student organization that is centered on education, activism and raising awareness of glob al and local environmental issues. The organization aims to get students involved in activities such as river cleanups, recycling drives, energy conservation on campus and more. This semester they partlcl pated In the Natlonal Public Lands Day Cuyahoga River Cleanup. They have had experts come in and speak on topics such as pennaculture and recycling. The organization is trying to raise awareness of the palm oil crisis, which involves l'le deforestation of orangutan habitat and hopes to raise enough money to adopt an orphaned orangutan.
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State Ocean Motion
Ocean Motion is a new 2014-2015 s1udent organizationthatconcentrates on education, awareness and action in order to impart a sense of social and environmental responsibility in life both at home and on campus. Next semester, their goal is to incorporate their faculty advisor's research on hannful algal blooms into the dub, giving the students hands-on experience.
Net Impact
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State's local Net Impact chapter for graduate students Is housed In the College of Business Ad ministration. According to the organization's website, Net Impact works "for a sustainable future" by ·empowering a new generation to use their careers to drive transformational change in the workplace and the world.Members go on business tours, volunteer, listen to guest speakers, go to suslainability conferences and participate in fundraisers.