http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgnHRo_2r74

WATCH THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER'S VIDEO ON ALL THE COOL NEW STUFF ON WESTMINSTER CAMPUS!
BIKES, GARDEN, STARS, etc!

Farms in the City

This past weekend, when the weather was beautiful, the Environmental Center Fellows took a trip to a local Utah Farm in West Valley. The Farm is owned by the Bell family, and a lovely farm at that. They have chickens, a dog, rows and rows of gardens, neighbors that have llamas, etc. The Fellows got to take a tour of the farm and the surrounding comunity then got work helping the Bells with some farm work. Leslie, Shannon, and Kerry took on the task of helping to build a chicken coop fence. Kyle, Morgan, and Casey helped to harvest potatoes that were in the ground. Kyle likes to claim he found the golden potato (even though he stabbed through a good many before finding it). All in all, it was a very educational and fun trip!

Not-so recent happening

So I finally uploaded the pictures from the Environmental Center camera and I now have tons of news, musings and photos to share! I'm gonna start with a run-through of what we did this Fall that hasn't been covered in other blog posts.

The Bike Collective ran a weekly bike repair shop on campus and sold U-Locks!

The Garden Produced a ton of veggies and ran a weekly Farmstand






We held an Environmental Center Open House and a Environmental Studies Open House:













and... We hired four awesome Sustianability Fellows: Morgan, Casey, Kyle and Leslie


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This spring we are working on bike parking, cooking and cheesemaking workshops, the Energy Challenge, S*T*A*R*S (a sustainability tracking system for the school) and the employees of the Environmental Center continue to hold rocking "Martys" (a meeting and party).

The Whole World in My Hand

"An EcoSphere is a completly enclosed glass sphere or pod, that houses a complete Eco system. Each sphere is filled with micro-organisms, bright red shrimp and algae and filtered sea water. All these things live harmonisly together in a clear glass ball of beauty. It's like having you own little world. Self contained and self sufficient."

Kind of like our world, except more harmonious and sustainable.