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Green Club
Interested in sustainable issues? Want to make a difference on your campus? Join the club!
Contact the club advisor, flugebl@linnbenton.edu or club Student Representative Jenna Sukle at jenna.sukle@gmail.com.
MISSION: We are LBCC students who are committed to bringing sustainable practices to campus and to inspiring our campus community to take these practices home and spread the word.
Check us out on Facebook, LBCC Green Club!
Winter term 2012: Meet on Mondays at 2 p.m., Hot Shot Coffee House
Next Club Meeting - Monday, Feb. 27, 2 p.m.
Making signs for Waste Audit event! Four signs - glass, co-mingle, trash & compost.
Waste Audit scheduled for Tuesday, March 13 at 1 p.m. in the college courtyard, Albany campus.
Winter Term Events:
Waste Audit - collect campus trash, sort and weigh to determine campus recycling efforts. (March 13, 1pm)
SOLV beach cleanup - during spring break (March 31, 10-1pm)
Calculate college carbon footprint
Spring Term 2012 Events:
Earth Day Sustainability Fair, Wednesday, April 18, 11:30 - 2 p.m., campus-wide event hosted by the club
NOTE: Events are tentatively scheduled and are open to addition or change.
Past Events:
Winter 2012
Jan. 6 - Coffin Butte Public Landfill Tour
Green club members Jenna Sukle, James Smith and Kathy Wilson toured the Coffin Butte Landfill and Process Recovery Center located north of Corvallis off highway 99. The group learned about how landfills are built, how garbage is processed, and how the methane created from the breakdown of garbage is captured and turned into energy that supplys approximately 5,000 houses. Members also toured the Process Recovery Center, where leaves, branches, wood and food waste are processed into soil that is then sold as compost.
Kathy, James and Jenna (left to right) on top of garbage mountain. Large container trucks ship in trash from Linn, Benton, Lincoln and Polk counties, as well as some areas in Marion county to Coffin Butte.
The Process Recovery Center (left) processes yard and food waste along with wood scraps to make soil that is then sold as compost. Club members also toured the energy production center (right), where large diesel engines convert methane from the landfill into usable energy that is fed into the energy grid.
Fall 2011
Oct.12 - Club Fair table, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., Campus courtyard
Nov. 9 - "Know What You Throw" Educational Event: Campus recycling/composting.
Educate the campus community on recycling and composting on campus.
Club members Jenna (in red shirt), Kathy (in purple hat) and James (in black jacket) help
educate students at the "Know What You Throw" recycling education event held in Takena Hall Nov. 9.
Kathy (left) and Jenna at the Green Club table, All Campus Picnic, Oct. 5, 2011.
Check out the OSU "Food for Thought" lecture series:
Additional suggestions:
Host a panel of experts on clean energy
Hold a couple of campus BBQ's in the courtyard to earn club money.
Work with Horticulture Club and Student Life and Leadership to improve recycling/composting.
Past Events: Earth Day-Sustainability Fair, Friday April 22, courtyard
photos from the event: http://bit.ly/hc29hV
local news article: http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/education/article_c0adc9fe-6d74-11e0-9934-001cc4c03286.html
Green Club table at LBCC Earth Day, April 22, 2011
Past Minutes:
Dec. 3, 2010 Minutes
Nov. 19, 2010 Minutes
Nov. 5, 2010 Minutes
Oct. 22 2010 Minutes
Links of interest/ideas
ReUse Directory for Albany area, produced by Green Team, Albany First United Methodist Church
http://albanymethodist.org/#/life-at-albany-first-umc
Calculate your Carbon Footprint with the Global Footprint Network calculator:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/
The College Sustainability Report Card 2011
http://www.GreenReportCard.org/
http://news.pcc.edu/2010/10/rocket-composter/
http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2011/about/about.php