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A Little Goes a Long Way – Volunteering (4#)
On Saturday I volunteered with the Sierra Club at the Environmental Film Festival. My main job was to hand out programs, offer people raffle tickets, and get people to sign a petition asking Obama to be proactive about climate change. … Continue reading
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Popcorn Butter Haze
The Byrd was quiet and fairly empty as we walked into the lobby Saturdaymorning, but a couple people were there, manning the seven or so booths set up along the small mezzanine. I had never been in that part of … Continue reading
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Rivers and Roads
Roads dominate the majority of the United States. Our omnipresent infrastructure crisscrosses through all types of ecosystems. These roads have facilitated serious economic growth by increasing transportation of energy and goods. However, these transportation corridors have also been detrimental to … Continue reading
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An Eco-Friendly Metropolis
Since I didn’t end up volunteering this weekend I thought I would explore some ideas from last week’s readings from class. I was very intrigued by the article titled, “Urban Myths,” especially when I started to read the subtitle, hinting … Continue reading
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Volunteering at the Byrd
Today, I volunteered at the Environmental Film Festival through the Sierra Club for two hours. Over the course of the two hours, I handed out programs to people passing by, and watched a few minutes of two environmental films, Ingredients … Continue reading
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First Experience with WBCH
This Thursday I started my regular weekly service at William Byrd Community House’s (WBCH) farmlet. The WBCH is a community center, day care, after school program, and food kitchen. As part of the food kitchen they operate a half acre … Continue reading
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Sierra Club
As most of my fellow Earth Lodgers, I spent three hours volunteering for Sierra Club’s annual Environmental Film Festival on Saturday. The experience game me valuable insight into the local environmental advocacy community; insight that was honestly a bit disheartening. Through working with … Continue reading
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Wilderness
This week in my human geography class TLB was our guest speaker. Our discussion that day was about perceptions of wilderness and the reading for class was actually the same reading we had for our class, the Geography of the … Continue reading
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Environmental Film Festival
On Saturday I volunteered with the Sierra Club for two hours at the Environmental Film Festival. I got to volunteer with Anne, and our responsibilities included giving people information about the festival and passing out fliers and raffle tickets. The … Continue reading
Golden Popcorn Haze
The warm golden light passing through the stained glass windows, the intoxicating overpowering scent of popcorn, and the slight popcorn haze that came with it. For two hours this Saturday I volunteered at the Byrd in Richmond, tabling for … Continue reading
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