Earth Day 2010 creates lots of activity on campus
Hannah Green
Issue date: 4/28/10 Section: Student Life
Over the course of last week, different people of different nations across the world came together to make a change in how we as people affect our environment for Earth Day 2010. Concord University was no different when it came to spreading awareness about the environment with almost twenty different sponsored Earth Day activities on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
Students from all around campus assisted in different community projects from cleaning up litter around the campus buildings to planting Crimson Maple Trees around the campus beautiful. But it was not only the individual students that helped assist in these activities, several sororities, fraternities, athletic teams, and other student organizations came together to participate in specific activities.
As an attempt to gather volunteers for the activities throughout the morning and afternoon, the Earth Day Committee sent out emails to students, faculty, and staff to drum up even more enthusiasm for the overall event. This email was responsible for releasing the complete list of activities scheduled for the day and who would be project manager for each specific activity. Another method that the Earth Day Committee used to drum up interest among students, faculty, and staff was the offer that the first 280 volunteers would receive a free Earth Day t-shirt. The Concord University Bookstore assisted in the event also by donating the Earth Day t-shirts for the participants of Concord University Earth Day 2010.
The entire Earth Day event was arranged to provide different activities throughout the day, so that each student would be able to participate regardless of the time. One of the first events started at eight o'clock in the morning, which included mulched the flower beds around the entire Student Center Building, while other events lasted later on into the afternoon and evening. One of those events was helping with the butterfly garden in the Concord University Daycare. Although each activity offered to the Concord community involved something different for students, faculty, and staff, each activity connected to the idea that this event was helping improve the environment as well as help beautify the Campus Beautiful.
Apart from the various activities on-campus, the Earth Day Committee encouraged different environmentally health habits for students, faculty, and staff to practice throughout the entire Earth Day. Some of these suggestions included having people dim the lights in their offices or rooms during the day unless there were no windows to provide sunlight. The Earth Day Committee also provided the Concord committee with different educational videos at the Subway. With students working together around campus to improve their community and their environment, it is easy to say that Earth Day 2010 was a success for Concord University.
Students from all around campus assisted in different community projects from cleaning up litter around the campus buildings to planting Crimson Maple Trees around the campus beautiful. But it was not only the individual students that helped assist in these activities, several sororities, fraternities, athletic teams, and other student organizations came together to participate in specific activities.
As an attempt to gather volunteers for the activities throughout the morning and afternoon, the Earth Day Committee sent out emails to students, faculty, and staff to drum up even more enthusiasm for the overall event. This email was responsible for releasing the complete list of activities scheduled for the day and who would be project manager for each specific activity. Another method that the Earth Day Committee used to drum up interest among students, faculty, and staff was the offer that the first 280 volunteers would receive a free Earth Day t-shirt. The Concord University Bookstore assisted in the event also by donating the Earth Day t-shirts for the participants of Concord University Earth Day 2010.
The entire Earth Day event was arranged to provide different activities throughout the day, so that each student would be able to participate regardless of the time. One of the first events started at eight o'clock in the morning, which included mulched the flower beds around the entire Student Center Building, while other events lasted later on into the afternoon and evening. One of those events was helping with the butterfly garden in the Concord University Daycare. Although each activity offered to the Concord community involved something different for students, faculty, and staff, each activity connected to the idea that this event was helping improve the environment as well as help beautify the Campus Beautiful.
Apart from the various activities on-campus, the Earth Day Committee encouraged different environmentally health habits for students, faculty, and staff to practice throughout the entire Earth Day. Some of these suggestions included having people dim the lights in their offices or rooms during the day unless there were no windows to provide sunlight. The Earth Day Committee also provided the Concord committee with different educational videos at the Subway. With students working together around campus to improve their community and their environment, it is easy to say that Earth Day 2010 was a success for Concord University.
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