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Fall Film and Forum Series, 2020
The West Chester University Office of Sustainability and the WC Green Team jointly organized 4 virtual events this fall. We are grateful to Brad Flamm (director) and Amy Maxcy (office administrator) of the Office of Sustainability for all their work and also to Asst. Prof. of Organizational Communications Megan Schraedley’s Com 398 students, who led…
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The lowdown on wood-burning stoves: They are dangerous!
Those of us who long for the simple rural life may wish to believe that burning wood in our homes is healthful. In fact, the resulting smoke reduces air quality and threatens the health of neighbors downwind of our chimneys and also in our own homes. An article in The Guardian by Damian Carrington, “Wood…
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Tell Whole Foods Market: Planet Over Plastic
Below is the text of a petition from our allies at PennEnvironment. Please sign on here and consider mentioning the issue to any Whole Foods store where you shop. If you can help the WC Green Team’s Plastic-Free Please group in any way, please contact us here. In 2019, The Ocean Conservancy found that plastic…
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WCU North Campus Organic Garden Tour
West Chester University has four organic gardens. Read about them all here. View a video tour of the North Campus Garden here with student Elizabeth Schultz, who spoke about the WCU gardens at our Dec. 11, 2020, panel on local environment activism. If. you’ve missed the Green Team’s own garden videos, see them all described…
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Local sustainability activism panel Dec. 11
Local sustainability activism panel: Fourth Annual Environmental Film and Forum Series at WCU sponsored by the Office of Sustainability at West Chester University and the West Chester Green Team, in memory of Graham Hudgings. December 11, 7pm, via live internet: Local sustainability activism, featuring 5 local panelists on what campus and community groups can do…
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