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Plastic Pollution in the Ocean: the World’s Dirty Secret
Versatile, durable, and ubiquitous, plastic provides tremendous benefits to our society as consumer goods or industrial inputs—if in the right place, of course.
Corporate Social Responsibility: the Future of all Businesses
As environmental awareness grew, more businesses sought to fulfill their Corporate Social Responsibility.
Carlow Campus Lab Coding Workshop
For the month of February, our group worked to help the 4th and 5th graders at The Campus Laboratory School of Carlow University practice their coding skills through Scratch. Creating their own projects, students worked individually to come up with their own games and activities on Scratch about sustainability. Working with four classes total, two…
Carlow Campus Lab Carbon Cycle and Natural Disasters Workshop
In our last workshop for the fourth and fifth graders at the The Campus Laboratory School of Carlow University in 2020 our group taught about the connections between the carbon cycle and natural disasters with climate change the impact that they have on these processes. For the fourth graders, we prepared an activity where they…
Tech Group November Updates
We have finished putting together a mockup of our app on Adobe XD. This mockup was sent out to the rest of the club for feedback and can be accessed here. Each member of our team has taken responsibility for a portion of the app’s functionality and we plan to spend winter break building up…
Student Forum on Sustainability at CMU
Have thoughts about sustainability at Carnegie Mellon? Fill out the form below to share them with Sustainable Earth!
Tech Group October Update
We have fleshed out the user flow for our app and are now mocking up wireframes. Our app will reward users with virtual rewards similar to Forest the focus timer app which rewards its users with coins so they can purchase different trees to plant in their virtual forests. We plan to let users build…
Amplify Your Voice with GASP!
Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) is a local Pittsburgh non-profit which has been working toward better air quality for over 50 years now. Pittsburgh has a deep history with air pollution. It has long dealt with the consequences of industrial polluters and currently ranks as the city with the 8th worst air quality in the country…
Energy and Waste Conservation Workshops (Carlow Campus Lab)
On Wednesday, October 21st and Monday, October 26th, the Carlow Campus Lab group of Sustainable Earth met with 4th and 5th graders from The Campus Laboratory School of Carlow University to work with the students on an energy and waste conservation workshop. Consisting of 4 Sustainable Earth members, Adrienne Orlic, Claire Chiang, Jenna Stanislaw, and…
Advocacy September Updates
A vital aspect of working toward a more sustainable future is fighting for environmental justice. We feel that in order to adequately address the environmental injustices in and beyond Pittsburgh, it is important to work on a community level and support initiatives already in place. That is why this year, advocacy is looking to partner…
Environmenstrual 2020
Inspired by the UK Environmenstrual Week of Action, Sustainable Earth has started an annual event centering period taboo and access to menstrual care. Nationwide and worldwide, people that menstruate face cultural stigma and insufficient healthcare to the point where they cannot go about their days safely. Additionally, many available period products are harmful to both…
Tech Group September Updates
This month, we spent brainstorming ideas for a project. We came up with three main ideas: (1) An app that lets users know what items are recyclable at different dining locations around campus (2) An app that hosts sustainability challenges for students to complete around campus and gives them real rewards such as coupons for…
Carlow Campus Lab September Updates
This academic year we are continuing to partner with The Campus Laboratory School of Carlow University on educating 4th and 5th graders about different topics of sustainability. Meeting every week, our group is planning monthly virtual lessons and activities with the students to get them involved and engaged in sustainability. The first session, happening in…
Booth in Fall 2020
Last year, we began work on a Bambooth that was going to focus on educating the CMU and Pittsburgh community about the construction of a Cracker Plant that is located right outside of Allegheny County. A priority for this booth was to construct it completely out of sustainable materials, and we settled on Bamboo for…
Tech Team in Fall 2020
Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic, tech team’s ability to meet in person will be limited, but we won’t let that stop us from building something awesome! The past few years, the tech team has worked on building a robotic garden that can self water and kill weeds using a herbicide through image recognition. This project…
Sustainable Earth in Fall 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sustainable Earth will be holding all of its meetings virtually.
February Democratic Debate Watch Party
One of Sustainable Earth’s goals is to become more engaged in political issues. Resolving climate change and sustainability issues will require changes on a national and global level. To make sure our concerns about the environment are heard and acted upon, it’s important that we educate ourselves on and support the leaders that also prioritize…
Beefless Schatz
In order to promote plant based diets, Sustainable Earth partnered with Chartwells, CMU’s dining service, to host a “Beefless” event. Beef requires a lot of energy to produce and is less environmentally friendly than other meat options such as chicken and fish. The event was hosted in the Schatz Dining Room, CMU’s buffet dining location.…
Die-In 2019
As a part of Sustainable Earth’s campus takeover week, we organized a die-in. A die-in is a form of protest where protesters will lie on the ground, “dead” in order to bring awareness to their cause. The Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement has been using this strategy to highlight how without drastic measures, humans…
Environmenstrual 2019
Each year Sustainable Earth partners with F.E.M.M.E (Feminists Engaged in Multicultural Matters and Education) to participate in the week long Environmenstrual Campaign. What is Environmenstrual? Environmenstrual is a UK based campaign by the Women’s Environmental Network. Its goals are to bring awareness of the effects of period poverty, to increase the use of sustainable period…
Letter to the President and Provost
The members of Sustainable Earth act as lobbyists by initiating conversations with university administrators in attempts to influence them to make changes to facilities and policies to improve CMU’s environmental impact and dedication to sustainable principles. In February 2019, 302 students signed a petition supporting the establishment of an Office of Sustainability at CMU as…
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