Friday, April 19, 2024
Photo by Danielle Bongiovanni A Global Day of Action was held on March 31 to encourage leaders, from the president of a college to the president of the United States, to #BreakFreeFromPlastic. In honor of this day, the Student Government Association’s Sustainability Committee screened “The Story of Plastic,” a documentary […]
Photo by Danielle Bongiovanni The Sustainability Committee invited Dr. Chuck Stead to continue his talk on “An Inside History of the Ramapough Lunaape Peoples” on March 11. He began by describing the connections between his own work at the college and the Ramapoughs. Stead has brought students to sites where […]
Photo by Danielle Bongiovanni On March 9, Amanda Nesheiwat was invited by Ramapo’s Sustainability Committee to present "What It Takes to Be a Sustainability Professional." She graduated from Ramapo College in 2012, teaches Environmental Studies as an adjunct professor, and has over a decade of experience working in the field. […]
Photo courtesy of Silvia Sala, Flickr The holiday season: gift-giving, gift-receiving — all in gift wrapping. Though many may not realize it, December is a time of boundless waste creation, all of which ends up in landfills to start off the new year. According to Stanford, Americans create 25% more […]
Photo courtesy of George T. Potter Library, Instagram Social distancing on campus has required many different resources to get creative with their methods of connecting with Ramapo students. Being one of the biggest assets to any student, the temporary George T. Potter Library made sure books were accessible. They promoted […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College, Flickr On Oct. 6, the Student Government Association’s Sustainability Committee hosted a conversation open to all on “Indigineous Peoples & Environmental Destruction.” Zoë Tucker-Borrut, the chair of the committee, moderated the event. The guest speaker, Owl of the Munsee Tribe, began with a meditative prayer […]
Photo by Erica Meline To help promote a more environmentally conscious holiday, Ramapo’s 1STEP (Students Together for Environmental Progress) club held their annual Sustainable Thanksgiving dinner this past Wednesday, complete with a plant-based feast and plenty of friends. Sustainable Thanksgiving is a yearly event that 1STEP holds to educate students […]
Photo by Erica Meline Ramapo College has been devoted to sustainability since its founding and uses sustainability as a “guiding principle,” according to Ramapo College’s website. On-campus clubs are an integral component to Ramapo’s commitment to sustainability. Many of the College’s student-led organizations focus on promoting sustainability and help students implement […]
Photo by Hope Patti Over the past three weeks, a group of students and faculty have been conducting a waste audit across campus in order to establish a baseline date of how much trash and recycling the campus produces. “The College’s strategic plan has in it a goal of increasing […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College, Flickr The Bergen County area is facing environmental threats with the ever-growing plastic waste epidemic in our forests. Ramapo’s 1STEP invited Post Landfill Action Network, or PLAN, campus coordinators Chris Kane and Adina Spertus Melhus to enlighten Ramapo students on ways to keep our campus […]
