2008 Woodie Awards
SLAM FEST
Dorothy Cronin
Issue date: 4/25/07 Section: Features
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Living sustainable doesn't mean that you have to change who you are or be the stereotypical environmentalist.
There are small things that anyone can do to be more sustainable said Alex Fonseca, Humboldt State clubs coordinator and SLAM fest advisor. This is the largest student-run event, it is also club and can be taken for credit at HSU.
The Sustainable Living Arts and Music Festival, or better known as the SLAM fest just had its 12th year. Although Ben Davis, co-director of the festival and many others were hoping for good weather the festival still went on even though it was rainy.
The goal of the festival is to bring the community together with the topic of sustainability in a place where everyone can enjoy themselves, said Davis. At the festival there were two stages, one for speakers and workshops and another for music. Workshop's included Green Campus, tours of the new recreation and CCAT buildings.
The three aspects of sustainability are to reduce, renew and recycle. Jennifer Kline of the Campus Recycling program said that they work with the SLAM fest to make it a zero-waste-event. We try and make it really hard to throw away garbage and really easy to recycle, and we do this by having a visual queue, such as big recycling bins and small trashcans, said Kline. Kline said they are hoping to start composting in the dormitories next year.
Max Unger, President and founder of the "Focus the Nation," was at SLAM fest urging the community to be concerned about Global Climate Change. We want to involve people nationwide to participate in discussing positive solutions for global awareness. "We want to be a sponge, soaking up information, finding out what people think and cast a positive future and think of global warming in a more positive way", said Unger.
At the Arcata and Eureka Recycling Center booth there were games to promote sustainable living. Andrea Lanctot, Humboldt State environmental science student, said they had educational games such as sorting trash from recycling, how to re-use bottles, a mock landfill and a chart to see how sustainable you are called an ecological footprint.
There are small things that anyone can do to be more sustainable said Alex Fonseca, Humboldt State clubs coordinator and SLAM fest advisor. This is the largest student-run event, it is also club and can be taken for credit at HSU.
The Sustainable Living Arts and Music Festival, or better known as the SLAM fest just had its 12th year. Although Ben Davis, co-director of the festival and many others were hoping for good weather the festival still went on even though it was rainy.
The goal of the festival is to bring the community together with the topic of sustainability in a place where everyone can enjoy themselves, said Davis. At the festival there were two stages, one for speakers and workshops and another for music. Workshop's included Green Campus, tours of the new recreation and CCAT buildings.
The three aspects of sustainability are to reduce, renew and recycle. Jennifer Kline of the Campus Recycling program said that they work with the SLAM fest to make it a zero-waste-event. We try and make it really hard to throw away garbage and really easy to recycle, and we do this by having a visual queue, such as big recycling bins and small trashcans, said Kline. Kline said they are hoping to start composting in the dormitories next year.
Max Unger, President and founder of the "Focus the Nation," was at SLAM fest urging the community to be concerned about Global Climate Change. We want to involve people nationwide to participate in discussing positive solutions for global awareness. "We want to be a sponge, soaking up information, finding out what people think and cast a positive future and think of global warming in a more positive way", said Unger.
At the Arcata and Eureka Recycling Center booth there were games to promote sustainable living. Andrea Lanctot, Humboldt State environmental science student, said they had educational games such as sorting trash from recycling, how to re-use bottles, a mock landfill and a chart to see how sustainable you are called an ecological footprint.
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