Projects (old)
SSS has started many projects to raise awareness of various environmental issues inside and outside of Stanford. These include food recovery, environmental justice, and sustainability education.
Zero Waste
The Zero Waste group works to raise awareness about waste produced on Stanford's campus while finding ways to minimize waste production. This year, projects include leading dorm waste trainings to teach students how to sort their waste, holding Zero Waste Week during winter quarter to focus on campus-wide waste awareness, collecting and donating food from campus eateries, and promoting alternatives to the ubiquitous but wasteful red solo cups on the Row.
Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice (EJ) is a movement that traces its roots to the work of low-income activists of color whose quality of life was deeply impacted by environmental degradation and toxic waste. EJ activism operates at the intersection of environmentalism and social justice, and works to ensure that our actions protect both the environment and the lives of the people who live there.
The Environmental Justice group nurtures knowledge and action surrounding environmental issues that disproportionately impact marginalized groups by re-examining environmental issues within the context of socioeconomic class, race, and gender. Our potential projects include working to institutionalize EJ education on campus, work days at EJ-oriented farms, collaborating with a winter-quarter EJ class, and participating in political action.
The Environmental Justice group nurtures knowledge and action surrounding environmental issues that disproportionately impact marginalized groups by re-examining environmental issues within the context of socioeconomic class, race, and gender. Our potential projects include working to institutionalize EJ education on campus, work days at EJ-oriented farms, collaborating with a winter-quarter EJ class, and participating in political action.
Sustainability Education
The goal of the Sustainability Education group is to improve student awareness and engagement with issues related to sustainability and encourage them to go about addressing these issues in the ways they are relevant to their lives. We have are working towards this goal in three main ways: 1) preparing educational workshops and presentations, 2) designing a sustainability-orientation video for freshman dorm education, and 3) working with professors to try to convince them to incorporate sustainability-related case studies into their course curriculum. We hope to encourage students to embrace sustainable living practices by recognizing how their actions impact the communities and natural systems immediately around them in the Bay Area.
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These project group descriptions last updated 2017.