Extra-curricular ACTIVITIES
Across the URI campus students, staff, and faculty are
striving to make URI a place where we evidence a greater concern for
the environment
and social equity individually and collectively. Many of the opportunities
for discussion and action are taking place outside of the classroom.
Check them out and lend your voice and hands!
Down
to Earth, Up to Us is a student organization which organizes
and participates in concrete activities focused on sustainability.
For example, members are active in the community bike share program,
in developing
a demonstration of green energy alternatives on campus, and in encouraging
green purchasing. Meetings are Wednesdays at 5:30 in 116 Woodward.
All students are welcome.
Sustainability
Learning Circles: Funding from the Campus
Compact provides support for a sustainability library and
for faculty, staff, and students to come together over lunch to reflect
about global
sustainability issues, frame personal values, and make connections
between these values and daily actions. The discussions aim to build
community
and encourage practices which take into account the environment, economic,
and social issues. Five discussions were held in the Spring Semester
2003.
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Community Bike Share: Funding from the URI Office of Student Life, the Campus
Compact and URI alumni support repair of recycled donated
bikes by community and student volunteers. Bikes are being worked
on every Tuesday evening from 6:30-9 in the bike barn at East Farm. Everyone
welcome!
Volunteer
through the Feinstein Center for Service Learning: Many
of the volunteer activities available through
the Center address the three areas of sustainability: social equity,
economics, and the environment. For example, students can volunteer
to work at the RI Food Bank, help in community gardens that
provide food
for shelters, or examine fish and test water quality in local streams.
Get some friends together and help out other Rhode Islanders and
the environment!
Students
for a Sustainable Peace:
