The Donation of Excess Food From Bates

Finally, after working this whole semester I have finally found an organization that is willing to accept and pick up donations of excess food from Bates. Enough food is wasted there on a daily basis to feed twenty people. The next thing we have to do is speak with the college. I know they will agree to it.

Stay Environmentally Friendly

An Introduction

Hello! This is a post to introduce myself – My name is Jay. I’m a first year at Sarah Lawrence College, and as a new member of the Compost Club I’m going to be writing updates on the blog from a compost newbie perspective. The idea is that hopefully as I learn more about composting and write updates about it, others can learn with me. I’ll be posting updates about how composting is going here at Sarah Lawrence, but also general information about composting, how it helps the world, maybe some current events… We’ll see!

Why am doing this? Well, I’m taking a class called Political Economics of the Environment with Marilyn Power (really awesome class), and after learning about so many of the terrible environmental issues going on in our world, it’s hard to not want to do something. Composting certainly helps with a lot of really big environmental problems like keeping our topsoil full of nutrients so we can continue growing food, lessening our reliance on synthetic fertilizers that leach into ground water and cause massive algae growths that choke up sea life, reducing waste and global warming effects…The list goes on. So hopefully I can help build support for composting and all the good stuff it does.

Alright, until next time.

Jay