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RC Sustainability & Beautification Forum
The Sustainability/Beautification forum works to promote sustainable lifestyle practices to the residents of East Quad while striving to make it a more beautiful place to live and be. In addition to posting informational materials about recycling, energy and water usage, and environmental hazards, we do (sustainable) art projects such as paper-making and collaging, paint murals in East Quad, screen movies, invite speakers, and of course, our Sustainable Food Expo. The Sustainable Food Expo is our annual event at the end of the Winter semester where local business that employ sustainable practices (local, organic, vegetarian) showcase their wares and students can munch and learn about steps they can take to live more consciously upon moving out of East Quad.
Other projects include Treasure Baskets (students can discard and claim used clothing, school supplies, ect) and the Roaming EQ Gnome (students photograph themselves with a custom-colored gnome on vacation to be displayed on the Forum Board). In the past we've refinished the picnic tables in the courtyard and worked to get more cigarette receptacles around the building.
Meetings are in Room 17 Tyler (EQ, basement), Wednesdays at 8:30. Be sure to join us — we sometimes do projects at meetings, and plan to coordinate outdoor activities (hiking, canoeing, walk in the arboretum) for other times, weather-permitting.
Contact Forum leader Marissa Kresch, mkresch@umich.edu with any questions about projects past or future, or just questions in general.