It's Earth Day! The members of our Mount community take pride in trying to make efforts towards becoming more sustainable and contributing towards our community and the environment. One of the ways we do this is each year, on Earth Day, the staff and faculty of the Mount all pitch in to do a big campus clean-up. This is my third year going (of the four we’ve been doing it) and it’s always a great time. We show up at noon, get assigned a section of the campus, are handed out gloves and some garbage bags, and then we clean, clean, clean.
The group I went with this year included Courtney Barnhill and Erin Morice from our Recruitment Office, and Katie Belcher and Stefan Hancherow from the Art Gallery. We were assigned the green spaces in and around the Rosaria Student Centre parking lot. So what kind of garbage do you find in that area? We had everything from about a zillion cigarette butts and disintegrating pieces of paper, to Tim Horton’s and McDonald’s cups and wrappers, to a large metal pipe, and finally to an empty ring box (a proposal gone wrong perhaps?). We collected it all up and brought it back to the main area and they rewarded us with a barbeque, a reusable coffee mug and a tree of our own to plant somewhere.
The last part of the event included a big announcement – the Mount’s new sustainability webpage is live! It includes all of the information you ever wanted to know about how the Mount is becoming greener every day and what you can do to help.
Check out a few more photos of the day on our Facebook Fan page (and become a fan while you're at it!).
Happy Earth Day!
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