Category | Arts & Living

Smells like green spirit

Published on April 20, 2010 by Josh Pate

KSU’s campus offers the opportunity for small changes that can help the Earth: smokers throwing cigarette butts in the appropriate containers, foodies throwing away their Big Mac wrappers, hand-washers preserving water.

Branden Macie and Amanda Masters reach out to students in the Social Science as a method of recruiting new PEAK members. Photo courtesy of PEAK.

The Progressive Earth Alliance at Kennesaw, KSU’s foremost eco-friendly club, will honor mother Earth with a campus-wide event on April 22 at 11a.m.-3p.m.

This year’s event marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. PEAK has several activities planned for Earth Day, including organic seed planting, soy candle making, recycled jewelry making and carbon footprint tracking.

Sarah Christopherson, Secretary of PEAK and senior majoring in Spanish and philosophy, stressed that Earth Day 2010 will not be about “pushing our ideals on people, we want everyone to recognize that there is a green movement and just use less stuff in general.”

Beyond the festivities, Earth Day 2010 will host discussion panels on the impact of consumerism and other environmental topics.

PEAK’s electronics at the event will be solar-powered to preserve energy.

PEAK has held past events to promote eco-friendliness. Karli Bailey, one of the active recycling committee members and freshman majoring in business and minoring in human studies, hosted a recycle relay at the University Suites.

During the relay, recyclable material such as paper, plastic, cardboard and cans were mixed and divided in half, and then groups raced to sort the recycling. The group that sorted the fastest won prizes.

“We are encouraging each floor in the suites to recycle, and the floor with the most recycling wins a pizza party,” Bailey said.

To learn about PEAK and more ways to lessen your ecological footprint, visit http://groups.google.com/group/environmentalalliance.