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STUDENT OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Monthly Newsletter • October 2014

OCTOBER 2014

Seymour’sSustainableLIFESTYLETIPS:

• KNOW THE RULES OF THE ROAD AND FOLLOW THEM.. CARS WILL RESPECT RIDERS WHO ACT RESPONSIBLY AND PREDICTABLY. THIS MAKES FOR SAFER ROADS FOR EVERYONE

• WEARING A HELMET CAN REDUCE YOUR RISK OF HEAD INJURY BY 85%. WITH THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC ONE GOES THROUGH DAILY, IT IS A GREAT IDEA TO INVEST IN A HELMET TO PROTECT YOURSELF.

• TURN SLOWLY AND WITH CAUTION TURNING QUICKLY CAN RESULT IN AN ACCIDENT

• IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA WHERE THE SNOW PLOW COMES INFREQUENTLY, CONSIDER GETTING CHAINS OR STUDDED TIRES SO YOU CAN EASILY RIDE THROUGH LOOSE OR COMPACTED SNOW.

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Bicycles are considered vehicles in Wisconsin. This means that when you are riding a bike you have the same rights and duties as a driver of any other vehicle, including cars. While most of us wouldn’t drive a car on the sidewalk, under state statute local governments are allowed to decide when bicycles are allowed to use sidewalks. Even so, when riding a bike you must yield to pedestrians.KNOW?

Who is Student Office of Sustainability?

Structure of SOS:SOS leadership consists of one student director and

three student interns.

Director: Bailey Kramer

Events intern: Olivia McCarthy

Communications intern:Angela Knauf

Management intern:Ben Miller

The SOS also employs Eco-Reps to work under the management inten on various sustainablity projects and programs.

The SOS also holds up to eleven board member

posistions including up to six student senators and up to five non-senators.

The Student Office of Sustainability (SOS) is a Student Senate commission responsible for allocating the $200,000 Green Fund. Green Fund is comprised of student segregated fees and serves to improve sustainability at UW-Eau Claire. The purpose of the SOS is to allocate the UW-Eau Claire Green Fund for projects, programs, and events addressing the various sustainability areas of transportation, energy, waste, climate change, water, food systems, campus ecology, education, and outreach. This is done through the collaboration of UW-Eau Claire students, faculty, staff, and administration whose collective efforts generate positive behavioral and infrastructural changes that serve to support the growth of our University as a sustainable institution. Students interested in sustainable development are encouraged to attend meetings, which are open to the public. Any student looking to become involved with sustainability at UW-Eau Claire should contact the SOS.

To learn more Wisconsin bicycle laws visit: http://www.wnbr.org/bikelaws.htm

To contact SOS: stusen65@uwec.edu Visit our webpage: http://www.uwec.edu/StudentSenate/commissions/sos/

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Student Office of Sustainability • November 2013 • Monthly NewsletterMARCH 2013

OCTOBER 2014

In Season

StorageWhile some produce is no longer in season by the end of fall, many hearty root vegetables and other produce are stored easily through winter months and can effectively be consid-ered “seasonal.”

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Apples, Broccoli, Carrots, Spinach, Celery, Beets, Bell Peppers, Cauliflower.

Garlic, Potatoes, Winter Squash, Onions.

BY ERIK AMUNDSON$CORE Energy Program With the summer quickly turning into fall students are finding their sweatshirts and cranking up the heat at their homes. As most students who live off campus know, keeping up with the heat and energy bills can be expensive. As the presumably sub-zero temperatures approach it is important for us to find ways to stay warm and save some cash.

Look no further than the SCORE Program to help! The SCORE Program is brought to us thanks to the Stu-dent Office of Sustainability. The SCORE program provides UW-Eau Claire student renters with an opportunity to learn about home energy conservation and to receive free energy efficiency materials, including CFL light bulbs, low-flow shower heads, and insulating window wrap. This energy education, along with efficiency materials, helps student renters to reduce their energy usage and thereby reduce their cost of living in rental properties. Ultimate-ly, participants in the SCORE program will gain a general knowledge of practical energy conservation practices that they can carry with them throughout their lifetime. This is important because we are hopefully future home owners.

As if this wasn’t a sweet enough deal already, students will also receive a coupon for a free pizza from Guppy’s Pizza. Guppy’s is a new business on Water Street and is excited to feed hungry home owners. Signing up is as easy as visiting the Student Office of Sustainability UWEC page. The program is first come first serve, so sign up fast!

To sign up go to: http://www.uwec.edu/StudentSenate/commissions/sos/Score-Program.htmFor more information, questions, or concerns contact:Erik Amundson, Director of score and Student Office of Sustainability board member, at amundsed@uwec.edu

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Student Office of Sustainability • November 2013 • Monthly NewsletterMARCH 2013OCTOBER 2014

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The SOS provides funding for projects that reduce UW-Eau Claire’s negative

impact on the environment and make UW-Eau Claire a more sustainable

campus. The SOS allocates funding to projects addressing the various

sustainability areas of transportation, energy, waste, climate change, food

systems, campus ecology, environmental ethics, and outreach.

STUDENT OFFICE OFSUSTAINABILITY

MEETINGS:Tuesdays, 5 PM

DIRECTOR:Bailey Kramerstusen65@uwec.edu

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events is that they are usually free. That being said, we do have fundraisers to make this possible. A few of the fundraisers we have put on in the past include our cheese sale, beef stick and cheese curd sale, and apple sale, when we gather apples from a local apple orchard and proceed to make and sell delicious apple treats. Last year we sold apple pie, hot applesauce, hot apple cider, and caramel apples. We are definitely hoping to continue this tradition within the next month or so. Other non-fundraising events we have done: a student cooking demo, where we prepared three mini meals for students at no charge (thanks to the sponsorship by the Student Office of Sustainability), a food-related film showing in the Davies theater, a compost talk, and field trips to various local food producers, such as the Pizza Farm, an apple orchard, and Olson’s Ice Cream in Chippewa Falls.

GET TO KNOW FOODLUMS In a nutshell, Foodlums is UW- Eau Claire’s student food club. More specifically, we, Foodlums, emphasize knowing where and how your food is made. This includes understanding the extent of your food’s locality, sustainability, and wholeness, among other things. Foodlums meets weekly to discuss, learn, teach, and make some of the best food available to the Eau Claire community. Foodlums promotes local, sustainable, healthy eating on campus and in the Eau Claire area by organizing numerous events. In addition, we help maintain a garden located in the courtyard of the L.E. Phillips Science Hall. This year, our most exciting additions to the garden were several apple trees. Being mindful of space limitations, these trees are pole apple trees, which grow vertically without branching out.

As a student organization, we aim to increase awareness to university folk and community members. How do we do this you may ask? We put on a variety of events that are available to practically anyone who hears about them. The best part about Foodlums

Our group cares about most of the environmental causes here at UWEC, because almost all of them can be tied back to food. A couple of the causes we directly contribute to are increasing availability of sustainable foods on campus, composting awareness, and the education revolving around responsible and sustainable eating. Foodlums’ motto is, “Healthy roots to a healthy community. Foodlums supports a healthy you.” It is certain that all Foodlums believe that our biggest goal is to connect individuals, especially students, with their food.

Please consider joining Foodlums at our weekly meetings on Thursdays at 6 p.m. in Phillips 106. E-mail foodlums@uwec.edu if you would like to be added to our e-mail list, which will keep you up to date on current Foodlums events. We always love meeting new foodies who can help us achieve our food connection goals!

By Emma Janke