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Previously known as Cultivate R’Space in the mid 2000’s, the club has since rebranded in the past year and is now known as the UCR Gardening Club. The club was officially re-established during fall 2020, and since then, the UCR Gardening Club has greatly expanded and flourished despite the looming pandemic. They’ve intrigued students with their goals to combat food insecurity through sustainability and community resilience.
Despite the club having been renamed and rebranded during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has grown in the past year by utilizing online platforms, such as Instagram, to recruit members. Kali Krishnan, secretary of the UCR Gardening Club and second-year applied mathematics and public policy major, stated that the club has gone from “zero to over 80 members since the initiation of the club.”
NKU hosts Climate Change Questions and Issues event as a part of Earth week
April 25, 2021
Friday afternoon, professor of law at Chase College of Law Anthony Chavez spoke at the Climate Change Questions and Issues virtual and in-person hybrid event as a part of NKUâs annual Earth Week.Â
Earth Week is an annual celebration concerning Earth Day, in which NKU hosts events providing information about the environment, sustainability and climate change.
Chavez gave insight into the science, the numbers with climate change, and U.S policies being implemented to help slow down carbon dioxide emissions. After, he explained simple and specific ways anyone can help with the ongoing issue of climate change.Â
Members of Evanston Fight for Black Lives and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago discussed plans to create a sustainable community garden and freshwater conservation in the Great Lakes region at a virtual panel Friday.
The event was part of Citizens’ Greener Evanston’s “Earth Week for Everyone” series, which took place Thursday through Saturday in honor of Earth month. EFBL organizer Emma Barreto said she wants sustainable living to be a community project rather than an individual one.
For EFBL, sustainability means building a community garden in a vacant lot in the Fifth Ward. Barreto, along with fellow EFBL organizer Maia Robinson, said they would use the garden to grow food and flowers and create a space for community engagement.
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As Agnes Bourne walked through her most recent art exhibition at the Center For the Arts, she told the News&Guide she was âgetting goosebumps.â
âIt just goes forever,â Bourne said. âIâm so excited because itâs really beautiful.â
The centerâs âcreative in residenceâ had just put the finishing touches on the installation she had curated, titled âNature,â which features outdoors-inspired pieces by over 30 artists. Bourne said the goal of the exhibition is for visitors to feel a âspecial relationshipâ with nature and the joy of it.
âAnd to feel, you know, in love with it to the extent that we want to be sure that nature continues to be healthy,â Bourne said.