The Green Cardinal Initiative is a group of students, faculty, and staff at Saginaw Valley State University who are interested in creating a more sustainable future. This website allows students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members to sign up to be a Green Cardinal and to join in the conversation. Based on funding from the Allen Foundation, SVSU’s WIRED grant from the Department of Labor, and the SVSU Foundation we are working on several projects including, recycling waste from our Dining Services into organic fertilizer, creating sustainable hydroponics systems for inner city urban areas, developing renewable options for fossil fuels, Vermiponics, and raising environmental awareness on campus and throughout Mid-Michigan. Please join us by registering as a Green Cardinal !
Sign up for Dr. Boles' two-week trip to El Salvador for Spring 2010. The course includes a 12-day tour of El Salvador’s colonial towns, archaeological ruins, eco-tourist locales, museums, and a four-day stay in the visitor dormitory of an organized community of low-income farmers who have pioneered a remarkable holistic, organic, and self-sufficient community development movement. Cost: $1950-2200. For details: www.svsu.edu/~boles
How are you going to spend your summer?Flipping burgers?Sitting in a classroom?Watching the world through the glass of some tour bus?
Or…
Are you going to spend the night on the Great Wall of China?Use Global Positioning Systems to travel in small groups through Beijing?Learn about Chinese culture while eating Peking duck with a group of fellow students?Study the environment by working on an organic farm in a remote part of southern China?
This is not your ordinary study abroad trip…
If you want to understand how the development of the most populous country in the world is changing China’s economy, environment, and culture, this is the trip for you.
I would like to welcome all of you back for another semester here at Saginaw Valley State University.Thanks to the nearly 90 people who registered at the Cards Party at the beginning of the semester--there are now over 350 registered Green Cardinals from around campus and the surrounding community.We've been working hard with people from across campus to develop new and exciting green programs for you this academic year.Keep an eye out for the Extreme Green Lifestyle Makeover contest.If you are interested in learning more about green activities in other countries, we have also developed some environmentally oriented overseas study programs which will run this spring.Come to the GCI website to find out more details!
We are also asking all Green Cardinals to step up and make a commitment to make their lifestyle more green.To do so, go to the GCI website discussion board (http://tinyurl.com/greencardinallifestyle ) where we have posted 17 opportunities for you to help make the world a better place. If you accomplish 6 or more of these pledges during the academic year, post your accomplishments in the discussion forum and we will send you a free window sticker!
Does your blood run green and you want to do more? Stay tuned for more information about how you can volunteer with an environmental organization and start work on making the world a greener place.Thank you again for your commitment to making SVSU and the surrounding communities a better place.
