Furman prides itself in its ability to achieve much of its accomplishments while maintaining a healthy relationship with the environment. Though environmental efforts on campus are lead unsurprisingly by the Environmental department, several other departments aide in environmental friendly campus notion. Such efforts can be seen in the Biological and Chemical sciences, Health sciences and other various departments. Dr. Kelly Frazier is in an exemplification of unity of sustainable efforts and other thought fields. In her work, she unifies not only sustainable efforts, but the community as a whole. In conjunction with local food ministries and homeless, drug addiction, and abuse shelters she promotes healthier eating with each given situation and decrease food wastage while maintaining sustainable practices. I often volunteer with a local Free Clinic and find similar programs enabling those in need with healthier and sustainable practices that are approachable. Loaves and Fishes, in addition creates neural-like network between the such organizations to provide much needed supplies and preventing wastage.
It’s a proud moment, indeed to be a part of communities that finds utter joy and happiness by developing mechanism to aide not only our surrounding community, but our surrounding environment. The only change that can be evoked is that derived from true intent, such intent is readily available campus-wide.
Furman not only preaches sustainability, but quite frankly sets a standard of practice that should be noted. It is here, that multiple disciplines are capable of uniquely in cooperating their scholarly passions with pertinent environmental causes and the surrounding community.
On another note, as the semester wraps up, so does my time with the greenbelt community. It was such a lovely experience and has broaden my horizons further than I could ever imagine. Through the experience, I have gained a sense of urgency to be the type of person who chases a problem and not just address it, but rather solves it.
This may be the last blog, but trust me, we are just getting started.
J. Saxena