Weekly Sustainability Announcements

December 7, 2015

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From the Newswire

• Sustainability in Business
• Rain Garden Lunch ‘N Learn
• Peace at Home Santa Sack Setup or Santa Sack Day
• Tri Cycle Farms Garden Workday
• Tri Cycle Farms’ Food Recovery/ Compost Crew
• Habitat for Humanity ReStore Assistant
• Feed the Hungry and Homeless — House of Hope Rescue Mission

Reinventing Recycling on Campus

Full Circle Pantry Conducts Research on Student Food Security/Insecurity

Ingrid Fritsch and David Stahle Named AAAS Fellows

Academics

Sustainability in Business

Sustainability in Business (WCOB 3023/5023) is being offered in the spring by Professor David Hyatt. This is a great elective for the sustainability minor and a required class for the graduate certificate in sustainability. It meets Thursday evenings from 6–8:45 Pm. The course focuses on theoretical and practical bases for pursuing sustainability in business and society. Students learn four definitions of sustainability, measured on four axes expressed by: 1987 UN Brundtland Report (intergenerational equity), Triple-play (people, planet, profits), resource sustainability, and economic justice (fair global system of rules, fairly enforced). The class is designed to help you:

• Develop an understanding of sustainable development as an important element of practices and a value driver for businesses and other organizations;
• See how economic, environmental and social issues are an integral, interrelated (and complex) part of the landscape in which institutions operate;
• Gain awareness and literacy regarding global environmental and social change; and
• Apply your understanding of sustainability at three levels: societal, organizational, and individual. Identify next steps to better leverage sustainable development.

If you have any questions about this class or SCMT 4853/WCOB 5843 Cross-Sector Collaboration for Sustainability, please contact Professor David Hyatt at dhyatt@uark.edu.

Events

Rain Garden Lunch ‘N Learn

Beaver Watershed Alliance Director, John Pennington, will talk about the function and beauty of rain gardens while showing off all of the recently placed rain gardens in the watershed. Program will be held at the Elkins Senior Citizens Center from 12-1 p.m. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP by contacting John Pennington at (479)750-8007 or john@beaverwatershedalliance.org.

12:00 – 1:00 Pm

Monday, December 14th

Elkins Senior Citizens Center, 201 West First Avenue Elkins, Arkansas 72727

Volunteer Opportunities

Peace at Home Santa Sack Setup or Santa Sack Day

Each year, Peace at Home Family Shelter hosts “Santa Sack,” an event where the families we work with and who live in our shelter come to pick out Christmas gifts. Children go with a volunteer to pick out gifts for their mothers and moms go with volunteers to pick out gifts for their children. Everything then gets wrapped up by our volunteer wrappers for the family to take home or back to the shelter to open on Christmas day. For this event, we rely on donations of new toys and gifts for ages 0-adult. We also are looking for donations of snacks and treats for the day of the event. If you would like to donate new toys or food for the event on December 11th, please email Eva Laurin at elaurin@peaceathomeshelter.com.

We are still in need of a few more volunteers to help make our annual Santa Sack event a success. Specifically, we are in need of extra volunteers for event setup on Thursday, December 10th anytime 10am-5pm and on Friday, December 11th for the evening of Santa Sack – 4pm-8pm. If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please contact Maria Torres at mtorres@peaceathomeshelter.com

Multiple Shifts

Thursday and Friday, December 10th and 11th

Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

Tri Cycle Farms Garden Workday

Join us at Tri Cycle Farms every Tuesday from 3-6pm for a volunteer workday in the garden! As fall arrives we will be working in the fall garden, winterizing the summer garden and doing various other farm and garden related chores and activities. See you at the farm!

3:00 – 6:00 Pm

Every Tuesday

1705 N Garland Ave

Tri Cycle Farms’ Food Recovery/ Compost Crew

Every Thursday, we gather at Tri Cycle to sort through boxes of expired produce from Ozark Natural Foods, a local health food coop. We sort and weigh the food, feed some to our sweet chickens, and then add the rest to the compost. There is also usually plenty of still-good-looking, organic produce to share amongst ourselves! If you like veggies, chickens, or compost, come join us for a chill, fun volunteer opportunity while helping to prevent food waste in our community. Just meet outside the community house at the farm (1705 N Garland Ave) at 3:30pm on Thursdays!

3:30 Pm

Every Thursday

1705 N Garland Ave

Habitat for Humanity ReStore Assistant

Customer service is the primary focus for our ReStore Volunteers. Our ReStore staff will assign jobs as needed. Below are examples of the types of jobs you will be asked to do. Greet and assist customers as needed. Assist in cleaning, pricing, and organizing merchandise. Arrange items on display shelves and sales floor. Hang pictures and create decorative displays when needed. Rearrange furniture and other merchandise in all departments to ensure displays remain visually stimulating. Arrange special promotion displays as needed. Help keep aisles clean and safe. Assist with donation pickups if necessary. Light cleaning. Please dress appropriately for the weather. This is a warehouse environment with limited climate control. All volunteers must wear closed toed shoes. The Habitat ReStore is family friendly so please no short, shorts or inappropriate t-shirts.

Multiple Shifts Available

1421 E. 15th St., Fayetteville, AR 72701

Feed the Hungry and Homeless — House of Hope Rescue Mission

The House of Hope Rescue Mission is a “Day Center” for the homeless and needy. Our goal is to provide a place where people can come for shelter from the cold or heat, receive snacks, water and a hot meal while at our facility, get help with life skills and job searches. We provide showers, a place for clients to do their laundry free of charge, and a place they can receive mail. Clients can receive clothing and food from our pantry monthly.

There are multiple ways to volunteer at the House of Hope:

• Be a Greeter
• Work in the Food Pantry: Stock shelves, prepare food bags
• Help clients with laundry
• Prepare meals to serve
• Serve meals to clients
• Clean up after lunch
• Assist clients in finding needed clothing for day to day wear or job interviews
• Assist clients on computers (as available) to search for jobs
• Come to socialize with clients and be a friendly face
• Offer to assist with Bible studies
• Be available in the children’s room to play and read

Multiple Shifts Available

Every Wednesday and Friday

505 E. Emma Ave., Springdale, AR 72764

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