Hello, my name is Andrea Castro and I am a part of the ASU Student Chapter of the GreenLight Solutions Foundation. One of my sustainability accomplishments is my contributions to GreenLight Solutions on ASU's Tempe campus. This semester, I was able to become a Solutioneer and join a team and get to work! Jessie Bistrais, Iona Isachsen, Rachel Antidormi, Meghan Marshall, Kait Spielmaker and I collaborated with Tiny House Developers, a business located in Phoenix, in order to find solutions to their waste problem. Tiny House Developers is a business with specialists in tiny home construction and tiny house community development and they have collaborated with Singleton Community in creating Build us H.O.P.E, a project that established a tiny house community for homeless and disabled Veterans in Phoenix, Arizona. My team and I were able to find solutions in diverting their waste from the landfill by creating partnerships with companies who were able to recycle construction materials. Overall, we were able to divert 67% of materials from landfills! Our team was also able to assist in company growth by finding potential scholarships for future interns, 8 organizations and 3 events to connect with other nonprofits, companies, and organizations! I am very grateful for being a part of this wonderful team and I cannot wait to work on future projects! If you would like to see this project and all the other team's accomplishments, we'll be speaking at our biannual Solutioneer Showcase on Thursday, April 23rd, 6:00-8:00 pm, with a networking opportunity afterward. Please RSVP to our Facebook Event or at this link, and share this invitation with your network! Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing you at the Showcase!
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I am excited and proud to announce that I was recently accepted to the 2020 cohort of the University of California - Santa Cruz Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program. This national fellowship is comprised of a two-summer conservation program that includes a field course and an internship.
Conservation is a core passion of mine and a key tool to tackling sustainability issues worldwide. The "Nine Planetary Boundaries", a study by the Stockholm Resilience Centre define a "safe operating space for humanity" in their results and categorize biodiversity loss as "beyond the zone of uncertainty" or at high risk. This means that conservation efforts are more vital than ever, and I can think no better way of spending this summer than immersed in a research-focused, collaborative conservation course.
Hi, my name is Dani Prasad and I am double majoring in Sustainability and Business Law. One of my biggest Sustainability accomplishments was receiving the Sustainability Champions Scholarship last year. This was awarded to me by the School of Sustainability for a solution I came up with to a sustainability challenge. I proposed that women in rural areas of India have access to safe, quality contraceptives. Limited access to contraceptives increases birth rates and in turn, results in overpopulation. This eventually leads to the overuse of our natural resources. Currently, I am working on the creation of a program that will provide quality access to preventative healthcare for women in rural India. With this program, I have been able to combine my passion for fighting for both women's rights and environmental justice!
One of the sustainability accomplishments that I'm super happy about is that I am about to complete two honors theses this semester for Barrett, the Honors College and both are sustainability related. The first is research based and is a case study of Norway and the United Kingdom on their separate net zero emissions policies and their application to a Green New Deal in the United States. The other is a deliverable project called the Devil Crate, in which my group and I proposed a customizable subscription box full of produce that would be recaptured from landfills, and delivered to students on campus as an integration to ASU's current meal plan. Although I am so ready for them to be over, I am very happy that I was able to push myself to my limits and learn more about different facets of sustainability in public policy and entrepreneurship.
One of my sustainability accomplishments was working at a resident camp for girls last summer as a naturalist/environmental education instructor. I got to teach young girls about the importance of sustainability, outdoor practices like Leave No Trace, and why the environment is so important. It was really rewarding to get young girls inspired about sustainability since personally, I never received that kind of education until I came to college.