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Welcome to No Waste November! We have many exciting events (trivia, walker flea, native cooking, etc) for the month of November. We're also featuring some favorite local thrift stores and the Pomona Farm.
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Best local second hand stores! Recs From Isha Raheja (PO '27)
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Featuring Cecilia Muecke (PO'25) and "Freshmen Flock to the Farm" event, written by Gina Yum (PO'25) and Sydney Tai (PO '26)
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We'd like to feature Cecilia Muecke and her awesome work at the Pomona Farm! The Farm is a working farm available for the college community to find their personal connection to the environment. The sustainably grown food at the Farm gets donated to the community and organizations like the Uncommon Good nonprofit. Cecilia Muecke (PO '25) got involved with the Farm by volunteering during her first semester at Pomona. Since then, she has been involved at the Farm in various capacities. She spent her sophomore summer doing a Summer Undergraduate Research Program fellowship at the Farm. Cecilia is now a Farm Assistant at the Pomona Organic Farm and co-leads the Farm Club! In Cecilia’s eyes, the Farm is “all about getting people outside, connecting with themselves, each other, and the land.”
By collaborating with her, we were able to host our "Freshman Flock to the Farm" event, where we made pizzas! See below!
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Our “Freshmen Flock to the Farm” event on Wednesday, November 1st, organized by EcoReps Sydney and Gina, Cecilia, and the rest of the Farm Club, was a prime example of this community engagement. Over 25 freshmen flocked to the farm to make their own personal organic pizzas, customizing the pies with yummy farm-grown ingredients like tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeños, arugula, basil, and oregano while sipping fresh mint tea and enjoying the serenity of the farm.
There are many other exciting developments at the farm. Farm Manager Jill Gomez and Student Compost Drivers are working hard for the Farm and take “a leadership role in composting all of Pomona's food waste as [the Farm] transition[s] away from industrial composting.” Another Farm Club member, Anna Parrott, is planning a spirit-building event for students and EA faculty at the farm on November 16th from 4:15-6:15 pm with a regathering at 7:30. The purpose of this event, called Collective Horizons, is to discuss and envision hope in a future with climate change. After dinner, attendees will regather around a campfire at 7:30 to tell campfire stories, poems, and enjoy s’mores!
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To submit an event to our biweekly newsletter please fill out this google form!
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Walker Flea Market | Sunday, November 12 2-5pm
Come stop by Walker Hall to buy cute items from student sellers/artisans/artists!
Back to our Roots | Friday, November 10, 7-9 pm at The Sontag Roof
Like live music, pretty plants, and interested in trying some native recipes? Tell a friend, or two, and join us at the Sontag Rooftop Garden on Friday, November 10 from 7-9pm for Back to our Roots on the Roof!
Fall Mending Workshop | Thursday, November 9, 4:30-6 pm at The Womxn’s Union in Walker Hall
Come join the EcoReps and the Womxn’s Union on the second floor of Walker Hall on 11/9 from 4:30-6pm. Enjoy fall-themed snacks while we care for our clothes and patch them up together as a community (also featuring two WUsters as the sewing instructors 😼).
Take some time to heal your soul and practice sustainable fashion, and as always, all genders are welcome! Sign-Up at linker.we/pomonaecoreps, limited spaces available – please only sign up if you know you can make it! the first 15 people will receive a personal sewing kit.
Weekly Environmental Analysis Study Snack | Tuesdays at 8 pm at The Hive
Introducing EA snack! Every week on Tuesday at 8 PM, find us in the EA lounge @ the Hive! Come out to hangout/do work/meet new people and get free snacks! For more info follow @5c_environmentalanalysis
Dr. Kim TallBear, Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society | Thursday, November 9, 4:15 PM in Hahn 101
Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) (she/her) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena. You can follow her research group at https://indigenoussts.com/. She tweets @KimTallBear. You can also follow her monthly posts on her Substack newsletter, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs, cultural politics & (de)colonization.
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Funding & Job Opportunities
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To submit a job or funding opportunity to our biweekly newsletter please fill out this google form!
Join the Campus Climate Network | No deadline
The Campus Climate Network is revitalizing the student climate movement. They aim to build an international coalition of student-led climate justice groups fighting to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry and its enablers. They provide students with the training, resources, and connections they need to run winning campaigns on campus and become the next generation of climate justice leaders. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/get-involved-with-fossil-free-research/
Policy Intern, National Farm to School Network| Remote, Paid, Due: November 13
More information here: https://mcusercontent.com/331aebf326f7b1750bcbd4726/files/f6edbe53-4700-b781-bf97-1f10d26de9bb/6531a02cbe191fc66c1a042a_Policy_Intern_July_2023_Update.docx_1_.pdf
Community Alliance with Family Farmers | Due: November 15
The Innovation Challenge invites farmers, entrepreneurs, students, hackers and any farm-loving tinkerers to propose a tech-based innovation that will help small scale agriculture compete, survive and thrive. All ideas, big or small, in any phase of development, will be accepted.
https://caff.org/2024_innovation_challenge/
President's Sustainability Fund | Applications Due: November 16th @ 8am
The President's Sustainability Fund (PSF) grants $7500 to student campus sustainability projects annually. These projects seek to protect our natural environment, promote human and ecological health, and drive economical and innovative ways of meeting current human needs, while not compromising the ability of future generations to do so. More information here.
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Announcements
Walker Book Room & Free Room Hours:
Tuesday 6-9pm | Thursday 7-9pm | Sunday 6-9pm
Our Instagram account is the best place to stay connected to everything happening with the EcoReps! Give us a follow @pomonaecoreps!
Want to write an article about the environment and be featured in the next edition of the bulletin? Do you have an eco-tip people can follow while at home? Share it with us! Email us at pomonaecoreps@gmail.com
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