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Campaign aimed at cleaning up the campus environment Phase one of the clean up of the University of Rhode Island campus would begin with an addition of numerous trash cans and recycling bins, spanning all around the campus as a whole. Then a vast amount of flyers supporting throwing away trash and recycling would be posted in numerous classrooms, bathrooms, hallways, walkways, offices, bus stops, and all over the campus grounds. These signs would incorporate positive messages to clean up after yourself, and include alarming statistics to make students more wise to the urgent issue at hand. These signs would help to raise awareness of the problem and get more students to throw away their trash. After phase one is completed phase two would begin. Phase two would incorporate the use of numerous volunteers. Volunteers would come from various places such as environmental groups on campus, and the URI 101 course, which calls for community service hours to be completed. We would also advertise the community service opportunity so anyone willing and wanting to help out could be included. With these volunteers we would hold various fund-raising drives. We would hold a benefit concert, with all profits going to our cause. We would sell raffle tickets and raffle off a sum of money, and use the left over funds for
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Environmental Stewardship On The Uri Campus, Joseph A. Santiago, Lauri Leach, Michela O’Rourke, Rachel Toppi
Environmental Stewardship On The Uri Campus, Joseph A. Santiago, Lauri Leach, Michela O’Rourke, Rachel Toppi
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This poster campaign and report was an effort to get environmental stewardship to be more of a part of the student government at URI. It was used to raise awareness and link people's actions to theory so that future work could be built off this and assessed for its effectiveness.