Friday, August 22, 2008

Johanny, congratulations on attending the World Youth Congress! That's very impressive, and I look forward to hearing about your experiences there. I'd love to and come up with an article for your trimester magazine, and I'll get started thinking about a good subject right away. Westminster is abuzz with some exciting new environmental developments. I don't have the details on a lot of the new sustainable initiatives getting started on campus, but I do now that WISOR, our hands-on sustainability club is working on getting an organic garden started. Ironically, the Discovery program, an outdoor organization at our school is also setting up an organic garden. So we've got gardens galore sprouting up on campus! In our cafeteria we have replaced the cardboard milk cartons with milk dispensers, and have phased out our plastic cups, instead using biodegradable cups made from corn. Two very exciting new developments. So, as a new year starts at Westminster, we can already see more stewardship initiatives taking hold. I look forward to hearing about the World Youth Congress, and thank you for your contact!

Saturday, August 2, 2008

From EARTH UNIVERSITY

Hi Everybody!

Do not worry, I have also been very busy during these weeks. The magazine of this trimestre is already completed, but if you want you can send us your article by the next issue.

From EARTH a lot of things, next August 8th, me and three more students will be attending to the 4th World Youth Congress to be celebrated on Quebec, Canada. The main topic of this event is to promote youth-led sustainable develoment, and participants will share their projects and experiences in which have been part.


Four year students are preparing their graduation project, and you can see some past projects in this link: http://usi.earth.ac.cr/glas/sp/ColeccionVirtual/index.htm (spaniah). Also you can see some research investigations, made by teachers in the Scientific Magazine of EARTH University: http://usi.earth.ac.cr/tierratropical/tierra_tropical.php?id=316

This will be my last week in the trimester at EARTH, and I have my final exams, so I will connect as soon as I finish.

Bye and keep in contact!

Johanny