Weaver's Way Working with Saul HS

"Weavers Way Co-op Farm and W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences announce the start of a collaborative Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm to be located on the grounds of Saul High School on Henry Avenue in Roxborough. The farm, called "Henry Got Crops!" will be run by Weavers Way staff working closely with Saul's agroecology program and the school as a whole to design a farm that not only brings food to the community, but also serves as an educational opportunity for students at Saul. The farm will be located right on campus, and teachers and their classes are invited to learn about and partake in small scale, organic vegetable growing. This will be one of the first high school-based CSAs in the country...."

This is great news for our community to be able to get fresh organic produce at a price. Also SOSA is looking to possibly do something similar with Weaver's Way to get our campus garden going.

We have some great stuff planned and are looking forward to seeing people at the next large group meeting which will be on:
FEB. 5th at 11AM, the location to be announced so stay tuned.

We have some projects to finish up, like the scrap bins, and book drive, and some new ones to really get moving, like the sustainability fair and the garden. We need your help to make these things work though.

Phila U Today

Little article about Kyle and Ted presenting at the AASHE conference.

Great Things Happening Recently

It has been pretty busy around Phila U and not just because its almost the end of this semester. On the sustainability front, things have been moving and there is plenty happening in "greening" our campus.
Within SOSA we have been busy getting back into the swing of things and getting some projects moving on campus:

• Scrap material recycling in all the design studios for multiple disciplines are out or will be out shortly for usage. Check them out, get those little pieces for study models or whatever project rather than dropping the money on entire sheets of material.
• The campus' co-op style garden has got the wheels moving. This project is going to take a lot of work to get done, but will be a great way to interact with all our majors on campus as well as the community of East Falls.

Outside of SOSA plenty of things have been going on also.

• Tuesday, 11/18 brought panelists to Phila U for a discussion on "Green Collar" jobs. It was a great insight into what is going on in the business side of things. Even more so it was a great opportunity to see what was going on locally in the Philly area. Attendance was great and lots of information was shared. One of the communications classes was there filming so hopefully I can get a link up soon with some clips. I had the chance to eat dinner with Ned Rauch- Mannino, who is in the managing director's office for the city, and got to tell him what we had accomplished on campus and he was very impressed.
• Today 11/20 we had the Faculty Committee meeting and Kyle Ramey, Ted Layton, and Calla Massman presented on what they learned at the AASHE Conference. They got tons of great ideas and direction for where we need to be heading as a campus not only just as SOSA.
• Also at the Faculty meeting we had a presentation from a student in the Sustainable Design graduate program who will be working to install a green roof system on the patio outside the Ravenhill Dining Hall breakout rooms. It was very interesting and exciting to see that being pursued on our campus. Even better is that he needs help building the modular units for the roof, so this would be a great chance to get SOSA involved. Stay tuned for info on that.

I'll end here since this first post has been really long. Subscribe to this blog as I'll be keeping updates posted often and look to use this as a means for all sorts of informing on things happening in the world of sustainability including those beyond SOSA. But most importantly we will be posting meeting times and notes up here. If you want to be able to post here, email me at gronostajski2725@philau.edu and I'll add you to the list and send you the password.

Day of Service