SEEDS News,
SEEDS News, January - March 2008
SEEDS has a mission to teach kids civic responsibility and accountability in a sustainable society.
Have you met any of the new SEEDS Board and Advisory Board Members?
Rhea Epstein joined the SEEDS Board of Directors in June 2007.
Beth Levinson joined the SEEDS Advisory Board in May 2007.
Sandra Sim joined the SEEDS Advisory Board in June 2007.
SEEDS Summer Field Camps
Contact us by email for the tentative 2008 summer schedule. Registration will begin on April 1st. We are planning a six - week camp season including the Florida Trip!
VT Chapter of SEEDS
Click here for more information on this year's officers and activities.
Fall 2007 was extremely successful for the officers and volunteers of the Virginia Tech Chapter of SEEDS.
Starting off the semester was a series of information booths held in Squires Student Center where officers recruited new volunteers and saw the addition of 75 names to the SEEDS e-mail listserv. Participation in the October 16th VT Engage Organization Fair was another chance for VT SEEDS officers and volunteers to demonstrate their interest and hard work in reaching out to others in the community and providing a means for others to get involved.
The VT Engage event attracted many new volunteers to a successful Stream Clean up the following Saturday morning.
(Cleck here for pictures.)
The week of October 22nd – 27th was marked by Virginia Tech’s first Sustainability Week and the VT Chapter of SEEDS was present and involved with the week’s activities. VT SEEDS President Robert Jacks worked closely throughout the semester with officers of the Environmental Coalition at Virginia Tech to promote the EC’s goal of becoming a true coalition of organizations working together. The Environmental Sustainability Organization Showcase was the perfect place for VT SEEDS to preview its major fundraiser, an Organic Chocolate Sale.
Selling bars of organic chocolate was nothing short of success. Many thanks to the companies who donated hundreds of bars of chocolate to SEEDS: Seeds of Change, Dagoba, Vivani, and Green & Blacks. There were over 50 pre-orders for organic chocolate which brought in donations from Virginia to California. The Organic Chocolate Sale was the most successful fundraiser to date by VTSEEDS. Donations totaled more than $2200 for SEEDS.
Due to popular demand, VT SEEDS will bring back a limited supply of organic chocolate for sale in February 2008.
VT SEEDS officers and volunteers ended their semester of hard work and success with a movie night and pizza on December 1st. They even did some planning for activies and fundraising ideas for spring 2008
West Trip 2005, Canyonlands National Park
SEEDS after school study program > Click Here!
SEEDS NEIGHBOR Program
People often ask us after summer field camps" What does SEEDS do during the rest of the year?" Well, we're glad you asked...
Funded by The Community Foundation of the New River Valley and by your donations, check out the SEEDS NEIGHBOR program.
As part of our New River tributary studies and restoration, we were taking a look at stream health and freshwater heritage along local tributaries of the New River such as Stroubles Creek in Blacksburg, Laural Branch Creek at Hawk's Ridge Retreat, Floyd Co., and Pond Drain at Mt. Lake.
SEEDS continues in partnership with the Virginia Tech's Science Outreach Program, the Virginia Water Center, and the Service Learning Center with community education using the New River amd its streams as our "outdoor lab". On scheduled Saturdays, SEEDS offers field trips to explore and learn more about our important freshwater resources and the forests, farms, and towns around us.
