Keeping the Scene Green

If you have ever meet me you know I am all about environmental awareness. So it probably did not surprise you that I spent my summer picking up and sorting trash at music festivals nor does it surprise you that I am doing an on campus internship to make the GCSU campus a little bit "greener," and I bet it really doesn't surprise you that I'm about to give you 10 helpful ways to be green every day.

This is us after cleaning up Bonarroo!

1) Use your own grocery bags. They look prettier than those ugly plastic bags!
2) When you have to print something off of the computer, select an eco friendly font such as Sprang Eco Sans. And what better to use an eco friendly font on than eco friendly paper!
3) Turn your lights off! if your not in the room, don't leave the light on...it's that simple.
4)Keep your thermastat set to 78 degrees in the summer and 68 in the winter. Choosing to decreese the temp even one degre in the summer or increase one degree in the winter will add 3% to your power bill!
5) RECYCLE!!! There really is no reason not to recycle. Seperate your glass, cans, plastics, newspapers, white paper, cardboard and even electronic equiptment to be recycled.
6) Walk, run, ride your bike or skateboard to campus or downtown. This saves you money on gas and car maintenence as well as cuts down on the amount of carbon emitted into the air (smog=bad).
7)Do not take extended showers (unless your really dirty, then it's ok) or leave the faucet running when brushing your teeth and doing dishes.
8)Invest in a reusable water bottle and coffe mug. This saves you money in the long run, espically for you coffe drinkers because many coffe places, including starbucks, give you a discount if you bring your own mug. Oh, and if you want bonus points you can buy reusable bottles made from 100% recycled plastic!
9)Make a compost pile in your yard. Forget the pestisides and use a coffee ground compost to garden with. (if you don't drink coffee you can go to any local starbucks and they will give you a five bag pound of used coffe grounds for free as a part of their "Grounds for you Garden" project)
10) Clean Vibes LLC is a non profit oranization that cleans up during and after music festivals. Volunteering for them means that you get to go to music festivals all of the United States, for free, as long as you work during or after the event.

This semester my Public Relations campaigns class participated in the national Public Relations Student Society of America and CW television network campaign competition. The challenge was to create an on campus event that would promote the new Melrose Place and the new 90210, oh and did I mention that we only had a month to do it?

My group chose to do have an event that featured a fashion show and a band before we would screen episodes of Melrose Place and 90210. The band, the Jazz Bandits started off the evening and were followed by a fashion show. The band was great and he fashon show went well however, after the fashion show. In retrospect I would have had the fashion show in between the screening of the shows.

The actual planning and implementation of the event went very well. We were prepared for the day of the event and were able to set up without a problem. We promoted as well as we could for our college campus but to be completely honest, this is a school that does not get involved in many on campus events.