According to the front page article "Putting the ‘Green' back in Green River" the Forestry Club participated in a ‘keeping it green week' from April 20-24. This is not an acceptable amount of time for being green.
Being environmentally conscious is a great thing, but it always surprises and upsets me when people limit themselves to acting on this ideal for merely a day, week, or month. The problems human beings have caused for the environment require much more action to solve than simply a week of picking up litter and selling and planting trees.
What also upsets is me is that so few people make an active attempt to be green.
The article said 20 students volunteered, out of a student population of approximately 10,000. That is just the student population. What about the teacher population? Did any teachers volunteer as well?
We face these environmental issues together because there is only ever going to be one planet Earth. There are not many planets like this one in the universe, and certainly none close enough for us to travel to in the next several hundred or several thousand years. This means that everybody, not just 20 out of 10,000 students, should and must contribute to helping solve our environmental issues.
The Forestry Club has won awards at the Society of American Foresters Convention for three years in a row, and hopefully a fourth next time they go. I would love to see the Forestry Club come to Tahoma High School and talk to the students.
Part of the problem with going green is that not everybody knows how to do so and not everybody has incentive for making the change.
The typical high school student does not care much about recycling, planting trees, or picking up litter, but if people hear and read about a club at GRCC that does just that and loves it, that attitude may very well change.
Even better, how about having a few of the Forestry Club members work with high school clubs, such as Tahoma's Environmental Club, to promote each other and try to convince those outside the clubs to either join or at least make the effort to contribute?
Going green is necessary to keeping the planet clean and healthy, and since humanity lives on and pollutes the planet collectively, it makes sense that we should be cleaning the planet collectively.
Justin Moore
Grcc Student
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