Welcome Fall Class of 2017-and to the new Sustainability Instructor John Montoya
This website was started by Pam White a student in Adjunct Professor Abigail Gage's Introduction to Sustainability class at State College of Florida (SCF).
Professor Gage continued the site for several semesters adding student work and trying to make it an active, living, learning space.
Professor Gage's contract with the college was not renewed for the fall semester of 2017 by the direct order of Venice campus Dean Ryan Hale. No communication was given to Professor Gage to explain why, after 7 years of teaching, she would no longer be employed by SCF.
This is the truth.
Signed,
Abigail Gage
former adjunct professor SCF
Intergenerational Equity Matters~~Close the door on wasteful actions
SCF Solar Array-Venice Campus- picture taken on install day. To see electric output in real time, historical records and other information about these use the buttons below, thanks.
Nov 04, 2016
11:30 AM To 1:00 PM SCF Venice Campus Environmental Education Center
SEEDY Pot luck
Feed your brain while learning about seeds, how to save them, make them grow and the new area Green Biz, Sarasota Seed Cooperative, from Professor Abigail Gage -- SCF Sustainability Instructor.
Bring something seedy to share: pine nuts and pasta, sesame bagels with humus and alfalfa sprouts, peanut butter and pumpkin seeds……you get the idea. After the feast we will be working with a variety of seeds for the Co-Op and have a short talk about seeds and their history.
If you want some hands on experience saving seeds stay after the meal. Everyone that helps can leave with a complementary packet of seeds.
Nov 04, 2016
12:00 PM to 2:30 PM Venice campus behind building 400 and the pavilion
Pinewoods Clearing
Bring your hand pruners, long pants but not your sandals (covered toes only) to help trim branches and clear low undergrowth on our diverse campus. Dr. McCree will lead the effort to keep the beautiful pine wood forest area healthy and safe. Thanks for your time and work.
EVENTS~WORKSHOPS
NEXT SCF Sustainable Action Committee (SAC) meeting 9/14/2017
11-12 Bradenton Campus #23 Conference Room
Venice Green Team September 8th at 1 pm in the faculty conference room 2017-
Great Earth Day Event with Citizens Climate Lobby
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Local Organizations that have meetings, events, activities.....
State College of Florida is located in Sarasota county. The main campus is the northern part of the county, close to Manatee and the city of Bradenton.
Social Sustainability
Social sustainability occurs when the formal & informal processes; systems, structures, & relationships actively support the capacity of current &future generations to create healthy and liveable communities. Socially sustainable communities are equitable, diverse, connected and democratic & provide a good quality of life
Enviromental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability involves making decisions and taking action that are in the interests of protecting the natural world, with particular emphasis on preserving the capability of the environment to support human life with emphasis on the ethic of intergenerational equity. ​
Economic Sustainability
Economic sustainability is the ability of an economy to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely. Cooperative forms of ecoprizes are the models that will have a happy home in the future. The idea that workers own a part of the enterprise will be accepted as, like, of course.
In The News
Mosaic Sinkhole Unsustainable International Corporation Continues to Pollute Groundwater.
Click the button below for NPR report from 9/28/2016.
Rising Seas, shifting shorelines- above the fold article on climate change.
Ringling College beach art installation on Lido Beach project looks at rising sea levels & demonstrates projected sea level rise by the year 2030 and 2050.
Click button to read article from 9/28/2016
90 Second Naturalist –
August, 2016 Script
Cincinnati Public Radio & Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
August 15 -
Drink a Beer, Save a Turtle
Some people argue that beer is the greatest development in human history. At least it’s on the list. But one major drawback to beer are those plastic six-pack rings that once they get into the environment can cause all sorts of problems for wildlife. But get this - now there is a new system using edible six-pack rings from
South Florida’s Saltwater BRewery. This Delray Beach microbrewery just launched the first ever 100- precent compostable six pack rings. Unlike the standard plastic counterparts, these rings feed, rather than harm, marine fauna if they end up in the ocean. Made from brewing byproducts, this design circumvents plastic’s often lethal ensnaring of birds, turtles and fish, and its consequent interference with their development. Scientists predict plastic will outweigh fish in our oceans by 2050. But these innovative six-pack rings start disintegrating within an hour of being in the water. If unconsumed, they’ll completely dissolve in two to three months instead of accumulating: polluting the ocean and threatening sea life for centuries as plastic rings do.