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At last, the long wait is
over and the Environmental
Club is back after several years
of not being an active club at
Penn State Mont Alto. Global
warming, deforestations, pol-
lutions, climate change, those
are just some of the problems
that the Earth. and its inhabi-
tants face today.
With the willingness
and the passion for the envi-
ronment by the students and
with the help of their club ad-
visor, Dr. Linghao Zhong, they
revive the Environmental
Club. I interviewed Dr. Zhong
and asked him how he became
interested in reviving the club,
he said “I grew up in China
and I have seen how the envi-
ronment there deteriorates
while the economy booms.
Although the Chinese govern-
ment has realized the situation,
the awareness in the general
public lags behind. I don't
want see this happens here.”
The Environmental Club is
still seeking for interested stu-
dents to join the club. With the
support and consent of the
Penn State Mont Alto campus,
they will be planning to make
~ the campus greener by going
to several alternative power
plants near Pennsylvania and
try to study what will be the
best option of alternative en-
ergy at Mont Alto, whether
will it be solar. wind. or geo-
thermal. We’ll find out after
the trips.
One of the other plans
of the group is to invite some
environmental speakers and
such as: An Inconvenient
Truth, 11" hour, and Flow to
spread ‘environmental aware-
ness to all the students and be
more concerned to our fragile
environment. This will also
help them realize on how seri-
ous our problem with the envi-
ronment is.
According to Dr.
Zhong “the main focus of this
club is to promote the Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle philosophy”
“and Renewable” added by the
club advisor. In this and the
following semesters, club
members will hop on buses for
several trips (also open to all
students) to renewable energy
facilities, such as wind farm,
building using solar energy,
and etc. A discussion of the
best renewable energy option
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for Mont Alto campus will be
held afterwards. The final con-
clusion will be presented to the
campus administrations.
Workshops on biodiesel, solar
PV projects will be carried out.
Speakers will be invited to
give seminars and explain to
students the reality that we are
currently facing.
: Joining forces with
nongovernmental organiza-
tions like the Greenpeace Stu-
dent Network will be a good
measure to fight for the envi-
ronment. This network is
armed with organizing tools,
guidance, and training system
to make a real enormous force
to fight global warming. On
their previous activities,
Greenpeace with several uni-
versities across the United
States joined forces to pressure
the biggest tissue company and
well known makers of
Kleenex, Kimberly-Clark, on
taking a good substantial step
to protect ancient forests. After
five years of campaigning
against Kimberly Clark.
For the members of the
Environmental Club, it is not
too late to save the environ-
ment. Anyone can save. the
environment wherever you are,
whatever you do has and will
affect our planet. It’s not too
late to show care for our
planet. A great man one said
“Be the change you wish to
see in the world.” Those are
the words of Mahatma Gandhi.
Let us not wait for the others,
let us act now, let us act to-
gether, and we will surely
make a difference that the fu-
ture generation will surely
benefit from.
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