Visalia, CA
Chapter Name: College of the Sequoias Sustainability Club
Chapter Email: [email protected]
Chapter Website: https://www.facebook.com/COSSC1
Representatives: Matthew Deuser and Megan Hupp
Mission Satement:
The Purpose of the COS Sustainabability Club is to bring green campaigns, actions, and movements to COS and the local community as well as connect with the CSSC.
Current Projects
- Mobile Aquaponics System for education in alternative methods of food production.
- Working to support the campus organic garden.
- Hosting screening of Do the Math
CSSC Council Representatives:
Matthew Deuser
Major: Nutrition/Psychology/Sociology
Hometown: Porterville, CA
Graduation/Transfer: TBD
About Me
I have journeyed to become an open-minded thinker and independent voter. Transitioning into the former, I have grown to understand our national, dysfunctional, embedded myth that postulates as the independent American. Such ongoing knowledge has resolved my
citizenship against our Demolicans and Repubocrats duopoly political system. Since 1993, I have been a member of the CA Green Party.
How I got involved in CSSC
I was introduced to CSSC through Philip Tidwell at the College of the Sequoias. My purpose in joining CSSC is to add the CA Green Party perspective to the foundation principles, motives, actions, and consequences as CSSC nurtures the sustainability of the three E(s): environment, economy, and equity.
The role of student action in sustainability
Student action invigorates every sustainability movement by transforming centers of education into opportunity hubs whereby local, regional, national, and global student consciousness-raising for an endless number of issues that nurture and nature the embodiment of up and coming environmental, economic, and equity interconnecting points. Here every sustainability movement pollinates with their community to flourish aspirations, commitments and outcomes.
The Areas of Sustainability That Interest Me Most:
Particularly, my interests intertwine around the practicality of nutritional, psychological, and sociological nature of sustainability lifestyle for myself, our immediate community around me, our regional community including our immediate community, our statewide community including our regional community, our country including our statewide community, and our global community including our country.
Projects I have worked on
Volunteered for CA Proposition 37
Raising College of the Sequoias consumer base consciousness about their right to demand and obtain a healthier campus food system.
Volunteering to maintain and expand the College of the Sequoias organic farm
Megan Hupp
Major: Nutrition Science
Hometown: Visalia, CA
Graduation/Transfer: June 2014
About Me:
I am a child at heart and I tend to see the world through curious eyes. You’ll most likely find me doing homework, watching documentaries, dancing on a stage, riding a longboard, playing with my Beagle puppy, spending time with family, frolicking in meadows, and doing my best to eat nutritious foods.
How I got involved in CSSC
I got involved with the CSSC after my first convergence. It was in Spring of 2012 and the location was Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. It was one of the most eye-opening experiences I’ve ever been to and from then on I was devoted.
The role of student action in sustainability
I believe college students are some of the biggest activists left in this world. We are at a point where we are starting to figure out who we are, what we believe in, and what we see to be wrong with this planet. This specific generation of students is especially important to the sustainability movement because we are the ones at a crossroads with society: We can either decide to continue the route that involves destroying our natural resources and our bodies until the world will crumble before our children’s feet, or we can stand apart from the rest and take the route that is devoted to healing our planet and preserving it for many generations to come. Every student has the knowledge and capability to take the second route.
The Areas of Sustainability That Interest Me Most:
I am most interested in the area of sustainable eating. Ever since I was a little kid I’ve been concerned about what exactly I am consuming. My major as of now is Nutrition Science, but I’d like to also minor in either Food Systems or Conservation. Many people these days have no idea what they are putting into their bodies, and I’d really like to make my own unique contribution to changing that fact.
Projects I have worked on
College of the Sequoias has a lot of work to be done on its campus and more importantly, in its community. This college is located smack-dab on one of the biggest agriculture areas in the nation, and yet wholesome food is extremely hard to find. Our Sustainability Club on campus is somewhat small, but we have a lot of heart and dedication. We’ve been working on organizing an event for Earth Day 2013. This event will include some literature on the history of Earth Day, a live aquaponics systems, an off-campus food vendor, a few booths full of sustainable programs, and a movie showing of Gasland later that evening. Apart from that, I have been helping out at the COS Organic Farm, writing a paper on the history/importance of Earth Day, and doing my best to get my family members and peers on-board with the Sustainability movement.