My Participation: Free Write

I am a member of the Dubuque Jaycees. This is basically a community involvement of a group of young people ages 21 to 41. We basically do a bunch of different thing in our community to help people out. We do different fund raiser type thing like sandbox dig where families pay us ten dollars and we put fresh sand in their kids sandbox. The money we raise goes to another event we hold called toys for tots. This is where families in need can come to our local salvation army and get brand new toys for their kids for Christmas. We also sponsor a few different families during the Christmas season selectively and raise money for Christmas and food for the family.

Being in landscape architecture we like to push for being green. So i project about 5 of us decided to do was set up a huge hydroponic garden on the back elevator in the college of design. This is created by all recycled products. This was to show people that they can grow their own veg. and spices in their window by creating this window "Garden." And, they would be able to do this at low cost and be green sustainable. This is a really good resource to have especially in a large city. Or one can hang one in their dorm room window. Green sustainability is the way to go!