13 Dec
There it is, the long-awaited and feared ECO, the committee that will
deal with sustainability within the ESAC. You may have seen a tip from us in
the last newsletter. A number of people called us as the sustainability
committee, but we thought that it had a too high goat-wool-sock level and a bit
of a long name. So we became the ECO. We are going to focus on how ESAC can
become more sustainable. This means that we want to create awareness, provide
information, look for and pick up points for improvement and all this in a fun
way. After all, it has to be fun! As climbers, we love nature and we like to go
out in it. When the sun is shining there is always an ESAC member on a wall or
on a mountain. But of course it's a matter of giving and taking and that's why
we think it's so cool that there is now a committee that is going to deal with
giving.
Everybody knows by now that sustainability and living more consciously
is a hot topic and also in the media you can see that and that
is justifiable. We as humans are good at making stuff and it is simply the
case that the earth is not doing so well. The plastic soup in the ocean, too
much CO2 emissions, animal suffering, pollution, climate that becomes more
extreme and more of that kind of fun.
It's time to get to work on this and good news: ESAC is already doing a
good job! At weekends we carpool as much as possible (which is also because we
are cheap students, ssssht), we take our own plate / cup / cutlery to barbecues
and the latest policy change; vegetarian food at ESAC activities! The ECO is
going to work hard to come up with even more fun things to contribute so that
our great-grandchildren can also enjoy the beautiful nature around us.
Our concrete goals at a glance:
Greetings, The ECO
P.S. Are you not doing anything in the next 13 minutes and 56 seconds? Check out this video of Sunday with Lubach!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRQNlxN5KY&list=PLZ5RJ8KfPjozacY0l9vIlQ5PokZ6R0A8m&index=12&t=0s