Week Seven of Theo's Internship with Sustainable Princeton

The seventh week of my summer internship at Sustainable Princeton began on Wednesday this week due to Sustainable Princeton being closed on Monday and Tuesday due to the 4^th of July. However, on Wednesday work began picking up once again and I start doing outreach to teach people about the new energy parklet. Said outreach will also be aimed at informing people that Sustainable Princeton every Saturday this July starting at 2 p.m. volunteers will be stationed at the parklet to both teach people about renewable energy and answer any questions they may have. The energy parklet in question was created by the Arts Council of Princeton in conjunction with a store in Princeton called jaZams with sponsorship from various organizations including Sustainable Princeton. The energy parklet consists of various windmills, solar panels, and bikes to both entertain and educate people on the subject of renewable energy. 

I am quite excited for the eighth week of my internship and I am excited to see what it will bring!

Week Six of Theo's Internship with Sustainable Princeton

The sixth week of my summer internship at Sustainable Princeton began with me finally publishing the finalized version of the plastic film recycling F.A.Q. on the Sustainable Princeton website. Following this I finally started working on reaching out to the religious institutions in town about becoming drop off points as a way of expanding the BYOB plastic film recycling program. To start with I reached out to Trinity church, the local Unitarian Universalist church, and the All Saints church. The local Unitarian Universalist church and Trinity church have both said yes but we have yet to hear back from the All Saints church.

The other major thing I did this week was attend one of the monthly meetings of the Mercer County Sustainability Coalition. The Mercer County Sustainability Coalition is a group of representatives from each green team working with Sustainable Jersey in Mercer County. The meeting was really interesting and the things discussed ranged from the lessons learned from the Sustainability Summit hosted by Sustainable Jersey to a coalition fundraising event called Farm to Table. I learned a lot from this meeting not only in terms of what was discussed but also in terms of the observations I made on things such as how to be an effective representative for your organization in a coalition of other organizations.

 

Next week I plan on reaching out to more of the Religious Institutions in the Princeton area along with Community institutions such as our public library. Overall, this was a wonderful week and I am excited to see what the next week of my internship will bring!