Working with the Sunrise Movement

The G.R.E.A.N club is partnered with the Sunrise Movement which is a youth led activism organization that organizes strike circles throughout America to fight the climate crisis and motivate our leaders to enact the Green New Deal. Since 2019, G.R.E.A.N members have been raising awareness about the movement, organizing strike circles at P.L.U, making protest …

Thrift Shopping 101

The Basics: Bring hand sanitizer, in case you touch something yucky Donate your own items - this often gets you a discount Check the racks near the dressing rooms - these are the items people already like enough to try on Look for any signs of damage, and don’t be afraid to ask for a …

6 Tips for a Green Halloween

Instead of meeting as a club on Halloween, we sent these tips, enjoy. 1. Buy a local pumpkin It might be too late for this, but it's good to keep in mind. In the PNW we are lucky to have pumpkins that grow locally, but sometimes they are still imported. Considering how hard it is …

Save The Bees

Last Thursday, GREAN Club held a campus-wide event focused on everyone's favorite topic: Bees! Honeybees are adorable and responsible for 1/3 of our food supply so it sucks that they are all endangered right? WRONG! (Except the adorable part.) In fact, there are a lot of misperceptions about bees. Honeybees are not, nor have they ever …

Sustainable Fashion Workshops #makeitwork

This fall the club president, Julia Grosvenor, finally got to live her Project Runway dreams. Kinda. Grosvenor had been wanting to talk about sustainable fashion for quite some time, and not just because of her obsession with Heidi, Tim, Nina, and Zac. Despite how little we think of it in this context, fashion is one of the …

Our Heroes, a.k.a. PLU Waste Diversion and Clothes for the Cause

Just yesterday GREAN's president Julia Grosvenor received a big check from Randy Evans at PLU Waste Diversion. It was the first income the club had seen since Grosvenor had joined the club. Granted, she has only been part of the club for two years now, but she has also been paying for GREAN's activities out of her …

Sustainable Cooking Class

On Monday Susan Schowalter proved she was the coolest member GREAN Club has ever had by putting together a sustainable cooking class all by herself. A class full of students gathered in the Scan Center to learn about sustainable cooking options that even college students could accomplish. The event was sponsored by campus dining, and the Commons' Sous …