Eco-Rep Program
About the Eco-Rep Program
Mission: The Eco-Rep Program at Coastal Carolina University trains students to become leaders in sustainability through education, communication and action, which helps to reduce the university's ecological footprint.
About: The Eco-Rep Program at Coastal Carolina University is designed to create awareness about sustainability and inspire behavior change through programming and educational initiatives at the university.
Program Goals:
- Empower students with sustainable routines in life, work and study.
- Foster student leaders for sustainability.
- Enhance knowledge and skills in students that will think critically and successfully communicate sustainability to peers.
- Increase overall university awareness of sustainability and inspire change.
- Assist sustainability programs in education, communication and action.
Program Benefits:
- Improve leadership skills
- Increase knowledge of sustainability and environmental topics
- Develop friendships with students that share a common interest
- Be involved with efforts to green Coastal Carolina University
- Develop connections with other sustainability and environmental leaders
What Do Eco-Reps Do? As student representatives for sustainability, Eco-Reps will be expected to acquire knowledge about sustainability through weekly meetings, field trips and workshops. Eco-Reps will participate in educational activities, communication opportunities and action involvement to help raise awareness on campus and in the community about sustainability. Examples of Eco-Rep activities include field trips to local landfills, presentations about living green to other students and volunteering at community clean-ups.
Get Involved: The Eco-Rep Program is open to any fulltime Coastal Carolina University student. Applications for the program are accepted at the end of the Spring semester for enrollment into the program for the following year. For more information, contact (843) 349-5041 or sustain@coastal.edu
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Meet the Eco-Reps
Maria Ferio - Eco-Rep Coordinator
Major: Political Science
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Sustainable Living Tip: The kinder and calmer your interactions are with others, the easier it is to want to take care of the environment.
Favorite Anything: My favorite flower is the sun flower because they grow facing the sun. This symbolizes positivity and always finding a bright side.
Amanda Hoch - Senior Eco-Rep
Major: Marine Science
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Pennsylvania
Sustainable Living Tip: Do it without electricity! Instead of plugging something in or turning on multiple lights, find a way around it. Use a mixing spoon instead of the electric mixer. You can replace incandescent bulbs with CFL's (They produce more light for less money and less energy!). Unplug appliances when you are not using them since they suck up electricity reguardless.
Favorite Anything: Jellyfish because my favorite quote reminds me of one..... "A lesson learned is a priceless gain if you cant take the sting."
Shane Falero
Major: Biology
Graduation Year: 2015
Hometown: Columbia, SC
Sustainable Living Tip: Grow your own food! I think it's very important to have the ability to be able to make your own food, and create a even healthier style while lessening the carbon output in the atmosphere by not processing food.
Favorite Anything: I love the beach and skim boarding. Whenever I am at the beach I am at the beach I am at home. I always feel more free whenever I am skimboarding and in my moment.
Sarah Forster
Major: Marine Science
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Sustainable Living Tip: To conserve water and produce the least amount of garbage as possible!
Favorite Anything: My favorite color is blue, it relaxes me and makes me feel comfortable. My favorite living thing is a tree, they come in so many different shapes and are home to so many other creatures.
Taylor LaChance
Major: Marine Science, Environmental Science minor
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Riverdale, MD
Sustainable Living Tip: Bike. you can get all over campus on a bike. It is often faster than driving on busy days and you can always find a place to lock it up.
Favorite Anything: Recycle! I love to make the soda tab bracelets. I have so many soda tabs and I keep collecting the colored ones. I really want to make a skirt out of them.
Jessica Paternoster
Major: Special Education
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Manahawkin, NJ
Sustainable Living Tip: Do it without electricity (if there’s something you can do without electricity, turn the lights off!)
Favorite Anything: My favorite animal is a monkey because when I was little I would go to the zoo and try to "talk" to them in a monkey voice and they always talked back to me.
Katie Pill
Major: Political Science, Journalism minor
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Martinsville, VA
Sustainable Living Tip: Produce the least amount of waste as possible. Recycling is so easy and accessible nowadays; we should stop throwing stuff away because there is no "away."
Favorite Anything: My favorite book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's so strange and bizarre, and the author Douglas Adams is a British humor genius!
Esteban Watler
Major: English
Graduation Year: 2014
Hometown: Southeast, TX
Sustainable Living Tip: Grow your own food and buy local.
Favorite Anything: My favorite book is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Morgan Williams
Major: Health Promotion
Graduation Year: 2015
Hometown: Findlay, OH
Sustainable Living Tip: Save energy, play outdoors and live in the moment!
Favorite Anything: I'm obsessed with learning new and fun ideas, especially when it comes to sustainability.