Coalition Wild: Editing!

After hours and hours of setting up, filming, laying out clip ideas, writing segments and questions, uploading, downloading, importing, exporting, etc., we are finally into the editing stage of the video! 

The editing is taking much longer than we had expected, but we are still making steady progress. 

To date we are about 3 minutes in, which  is only about 1/5 of the way though the video we have. After this, we are finishing with the transitions, titles, music, relevancy and more. 

With only 2 more days until we need to upload the video, club members are definitely feeling the pressure. We know that this project will be amazing once it is finished, and worth the late hours of work.

Editing screen - making progress! 

Coalition Wild: Planning and Development

The video process is underway! 

We have high hopes for our video, from creating and finishing the video all before July 1st, to filming interviews with local superstars such as Jackson Mayor Mark Barron, Jackson Hole Energy Sustainability Project Executive Director Shelly Simonton, the Education and Outreach Coordinator at the Recycling Center, and many more. 

If you haven't heard about SFS's video entry, check out the 'Coalition Wild: Video Contest!' Entry.

Filming is now underway, and it looks as if we're getting the hang of it! Thankfully we do have the experienced club members helping with video production. 

Mac Dukart, Education and Outreach Coordinator at the Jackson Hole Recycling Center

SFS members Elsa and Carson, setting up video equipment for interviews 

SFS President Mackenzie 

An interview with SFS member Carson

SFS Co-Vice President Elsa 

Check out the Coalition Wild website and Facebook!

Www.coalitionWILD.org

Www.facebook.com/coalitionwild

- Karli 

Coalition Wild: Video contest

New projects are up and coming for SFS! One huge project that we are in the final stages of is creating a video entry for the Coalition Wild contest. 

If you don't know what Coalition Wild is, it's basically a contest for people under the age of 30 to show their ideas on how to create a 'Wilder world'. You can enter via video, essay, poem, any medium you choose. 

SFS was contacted by Crista Valentino from the Murie Center encouraging us to enter, and we decided that the possible prize for winning is completely worth our time. 

The contest is over the first of July, and winners are announced on the 15th. Two winners are chosen and are sent on an all expense paid trip to Salamanca, Spain, to present to the 10th annual World Wilderness Congress in October of 2013. Even though we thoroughly  do not expect to win, having a video that we have made on our own, on our club, is amazing to have and share. 

We decided that the best topic we could talk about would be plastic consumption and reduction in Jackson Hole. This is because we have worked on projects such as the plastic bag project, removing plastic water bottles from the high school lunch line, to implementing the water bottle fillers on the water fountains that record the amount of plastic bottles that you are offsetting with reusable bottles. 

Because the video is due so soon, we are on a pretty tight time schedule. Luckily we have a club member, Carson, who is a very talented video producer and editor who took the job as our Director of Photography. We also have 4 club members who are part of the Digital Media and Communications class at the high school, who have experience filming, editing, and uploading videos. 

We are also going to create a kick-starter account to promote our video and hopefully raise some money to fund our projects. 

Check out the Coalition Wild Facebook page and website!! Www.facebook.com/CoalitionWILD

Www.coalitionwild.org

Check out the Murie Center!! 

Www.MurieCenter.org

Chasing Ice!

Students for Sustainability went to the Chasing Ice premier March 21st, 2013. Not only did we get to view the story of the retreating ice, but we were lucky enough to sit in on a Q&A session with James Balog, the main character in the Chasing Ice story. The video is very moving and puts environmental issues into perspective.

Our ticket signed "For Students For Sustainability, James Balog" 

I fully recommend watching the video! Check it out! http://www.chasingice.com/

Murie Center!

Students For Sustainability recently took a trip to the Murie Center in Moose, WY.
The club took 8 members, along with Faculty Advisor Alan Brumsted, to the Murie Center for a luncheon and meetup with Simon Jackson. After having a tour of the facities and learning the history and work of the center, we sat down to a lunch with Kate Gersh from the Murie Center and Simon Jackson. We discussed the club's past, present, and future projects, while gaining insite and advice from an experienced leader.
- Karli 

The Murie Center focuses on outreach and education to promote conservation. Their mission statement is, “The Murie Center, in partnership with Grand Teton National Park, engages people to understand and commit to the enduring value of conserving wildlife and wild places.” The center is in a unique position to conserve wildlife though giving life-changing experiences to people by giving them the opportunity to stay on their ranch. The Murie center also brings in speakers to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to give presentations about the importance if leadership and initiative. 
- Erin 

I met Simon Jackson for the first time at the Eco-fair the saturday before we had lunch with him. Shelley Simonton and Kate Gersh (Assistant director of the Murie Center) had mentioned to me that he was very amiable and couldn't be a more caring, kind hearted person, but that didn't stop me from being intimidated. I found out though, Kate and Shelley were right, my nerves were completely unwarranted. Simon Jackson, who is looked to internationally as a leader for youth leadership and conservation, has a personality that will put even the most nervous of high school students at ease. 

Simon Jackson's story starts when he was in middle school, only 13 years old. He heard about North America's rarest bear, the Kermode bear, which was in danger of habitat loss from human developments. He decided to have a lemonade stand. He had these lemonade stands all throughout the summer, until he had raised $60, which he sent to the government to "save the Kermode bear." Of course, he got a letter in the mail saying that he saved the bear, and went on happily. Then, he found out that of course, his $60 hadn't saved the bear and decided to create the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. Since then, it has transformed to a six million member organization that has saved about two-thirds of the Kermode bear's habitat.

- Mackenzie 

CM = Club Member

Top row: CM Wilton, Simon Jackson, Kate Gersh (Muriel Center), CM Erin, Alan Brumsted (Factulty Advisor), CM Mackenzie

Bottom row: CMs Sara, Maddie, Karli, Kali, Anna

Check out the Murie Center! http://www.muriecenter.org/

Check our Simon Jackson and the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition! http://www.spiritbearyouth.org/?page_id=78

EcoFair!

Students for Sustainability worked this weekend at the local Jackson EcoFair, an annual event hosted by the Jackson Hole Energy Sustainability Project (JHESP). Our set up was working with the InterConnections21 booth, which is an organization that our club has worked very closely with in the past, and are currently working with on projects.

Not only was this an opportunity to get our club name out there, but to work with community members in order to educate, entertain and inform them about global issues and susatinable work.

This event was very successful and entertaining, and we are sure to participate in the years to come.

- Karli 

Check out the EcoFair!   http://www.jacksonecofair.org/

Bag giveaway!

Sfs member Sara headed a project we dubbed the "bag project". The original idea was to raise money to purchase reusable bags, to then giveaway at a local supermarket. 

After contacting multiple stores around town, she found that these stores were not able or willing to donate any bags, funds, or appropriate discounts due.

Though this was a setback, the project continued into the planning stages. 

She then found out, with the help of our faculty adviser Alan Brumsted, that there was already a project much like this taking place in Jackson in May. 

A donor provided 600 bags to the school district, which were sent to the K-12 art classes, decorated, and returned to him. He then picked a day (May 18) to give away at Whole Grocer to give away decorated bags.

Because the project idea was already in progress, we decided to work along with the donors on their project. Sfs members were there during the giveaway handing out bags, which were filled with handouts that Sara designed about the disadvantages of paper and plastic bag use. 

Sfs members Hailey, Sara and Karli

Sara 

One of 3 give away tables 

- Karli