STUDENT GROUP: E3 – Ecology, Economy, Equity
COUNCIL REPS: Kelsey Ivan & Yasar Mohebi
CURRENT PROJECTS:
- Campus Garden
- Fair Trade Campaign
- The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)
- Garden Mentorship Program
- UCLA Food Co-Op
- Project Greenlight (elementary school education)
WEBSITE: E3 – Ecology, Economy, Equity
CONTACT: uclosangeles@sustainabilitycoalition.org
Hello,
My name is Amiya and I am writing to you to express my interest in working with CSSC. I am a member of the Boy Scouts of America and to achieve my Eagle Scout ranking, I must complete an Eagle Scout Service Project. This requires an affiliation with a community organization that could benefit from the project.
I found your website online and I think the work CSSC does is extremely important. I am lucky enough to have been raised by a mother who believes in organic, fresh produce and have been eating a healthy, sustainable diet my whole life. I am therefore very concerned about the state of our food and food production in this country—the use of pesticides, genetic engineering, and the availability of healthy alternatives for kids are all issues that worry me. Another troubling issue that affects our produce itself is the waning survival of the bees, not only locally or in the US, but on a global level. Without bees, one-third of the food we eat would be unable to grow.
I have therefore chosen to make a short documentary film on the importance of bees to maintaining a healthy ecology. In my film, which will be directed toward young people, I want to address the necessity of maintaining bees as a species in order to pollinate our fruits and vegetables, keeping them a viable food source. I also want to talk about the ways that local residents can pursue or at least support organic beekeeping even in our urban environments. I’m very excited about this project and I think there are still many people who do not know about the threat to the bee population and what can be done about it. This issue affects all of us and is integrally linked to our food production.
As I mentioned, I need to have an affiliation with a community organization and would be thrilled to have CSSC be that organization. Given your mission and the demographic you work with, I believe my documentary will be of interest and use to you. What this affiliation would mean for you is I would need a signature on a form that says you know about my proposal for the film and support it. You would later need to sign a second form that states that I have completed the project. Essentially, your signature would support my efforts in making the film and would require no further commitment of time or energy on your part. When I complete the film, I would like to give you copies that you can then distribute at your own discretion.
Please let me know if this would interest you. Thank you for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Amiya Brown