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With Earth Day just around the corner, Daytona State's new Environmental Club has decided to give it a new twist to promote awareness.

On April 22, Environmental Club members and President Katherine Segura said the slogan "think globally act locally" will take effect through hosting a series of must-see events at the main campus. Active members of the club plan on spreading the word by creating a path of a "carbon footprint" by drawing decorative and colorful sidewalk chalk art starting at the newly constructed clock tower.

The club decided the theme is "Time to Make a Change." The message will be carried throughout the campus in this way to save paper and prevent the cutting of trees. To begin, the students must follow the carbon footprint toward the cafeteria and theater building, where a booth will be set up including games, sales, and information on upcoming events and how to become actively involved. With college approval for the sidewalk chalk and, of course, weather permitting, the event should make a powerful impact on the students of Daytona State and leave a lifelong impression.

With the goal of keeping Earth beautiful, the club is also creating a game in which students will guess the number of cigarette butts collected from the campus the week prior. They will be placed in a clear jar allowing who guesses closest to win a prize.

Jane Davis, an active and passionate member, said the game will not only "show how many butts there are, but how unsightly they can be." It's a clever method of displaying to students just how careless people can be about our weakening planet and keeping the campus clean.

Amid the music and festivities the club will be selling green donuts for a quarter. Thankfully, they will not be green from mold, but only to promote the idea of a "going green." By trading your green cash for green donuts these tasty little treats will go towards buying seeds to plant trees throughout the campus, as well as the community, and other efforts such as recycling and energy conservation programs. All told, this will assist Daytona State in becoming an environmentally friendlier campus.

"In addition," Davis added, "We will promote 'Green' movies that will be showing over at the Southeast Museum of Photography as a part of Earth Day."

The club's supervisor Dr. Debra Woodall is looking forward to the Earth Day celebration and other upcoming events. The Environment Club is embarking on a mission at the Marine Discovery Center on April 11 to work on developing oyster mats, as part of ongoing project called "Restoration of Chicken Island." Anyone wishing to learn more or become involved should feel free to stop by and celebrate with the Environmental Club or log on to the Web site at www.daytonastate.edu/green. ?

Meetings are every other Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. This month's remaining meetings are April 15 and 29 in the Science Building 410, room 233.

In other environmental news, April Brunning is one of four finalists taking part in the CW broadcast television station video contest on how to inform the world on becoming energy-wise. Brunning created a superhero character by the name of HOPE, an acronym for Help Our Planet Earth. Her task is to work at super speed to clean the planet and provide facts on simple ways to save the planet with her motto "you don't have to be a superhero to save the world."

To view Brunning's video and support the school's local activist log on to cwtv.com/thecw/greenyourworld and vote!

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