FUUF CLP!

Don't forget to come out tomorrow, Wednesday, 8/28 at 8pm to Burgiss theater the the Save Our Saluda CLP (cosponsored with EAG and FUOC)!

Description: A speaker from Save Our Saluda will be here to tell us about the environmental history of the upstate, focusing on how past growth, both agricultural and industrial, has impacted the water supply of the area. She will explain the connection between human development and river systems, highlighting the subtle yet important effects of historical human trends on the Saluda and other rivers.


P.S. Please pay your dues! They are $10 for the year and you will get full membership to Upstate Forever, including mailings and publications :) Dues can be dropped in box 29794!

Joel Salatin, Save Our Saluda, and an Office Tour

*** MEETING MONDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, FURMAN HALL 110, 7pm***

The Joel Salatin has been approved for CLP status! Make sure you are there at Younts on October 15th at 7pm - it's going to be awesome. Check out: polyfacefarms.com

Also - FUOC and FUUF (Furman University Upstate Forever) have been collaborating to bring a representative of Save Our Saluda, a local grass-roots organization dedicated to preserving the rivers of upstate South Carolina to Furman this month. Tentatively, this will be a CLP on October 28th in Burgiss theater, so mark your calendars!

As a follow up, we will be helping to organize a river clean up on the Saluda River on the morning of Sat, October 31 - yes its Halloween but its in the morning so it shouldn't interfere with your plans! Or come in costume if you like :) This event will also be publicized to community members of Upstate Forever, so this is a great chance to mingle and get outside the bubble!

And lastly, we will be able to go downtown for a tour of Upstate Forever's super-cool "greenovated" office building! We will determine a date for this at our meeting.

Please come to the meeting to brainstorm more ideas for this term or next term, come with suggestions if you can!

Upcoming Events and Things!

Big thanks to those of you who came out to the meeting on Monday! We established two officer positions: 1)President - Grace Tuschak, and 2) Secretary/Treasurer: Daniel Balo.
This term we have some really cool things planned, check it out:

First Event - Joel Salatin at Furman!!

The Upstate Forever Organization has been instrumental in bringing Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms to lecture at Furman. As the student chapter, will be co-sponsoring this CLP event on October 15th at 7pm (along with Environmental Action Group, Furman in the Garden, and Bartram Society) featuring a lecture by Joel Salatin of Polyface farms, "America's premier non-industrial food production oasis" located in Virginia. A very entertaining and dynamic speaker, Joel was featured in Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan as well as the recent documentary Food, Inc. Everyone should come to this event, it's going to be great!
Check out Polyface Farms: www.PolyfaceFarms.com

Save our Saluda CLP + River Clean Up

We also have plans in the works to bring a speaker from the local conservation group Save Our Saluda to (CLP) talk about the current state of the Saluda River (sixth most polluted in the country, guys!) and we will also plan a river clean up soon afterwards. We'd love to co-spo with some other groups on this as well.

Keep checking back, we also now have a "FUUF" forum to make it easier to keep track of this group's plans! :)

First Meeting!!

Our first meeting will be Monday, September 14 at 7pm in Furman 107!!

This will be an organizational and planning meeting to discuss officer positions (this is a brand new club!) as well as plans for this semester.

We will give an introduction to the organization of Upstate Forever, its mission and work in the upstate of South Carolina. In the meantime, you can check out their website here.

This student chapter will serve as an extension of the Upstate Forever organization and seek to connect the Furman student body with ecological issues in the upstate of South Carolina. Please come join us if you are interested in getting involved with the greater Greenville community and and making a difference in the upstate's environmental challenges.