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	<em>Au Sable has teamed up with Renewal Coordinator, Tyler Amy, to highlight the environmental work taking place at our Christian colleges and universities across North America. <a href="http://renewingcreation.org/">Renewal</a> knows the creation care landscape at Christian colleges better than anyone. As an organization, it supports student groups at Christian colleges in raising awareness of environmental issues and implementing environmental projects on campus. Au Sable is very pleased to partner with Tyler to provide insight into how students are doing kingdom-building work and making inroads for creation care at Au Sable&#39;s <a href="http://ausable.org/courses/participating_institutions/">63 participating colleges</a> and beyond.</em></p>
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	<em>If you know of sustainability initiatives happening on your campus that you think should be featured in future blogs, let Tyler know by e-mailing him at tyler@renewingcreation.org.</em></p>
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	<img alt="" id="" src="{filedir_5}Westmont-Campus-Garden.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 149px; float: right;" title="" /><strong>Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA) -</strong> Under the direction of the college&#39;s sustainability coordinator, Anthony Waldrop, students have been interning in the newly and greatly expanded campus garden. With 40 new fruit trees and vines, including avacado, kiwi and pomegranate, and many more raised garden beds, the gardens are quickly transforming a once forgotten and overgrown area of campus into an ecologically diverse and aesthetically beautiful area on campus.</p>
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	<strong>Waynesburg University (Waynesburg, PA) -</strong> The university recently hosted a Forum on the Environment. With more than 100 students, staff and faculty in attendance, the highlight was a panel-discussion that included student and faculty speakers, as well as a representative from Young Evangelicals for Climate Action - an advocacy group of the Evangelical Environmental Network.</p>
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	<strong>George Fox University (Newberg, OR) -</strong> As a part of the <a href="http://www.georgefox.edu/laci/LACI%20brochure_Spring%202013.pdf">Liberal Arts and Critical Issues</a> spring 2013 lecture series, Au Sable Executive Director, Fred Van Dyke, recently presented a lecture entitled, &quot;Hope and Hopelessness: Overcoming the State of Despair in Modern Conservation.&quot;</p>
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	Restoring Eden, the Christian environmental group, is in the midst of a <a href="http://restoringeden.org/getinvolved/spring-break">three-week alternative spring break trip</a> with students from across the country. The Appalachian Community Health Survey Project is in it&#39;s third year of bringing college students to various regions of Appalachia during their spring break to collect community health surveys. The students real-world research is key in assessing community health in these coal regions. Students this year have traveled from Geneva College, Olivet Nazarene University, Messiah College, Bethel University, Northwestern College, Wheaton College, Hope College, Calvin College, Mercy College of Applied Sciences, Carson-Newman College, Samford University, University of Portland and University of Michigan.</p>
