Logan's First Greensaw Experience [4/5/11 2:00-5:00 pm]

As someone who considers herself a "girly girl", volunteering for a design and building company was not only interesting but life remembering. As I felt like the joke of day attempting to build shoe boxes and shelves, I was delighted to feel so welcomed by the people of greensaw. Despite my lack of lumberjack skills, the greensaw workers and employees accepted my lack of skills with my interest in wanting to help. As someone who rarely gets dirty and never builds thing, this was definitely a learning lesson for me, but one I loved to learn. It was exciting to build shoe boxes, and draws that would one day be used by someone. It felt so good to feel as if you were accomplishing something important. However my most influential memory was when I took old plants of wood and put them through a planner machine to make them new. It was so breathtaking to see how you could take something old and make it look brand new. Even though my future career path has little to do with urban sustainability in general, I decided to pick a group that was extremely out of my comfort zone. As I was confused going into my first day I decided to put my own passion into my work. As a broadcast journalism major I took the time to ask many to questions to the people I was working with. I found a great interest in asking them why they choose this career, and what they plan to get out of it. The one answer that never failed to amaze me and impacted me was that every employee there, at the end of the day wanted to make the earth a better place not for themselves but their children or the future ahead of them. Their answers spoke to me and I realized how important it is to get involved in the environment not just for me but for the people who are going to live on behind me. I'm excited to finish my 7 hours of community service by volunteering in the many different Urban Sustainability organizations.