SEAS

The idea that Earth is alive and a living organism has been around since the start of mankind. Through the old ancient stories, scientific studies, and even Greek mythology, it is a known fact that this world is alive. But what people don’t realize is, living on this planet is a gift, a gift that we are taking for granted.

But with the Student Environmental Action Society, or SEAS, this group is trying to bring awareness to our environmental responsibilities. SEAS is a group on the UWF campus that has worked hard to bring awareness to things to help the environment.

One of those is the importance of recycling. SEAS has been a part of many events to bring awareness to recycling, one back in April was the Bag and Bottle Swap where they gave away free reusable water bottles and bags to students.

Recycling isn’t just about the planet, but it’s a business in most instances. But SEAS is a group of environmentalists, and volunteers. They aren’t doing it for money, but for the health of the planet.

SEAS environmentalist Emily Harmon said, “I think it is important to raise environmental awareness because with all the disasters happening around the world we want to spread awareness of simple changes you can make in your lifestyle that, if enough people start doing them, can be a big step in helping our earth.”

Harmon continues the importance of recycling, “For example, always using reusable water bottles, recycling properly, recycling your single-use plastic bags at places like Publix and Walmart. Just easy lifestyle changes that will end up helping. Another thing is want to spread environmental awareness to a degree that everybody understands. Not everybody is an Environmental major, or majoring in the sciences, so they can have a harder time understanding it so we just want to be there to help you understand it because understanding what is happening is the first step to knowing how to help.”

SEAS has worked with many different groups on the Gulf Coast. They have also teamed up with the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center for the yearly, “Trash Bash.” Which they meet up on Navarre beach and picked up trash preventing over 10 pounds of trash from polluting our oceans.

Learning about this group really has inspired me to do more to save this planet. Recycling is very important and it doesn’t take much time. Not all heroes wear capes, and the people of this organization are true heroes.