Cassia and Andrew presenting their Project for Peace

Not only did Cassia join us for our ENVS field trip to Utah in May and work for Jon Gourley over the summer, she also found time to install a rainwater harvesting system in Trinidad. The project originated from a research proposal that she and Andrew Agard wrote for their ISP first-year seminar. The two then submitted their proposal entitled Promoting Peace through Environmental Sustainability to the Davis Foundation and won a 10,000 dollar grant to design and install their rainwater harvesting system to support a community-based reforestation project in Trinidad.

Cassia and Andrew started with a short overview of their project and followed up with a video documentary produced by Cassia. The video is not quite up yet, but you can read about their project here.