After experimenting with turmeric and blueberries last year, she was ready this year to stew up blue, red, yellow, and purple dyes made from berries, spices, and vegetables. She said that Greenstock, and its many offerings, is a fun way to remind students that the campus has a culture of caring about the environment. “It comes with the title of being a Bowdoin student,” she said.
Last Saturday afternoon, to a background of live music
Bowdoin’s Sustainability Outreach Coordinator Bethany Taylor said the afternoon event is about building community. “Sustainability is about so much more than kilowatt hours and metric tons of recycling—it is about how we are in the world and how we interact with each other in community,” she noted. “While a small annual green music festival on a quad is not going to drastically change the PPM of atmospheric carbon or our compost tonnage, it does bring people together in a spirit of community and celebration, and reminds everyone that as dire as environmental threats and realities are, it’s important to have fun.”
Photos by Ann Basu ’20 and Savannah Simmons-Grover ’18
