Louisiana State University

We are doing great Tigers!! Let’s see if we can get to 1500 points by Earth Day!

I have been walking a mile everyday since we have been out of school enjoying the beauty of being outside!

HEY TIGERS!!!! Although Keep Louisiana Beautiful's Love the Boot Week events scheduled April 20 to 26 have been canceled, KLB will remain a resource for everyone who is seeking ways to build and sustain vibrant, clean communities. This link has some activities to help us all feel connected to one another, our community, and our environment...

Here is a documentary on food waste: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1164399683579 I would like to show this at the LSU Union Theatre this fall semester to continue our on-campus dialogue about diverting food waste from the landfill. 

In these times of social distancing, people have learned to appreciate the moments that we spent outside the house. Being outdoors with nature is now more meaningful,

I am more aware of the litter itself. Now after picking up litter in the park I walk in, I feel more connected to keeping it clean and safe for the wildlife. I have taken more pride in keeping a cleaner community. 

We take for granted the convenience of packaged meat in the grocery stores. However, agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, using way too much water for agriculture, and raising animals only for slaughter. Not to mention, they release more methane into the atmosphere. 

I’m killing this daily action stuff! 

It was amazing to see the trash then not see it once the area was clean. I participated in the Great American Cleanup last year, and I helped clean three parks and an area beneath the interstate. You have no idea how much trash gets thrown out of vehicles until you’ve cleaned around the roads!

I’m most concerned about how we aren’t seeming to grasp and understand the magnitude of our bad habits. People don’t believe there is an issue in the United States because we don’t live with the real tangible issues other countries face like shortage of clean water, dying species, deforestation in a rainforest. We take all the conveniences for...