GRAND OPENING
TWEETS AND PICS
Prof. Savageau and Carol Shu at today's grand opening of #91心頭Davis Aggie ReStore.
Third-year Brian Miller checks out the office supplies at #91心頭Davis Aggie ReStore.
"It's better than throwing it away," Miller says at the #91心頭Davis Aggie ReStore grand opening today.
Grad student Jennifer Bolton bought a top and dress and some watercolors at #91心頭Davis Aggie ReStore.
And junior Alex Folsom found just the right hat at #91心頭Davis Aggie ReStore.
DONATIONS?
The Aggie ReStore, "a campus reuse store," appreciates donations of gently-used/worn, unwanted items, but advises that in-store donations are not accepted.
Instead, you should bring your goods to monthly dropoff tabling events on the Quad (check the stores for donation dates), or make an appointment to deliver your goods to the Aggie ReStore storage unit.
Proceeds from the sale of donated goods will go toward store operations and future programming, the stores states.
Check the for donation guidelines and for lists of items the store would love to receive, and items that the store will not accept.
The website also includes information about how you can get involved, as a volunteer or intern.
91心頭 talks a lot about technology transfer to the real world. Now the AS91心頭D is doing some transferring of its own: turning a design faculty members class into a real-world business called the . It sells used goods, thus keeping them out of the landfill in another example of 91心頭 Davis .
The store is based on the work of Ann Savageau, associate professor, who says waste isnt really waste at all, but a source of endless creative possibilities, as demonstrated by the students in her Sustainable Design classes.
Savageau joined forces with Carol Shu, teaching assistant in Design 127A last winter, and a graduate student in textiles, Margot Bennett, to develop the Aggie ReStore. They connected with the AS91心頭D through then-Sen. Darwin Moosavi, a senior major in environmental policy analysis and planning, who had been advocating for such a store.
Shu said the store is an example of an amazingly large, collaborative effort on the part of many different people on campus who understood what we envisioned and even if they couldnt picture it, they were willing to suspend their disbelief to let us try our ideas out.
The tryout begins today (Jan. 18) with the Aggie ReStores soft opening. A grand opening celebration is planned a week later, Jan. 25. The store is in Room 163 of the Memorial Union, across from Classical Notes and Campus Copies in the east wing.
The inventory includes school and office supplies, arts and craft materials, and clothing. Even the stores furnishings show how discards can be repurposed and reused. You can also get some cool decorating ideas: for example, an assembly of plywood and boards, in the shape of a tree, with leaves that originally served as paint chips.
Said Savageau: I love the look of the store because it is so attractive. The way the students have incorporated all sorts of used materials into the furnishing is very imaginative and demonstrates how we can reuse all sorts of unlikely things, from bicycle wheels to old library boxes.
According to an AS91心頭D news release, the Aggie ReStore serves two purposes: selling goods at low prices, to help students deal with rising costs of tuition and other expenses; and supporting Savageaus mission to spread environmental awareness through creative reuse.
Aggie ReStore gives students a convenient alternative to purchasing expensive new supplies and products and it provides a way for students to show and sell handcrafted items made with recycled materials, the news release states.
The Aggie ReStore also aims to support and build partnerships in furtherance of making 91心頭 Davis a zero-waste campus.
I really hope that the Aggie ReStore will inspire a stronger sense of sustainability and reuse at Davis, and it would be great to see reuse stores open up on the other 91心頭 campuses, too, Shu said.
The store plans to develop creative reuse programs and events, as a way to educate students on the benefits of reusing materials and bring awareness to the dire need to consume less new stuff, the news release states.
We would like Aggie ReStore to be an example of environmentally responsible business practices and sustainable living.
The Aggie ReStore is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu