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| SBA Student-Athlete Katrin Larusson at a recent Trashion Show |
(Hint: take a close look at the photo...)
That's right: Pirate's Booty.
She likes it so much she doesn't just eat it (a lot!). She WEARS it.
Not to school, mind you, but strutting down the runway at "Trashion Shows" put on by Truckee High School's Envirolution Club.This Friday night - the night before departing for Junior Olympics in Minneapolis, Minnesota - Larusson will be seen parading on the Truckee High School stage in Pirate's Booty wrappers that she has fashioned into a dress, all to raise attention to recycling issues and to raise funds for an Envirolution Club trip to a convention in Atlanta this spring. The Envirolution/Trashion Gala begins at 6 p.m.
Larusson is the embodiment of the kind of personal investment in local and global environmental issues that guest speaker Rebecca Anderson of the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) asked of the SBA student body at last week's All School Meeting.
ACE and POW - represented by Savannah Cowley and YouTube phenomenon Mike Wilson - presented to SBA students and staff the science behind global warming, as well as some suggestions for how each individual can do his or her part to help reverse or slow the effects of climate change.
At the conclusion of the All School Meeting, students were encouraged to pick a "DOT" (Do One Thing) to make a change to their personal footprint. Students chose DOTS that ranged from shorter showers to not using plastic bags when they go out to the grocery store.
“It is so obvious to see the connection between global climate change and our lives as skiers in the Sugar Bowl community," said Dean of Residential Life and Math/Science Teacher Kristen Lew, who spearheaded efforts to bring ACE and POW to campus.
"I felt that ACE and POW could provide the students with ways to become aware and engaged with the movement to decrease our effects on the planet.”
Learn more about Envirolution, Trashion Shows and Larusson by listening to last night's phone interview:
