Yes for Environmental Sustainability (YES! Club) is a student organization whose mission is to empower, motivate, educate, and engage students in environmental sustainability issues facing our local and global communities. YES! Club inspires student leadership and active volunteerism within the Miami Dade College and surrounding Miami communities.
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Contact the club's advisor: Professor David Shaheen
The Kendall Campus Environmental Center is a nine-acre hidden gem on our campus. Unfortunately, it has remained closed since Fall 2017 when it sustained significant damage due to Hurricane Irma. It is the hope of the Sustainability Committee and many others throughout our community that the center may be restored and ultimately reopened. If you are interested in helping to support these goals, please email nkolitz@mdc.edu and arachels@mdc.edu.
Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS)-designated classes at MDC -- which are offered across various modalities, campuses, departments, and disciplines -- acknowledge the interconnections and interdependencies that define our world. GSELS facilitates the emergence of awareness, knowledge, skills, and solutions necessary to create sustainable systems while fostering ethical values of Earth Literacy, social justice, cultural diversity, and civic engagement. Students can earn GSELS Scholar recognition at MDC by successfully completing GSELS-designated classes and a GSELS Civic Engagement Project with a reflection essay.
Students: Find Current GSELS-Designated Classes and become a GSELS Scholar
Faculty: Please Register Your GSELS-Designated Classes
For more information about GSELS, Contact EEI staff.
By supporting students through the equitable distribution of needed food, as well as hygiene and baby care products, the food pantry reinforces sustainability at the campus level. The Kendall Campus Sustainability Committee also strives to assist our campus' food pantry through various initiatives.
Spring 2023 update - While the Student Life offices are under construction, the Food Pantry has been temporarily relocated to Building R, room R-200. The operating hours are as follows: Monday through Thursday: 8 am – 7 pm, Friday: 8 am – 4:30 pm. For more information, call 305-237-0712.
For more information about the pantry, including how to access it or donate items, visit https://www.mdc.edu/pantry/
Named for (EEI friend, longtime supporter,) past director and current advisory board member, the Earth Ethics Institute Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton Earth Literacy Award celebrates a student's superior achievement and action in support of Earth and Earth Literacy.
The 2022 Kendall Campus recipient of this award is Yaelle Reeve - congratulations, Yaelle!
Spring 2023 update - Faculty members: EEI is currently accepting student nominations for the 2023 Earth Ethics Institute Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton Earth Literacy Award. Contact nkolitz@mdc.edu for more information.
Students: Participate in on-campus gardening service workdays, biweekly on Thursdays from 10 am until 1 pm through Kendall Earth Ethics Institute. For more information and to register, visit the MDC Changemaker Hub’s Kendall Campus Garden Workdays page.
