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This exhibit explores all the sustainability efforts on GMU's campus relating to greenhouses, food forests, and the gardens. This exhibit also makes effort to include recurring events and standalone projects which contribute to sustainability across campus. While looking through the archives, we discovered three things:

First, most of our evidence came from newspaper articles, which we did not expect. While we were able to find other sources in the archives the level of detail those sources went into obfuscated the larger picture and often lacked significant context.

Second, there was less evidence on the greenhouses specifically than we thought. When we first started this project we intended to investigate the Innovation food forest and Greenhouse however looking for general sustainability efforts proved much more fruitful.

Third, there were a lot more one-time projects than we initially expected. Many of the sustainability efforts on campus weren't long term ongoing projects but rather short bursts of initiative where a person or small group of people saw a problem and wanted to provide a solution.

For this exhibit we sifted through every document we could find surrounding campus sustainability, the most compelling of which we found from newspapers. This project attempts to tell the story of campus sustainability through the news, whether painted in a positive or negative light, following the introduction of the first campus greenhouse all the way to current sustainability efforts.