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UPDATED: Tweets and pics from Aggie ReStore grand opening

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Graphic: Aggie ReStore logo (cropped)
Graphic: Aggie ReStore logo (cropped)

GRAND OPENING
TWEETS AND PICS

Prof. Savageau and Carol Shu at today's grand opening of #UCDavis Aggie ReStore.

Third-year Brian Miller checks out the office supplies at #UCDavis Aggie ReStore.

"It's better than throwing it away," Miller says at the #UCDavis Aggie ReStore grand opening today.

Grad student Jennifer Bolton bought a top and dress and some watercolors at #UCDavis Aggie ReStore.

And junior Alex Folsom found just the right hat at #UCDavis Aggie ReStore.

DONATIONS?

The Aggie ReStore, "a campus reuse store," appreciates donations of 鈥済ently-used/worn, unwanted items,鈥 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 store鈥檚 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 store鈥檚 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.

UC talks a lot about technology transfer to the real world. Now the ASUCD is doing some transferring of its own: turning a design faculty member鈥檚 class into a real-world business called the . It sells used goods, thus keeping them out of the landfill 鈥 in another example of 嘿嘿视频鈥 .

The store is based on the work of Ann Savageau, associate professor, who says 鈥渨aste鈥 isn鈥檛 really waste at all, but a source of endless creative possibilities, as demonstrated by the students in her 鈥淪ustainable Design鈥 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 ASUCD 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 鈥渋s an example of an amazingly large, collaborative effort on the part of many different people on campus who understood what we envisioned 鈥 and even if they couldn鈥檛 picture it, they were willing to suspend their disbelief to let us try our ideas out.鈥

The tryout begins today (Jan. 18) with the Aggie ReStore鈥檚 鈥渟oft opening.鈥 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 store鈥檚 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 鈥渓eaves鈥 that originally served as paint chips.

Said Savageau: 鈥淚 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.鈥

According to an ASUCD 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 Savageau鈥檚 mission to spread environmental awareness through creative reuse.

鈥淎ggie ReStore gives students a convenient alternative to purchasing expensive new supplies and products 鈥 and it provides a way for students to show and sell handcrafted items made with recycled materials,鈥 the news release states.

The Aggie ReStore also aims to support and build partnerships in furtherance of making 嘿嘿视频 a zero-waste campus.

鈥淚 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 UC campuses, too,鈥 Shu said.

The store plans to develop creative reuse programs and events, as a way to educate students on the benefits of reusing materials 鈥渁nd bring awareness to the dire need to consume less new stuff,鈥 the news release states.

鈥淲e would like Aggie ReStore to be an example of environmentally responsible business practices and sustainable living.鈥

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

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