On November 4, the Columbia University EcoReps held their first-ever "EcoReps-Greenborough Delish-a-Thon." The exciting event was in Greenborough House, a Special Interest Community. Undergraduate students prepared foods for their classmates to eat.

"The whole idea of the event is to bring people into Greenborough House, which is [an] 'Environmental Sustainability' Special Interest Living Community, and introduce them to the house and then, also talk about one of the issues that affects everybody, which is sustainable eating," explains Todd Nelson, one of the organizers of the event. "So, we invited some of the campus's top chefs here to have a cooking competition that will be 'crowd-sourced' judged by the people. The cost of entry is a donated good. And we're also going to be doing 'outreach' about various food issues, but then, also about the [Greenborough] House, what it does, what its role in the community is, and also just to get its name out there [because] this is its second year in existence.".

Many students from across campus filled Greenborough House to enjoy the delicious cuisine and festivities. The EcoReps' enormous efforts in organizing the "Delish-a-Thon" finally paid off.

"The EcoReps, as a group, were planning for about three or four weeks," observes an EcoRep member. "It's been in the works, though, for a couple of years, like, the ideas have been floating around. But, now, like, maybe a week in advance, plans got serious. Two weeks in advance, plans were, like, coming together and tonight, two hours before it was happening, we were running around doing a million things."

"We're really excited that people have been donating food," describes Leah, another "Delish-a-Thon" coordinator. "As you can see, we have a lot of non-perishable items that we're donating to Broadway Presbyterian Church. This is really important, I think, in an event surrounding food issues because as we get together to cook all this delicious food, we recognize that we have the privilege to buy these ingredients from the Farmers' Market and to [buy] organic ingredients, which is not a privilege that everyone shares. So, a big piece of this event is giving back in some way, giving food to people who might not have it in the coming cold winter months. So, we're really excited that people have come through with that."