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Hosting a Campus Sustainability Day
40 Campus Examples, How-to Tips & Resources
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Greening Your Events: How to Plan and Implement Sustainable Campus Events
Sustainable Campus Food Service Programs: From Little Changes to Large Initiatives That Change the Environmental Balance
Going Green in Residence Life: Putting Your Operation in Line with Sustainable Practices
Sustainable Campus Practices: Green Campus Facilities, Purchasing and Business Practices
Sustainable Student Initiatives: What's Working on Our Campuses
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . .1
American University . . . . . . . . . . .3
Boise State University . . . . . . . . .4
Camosun College . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Central Christian College of Bible .6
Cornell University . . . . . . . . . . .7
Cuyahoga Community College
. . . . .8
Duke University . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Emory University
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FlA Atlantic University–Boca Raton 11
Grand Valley State University
. . .12
Ithaca College
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Loyola College
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Michigan State University
. . . . . .15
Monroe Community College . . . . . .16
Rice University
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San Diego State University
. . . . .18
San Jose State University . . . . . .19
Santa Clara University . . . . . . . .20
Santa Fe Community College . . . . .21
Seattle Central Community College 22
Sierra College
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Spelman College
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St. Louis University . . . . . . . . . .25
Syracuse University . . . . . . . . . .26
Univ. of Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Univ. of California, Davis
. . . . . .28
Univ. of California Santa Barbara .29
Univ. of Florida . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa
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Univ. of Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . .32
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Univ. of New Brunswick—Fredericton
Univ. of NC—Chapel Hill
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Univ. of Saskatchewan . . . . . . .
Univ. of South Carolina . . . . . .
Univ. of Texas at Austin . . . . . .
Virginia Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Washington and Lee University . .
Westfield State College . . . . . .
Willamette University . . . . . . . .
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Executive Summary
Through the efforts of the Society for College and University Planning
(SCUP), Campus Sustainability Day (CSD) first began in 2003. The
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
(AASHE) partnered with SCUP to help with promotion and, through
their combined efforts, CSD became an institutionalized, annual fall event
in 2006. It was created specifically to highlight the achievements and challenges of people working to instill sustainability practices in their institutions of higher education, and to spread those practices throughout the
surrounding community.
In the Beginning
SCUP has put together a new webcast every year since then to serve
as a focal point for Campus Sustainability Day, and encourages campuses
to complement the webcast with their own programs and events. To help
promote your CSD, contact SCUP at www.scup.org/csd/ to have them
list your school’s events on their website. Many of the institutions profiled in this White Paper built their Sustainability Day programs around
this webcast, adding unique touches to meet the needs of their individual
communities.
If you’re looking for ways to start planning a Campus Sustainability
Day or you’ve hosted CSD events in the past but want some new ideas,
you’ve come to the right place. Inside you’ll find profiles of 40 colleges
and universities throughout the United States and Canada that think
“outside the box” in an effort to bring sustainability into the everyday
thoughts and lives of their students, faculty, and staff. Some of the innovative programs that you’ll read about in this White Paper include
Adaptable Ideas
• Farm to College Night at UC Davis, where the entire community was
invited to eat a locally grown dinner on campus
• A bottled water taste test at Ithaca College
• A mass bike commute to campus at Emory University
• Santa Clara University’s Worm Composting 101 workshop
Many of the initiatives you’ll read about were started by students and
only continue to grow in membership and effectiveness. There might be
some organizations and resources in here that you think would appeal to
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your own student body, so we’ve provided you with links to assist in your
campus planning process.
There are always new ways to get students involved in campus activities, so we hope you’ll be inspired when you read about what other schools
have done. And don’t forget to reach out to the community, because a lot of
businesses are interested in sustainability too. Being represented on campus
is great advertising for them and a way to increase interest for your event.
It’s a collaboration that makes good sense.
As you plan ways to raise awareness and educate your community during Campus Sustainability Day—and beyond—we hope you’ll find inspiration among the hundreds of ideas and resources listed in this White Paper.
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American University
Washington DC • Campus Sustainability Week • October 24-26, 2006
Sponsored by EcoSense, the Class of 2009, the Resident Hall Association, and Transportation Services
registered commuters who walk, bike, or
take public transportation to campus can
get four taxi or rental car rides home per
year in case of emergencies
Transportation Fair, where there were representatives from Flexcar, Zipcar, VPSI, and
Commuter Connections
Highlights Included:
Flexcar and Zipcar are both companies
designed for people who only need a car
once in a while. A yearly membership fee
and minimal hourly rates for “borrowing”
cars are the only costs; gas and insurance
are included.
Solar technology lecture and the demonstration of a solar-powered fountain
Commuter Connections has a
“Guaranteed Ride Home” program, where
A receptacle to recycle old cell phones
Waste and Recycling Day that highlighted
a new program where students sort their
own office paper, newspaper, bottles, cans,
plastic, and printer ink cartridges. Bales of
recycled materials and trash compactors
were visible on the campus quad. This was
an effort to bring more attention to the act
of recycling.
VPSI has a vanpooling program, which
allows groups of 7 to 15 commuters to use
a van so they can split commuting costs
and take advantage of the HOV lane
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www.american.edu/finance/ppo/
Sustainability/EcoSense.html
Eco-Sense
This student group drew up a survey and asked the campus community if they would be willing to pay
an extra $10 per year in order to see
the college purchase 50% renewable
energy
Related Resources
The Zipcar official website
is www.zipcar.com/
Check out Flexcar at
They gathered enough signatures to
bring it to the attention of the student government in Spring 2006,
and worked with Facilities Management to identify the best options for
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www.flexcar.com/
VPSI Inc has vanpools and
carpools all over the
country. Just enter your
starting and ending destination to see if there’s a
pool you can join in your
area:
www.vanpoolusa.com/Ho
me/index.asp?OID=261
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Boise State University
Boise, Idaho • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by the Boise State Green Team
“Bringing It Home:” A chance for students
to tell the administration and student body
if they have done something to encourage
sustainability on campus at the BSU sustainability brainstorming session. This was
also a chance for students to come together
if they were interested in helping with new
efforts.
A speech by John Gardner, the Associate
Vice President of Energy Research, Policy,
and Campus Sustainability, on Boise State’s
sustainability efforts (and the creation of
his position)
Highlights Included:
Pizza lunch in the student union featuring
locally grown produce – free for first 60
participants!
A screening of “Green is the Color of
Money,” with film director, Benn Shed, and
others, followed by a discussion
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www.boisestate.edu/greenteam
Green Team
The Green Team, BSU’s sustainability group, joined up with the AVP for
Energy Research to bring the campus a webcast about the highlights
of what is happening with climate
change and higher education. Go to
http://nytimes.whsites.net/knowledgenetwork/learning/scup-climatechange.html for more info.
“A Blueprint for a Greener
Footprint:” The Green Team and
Boise State have become part of
“Focus the Nation,” an effort to
engage in a nationwide discussion
about global warming. As part of the
effort, BSU is engaging local politicians in discussions about solutions
to climate change and hosting campus events like calculating the campus’s carbon footprint.
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Related Resources
See the official website and sign your school
up for “Focus the Nation,” where teams of
faculty and students at over a thousand colleges, universities and K-12 schools in the
U.S. collaboratively engage in a nationwide,
interdisciplinary discussion about “Global
Warming Solutions for America” at
www.focusthenation.org/theproject.php
Find out more about “Green is the Color of
Money” film director, Benn Shed. Preview
and purchase his DVD at www.deepgreen.tv.
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Camosun College
Victoria, BC, Canada • Campus Sustainability Day • April 2, 2007
Sponsored by Camosun Students for Environmental Awareness
Discussion circles, each supported by a
book, on topics such as Voluntary
Simplicity, Climate Change and Deep
Ecology, co-sponsored with the Canadian
Earth Institute
Give your clothes new life! Clothing
redesign, reuse, and recycle workshop with
local fashion designer Margo Biggs.
Highlights Included:
Presentations included one from Canadian
Youth Delegate to the UN on the Climate
Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
Other presentations were held on
Sustainability Measures with the Physical
Resources Department at Camosun, including Ending Old-Growth Logging, The
Mountain Pine Beetle and the Collapse of
Global Fisheries
Tour of the Camosun Native Plant Garden
A talk about the “Guiding Principles and
Ethics of Permaculture,” described as “The
design of sustainable human habitats is
based on the observation of natural systems and grounded in the ethics of earth
care, people care, and sharing the resulting
surpluses in order to increase the diversity
and productivity of local human ecosystems”
Workshop on how to run a successful student sustainability group, with tips on
recruiting, troubleshooting, and making the
most of events
Sustainable barbeque offered local meats
and meat alternatives – hamburgers,
“smokies,” veggie dogs, and beverages –
participants were encouraged to bring their
own mug, if possible
Camosun Students for
Environmental Awareness
For a small donation, a local bicycle shop
gave tune ups and did repairs
www.camosunstudent.org/csea/
Making great strides since 2005, this
student-run group was able to receive
CCSS (Camosun College Student
Society) funding and hire a part-time
employee
Camosun SEA held a fundraiser at a local
bar—ticket
price included Related Resources
admission,
Learn how to revamp
band cover
your old clothing with
charge, and a
this page from Ohio
raffle ticket to
State:
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range meat
Their successes include converting the
college’s printers and copiers to 100%
recycled paper, establishing a weekly
organic produce stand, and running a
fair-trade coffee stand that gives discounts to students who bring their
own mugs and lends mugs to students who forget them
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www.camosunstudent.org/csea/sustainabilityday.html
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Hosting a clothes recycling and redesigning
event is a great way to
get students interested in
sustainability!
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Central Christian College of the Bible
Moberly, MO • Campus Sustainability Week • October 23-27, 2007
Sponsored by Creation Awareness and Stewardship of CCCB
A field trip to the Dancing Rabbit
Ecovillage
Highlights Included:
Screening of
Morgan
Spurlock’s “30
Days Off the
Grid”
Presentation by
John Ikerd,
author of
Sustainable
Agriculture and
A Return to
Common Sense
The beginning
of a pledge and
petition drive
to care for the
Earth and urge
the college to
do so as well
Source: http://
creationawareness.
blogspot.com/
2007/11/csd-recapat-cccb.html
Related Resources
Read this review of “30 Days Off the
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
www.dancingrabbit.org
The ecovillage is a community in Missouri that
hopes to become the
size of a small town,
with 500 to 1,000 members
All people who live
there do so in order to
live sustainably
They only use renewable resources, and only
at the rate that they can
be replenished. They
even build and heat
their houses with
renewable resources!
They grow their own
food or purchase what is
grown locally, and keep
few cows because of the
methane they produce
Grid,” a TV series where two people
from New York and New Jersey spend
a month at the Dancing Rabbit
Ecovillage:
www.citypages.com/movies/detail.asp?
MID=8939
Download papers written by sustain-
able agriculture leader John Ikerd at
his website,
http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/. You
can also read his bio and peruse all of
his publications
Check out the general Petition Site,
where CCCB, and others, post petition
for folks to sign at www.thepetitionsite.com/1/CreationAwareness
Creation Awareness and
Stewardship of CCCB
www.creationawareness.blogspot.com/
This student group’s aim is to
bring awareness to God’s creation and teach others about
Biblical stewardship
They screen movies, attend
environmental workshops, and
try to get the whole campus
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY • Campus Sustainability Day • October 23, 2007
Sponsored by the Sustainability Hub
Display from the Cornell Computer Reuse
Association, which collects and refurbishes
old or unwanted computers for donation to
schools who do not have access to computers
Highlights Included:
Related Resources
Engineers for a Sustainable World is an
Campus clubs like KyotoNOW! and the
Cornell Organization for Labor Action set
up tables
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www.rso.cornell.edu/kyotonow
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organization that educates, trains, and
motivates young engineers throughout
the U.S. to meet the needs of current
and future generations of people.
Learn how your students can get
involved at www.esustainableworld.
org/default.asp
from the Alice Cook House meeting
“Green Standards” to controlling CO2
emissions, recycling 2000 tons of building
materials and composting 320 tons of cafeteria waste
Local Ithaca organic food vendors handed
out samples
Source: http://cornellsun.com/node/25320
www.rso.cornell.edu/sustainabilityhub/
The Sustainability Hub
This is a student organization whose
mission is to reduce Cornell’s environmental impact and spread the
word about sustainability on campus
They work with other campus
groups to collaborate on projects,
and help groups organize events or
demonstrations that have to do with
sustainable practices
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Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland, OH • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by Cuyahoga Community College Special Events
Participation in a national webcast with a
follow-up discussion dealing with the challenges of campus life and the surrounding
community
Earth Trek: A fully inflatable balloon Earth,
22 feet wide and 19 feet high, that could
hold 15-20 people! A lesson on sustainability was taught inside. (According to
Cuyahoga Community College there are
only 19 Earth Treks in the world!)
Highlights Included:
Various simulation games and quizzes
Source: www.live-pr.com/en/tri-c-to-think-greenon-national-r1048165584.htm
Table fair in the gymnasium, where students, faculty, and staff had a chance to
exchange ideas and knowledge about environmentalism
Each student received a “passport” that
could be stamped at every table they visited. Completed passports were used in a
raffle.
Related Resources
Rent or buy your very own Earth bal-
Planetary Emergency Event at
Cuyahoga
loon! Many of the resources that complement the balloons are geared for
grades K-12, but that doesn’t mean
you can’t mold them to fit your students.
www.tri-c.edu/text/news/docs/2007/planet_emerg.htm
A “Planetary Emergency Event” on May 5,
2007, featured a plant sale, a screening of
“An Inconvenient Truth,” and a panel discussion with Harold Brown of Farm
Sanctuary, a farm animal protection program, and John McGovern, Clean Fuels
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com/index.html has balloons that are
6-10 feet
www.whereaboutsinc.com/
index.html has 20 foot balloons and
offers field trip programs
www.earthballoon.com has 22
foot balloons to rent or sell
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Duke University
Durham, NC • Sustainability Month • October 2007
Sponsored by Environmental Sustainability @ Duke
Rules of the game and more can be
found at www.duke.edu/web/
env_alliance/olympics2007.html
Duke chose to dedicate the month of
October to Sustainability!
Highlights Included:
Awards ceremony for the finalists and winners of the sixth annual NC Sustainability
Awards and Conference
Students competed in the Eco-Olympics
A series of competitive events included
unannounced residence hall trash dissection to see how much recyclable material
was in waste bags, an eco-trivia night, and
an eco-film series, where attendees earned
points for their residence hall
Earth Jam, an environmental festival, was
sponsored by the undergrad programs at
the Duke Marine Lab and Environmental
Sciences/Policy and Earth & Ocean
Sciences majors
The winning team got a party with
Duke president Dr. Brodhead
The Duke
”Think…Green”
Environmental
Logo
Leadership
Duke’s sustainability
Program of the
logo, a stylized sketch of
Nicholas School of
Rodin’s Thinker, holding
the Environment
the Earth, is eye-catchand Earth Sciences
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lowed by an Ecoreception featuring
sustainable food and beverage choices
Prizes were an iPod nano, iTunes gift
cards, a tent, a Trek mountain bike, and gift
certificates to local restaurants
An Eco-Olympics Facebook group was
created
www.duke.edu/sustainability/
Environmental Sustainability
The Duke Green Power Challenge states
that for every student and staff member
who signs up at a cost of $25, committing to
use green power, the University will match
that donation – up to $25,000! The money
goes to wind and solar farms to cover the
additional cost of producing energy from
green sources vs. traditional sources. See
www.duke.edu/web/ env_alliance/challenge/#2 for more information.
Source: www.duke.edu/sustainability/2007-1005Events.html
The Green Grant Fund is a $50,000 bank to
fund environmental initiatives, such as projects that will reduce the environmental
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Related Resources
To find out more about the North Carolina
Sustainability Awards and Conference and
the 2007 winners, go to
www.sustainnc.org/public/awards/
index.cfm?menuid=19&pageid=19
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Emory University
Atlanta, GA • Campus Sustainability Day
A mass bike ride, where more than 50 faculty, staff, and students commuted to campus together at 8am
Sponsored by Emory University Sustainment Initiatives
Highlights Included:
www.emory.edu/sustainability.cfm
EU Sustainment Initiatives
In the past year, the number of student groups at Emory associated
with environmental issues and conservation has doubled
Fuji bike giveaway
Award ceremony for the winners of the
freshmen residence hall energy competition
Emory has three campus food and
flower gardens, with plans for two
more: an herbal and medicinal garden in front of the nursing school
and a “great foods in science” garden
in front of the Center for Science
Education
Energy efficient light bulb giveaways
“Green” tours
Source: www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=24544
They maintain a speaker series of
notable writers and environmentalists. Recent speakers included author
Barbara Kingsolver and chef and
author Alice Waters.
A feasibility plan for a campus farmers’ market is being developed
A committee recommended efforts in
five areas to help Emory make their
sustainability commitment concrete:
Related Resources
A healthy ecosystem context
For everything you need to know about
starting and maintaining an organic garden
(big or small), consult Organic Gardening
Magazine at www.organicgardening.com/
Healthy university function in the
built environment
Healthy university structures,
leadership, and participation
Barbara Kingsolver, a talented writer and
informed environmental advocate, recently
published a book entitled, Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle. It is co-authored by her
husband and daughter, and tells the story of
the family’s efforts to eat “off the grid” for
an entire year:
www.kingsolver.com/home/index.asp
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Florida Atlantic University – Boca Raton
Boca Raton, FL • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by the Campus Sustainability Committee
in the University Curriculum” by Dr.
Daniel Meeroff
and “Nursing
Involving Kids
Gives a Hoot
If you’re thinking about
about Enhancing
involving children from the
Sustainability for
community
in your next
Well-Being,” by
Sustainability Day, here is
Anne C. Dahnke
an example of a song
Local 4th and 5th
about recycling they can
grade students
perform on your campus!
performed an
www.resourcefulschools.or
“Earth Day Rap”
g/2007/sing.html
Students could
calculate their
carbon and water footprints
Presentations from FAU faculty, staff, and
researchers, such as “Balancing People and
Nature in the Developing World,” by Dr.
Maria Fadiman, “Green Building Concepts
Highlights Included:
www.fau.edu/facilities/sustain/
Mission Green
Consider the impact of their tagline:
“Promoting sustainability through education,
operations and community engagement.”
Mission Green is the name of the environmental campaign that the sustainability
working committee, whose representatives include students, faculty and staff,
established in the summer of 2007
Food service provider Chartwells did a
lunchtime talk on “Chartwells
Sustainability Projects”
Mission Green promotes sustainable
construction, and their website is happy
to announce that work has begun on
Florida’s first “green” elementary school!
A display of posters from the student “We
Have a Mission for You” poster contest,
where students created posters to illustrate
the Mission Green campaign. The campaign is geared toward creating a FAU
community that is aware of, involved with
and committed to advancing sustainability.
The winner received a digital camera!
The school is being built at the
University’s Pine Jog Environmental
Education Center
When completed, it will use the Pine
Jog property as an outdoor classroom
Chances to win Mission Green water bottles or gift certificates
It will be the first LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design)
certified elementary school in the state
Source: http://wise.fau.edu/facilities/
sustain/day2007.ph
And head to the web link to see how simple a campus sustainability logo can be.
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Visit www.usgbc.org for official guidelines
and information on constructing buildings
that are LEED certified
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Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI • Campus Sustainability Week • October 24-27, 2007
Events were held Wednesday-Saturday,
with daily themes of Environmental
Stewardship, Economic Prosperity &
Transportation, Social Responsibility, and
Make a Difference Day
Sponsored by Grand Valley State University Sustainability
cleaning, economic policies and recycling
efforts, fair housing,
engaging urban
Theme It
gardening, sustainable agriculture,
At GVSU, the 2007
social justice and
Campus Sustainability
sustainability, and
Week theme was
more
“Make it ALL Count!
Learn about how your
A display of a
actions affect the
“green dorm
room,” with organic world.”
Highlights Included:
Presentations on sustainability all over the
world, from eco-friendly expeditions in
Nicaragua to the effects of Hurricane
Katrina in Louisiana
Presentations on other topics such as rain
gardens, eco-conscious printing, green
bedding, toiletry
products, food, recycled office supplies and
all-natural clothing
A display of hybrid vehicles and demonstrations on alternate fuels
The Sustainability Department at
Grand Valley State assists with student
projects that are focused on helping
their environment, community, and
university
Student Projects at GVSU
A student Iron Chef cooking competition!
Sales of organic and environmentally
friendly food, clothing, household products
and more
Abby Wynne’s Project E! is aimed
at reducing paper waste by communicating and learning through the use of
electronic documents. See her very
funny website at www.abbywynne.
com/projecte/index.html
The culmination of the week was Saturday,
October 27 or Make a Difference Day. It
was celebrated by student-run volunteer
projects throughout Western Michigan.
Sources: www.lanthorn.com/default.asp?
strAction=GET-HST&intArticleKey=7770;
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Copies on Campus, by Meghan
McDonough, is a completed blog on
the number of environmental benefits
that came about by GVSU switching
from 10% recycled paper to 30% recycled. Check out www.gvsu.edu/sustainability for more information on
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To make an organic residence hall room
demonstration at your campus, go to
www.gaiam.com to find organic bedding
and clothes, www.tomsofmaine.com/toms
for toiletries, and www.thegreenoffice.com
for desk supplies.
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Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Taste test to see if participants could tell
the difference between bottled spring
water, bottled purified water from public
water sources, and local tap water, while
blindfolded
Sponsored by the Sustainability Initiative at Ithaca College
Video shorts with sustainability themes
were played throughout the day
Highlights Included:
Campus departments and student organizations had tables to share their efforts to
make the college more sustainable
Source:
www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20071022113
836925
Earth Café 2050, an interactive demonstration of ecological foot printing where students could see the effect of their current
standards of living on the year 2050
Sustainability Café—Dining Services manager presented what sustainability innovations his department is putting into practice. A sustainable lunch was also served at
the presentation.
The Resource and Environmental
Management Program
www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campus_rem
p.php
REMP is a coalition of students, faculty, and staff committed to making
Ithaca College a more sustainable place
of higher learning.
Related Resources
To learn more about the Earth Café 2050
initiative, developed by students in Ithaca’s
Environmental Studies Capstone Course, go
to
www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=173
74536&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=21
6620&rfi=6
One of REMP’S commendable
efforts was their “Change Your
World” program. Students went
door to door in residence halls with
fluorescent light bulbs, exchanging
them for old incandescent ones.
Sodexho’s efforts to bring sustainability to
their food services can be found at
www.sodexhousa.com/corp_agricultural.asp
It is estimated that the changing of
these 400 bulbs saved the college
over $1,000!
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Loyola College
Baltimore, MD • Recycling and Sustainability Awareness Week • Oct. 23-27, 2006
Sponsored by Loyola Recycling Coalition, Facilities, and Roots and Shoots
The student recycling coordinator
expressed her interest in getting involved
in RecycleMania
Presentation by Matt Stern of the
Chesapeake Climate Action Network: “A
Student Approach to Sustainability”
Highlights Included:
Source:
http://media.www.loyolagreyhound.com/media/stor
age/paper665/news/2006/10/31/News/Recycling.Su
stainability.Week.Tried.To.Make.Lc.greener2409614.shtml
A talk about the new freshman residence
hall on campus, which will be a “green”
building
The assistant director for facilities operations discussed what students, faculty,
administrators and staff could do to
improve recycling efforts on campus
RecycleMania!
Loyola participated
and fared well in
RecycleMania 2007!
Check out the results
here:
www.loyola.edu/campusresources/recycling/Recy
cleMania%202007
Brad Heavner from Environment Maryland
presented “Climate Crisis: What’s
Washington Going to Do about It?” He
spoke about public policy and the environment, in an effort to bring the week’s focus
into a more global view.
www.loyola.edu/campusresources/recycling
Loyola Recycling Coalition
They’ve spearheaded the Good Stuff
Campaign, which collects furniture,
appliances, dishes, clothing, and
unopened food for local agencies
Related Resources
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is
the first grassroots organization dedicated
exclusively to fighting global warming in
Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. See
a video from their “Keep Winter Cold: The
2007 Polar Bear Plunge” event at www.chesapeakeclimate.org/index.cfm
Student and alumni volunteers pick
up and sort the donations
On their website, they have a helpful chart to let students know how
to properly recycle or dispose of old
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need to know about getting involved in
RecycleMania:
www.recyclemaniacs.org/index.htm
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Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI • Campus Sustainability Day • October 26, 2007
Sponsored by Ecofoot: the Office of Campus Sustainability at MSU
centrally located administration building.
The goal was efficiency and practicality,
not necessarily speed.
A non-scientific transportation study was
conducted to see what the most efficient
and practical way to get around campus
was—hybrid car, bicycle, or feet. Students
started from different points around campus with the goal to make it safely to the
Highlights Included:
Ecofoot
A hybrid vehicle display outside of the
International Center and an information
fair inside
Environmentally friendly tours of the MSU
Power Plant, the Baker Woodlot and the
Red Cedar River
Mike Hamm, MSU C.S. Mott Chair of
Sustainable Agriculture, presented
“Educating for a Connected Life: Food and
Farming Systems”
www.ecofoot.msu.edu/
Ecofoot is the division of MSU that
aims to heighten the awareness of the
University’s environmental impact. A
public report on the state of sustainability practices at MSU is published
on a regular basis.
Source: http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2540/content.htm
Their Rebuild Michigan State project
is attempting a complete overhaul of
the University’s residence halls, making them energy efficient and more
cost effective
They provide their students with an
ENERGY STAR back to school checklist
They also publish a great online
newsletter about sustainable topics
called footprints and have a MSUGREEN email listserv for MSU community members
Related Resources
The C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable
Food Systems at MSU:
www.mottgroup.msu.edu/. This team of
researchers and educators at MSU aims
to foster the relationship between sustainable Michigan farms and the
Michigan public.
Associated campus offices include the
Office of Recycling and Waste
Management and the MSU Surplus
Store, where items the University can
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Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, the Campus Center, Student Services Center, and the Wellness Center
Authority,
Rochester
Bicycling Club,
Rocbike.com,
and Abundance
Co-operative
Market
CFL bulb swap, where students turn in
their incandescent light bulbs for compact
fluorescent light bulbs
Highlights Included:
Free environmentally friendly goods and
info on how to incorporate sustainability
efforts into your life from Phi Theta Kappa,
an international honor society for students
Six MCC experts
and a Rochester
attorney discussed the
emerging role of
evangelical
Christians in the
global warming
effort – and
more
Local businesses represented included NY
State Energy Research and Development
Phi Theta Kappa, International
Honor Society of the Two Year
College
www.ptk.org
RocBike.com is a blog
that chronicles the daily life
of a cyclist in Rochester,
NY. It has turned into a
“gathering place of bike
advocacy,” where fellow
bike commuters can share
frustrations and advice.
Read about the four members of “Team RocBike” and
their cycling adventures at
www.rocbike.com.
Service learning students provided a display of fair traded goods and an in-depth
presentation on fair trade issues
Phi Theta Kappa’ (PTK) 2006-2008 international service program, Operation
Green, is a partnership with Keep
America Beautiful, Inc.
Source:
www.monroecc.edu/etsdbs/PubAff.nsf/HeadlineNe
ws/72F7A79DE0AC27458525737E0069ECA8?Op
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Operation Green has had many successes over the past two years, including the
“E-cycling” event at Danville Area
Community College in Illinois, where a
recycling collection for electronics kept
five trailer truckloads of old computers
and televisions from becoming environmental waste
PTK members at Northeastern
Mississippi Community College met
with a 4th grade class to play a “trash
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Related Resources
Read this New York Times article on what
many Christian Evangelical leaders are
doing to help fight global warming
www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/national/08warm.html
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Rice University
Houston, TX • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by Sustainability at Rice
An afternoon wildflower planting on campus, using seeds from the Native Texas
mix and The Wetlands Fringe Mix from the
Native American Seed Company
Highlights Included:
Awards ceremony for Weiss College for its
commitment to environmental projects.
Weiss is the home of the community garden as well as the College Grove, which
has 40 species of trees.
Talk on “The Greening of Rice.” The sustainability of several new campus buildings was discussed, including the South
Plant, which will feature:
a geothermal heat pump
vegetative roofing
concrete with 25% fly ash, a waste
product produced from the burning of coal
http://cohesion.rice.edu/facilities/sustainability/index.cfm
Sustainability at Rice
Sponsored a “Dorm Energy Competition” to
see which residence halls (North Colleges vs.
South Colleges) consume the least amount of
energy in a one-month period. The energy
amount was based on energy delivered in the
forms of electricity and chilled water, and the
winner received funding to develop and
finance future sustainability projects.
In 2005, the Rice University Biodiesel Initiative
(RUBI) was born. Today, RUBI’s team of faculty and staff continues to build reactors and the
various equipment necessary to have a successful biodiesel plant. This converted waste
cooking oil is used to power diesel lawnmowers, a van belonging to dining services, and a
campus shuttle bus.
Presentation in a downtown theatre by
NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen.
Tickets were provided to students free of
charge and subsidized for faculty and staff!
www.ruf.rice.edu/~rsvpgard
The Community Garden
Rice University’s community garden
is a great example of a campus truly promoting organic and sustainable practices. It is run by volunteers from Rice’s
students, faculty, and staff, and is an
ongoing project.
Source: http://cohesion.rice.edu/facilities/sustainability/index.cfm?doc_id=11865
Related Resources
Get information on how to start a community garden on your campus from www.urbanharvest.org
The garden grows sunflowers, bushbeans, lettuce, okra, sweet potatoes,
tomatoes, radishes and squash
For more information about NASA’s Dr.
James Hansen, go to his Columbia
University webpage at
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1. Find slides from
presentations on climate change and get
added to his mailing list
The harvest from the garden is donated to the dining halls and ends up in
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San Diego State University
San Diego, CA • Campus Sustainability Day • September 18, 2007
“runWAYgreen”
fashion show,
which featured
clothing made from
recycled and organic materials
Sponsored by the SDSU Enviro-Business Society
Highlights Included:
A podium rally conducted by SDSU
administrators
Discussion led by
the Green Lunch
Group on sustainability issues and
other environmental outreach opportunities
The Green Lunch Group
This group began several
years ago as a lunchtime
gathering of faculty, students,
and staff who wanted to talk
about environmental issues.
The group has helped to
spread the word about sustainability through SDSU, and
completed a joint project with
the San Diego Metropolitan
Transit System to construct a
trolley station on campus and
precipitated a sustainability
task force in the SDSU
Senate.
Was held on the same day as the campus
Community Service Fair
Live musical performances
An informal presentation from KEEN
footwear’s “STAND for Sustainability”
tour
Source: www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=58763
Related Resources
To learn more about applying to be one of
KEEN footwear’s campus ambassadors, head
to www.keenambassador.com/keen/.
www.clube3.org
Enviro-Business Society
Started in 2005 with 50 members
that has grown to more than 270
Making your own biodiesel isn’t as farfetched as it might sound. If you’re wary
about building equipment on your own
campus, take a look at this site:
www.biodieselgear.com/index.htm.
Are currently working with Physical
Plant Services to finalize a biodiesel
reactor that will fuel campus
vehicles
If you want to host an organic clothing fashion show, look no further than Maggie’s
Organics. All of the clothing on her website
is made from organic materials, and the
producers provide clean, healthy working
conditions: www.organicclothes.com
Held a sorority/fraternity contest
that brought in more than six tons
of recyclable material!
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Sponsored by EWB-SJSU (Engineers Without Borders – San Jose State University), the Environmental
Resource Center, and the SMART (Sustainable Markets and Responsible Trade) Project
Panel discussions and information booths
on the topics of:
San Jose State’s Sustainability Week was
organized around their Earth Day celebrations
Highlights Included:
endangered species
environmental art
sweatshop labor
fair trade
sustainable agriculture
global warming
alternative transit
appropriate and sustainable energy and
technology
recycling
green living
A booth selling bags of fair trade coffee
Two speakers from the professional chapter
of EWB San Francisco, who spoke about
fostering sustainable development and
their project in Tanzania
Environmental movie screenings
Live music performances
Interested parties were invited to get
involved through the Sustainability Week
website, by volunteering to speak on a
panel, offering students extra credit for volunteering during the week and/or attending events, displaying related student projects, integrating courses with related
assignments/projects, and more
www.ewb-sjsu.org/home
Engineers Without Borders – SJSU
EWB strives to implement sustainable
engineering projects in third world countries in an effort to improve quality of
life. EWB-SJSU is extending this mission
to local communities so they can get the
opportunity to use their engineering
skills to solve real problems.
People could also sign up for a
Sustainability Week newsletter to get regular updates
This student-run group participates in
several community service activities,
including Rebuilding Together – Silicon
Valley, where EWB helped restore a disabled man’s childhood home to livable
conditions
Source: www.ewb-sjsu.org/projects2
Related Resources
The website for Engineers Without Borders is
www.ewb-usa.org/. Their currently spotlighted
project is water filtration and energy solutions
for the region of Kibuye in Rwanda.
They are designing and constructing several hundred feet of accessible trail for
Camp Costanoan, a nonprofit residential
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Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by Sustainability at SCU, Environmental Studies Institute, Leavey School of Business, University
Library, Net Impact SCU, and Acterra
How to Plan a
“Green” Event
at SCU, and
SCU Carbon
Dioxide
Emissions
Reduction
Strategy
The Resource Fair invited on and off campus groups to present their sustainable
programs, projects, and initiatives, such as
the SCU Solar Decathlon team, SCU
Recycles, and the Silicon Valley Bicycle
Coalition
Highlights Included:
A showcase of businesses doing their part
to create a greener Silicon Valley, followed
by a discussion with the audience
A used book
sale hosted by
the University
Library
SCU’S lunchtime workshop series went on
all week, with a variety of Earth-friendly
topics such as: Worm Bin Composting 101,
Eco-Crafting: Paper mache with recycled
materials, Organic Gardening in Winter,
The Solar Decathlon
This event, sponsored
by the U.S. Department of
Energy, joined 20 colleges
and universities in a competition to design, build,
and operate the best solar
powered house. SCU took
third place overall!
Check out www.scusolar.org/ for more about
SCU’s efforts
Source:
www.scu.edu/sustainability/newsandevents/campussustainabilityday2007.cfm
www.scu.edu/sustainability/
Sustainability at SCU
They provide a printable guide for
all campus offices to help staff identify what can and cannot be recycled at SCU
For campus events, you can get a
recycling director who will monitor
waste and recycling areas to make
sure everything is disposed of properly – make a request online!
Related Resources
They’re trying to cut down on the amount of
cars on the road, one by one. Check out the
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition at
www.svbcbikes.org to get ideas on how to
further promote the use of bikes as transportation.
Try your luck at the Recycletrivia
Raffle—it’s a quarterly contest that
rewards SCU residents for recycling.
Win prizes like a flashlight whose
power is generated by shaking and
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Gainesville, FL • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by Sustainable Santa Fe, Saints for Sustainability, Student Life, Gainesville Regional Utilities,
SFCC Student Government, and the Center for Student Leadership & Activities
tainability with
free blood pressure checks and
cardiac ultrasound, sponsored by Health
Sciences faculty
Sustainability Fair, which featured:
Highlights Included:
a CFL giveaway
a decorate your own canvas shopping
bag workshop
a Recycling Relay, complete with prizes
Looking for further
inspiration when it comes
to Campus Sustainability
Day logos? Check out the
bulls eye pattern at SFCC,
which incorporates clickable sponsor logos
(online), event teasers,
time and place details,
and the event website. It’s
simple, clean and eyecatching.
Kickoff of the
“Imagine a
Sustainable
Campus” contest, where students were invited to enter their
ideas in the form
of writing, video,
photography,
multimedia, paintings, sculpture, or poetry
a Brown Bag discussion with the
President and Mayor on “What Would a
Sustainable Campus Look Like?” and
“What Will it Take to Get Better Bus
Service to SFCC?”
an improv performance with Earth balls
by Dance Theatre Santa Fe
Film screenings of “Gimme Green,” a
comic movie about the U.S. obsession with
lawns, and “Kilowatt Ours,” which reveals
consequences of a coal-powered economy
Source: www.sfcc.edu/sustainability/
Global Society, SFCC’s model UN team,
gave a presentation on the UN and the
Challenges of Global Climate Change
Related Resources
Health and Wellness Fair for personal sus-
Get your own reusable shopping bags (to
decorate or not) from
www.reusablebags.com
Watch the preview of “Gimme Green” and
order the DVD here:
www.gimmegreen.com/home.htm
Sometimes, a simple nudge can do
the trick. Here’s how SFCC’s Campus
Sustainability Day encouraged campus
community participation:
Encouraging Participation
The website for “Kilowatt Ours” is more
than just a movie website. Find free educational resources, places to buy energy efficient products, and ways to save money on
electric bills. Make a tax-deductible donation to Jeff Barrie’s energy conservation
awareness campaign and get a copy of any
one of his documentaries here: www.kilowattours.org
“You have a unique and important
contribution to make to help create a
sustainable future. We can't imagine
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Seattle, WA • October 24, 2006
Sponsored by SC Sustainability Committee
Organic food from Madison Market, the
local food co-op, was distributed
A pedaling to generate energy demonstration—Seattle City Light, a local business,
demonstrated how long a person would
have to pedal a stationary bike to generate
enough energy to toast a muffin (2 hours at
25 watts) and dry a load of laundry (8.5
hours at 350 watts)
Highlights Included:
A discussion hosted by the Sustainability
Committee on how to integrate sustainability issues into education, particularly precollege
Source: www.thecitycollegian.net/news.php?article=195
Children from a local daycare center performed a song about recycling
http://sustainabilitycommitteesccc.blogspot.
com/2007_09_01_archive.html
Sustainability Committee
The Sustainability Committee (SC)
is a relatively new group on campus
and is run entirely by students
They have worked to get an efficient
recycling program at SCCC and
post information about local events
that feature sustainable practices
(like farmer’s markets, alternative
fuel shows, and where to buy earthfriendly products)
Related Resources
Here’s an article about David Butcher,
who created his very own pedal-powered
generator. Read about how he did it and
why at www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/pedgen.html
Gave surveys out to students asking
what they thought the SC could do
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Rocklin, CA • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by People and Culture Days, Associated Students of Sierra College, The Environmentally Concerned Organization of
Students, EEO, Seventh Generation Project, and the Roseville American Association for University Women (AAUW)
human diversity. Mixed in with dance and
music, the sustainability-themed activities
were:
The Environmentally Concerned
Organization of Students group did a composting experiment, collecting food waste
generated by the college to determine how
much of that waste could have been composted
Highlights Included:
A CFL bulb giveaway
The Interfaith Earth Stewardship
Conference
Student exhibits on regional environmental problems and solutions, sustainable
cities, and political conflicts, all displayed
in the dining hall
Sierra teamed Sustainability Day with
People and Cultures Day, a celebration of
A World Population Clock
Chalk art on the sidewalks around the
event
The Seventh Generation Project
http://faculty.sierracollege.edu/khansen/Project.htm
A global warming info booth sponsored
by AAUW
This is a group of professors committed
to making Sierra College a place where
students will receive an eco-education
to ensure that further generations will
be able to enjoy our Earth
Source: www.sierracollege.edu/EventsAthletics/
recurringEvents/peopleCulture/SustainabilityDay.
html
Academic goals include a new A.A.
major in Environmental Science and a
Faculty Coordinator: Professor of
Environmental Literacy
Other goals include expanded opportunities for students to intern with environmental agencies and NGOs
Related Resources
Have an event where you calculate the
eco-footprint of the world by using this
World Population Clock, courtesy of the
U.S. Census Bureau:
www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
They host workshops for professors,
recent ones focusing on how to incorporate sustainability into coursework
and a roundtable discussion on how
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instead of using incandescent bulbs
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Spelman College
Atlanta, GA • Live Green Week • October 22-26, 2007
Sponsored by the Environmental Task Force, Sophomore Class Council, President Beverly Daniel Tatum and
Facilities Management Services
Beverly Daniel Tatum
A recycling presentation during the sophomore class convocation, featuring a student
skit, environmental videos and a talk by
Willie Potter, recycling director for the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speech in a botany class by urban organic
gardener K. Rashid Nuri
Highlights Included:
“Green Market Friday” with vendors and
information booths, a class council recycling competition and a Nike “Live Green”
shoe raffle
Screenings of environmental movies
Campus tree planting with President
Campus community members were
encouraged to wear green during Green
Market Friday to increase environmental
awareness on campus
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Source: www.spelman.edu/administration/business/fms/greenbuilding.shtml
Spelman is in the middle of its
Spelman ALIVE campaign, and the I
in ALIVE stands for “Improving our
Environment”
Part of this was the groundbreaking
of a new residence hall, which, when
completed in Spring 2008, will be the
first LEED certified residence hall in
Georgia and the first at any U.S.
Historically Black College or
University (HBCU). It will include:
Over 201,455 square feet
303 beds
Related Resources
175-seat dining hall
Consider mixing edible plants in with the
landscaping of your campus. You can
plant herbs, cabbage, and other vegetables, or citrus fruits if your school is
located in a warm environment. For
more about urban gardening, check out
this website.
www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/gar
dening/urbangardening.shtml
100-car parking deck
Suite-style housing, with half
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St. Louis University
St. Louis, MO • Campus Sustainability Day • October 25, 2007
Sponsored by the University Office of the President, Department of Student Life, Department of Biology,
Student Government Association, Environmental Task Force, and Just Earth
Lunch provided by Fresh Gatherings, a
sustainable cafeteria in the Doisy College
of Health Sciences building at the Medical
Center
Highlights Included:
Fresh Gatherings makes sure every
farm they buy from raises their animals and farms their crops in an environmentally conscious manner
Fresh Gatherings
A tour of SLU’s organic campus garden
They produce very little waste because
their food containers are biodegradable or recyclable, scraps are composted, and leftovers are sent to the
Campus Kitchen
Dining services director Fred Wencel gave
a presentation on his department’s environmental initiatives, including coffee
mugs for use at on-campus coffee machines
and new “plastic” cups that are actually
made of corn
Their garden is kept by volunteers and
local elementary school children
Representatives from nearby schools were
invited to share their frustrations and
achievements in the field of sustainability
on campus
SLU Department of Biology: The
Reis Biological Station
www.slu.edu/x14775.xml
Source: www.slu.edu/x18779.xml
The Reis Biological Station was built
to promote environmental and biological education
The station consists of 225 acres of
oak hickory forest located in the
eastern Ozarks of Missouri, and the
Mermac River, which flows through
the property, provides an excellent
site for studying aquatic ecosystems
Related Resources
If you have access to the right facilities, PLA
plastic (or “corn plastic”) is a consideration. It’s
made from a renewable resource, a major plus
factor, but it isn’t as biodegradable as we might
want to believe. To biodegrade, PLAs need to
be in a facility where compost reaches 140
degrees for ten consecutive days. Read this
article from Smithsonian magazine for the
whole story: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/plastic.html
Courses taught here are three weeks
in length, and students stay in rustic
cabins on the property, and classes
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Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by the University Sustainability Action Coalition (USAC) and the SU Office of Academic Affairs
A Talk on Sustainable Transportation by
Susan Zielinski, Managing Director of
SMART (Sustainable Mobility and
Accessibility Research and Transformation)
at the University of Michigan Center for
Advancing Research and Solutions for
Society. Local participants included a rep
from SU Parking Services.
Hybrid vehicles from Toyota, Honda, and
Ford displayed in the Quad
Highlights Included:
Exhibits and interactive displays from
groups such as USAC, Center of
Excellence, Centro/Parking, Emerging
Green Builders, Greening USA, Business &
Sustainability Certificate Program,
Residence Life, Dining Services, Saving
Juice in the Cuse, Go Green Initiative and
more
Local foods were featured in the SU dining
halls that evening
In the community, the Sierra Club held a
program that night on Zero Waste (Or
Pretty Darn Close) with Chris Burger,
Sierra Atlantic Solid Waste Committee
Chair, telling how she and her family have
been reducing waste for 36 years, and
keeping it below a pound (per person per
year!) for the last 15 years. The program
was free and open to the public.
Campus Commuter Challenge prize
awards—a month-long challenge where
campus members are “Reducing the environmental impact of commuting to work
on University Hill”
Source: http://enspire.syr.edu/CSD/
Syracuse University Sustainability
Action Coalition
http://usac.syr.edu
A group of faculty, staff and students,
USAC is committed to make an effective
change by focusing on the campus’s
energy use, recycling and other aspects
of sustainability
Related Resources
Susan Zielinski, Managing Director of the
SMART project (Sustainable Mobility and
Accessibility Research and Transformation),
at
www.isr.umich.edu/carss/about/susanz.html
USAC has organized several events,
including Saving Juice in the ’Cuse,
which challenged residence halls to save
the most energy on campus and recycle
the most materials (as compared to the
previous year). Winners received a trophy and a tree planted in their honor.
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Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook
for Taking Action in Your Community, at
www.billmckibben.com/
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University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ • Sustainability Week • October 24-31, 2007
Sponsored by the University of Arizona Campus Sustainability Committee
UA Visitor Center
open house—the
public was invited to view their
new water harvesting and solar
panel installations
Research forum and poster competition,
“Water and Energy Sustainability:
Roadblocks and Roadmaps to the Future.”
See the entries here: www.uawater.arizona.edu/events/waterforum.html
Highlights Included:
At the Tucson community conversation on
water, over 300 participants discussed
water supply issues facing the region. The
event was comprised of presentations by
water experts, a panel discussion, and a
Q&A with the audience.
UA offers several virtual tours of their campus, one of which is a
Campus Plant Walk. Go
to the link provided here,
www.ag.arizona.edu/arbo
retum/pwalk/startpw.htm,
and take a look at all the
plant species thriving on
their campus.
Lecture from ethnobotanist Gary
Paul Nabhan,
director of the
Center for
Sustainable
Environments at Northern Arizona
University
Source: http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/septoct07/annc.html
www.sustainability.arizona.edu
Campus Sustainability Committee
UA’s alternative transportation programs are impressive. With the options
of using a 50% discounted bus pass, a
free campus shuttle, reduced price
parking passes for carpoolers, secure
bicycle parking, and an emergency
ride home program for carpoolers who
need to leave campus unexpectedly,
commuters are covered 7 days a week.
Related Resources
See a bibliography of ethnobotanist and
author Gary Paul Nabhan’s work at
www.environment.nau.edu/aboutcse/Gary_
Paul_Nabhan_biblio.htm
To learn more about several different “cool
coats” used on building roofs, check out:
They host a farmer’s market with local
and organic foods on campus every
Friday
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www.rubberized.com/310specs.htm
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University of California, Davis
Davis, CA • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by the Office of Administration
The Second Annual Vendor’s Fair showcased products that promote a sustainable
lifestyle. Some of the exhibitions included
office supplies, fair trade and organic
foods, laboratory supplies, and janitorial
supplies.
University Communications and the
Sustainability Advisory Committee premiered their movie, “Sustaining UC
Davis.” The video examines UC Davis'
efforts to incorporate
sustainable principles Watch It!
into the classroom,
Go to
the greater communi- www.ucdavis.edu/spotty and the design and light/1007/green.html to
day-to-day operation
see the nearly 20of the campus.
minute long
“Sustaining UC Davis”
A local farmers’ market selling organically video.
grown produce was
held on campus all
afternoon
Highlights Included:
That night was Farm to College Night, for
which all food in the dining halls’ featured
dishes was organically grown and purchased from local farmers. The sustainable
meal supported the Yolo area farmers and
cut down on transportation costs and energies to ship foods from farther distances.
The event was open to the general public
at a cost of $8 for an all-you-can-eat dinner.
Source:
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http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu
Sustainability at UC Davis
They’re creating a campus “Green
Map” to direct students to sustainability-oriented spots on campus
Are launching a research grant competition for student researchers
interested in sustainability practices
They’re also developing a financing
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Want to read more about getting campus
food from local, sustainable growers?
Read this article about a UC study on
farm-to-institution programs at
http://news.ucanr.org/newsstorymain.cfm
?story=897
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University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA • Campus Sustainability Week • October 22-26, 2007
Sponsored by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG), Associated Students
Environmental Affairs Board, and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
The Clean Energy Carnival, where booths
with information about solar and wind
power were displayed, and students were
given information about efforts to change
environmental legislation
The Clean Energy Quiz, where participants
tested their knowledge of sustainable
resources and got to throw whipped cream
pies (baked with solar energy) at cardboard
cutouts of lobbyists
Highlights Included:
CalPIRG
Every day had a different theme: Zero
Waste Day, Energy and the Built
Environment Day, Food Sustainability,
Transportation and Water, and Curriculum
and Research
Source: www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=14823
www.calpirgstudents.org/home
With nine chapters throughout
California, the California Student
Public Interest Research Group is
making great strides in environmental awareness, including convincing
the University of California Santa
Cruz to use 100% sustainable energy
Students can intern with CalPIRG to
gain college credit, and their duties
include coordinating campaigns and
projects, working on a grassroots
level to gain public support, and
researching social problems
Currently, CalPIRG is trying to protect the polar bears and their habitat
by working hard to get an energy
bill passed that will reduce global
warming. From their website, you
can send a message to Congress
urging them to pass the bill as
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If you’re interested in wind power but
you don’t know where to get started, the
American Wind Energy Association will
be able to answer your questions:
www.awea.org/
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Gainesville, FL • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by the UF Office of Sustainability
“Gators for a Sustainable Campus” set up a
table where students could calculate their
carbon footprints using the Eco-Footprint
calculator
The Student Government Environmental
Affairs cabinet held a forum on the renewable energy fee (of 50 cents per credit hour)
that was recently passed in a Student
Government Election
Highlights Included:
A solar powered tricycle, the Photon, was
provided by the American Solar Energy
Society
The University President addressed the
annual Sustainability Report Card
Source: http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2007/10/23/sustainday
www.sustainable.ufl.edu
UF Office of Sustainability
All over campus, changes are being
made. All paper towels and toilet
paper are made of 100% recycled
materials and cleaners are using
“green” cleaning supplies.
All new campus constructions will
be designed to receive a LEED certification of silver or higher
Related Resources
Solar powered tricycles can run, without
pedaling, on energy from the sun at
around 6-8 mph. See what they look like
at www.solartrike.com
The Charles R. Perry Construction
Yard Building has a vegetative roof
Pepsi is planning on testing solarpowered vending machines on the
UF campus
There are solar powered vending
machines on the market already! Solar
Energy Vending Ltd was formed in 2002,
and they’ve been perfecting their
machines ever since. To see some photos
and get more information about Solar
Energy Vending, go to www.solarvending.com
Over 90% of the water needed for
irrigation on campus is served by
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University of Hawaii – Manoa
Honolulu, HI • Campus Sustainability Week • October 22-26, 2007
Sponsored by UH Manoa Sustainability
Healthy food from sustainable food vendors
The theme of 2007’s Campus Sustainability
Week was “The Future of Food at UHM,”
and all live discussions were complemented by online forums where students could
further voice their opinions. Topics included campus menu options and waste associated with dining.
Highlights Included:
“Green” crafts made by students
On-site laptops to view results of “The
Future of Food” survey and a chance for
students to add their own thoughts
Sources: http://sustainability.hawaii.edu/future-offood-at-uhm-discussions;
http://sustainability.hawaii.edu/future-of-food-atuhm-discussions/campus-sustainability-week-2007schedule/
Performances by UHM dancers and musicians
http://sustainability.hawaii.edu
UH Manoa Sustainability
The University of Hawaii at Manoa
has a large number of courses that
are designated “sustainable.” These
courses can be found in the departments of Anthropology, Biology,
Economics, Geology, Philosophy,
Physics, and Political Science,
among others
Related Resources
Jewelry made from recycled materials is
often beautiful and unique. Go to
www.mykonosbeads.com/docs/glass.htm
to find beads made from recycled glass
and wood, and
www.greatgreengoods.com/2006/09/19/b
ag-of-beads-recycled-paper-beads for
beads made from recycled paper
In association with a student’s thesis
research project, there is a vegetative roof on display and available
for study
There are paid and volunteer recycling jobs for students available all
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University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by the Center for Sustainability
Presentations on Waste Reduction &
Recycling, Energy Conservation, and
Sustainability in Dining
Highlights Included:
The Student Sustainability
Leadership Award went to a group of 11
students who promoted the values of
sustainability throughout Hillel programming and encouraged Hillel to
implement sustainable business practices. They also produced a short film
on the effects of global warming.
Recognizing Student Initiatives
Other research presentations included biofuel research from the Transportation
Research Institute and global climate
change research from The Center for the
Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Sustainability Leadership Awards were
announced
A presentation of a design for a “natural
playscape” for a local park, done by a KU
student
“An Evening of Green” student video
screening
A Sustainability Town Hall Forum that
encouraged input from the campus community
Source:
www.sustainability.ku.edu/Events/CDS07.shtml
This is a student group that is trying
to create a network of future leaders
to be integrated into the green building movement. Their aim is to develop opportunities for working with
the U.S. Green Building Council to
further generate momentum and
popularity for the green building
industry.
Emerging Green Builders
Related Resources
CReSIS: The Center for the Remote Sensing
of Ice Sheets
This organization is composed of six
partner institutions, with the headquarters
located at KU
See www.usgbc.org for more
information on green building
It was developed by the National
Science Foundation in 2005, and aims to
develop new technologies and computer
models to measure and predict the response
sea level change to the mass balance of ice
sheets in Greenland and Antarctica
Go to www2.ku.edu/~sustain for
more on KU’s Center for
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University of Michigan – Dearborn
Dearborn, MI • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by UM-D Facilities Planning, Student Environmental Association, Students for Ethical
Investment, and the Organization for Earth Studies
The garden improves water quality in
surrounding rivers and streams by reducing the amount of storm water flowing into
storm drains
Panel discussion on careers in sustainability
Highlights Included:
An environmental expo
Tours of the campus rain garden, which
helps to control storm water runoff
Keynote speaker Debra Rowe, president of
the U.S. Partnership for Education and
Sustainable Development, led an interactive session for students to discuss ways to
implement sustainability practices in the
future
Water from the roof of the
Environmental Interpretive Center is collected in a low area that contains more
than 40 species of plants native to southeastern Michigan
Film screening of “The 11th Hour”
All-day recycling event, an opportunity for
students to calculate their carbon footprints
and free ice cream!
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Student Environmental Association
Source:
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This student-run campus group hosts a
lot of activities, including volunteering
with local community environmental
initiatives like “The Greening of
Detroit”
Their “Spiders at Night” event started
with a presentation on interesting spiders in their area, and then a walk to
see spiders when they are most active,
at night
Related Resources
For more about rain gardens in Michigan,
check out www.raingardens.org/Index.php.
Find out the benefits, how to make your
own, and ways to educate about storm
water pollution.
The “Owl Prowl” was another event
held at night, where students played
recorded owl calls to tempt the owls
around campus to call back
10,000 Rain Gardens is a Kansas City initiative that is calling on people to voluntarily
assist the government in reducing the
amount of runoff that pollutes the waterways. Go to their website,
www.rainkc.com, for things you can do on
your campus (and within your own yard) to
reduce runoff.
Local people and environmental centers
with animal and reptile collections have
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University of New Brunswick - Fredericton
New Brunswick, Canada • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by University of New Brunswick (UNB) Sustainability
A contest for a new Sustainability Logo
was held
The UNB Physical Plant demonstrated
their latest energy saving projects
Highlights Included:
The Residence Green
Team had a booth
explaining their latest
efforts:
Workshops on Energy Efficiency, Greening
Our Grounds, Student Engagement and
more
The Green Team
is an organization of
house proctors and
presidents interested
in sustainability and
the environment
Presentation by Peter Corbyn: “An
Inconvenient Truth Live”
Throughout the day, environmentally
friendly movies and shorts were shown on
the “Green Screen”
Green Games were played
Part of UNB’s
efforts included
encouraging everyone to reduce campus traffic by carpooling, taking public
transit, walking or biking to campus.
Past projects included paper recycling
competitions and clothing drives
Sustainability Tours were given to show
what projects were happening on campus
Their latest effort is a campus-wide
competition involving reducing energy and
water use
The Fredericton “Green Matters” crew
showed how the university’s efforts added
to the city’s goal to be the first to Kyoto
Source: www.unb.ca/sustainability/
CSDOctober242007.htm
Related Resources
www.unb.ca/sustainability
UNB Sustainability
Al Gore trained Peter Corbyn to present
information from “An Inconvenient Truth” to
a live audience. He has launched
EarthInstitute.ca to teach homeowners, small
businesses, and industry how to save energy.
Learn about the organization, read Peter’s
bio and see his schedule of presentations
across Canada at this website: www.earthinstitute.ca/index-2.html
The University of New Brunswick
has made ecologically intelligent
changes to their campus, like the
use of solar power to light pedestrian walkways
Their daylight harvesting program
automatically turns lights off when
there is enough natural light to illuminate the room
Get some green games of your own from
http://adventerragames.com. Use them on
campus or see if a campus sustainability
group would like to take them to a local
school to aid a presentation on environmentalism.
Computers in campus labs turn off
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Chapel Hill, NC • Campus Sustainability Day • October 26, 2007
Sponsored by the UNC Sustainability Office
Segway Personal Transporter rides on
campus
Highlights Included:
Features of the Sustainability
Report
A speech by state senator Janet Cowell on
high-performance building and renewable
energy legislation in North Carolina
UNC boasts several rainwater storage
areas for use in landscape irrigation
Morrison Residence Hall has a solar
powered hot water system
Presentation of the 2007 Sustainability
Report to Chancellor Moeser
The FedEx Global Education Center
has two green roofs and stores rainwater to use when flushing toilets
The campus achieved a 43 percent
recycling rate
http://sustainability.unc.edu/
UNC Sustainability Office
The Energy Monitoring and Control
System staff saves energy by cycling
HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) systems off at night and on
weekends. This is in place in 24 buildings and saves the University approximately $106,000 annually
UNC’s Business School ranked 10th
in the U.S. and 12th in the world for
excellence in integrating social and
environmental issues into its MBA
program
To help reduce the need for pesticides
and other pest control methods, UNC
uses Integrated Pest Management
(IPM), which includes planting pestresistant species and timing irrigating
and fertilizing schedules so as not to
promote the growth of fungi and other
pests
Free food and drinks all day
Presentations and displays featured information on grounds & storm water, water
efficiency, and climate & energy
Source: www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct07/sustainability102207.html
In the 2006-07 school year, 428 tons of
food scraps were composted
Related Resources
The frying oil from Rams Head Dining
Hall is picked up by the Piedmont
Biofuels cooperative, who turns it into
biodiesel for the use of the community
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safe, easy, and even though they charge
through an electric outlet, that electricity
causes 14 times less greenhouse gas emissions than a car. Read more about them at
www.segway.com.
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • Campus Sustainability Days • Oct. 24-25, 2007
Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability
Greenhouse Gas Forum, a chance for the
campus community
to discuss individual
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ber of vermi-composting
suggestions, and cri(worm composting) projtiques
ects around campus,
Display of an “Ecoincluding in the bookEducation” art projstore staff room, the
ect created by the
USSU offices, and the
Students’ Union
Biology Club office.
Vermi-composting
demonstration
Highlights Included:
The first presentation featured
Footprint Design. They talked about their
Wind Generator Project, which they are
building from scratch and plan to erect
on campus. They also hosted a biodiesel
making event in the Engineering
Building.
Green Bag Lunch Series
Check out the sustainable engineering
company at
www.footprintdesign.usask.ca/
Discounted prices on re-usable coffee mugs
Memorandum of Agreement announcement between U of S and Habitat for
Humanity on new environmental sustainability initiative
Launch of the 2007-2008 Green Bag Lunch
Series, which will feature speakers from
sustainability organizations
http://facilities.usask.ca/sustainability
The Office of Sustainability
Waste audits: After a number of waste
audits, the data collected will be used
to formulate a plan to cut campus
waste by 90%
Source: http://blogs.usask.ca/efdtgradinfo/2007/10/october_19_2007.html
In coordination with the Sasketoon
Food Bank and the thINK program,
there have been toner cartridge recycling stations on campus for several
years
Related Resources
Read these articles to find out more about
Habitat for Humanity’s energy efficient
homes and their commitment to sustainability:
A “bulb eater” crushes used fluorescent bulbs, isolates the mercury, and
both the glass and mercury get sent to
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Columbia, SC • Campus Sustainability Week • October 22-26, 2007
Sponsored by University Housing
Panel discussion on current sustainability
practices, followed by a reception
Highlights Included:
USC’s “green” residence community, West Quad, is composed of four
apartment-style residences
The Green Quad
Tour of the Green Quad and an orientation
program for students interested in sustainability to learn about the Green Learning
Community
The carpets are made of recycled
materials, as is the furniture. The
paint has low VOC content, the
plumbing fixtures are all low flow
devices, and all kitchen appliances
are ENERGY STAR qualified.
www.housing.sc.edu/sustainmain.asp
University Housing
Solar collectors are used to pre-heat
water for domestic use
USC’s sustainability department is
located within University Housing.
Their goal is to turn the residences on
campus into sustainable environments.
Pound for Pound, a week long recycling
competition between Capstone and
Columbia residence halls
Every move out day, the Give it Up
program gives students an opportunity to donate items they no longer
need. There are drop off areas for
shoes, clothing, food, appliances,
carpet, furniture, cinder blocks, and
loft wood.
Cell phone drive, where students could
recycle their old cell phones and pagers
A lunchtime Sustainability Celebration,
which included CFL giveaways
Source: www.housing.sc.edu/sustainweek.asp
When students move in, all of the
cardboard can be dropped off at the
Cardboard Corrals, located at every
residence hall. Each year, approximately 12 tons of cardboard is
recycled.
Related Resources
Hold a cell phone recycling event on your
campus, and donate old phones to Cell
Phones for Soldiers. Help soldiers overseas
call home: www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/
All 250 of University Housing's
computers were converted to flat
screen monitors, saving the
University $8,000 in energy costs
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collects and recycles cell phones, and the
proceeds go to the fundraiser of your
choice: www.eco-cell.org/
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Austin, TX • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by UT Sustainability Network and UT Campus Environmental Center
Locally grown, fresh food courtesy of the
Department of
Housing and
Eco Reps
Food Services
These are student lead(DHFS)
ers who live on campus and
Highlights Included:
Sign-ups for the
student Eco Reps
program to green
the residence
halls
UT has been buying locally grown
food to be served on campus since fall
2006. The food comes from Sustainable
Food Center’s Farm Direct Program, and
is grown just southwest of San Antonio.
DHFS held a local harvest dinner on
October 22, which featured an entire
menu of local foods. There was bison
lasagna, roasted chicken quarters, green
chili and cheese quesadillas, pecan pie
and Blue Bell ice cream!
volunteer to educate residents about environmental
issues, conduct recycling
inventory for their own residence halls, and help organize events and gatherings.
A table from Parking and Transportation
spotlighting ways for commuters to get
involved with carpools and bike to work
www.utenvironment.org/content
UT Campus Environmental Center
Source:
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=lifestyle&dt=20071024&id=AAAb6PAAPAAAH
byAAC
An organization that is connected to
the UT Student Government, the CEC
is the parent of 14 campus environmental committees and two training
programs, such as the Sustainability
Network, Trash to Treasure, and the
Orange Bike Project
Trash to Treasure collects items students don’t want when they move out
in May, and then has a huge garage
sale in August! All of the money
raised goes to support environmental
programs on campus.
Related Resources
Check out www.farmtoschool.org to find
out how to get organic, locally grown foods
into your dining halls
In an effort to promote alternative
transportation, The Orange Bike
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Blacksburg, VA • Sustainability Week • October 21-27, 2007
Sponsored by Virginia Tech, Sustainable Blacksburg, the Town of Blacksburg, and the Environmental Coalition
A full seven days
of events!
Weekdays at
noon, campus
community members brought their
lunch to the
Blacksburg
Library to watch
environmental
documentaries
Go: Life at the End of the Fair,” “KEEN
STAND Tour,” and “Koyannisqatsi”
Highlights Included:
Film screenings:
“The 11th Hour,”
“What a Way to
Monday-Saturday the dining hall featured
food produced by the Commonwealth of
Virginia
KEEN STAND Tour
STAND is a contest
sponsored by Keen
Footwear for people who
Stand Up, Stand Out, and
Stand For sustainability –
and the winners receive up
to $25,000! Check out the
rules and regulations at
www.keenfootwear.com/
stand.
Sustainability Idea Competition – students
submitted ideas and action plans to
achieve a more sustainable campus or community and got a chance to win a Trek
bicycle
Trees were planted on the campus drillfield
Presentations on vegetative roofs, the science of recycling (and a tour of the local
recycling facility), and Green Building
Techniques of the 21st century
Sustainability awareness podcasts were
made available
VT & YMCA presentation for elementary
school children on making crafts from recycled and re-used materials
The Environmental Coalition at
Virginia Tech (ECVT)
www.theecvt.com
The ECVT is an alliance of groups that
are interested in actively achieving
sustainable solutions. Partners include
the Political Science Club of Virginia
Tech, VT-ENGAGE, SEEDS (Seek,
Educate, Explore, DiScover), and the
Virginia Climate Action Network
Source:
www.facilities.vt.edu/sustainability/week.htm
Related Resources
They run a paper recycling program
that started in one building in 2002
and has expanded to 30 buildings
Check out this document from the EPA on
the benefits of vegetative roof coverings:
www.epa.gov/nps/roofcover.pdf
Here’s the official site for the Leonardo
DiCaprio-produced and narrated movie
“The 11th Hour,” a documentary on the
state of the global environment with practical solutions for restoring the Earth’s ecosystems: http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour
Due to their efforts, a video petition
was presented to VT President Dr.
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Lexington, VA • Environmental Awareness Events • October 16, 2007
Sponsored by the Commonwealth of Virginia Energy and Sustainability Conference (COVES), VMI Research
Laboratories, and the Virginia Sustainable Future Forum
Campus Sustainability Poster Session, featuring topics such as sustainable dining
services, healthy eating, organic products,
recycling, and organizations like the campus Kompost Krewe and Local Foods
Committee
COVES workshop on greenhouse gas
inventories and management
Highlights Included:
President of Second Nature and co-director
of the American College and University
Presidents’ Climate Commitment, Anthony
Cortese, presented on the necessities of taking inventories of greenhouse gases
Live broadcast of the 24th annual World
Food Day teleconference “Climate:
Changes, Challenges and Consequences,”
that focuses on the threat climate change
poses for the world’s poor and hungry
Solar energy demonstration
Screening of the film “The Next Industrial
Revolution,” which focuses on the efforts
of architect William McDonough and
chemist Dr. Michael Braungart to redesign
buildings, products, and processes to work
according to the laws of nature
The Commonwealth of Virginia
Energy and Sustainability
Conference
Source: www1.wlu.edu/x5901.xml
www.covesva.org
COVES, a three day event, was
hosted in 2007 by the Virginia
Military Institute and Washington
and Lee University
Related Resources
Among the 70+ presentations given,
quite a few of them are available for
viewing on the COVES website,
including “Virginia Energy:
Charting a Secure & Sustainable
Future,” “Biomass Energy 101,” and
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Bring solar energy to your campus! Go to
www.solarenergy.com to learn about
Photovoltaic panels and how to purchase
them for your school.
See why “The Next Industrial Revolution”
won first place at the EarthVision 2003
Environmental Film & Video Festival at
http://thenextindustrialrevolution.org
Learn more about the United Nations’ World
Food Day, held every October 16, at
www.fao.org/wfd2007/
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Westfield, MA • Campus Sustainability Day • October 24, 2007
Sponsored by Trudy Knowles, professor of education, and Robert E. Thompson, adjunct professor of biology
and director of WSC’s Environmental Center
pledged to
adopt “green”
behavior
Everyone on campus was invited to wear
green, and those who did were eligible to
win eco-prizes
Highlights Included:
Big Y World
Class Market, a
local supermarket chain,
donated 400
reusable grocery
bags
A Green Fair was held to raise consciousness about environmental issues and
explore what students can do to make a
difference
Student public interest research group
MassPIRG made hot cider from solar panels, and everyone was asked to bring their
own mugs, rather than using disposable
cups
Go to MassPIRG’s student homepage at
www.masspirgstudents.org
and take a look at their
coming events and everything they’ve already
accomplished, environmentally, economically, and
socially.
The University
gave away
water bottles with the slogan “Think
Green” printed on them to discourage use
of disposable water bottles on campus
Snacks made from local produce were
distributed
Source:
www.wsc.mass.edu/PressRoom/Sustainability%20
Day.html
Local business Columbia Manufacturing
Inc. donated a bicycle as a raffle prize—raffle tickets were given to anyone who
Westfield River Environmental
Center
Related Resources
www.westfieldriver.org
Go to www.columbiamfginc.com/environmental%20awards.html to visit the site of
Columbia Manufacturing Inc., the company
that donated a bike for WSC’s Sustainability
Day, and to learn about their environmental
stewardship efforts
A facility on campus that supports
research, education, and outreach
activities related to the study of the
environment (especially within the
Westfield River Watershed)
Learn about the “1 Bag at a Time” movement to reduce plastic bag use at
www.onebagatatime.com/ -- and how plastic bags impact natural habitats, global
warming, petroleum depletion, city budgets
and more
Works to strengthen K-12 environmental education
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Salem, OR • Campus Sustainability Day • October 26, 2006
Sponsored by Sustainability at Willamette
Info about the
Cherriots
Rideshare
program
A display in the dining hall of Oregon’s
sustainable viticulture, with wine from the
Willamette Valley
Highlights Included:
Winterization
workshop:
do-it-yourself
home energy
efficiency
A table to share information about how to
Vote Green and recognize green initiatives
in political parties
A live fish cam!
Recycled art exhibit and a chance to bring
your own t-shirt for screen printing
Environmental
Jeopardy
Car show with the Toyota Prius and
Salem’s electric car
Organic appetizers
Sustainability
Grant recipients
were announced
www.willamette.edu/about/sustainability/
Sustainability at Willamette
Viticulture (from the
Latin word for vine) is the
science, production and
study of grapes, which
deals with the series of
events that occur in the
vineyard. When the grapes
are used for winemaking, it
is also known as viniculture.
It is one branch of the science of horticulture.
Source: Wikipedia.org
Source:
www.willamette.edu/about/sustainability/info/05_s
ustday.htm
In November 2007, they held a
Sustainability Retreat with 40 students, faculty, and staff members.
The objectives of the retreat were to
update long-range goals for sustainability at Willamette, generate several lists of resources and decision
support tools, and to experience fun
and rejuvenation.
Related Resources
On a recent episode of CBS’s “Morning
Show,” there was a segment devoted to the
ways you can winterize your home. Danny
Lipford goes over the products you should
purchase and how much you can save at
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/12/early
show/living/supersavers/main529051.shtml
Whenever possible, food (both meat
and vegetables) is purchased from
local organic farms using just labor
practices
Read about Electric Wheels Inc. in Salem,
Oregon. They have cars, motorcycles, and
even pickups that run entirely on electricity:
www.electricwheelsinc.com/
Acid-based cleaners are banned
from campus
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Learn about the Cherriots Rideshare program, a free computerized ridematching
service, at www.cherriotsrideshare.org/
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Environmental and sustainability-oriented coalitions are gaining popularity because of their ability to attract more attention and spread the word
further. Joining forces with another institution means extra brainpower,
more students to get involved, more help footing the bill, and a bigger
impact on our environment. Or consider joining a national network to maximize your efforts.
Sustainability Coalitions
Here are a few examples of these partnerships: who’s involved, what
they’re working on, and why.
The Sierra Student Coalition
www.ssc.org/
The SSC, the student chapter of the Sierra Club, has over 250 colleges
and high schools throughout the U.S. involved
The mission of the SSC is to “train, empower, and organize youth to run
effective campaigns that result in tangible environmental victories.”
They do this by offering resources and support for young environmental
leaders.
There are campus and community organizers; campus organizers are
responsible for local campaigns with their personal high school or college, and community organizers are responsible for maintaining communication between campuses in a region or state and facilitating joint
efforts
MYCA – Massachusetts Youth Climate Action
www.gomyca.org/
A collaboration among Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Northeastern University, and Simmons College
MYCA is currently working on a campaign to get the Massachusetts
Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) passed
The bill calls for a mandatory cap on all global warming emissions,
with reductions of 20% of today’s levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050
MYCA organized a call-in day (November 15, 2007), where they
urged students throughout the state to call the Massachusetts senator
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The weekend before Earth Day 2008 (April 19-21) they are planning to
attend Power Shift MA, when thousands of Massachusetts citizens will
arrive in Boston to say that they are not doing enough, as a state, to
reduce global warming
SEAC – The Student Environmental Action Coalition
www.seac.org/
SEAC is a huge network of young individuals and school environmental
groups from throughout the United States and Canada
One of their current initiatives is Mountain Justice Spring Break 2008,
when SEACers will go to Ohio and Virginia to take a stand and fight
back against destructive coal mining practices
SEAC divisions on college campuses can post their events on SEAC’s
homepage and gain attention and support for their individual causes
CReSIS – Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
www.cresis.ku.edu/about/index.html
Includes the University of Kansas (lead institution), Elizabeth State
University, Haskell Indian Nations University, Ohio State University,
Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Maine
CReSIS is a science and technology center established by the National
Science Foundation. Apart from the core group of universities, there are
also several international institutions and industry partners that aid in
research.
This project maps and tracks the movement of glacial ice
There are opportunities for undergraduates to complete internships and
work as research assistants
The CReSIS Education Team hosts workshops and supports enrichment
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The eWaste Recycling Event
http://is.richmond.edu/ewaste/
Includes the University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, Old Dominion
University, and Hollins University
This joint effort event was created to help Virginia residents properly
dispose of computers, cell phones, and other electronic equipment that
had come to the end of its useful life
Disposing of old electronics in an environmentally safe way defers the
hazardous materials from entering our air and water
The event, open to individuals, schools, and small businesses, collected
the waste free of charge. There were collection days on each of the campuses for several days in October 2007.
All data on any electronics was safely and completely destroyed
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When planning your next Campus Sustainability Day, don’t forget that
sustainability starts with you—there are little things you can do that will
add up to a big difference, especially when you start thinking eco-friendly
in the office. Just reminding employees to recycle their paper and drink bottles is a start.
Running a Sustainable Office
You can spread the word about sustainability by setting a good example
through what you purchase, too. When you need to replace something,
why not check to see if there is an updated model that uses less energy or
was created with less harmful materials?
Saving energy and encouraging sustainability isn’t as hard as it seems.
Look through these ideas on how to make your office a more environmentally friendly place to work.
Lighting
Take a few simple steps—save a lot of energy!
Turn lights off when you leave a room. Contrary to what some people
believe, there are no adverse or negative effects associated with cycling
lights on and off.
The CFL
Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)
are popular as a lower-energy alternative
to standard incandescent light bulbs.
CFLs use 75% less energy and last 10
times longer, resulting in a savings of
$30 on energy costs over each bulb’s
lifetime
They produce about 75% less heat
(which helps with the air conditioning
bill)
It’s worth it to make the switch—just
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If you or your employees tend to forget to
turn off lights, consider installing an occupancy
sensor. These lights automatically turn off when
they sense movement in a room has stopped, and
turn on again when someone comes in. Lights
like this are great for everywhere in the office,
particularly in common areas like the bathroom,
kitchen, or conference room
Have nice windows? Use them! Try opening
the blinds and using natural light during the day.
LED lights are another option to consider.
They are not as widely known as their fluorescent and incandescent counterparts, but there are
many advantages to using them. They can produce more light per watt than incandescent
bulbs, which is useful in battery-powered
devices, like flashlights (because they will use
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less battery power). Although they are more expensive initially, when
considering the low energy and maintenance costs (LEDs are much less
likely to break), they surpass incandescent bulbs and rival CFLs.
Paper Usage
There’s no denying that virtually all offices need to use paper to conduct
business. But just because you use paper doesn’t mean you can’t do it in a
way that will better serve the environment – just reuse and recycle.
Use both sides of the page. Utilizing the other side of a sheet is useful
for memos, drafts, and notes. Next to your copy machine, have two
bins: The first for scrap paper that has only been used on one side, and
the second a paper recycling bin for pages that have been used to their
capacity.
Email memos instead of printing them out and distributing them
Choose Earth-friendly paper for your printers and copy machines, and
be sure to look for papers with high PCW (Post Consumer Waste) content. This means the paper has served its original purpose and has been
turned into a new material that will fit your copier perfectly. You can
find competitively priced recycled paper from most office supply stores.
For instance:
What’s all this about chlorine?
Pulp mills use chlorine to bleach their
paper. Unfortunately, chlorine is an
extremely harsh chemical that has
major environmental repercussions.
When it bonds with the carbon-based
compounds in paper, it produces dioxin and other dangerous pollutants,
which do not break down in water,
thus moving their way up the food
chain.
How do you know you’re choosing
paper that did not take part in this
harmful process? Make sure you see
the letters TCF: Totally Chlorine Free.
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processed without chlorine or chlorine compounds. Item #620016
Boise Aspen 100% PCW recycled paper, no
chlorine or chlorine compounds. Office Max item
#21151771
Printers and copiers aren’t the only sources of
paper in your office. Switch over to recycled
paper towels and toilet paper, too.
If you’re printing something that’s going to go
only a few lines over a page, switch the margins
so everything can fit on one sheet
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Appliances and Office Machines
Computers, copiers, fax machines, and kitchen appliances need a lot of
energy to operate, resulting in a high bill and the release of greenhouse
gases. You can change this by making some small changes around the
office.
If you’re in the market for some new equipment, look first to see if there
are any ENERGY STAR models. This is a joint program of the U.S.
Department of Energy and the Environmental
Protection Agency to help limit greenhouse
Hibernate vs. Shutdown
gases emitted into the air by spotlighting energy
Microsoft.com calls hibernating “shutting
efficient machinery. Using ENERGY STAR prodalmost completely off.” What happens is
ucts will drastically reduce the amount of eneryour current Windows settings are saved
gy needed to run your office.
before the computer goes into hibernation
Turn off your computer monitor when you
so, when you reboot, your desktop will look
leave your desk for more than a few minutes
exactly as you left it (with Internet Explorer
Shut down your computer when you leave
and Microsoft Excel opened, for example).
for the night: Turning computers on and off is
It takes less time to reboot a hibernating
not harmful to the machines – they were
computer than one that is completely
designed to be operated in this manner.
shut down. You can set your computer to
Unplug things like the coffee maker, fans, or
automatically hibernate after a certain
radios before you leave at night. Even when
period of inactivity, too, in case you leave
appliances are turned off they still use small
it on by accident.
amounts of energy if they’re plugged into an
So, what to do? Consider hibernating
outlet.
while you’re out to lunch so you can get
back to exactly what you were doing
Sustainable Office Products
quickly, and shutting down when you’re
When you stop to think about it, there are a
gone for the night and definitely when
lot of products you use in your office besides
closing for the weekend.
paper and computers. Turn your office into a
cleaning products.
sustainable environment of its own and switch
to sustainable coffee, tea, pens, pencils, and
Do you know where your coffee comes from? If it’s Fair Trade coffee,
you’ll know where it came from and who it’s supporting. The growing
Fair Trade industry buys products like coffee, tea, clothing, and crafts
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stream consumers. All goods are produced in an environmentally sustainable way and prices paid to the manufacturers are fair and nonexploitative. For more information visit www.fairtradefederation.org/
Many cleaning products are very abrasive and contain environmentally
harmful chemicals. Luckily, there are products that work just as well as
conventional ones but are safe to use, such as:
Simple Green®, an all-purpose cleaner, is non-toxic, biodegradable,
non-hazardous, non-flammable, and non-corrosive. Even the packaging
is recyclable. They have a whole line of products
that you can check out at www.simplegreen.com.
Save Ink!
Just printing a draft? Many computers have a “fast draft” selection for
printing pages that don’t need to
look perfect. Your printer won’t use
the maximum amount of ink, and the
pages will print faster.
Don’t print in color unless it’s
absolutely necessary
Choose to print text only when printing from the internet—photos take a
lot of ink and a lot of time to print
Get Clean™ offers a huge variety of non-toxic
and biodegradable products. Get an all-purpose
cleaner, biodegradable wipes for cleaning windows, detergent for the kitchen sink, and hand
soap for the bathroom. Go to
www.shaklee.net/allswellhealth/prodHou to see
what else they have.
Kick the bottled water habit. If you’ve been
providing it in your office, make the switch to a
water cooler or water fountain. Encourage your
employees and coworkers to bring their own
reusable water bottles or mugs instead of using
multiple plastic or paper cups.
You can buy almost anything made out of recycled content! Go to www.thegreeenoffice.com to find everything you
need to run your office: scissors, pens, pencils, briefcases, and more.
www.dolphinblue.com is another online company where you can
find a variety of recycled office products, but they also offer remanufactured toner cartridges. Send them your old cartridges (they take care of
shipping costs) and get a credit towards purchasing their remanufactured ones!
Office Furniture
Buying new furniture? It’s an important purchase. You want something
that’s going to last, that looks nice in your workspace, and fits your needs.
Before you buy a new version of the desk you already have, think about
these alternatives:
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Why not buy it used? Visit a used office furniture supply store. By buying used instead of new, you’re preventing perfectly good furniture
from clogging a landfill, helping to slow the demand for the creation of
new furniture and the use of new materials, and you’re saving money!
Check out furniture that uses natural wood alternatives or large quantities of recycled material. This furniture is just as sturdy and aesthetically
pleasing as its traditional counterpart, but you’ll have the satisfaction of
knowing you’re supporting a sustainable business.
Companies like Baltix® use wheat straw, sunflower hulls, recycled
plastic and aluminum, and cork to make their office furniture. Choose
from a variety of desks, tables, chairs, cabinets, and custom made products. See www.baltix.com for more.
Ecowork© produces their furniture from 95% recycled materials:
wheatboard (a recycled wood waste product), recycled newsprint, cardboard fiber, and rubber. They provide professional, modern furniture.
Check out their website at www.ecowork.com.
Other Ways to Promote a Sustainable
Office Environment
Propose a carpool so people from the
same area can drive to work together
Make sure your office is well insulated. Drafts can dramatically increase
the amount of energy used to heat
your office during the cold months,
and poor insulation can cause higher
bills when it comes to air conditioning,
too.
Try to delay putting on the air conditioner. Put fans in windows, utilize
ceiling fans, and use blinds to shade
the sun. Offices and classrooms are
often colder than necessary.
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Don’t forget about carpets! Carpets and rugs
are big items that are rarely recycled, and landfills are full of them.
Get 100% recycled plastic carpet from
www.ecosmartinc.com. They offer other services,
too, like sustainable hardwood flooring, solar
lights, and eco-friendly paint.
Check out the Carpet America Recovery
Effort (CARE) to find out what you can do with
your old rug at www.carpetrecovery.org
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Students looking for a way to get involved with the sustainability effort
in a more direct, hands-on way may want to consider a volunteer position.
There are a lot of organizations out there looking for help from dedicated
people. Opportunities like this are great for summer vacations, winter
break, or a semester off. Or, they may consider taking an internship during
the semester. The organizations listed below have volunteer positions,
internships, and a few job opportunities. Visit a website like
www.idealist.org or www.volunteermatch.org for more possibilities.
Nonprofits and Sustainability
Global Green USA
Washington, DC; New Orleans, LA; Santa Monica, CA
www.globalgreen.org/index.html
The three problems Global Green addresses are stemming climate
change by creating green buildings and cities, eliminating weapons of
mass destruction, and providing clean drinking water for the millions of
people who lack it
One of their current projects is to rebuild New Orleans into a sustainable
city
They are also trying to advance green affordable housing, solar power,
and high performance schools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and cities
across the country
Sustainable Harvest International
Surry, ME; Carrboro, NC
www.sustainableharvest.org/index.cfm
Since 1997, SHI has worked with over 1,000 families and 900 students in
Honduras, Panama, Belize, and Nicaragua to implement sustainable
farms and farming techniques
By turning 6,000 acres of farmland to sustainable uses, 30,000 acres of
rainforest were protected from slash-and-burn destruction
SHI has helped to build wood conserving stoves, create organic vegetable gardens, re-introduce fertilizers without chemicals, and raise farm
income up to 800%
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Global Footprint Network
Oakland, CA
www.footprintnetwork.org/
The Global Footprint Network’s vision is to make the Ecological
Footprint a prominent metric. By 2015, GFN aims to have ten countries
managing their ecological wealth in the same way they manage their
finances.
Through their newsletter, website, and media campaigns, they are
sparking international dialogue about ecological limits and overshoot
(our ability to use resources faster than they regenerate)
Reverb
Portland, ME
www.reverbrock.org
Reverb educates musicians and their fans to promote environmental
sustainability
They’ve greened 43 tours and 659 events. At each show, they set up an
“eco-village,” which is a festival-like atmosphere with booths, vendors,
local nonprofits, and a fan carbon offset program
They assist bands with creating carbon neutral concerts, reducing waste,
energy efficiency, and selling eco-friendly merchandise, among other
things
Volunteer at a concert for one of your favorite bands!
National Council for Science and Environment
Washington, DC
http://ncseonline.org/
The NCSE provides services to advance environmental programs at colleges and universities, prepares high school students for college programs in environmental science, and advances young people in environmental careers through fellowships and internships
Their annual conference brings together 800-1200 leaders to explore the
relationships between science and major environmental topics
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Their online Earth Portal is a huge resource of articles, interactive maps,
a forum to allow discussions with experts, and a chance to get specific
questions answered
Youth for a New World
Clinton, WA
www.youthnewworld.org/
The AfricaAmericaExchange (AAX), YNW’s first program, linked six
schools in the United States with six schools in Barundi, Central Africa
The purpose of AAX was for the students from the U.S. to share scientific knowledge, technology and financial resources, and the students from
Africa to share their “ethic of community and interdependence on the
natural world”
YNW has other projects that focus on promoting peace through art and
the actual reconstruction of homes destroyed by poverty and civil wars
Windward Center
Klickitat, WA
www.windward.org/
Windward is a community that is striving to demonstrate that it is possible to sustainably house, feed, fuel, and clothe twenty people on 100
acres
They are currently working on a hyper-integrated aquaponics system,
which involves growing plants and fish in the same system and producing organic fish food
They offer 12-week internships so students can fully understand how to
create and live in a completely sustainable environment
The Network of Change
Meeker, CO
www.networkofchange.org/
The Network of Change’s projects are all 100% sustainable. This NGO
relies on volunteer work and donations to continue operation.
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All projects are completed in Kenya, and include agriculture, where personal instruction along with organic heirloom vegetable and fruit seeds
are provided to interested families, and drought management, where
communities are taught how to turn non-potable water into drinking
water
Tillers International
Scotts, MI
www.tillersinternational.org/
Tillers is committed to introducing low-capital, sustainable farming techniques to increase productivity of rural and low income farms
They preserve low-cost, historical rural skills, as well as teach new ideas
like solar water pumps and intentional rotational crop grazing, which
reduces and almost eliminates the need for machinery
Local classes are offered in woodworking, blacksmithing, and animal
powered agriculture (using animals for work instead of machines), and
Tillers brings that knowledge to rural farms all over the world
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
www.wwoof.org
WWOOF is not so much a volunteer program as a “work exchange” program. Volunteers work a pre-set number of hours per day on an organic
farm, and farmers repay them with food (generally from the farm) and
accommodations.
There are currently 53 countries with established WWOOF organizations
Learn how to grow organic foods and use ecologically sound farming
methods while helping the farmers who really make a difference
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