Another article from the Campus Journal, Printing and Mail Services: Cut Costs Not Trees, explains their efforts to reduce the waste generated from bulk mailings.
In the article, Paul Roberts mentions there is an ink cartridge refill program in the MUB. Are we using it?
Categories: campus · printing · sustainability
This article from the Campus Journal expands upon UNH’s efforts, UNH Gets Top Grade on Sustainability Report Card.
Categories: campus · sustainability
There’s an item on today’s UNH homepage, UNH Named Top 15 College Sustainability Leader. This links to an article from GreenBiz about The College Sustainability Report Card. You can read the report yourself here. UNH fares quite well in this report.
The results aren’t quite so glowing in The National Wildlife Federation’s just released Campus Environment 2008 report card. You can read that report here. -Colleen
Categories: campus · sustainability
With the the new business school going in at the coops, it may be more appropriate to relocate the bike rack (next to the parking lot) to the underpass side of Gregg.?.
This may cost a bit more, however it will be in a more accessible area…
Something to think about.
salude! - Jeff
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When I spoke with Housekeeping about the possibility of switching to green cleaning products in our building, I was told that a campus-wide move to environmentally friendly products is underway. They will use up their stock but the replacement products will be green. - Colleen
Categories: green
Here’s the sign with instructions for kitchen composting. The signs were posted in the kitchens this afternoon.
Categories: compost
This morning Kathy sent around a tip to make it easy to print in B&W. It’s basically a matter of setting up virtual printers with different settings. See the explanation and complete instructions Office Watch at http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=682&zoneid=8
Categories: printing
Birdie reports that she and Scott have set up the composting bin on the grass area off the highbay next to the bike rack. The kitchen buckets are already being put to good use and a sign will go up soon so folks will have some direction. Zach and Birdie are working on schedules for the all important task of emptying the kitchen bins daily.
Our composter is called The Earth Machine. You can learn more about it here.
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The Green Team can help identify environmental projects at the department/building level (i.e., Gregg Hall) and will (hopefully) get the other users of the building on board to a better environment. We can reduce paper use, increase recycling, promote energy conservation and so on. Let’s put green ideas into motion with a group effort. Green Teams are springing up all over on campuses and in offices all over the country. It’s time for Gregg to have its own Green Team. (Whitney’s original proposal)
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