Campus Greens Student Efforts to Make HWS Campus Greener

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Campus Greens - Student Efforts to Make HWS
Campus Greener

• Finger Lakes Institute Dedication
• Friday October 22, 2004

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Earth Week

• Jim Simgouski -NYSEG -Gave lecture about wind
  energy.
• Mess table
• No drive day
• Movie night
• Polar bear swim
• Campus-wide ad campaign for recycling.

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Past Earth Week Activities

• Invited speakers
• Tabling
• SUV/car comparison
• Food waste in cafeteria
• Meat-out
• Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up
• Field trip to volunteer at local organic farms,
  visit local state parks
• Environmental movies- Cadillac Desert, Baraka,
  the Lorax
• Sustainable design and the environment
• Sweatshirt sales
• Polar Bear Swim

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Campus Greens Activities

• field trips to
• organic farms, wind farms, ecovillage (well get
  there eventually!)
• In-dorm Recycling facilities
• Cooridinated signs for above
• Ink-cartridge recycling effort
• Tree-free paper effort (campus-wide)

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Projects Done to Increase Campus Awareness of
Environmental Issues

• Labeling of trees around campus

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Highway Clean Up

• Location
• -Route 14A south from Geneva
• -2.5 miles

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School Café and Cafeteria

• Eliminate styrofoam
• Increased vegan and vegetarian options
• Fair trade coffee
• Decrease packaging requirements on take-out
• Re-usable mugs

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Drennens Office

• Prof. Drennen agreed to have his office used.
• We purchased Herman Miller products such as the
  Aeron chair.
• Sustainability of construction of products was
  important.
• His furniture is made from recycled pop bottles
  and cans. It still looks good.

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Polar Bear Swim

• WHHHAAAHOOO!!!

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Current Projects

• Dump and Run
• -to minimize the impact of HWS students tossing
  their belongings out at the end of the year, we
  are trying to get them donated and sold at
  auction to raise money for local charities.

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Most Recent Mess Table

• The results were
• lunch
• 778 people, 88 lb food, 12.5 gal liquid
• dinner
• 660 people, 107 lb food, 9 gal liquid

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Biodiesel

• Conference at UVM
• -biodiesel
• -environmental committee

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HWS Votes

• -weve worked to educate the HWS community on the
  positions each candidate has.
• DONT VOTE FOR BUSH!
• (especially if you like air)

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No Drive Day

• WALK!
• We put a Prius out to show its features

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Greener orientation

• Education for first years
• -bringing Energystar products to campus
• -knowledge about energy conservation
• -knowing where to recycle
• Camping element
• A sustainable educational opportunity, camping,
  canoeingetc. For pre-orientation first years.
• In the dacks!
• In coordintation with the deans and SIB leaders.

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House competition

• Competition between 9 small houses to see who can
  reduce their energy consumption the most.
• By historical house energy usages, so its fair.

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