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Join the Race to Zero Waste!
Read more: Join the Race to Zero Waste!By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy Each year, Emerson competes in the Campus Race to Zero Waste (CR2ZW), a friendly competition between colleges and universities to identify the leading institutions in waste diversion. For eight weeks from January to March, Emerson and other colleges will be submitting waste data including weekly recycling, compost, and trash weights.…
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A Sustainable Take on New Year’s Resolutions
Read more: A Sustainable Take on New Year’s ResolutionsBy Sustainability Coordinator, Jacqui Moy Happy New Year, Emerson community! With the new year comes much reflection and many resolutions. Here are some resolutions—actions you can take— from Sustainability at Emerson to create a greener 2024. Also find information on upcoming programming at the end of the article. Committing to one of these simple sustainable…
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Calling all Volunteers and Free Food Lovers: Sign Up for Waste Signage Focus Groups!
Read more: Calling all Volunteers and Free Food Lovers: Sign Up for Waste Signage Focus Groups!By: Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy Waste signage around campus is crucial to improving sorting of different types of waste. You can find this signage all around campus by compost, recycle, and trash bins explaining what items go in each bin. We recognize that these signs can be confusing! Sometimes they don’t include a picture of…
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Kasteel Well 6: Flying Home
Read more: Kasteel Well 6: Flying HomeBy Sustainability Research Fellow Katie Koenig With the hindsight of winter break, it’s a lot easier to pinpoint the things that really worked out for move out and the flight back to Boston, and the things that really didn’t. For starters, I was so glad I had so little to pack during finals weekend—a weird…
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Kasteel Well 5: Buying in Bruges
Read more: Kasteel Well 5: Buying in BrugesBy Sustainability Research Fellow Katie Koenig As the end of the semester crept closer for us Castle students, some friends and I were determined to get in some kind of holiday cheer as a last hurrah before the abysmal weeks of finals and finals prep were upon us. Although the first snow in Kasteel was…