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Emerson Sustainability Team Rolls Out New Waste Signage on Campus
Read more: Emerson Sustainability Team Rolls Out New Waste Signage on CampusThis summer, the Emerson College sustainability team has been hard at work implementing a new initiative designed to improve waste sorting and sustainability practices across campus. Drawing from feedback gathered during focus groups, a waste audit, and sustainability events held in the spring semester of 2024, the team has created updated waste signage in collaboration…
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2024 Sustainability Survey Results & Analysis – From a Student Perspective
Read more: 2024 Sustainability Survey Results & Analysis – From a Student PerspectiveBy Ava Tribe Emerson has increased its commitment to sustainability in recent years and the efforts have become more visible to students, faculty, and staff. However, as a student working in sustainability on campus with admittedly some bias toward the importance of my work and having a deep understanding of exactly what is going on…
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Emerson Dining Center Donates to Food for Free
Read more: Emerson Dining Center Donates to Food for FreeBy: Ava Tribe Ever wonder where the excess food from the Dining Center ends up? Wonder no more! Rather than being discarded, unused food from the Emerson Dining Center is donated to Food for Free, a non-profit based in Massachusetts. This spring, we are thrilled to share that we’ve donated a remarkable 724 lbs of…
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Griff Gives Spring 2024 Results!
Read more: Griff Gives Spring 2024 Results!By Ava Tribe Last month, students moving out from the Emerson College Boston campus had the opportunity to donate items they no longer wanted through our sustainable move-out program Griff Gives. In total, the program generated a total of nearly 20,000 pounds of donations! Over the span of two weeks, students dropped unwanted clothing, housewares,…
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Day in the Life 4: My Research on Carbon Offset Projects
Read more: Day in the Life 4: My Research on Carbon Offset ProjectsBy: Katie Koenig I’ve been working for the past couple semesters on a large research project to provide data on other universities’ carbon offsetting strategies to guide Emerson’s strategy to achieve carbon neutrality. I’ve mentioned this in prior posts, but I’ve officially reached the final stage of this project, no longer researching but rather summating…