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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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Clean Out Your Office Day: 2023 Recap
By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy On October 18th, as part of Campus Sustainability Month, Emerson Sustainability and the Emerson Archives and Special Collections team collaborated to hold the fall Clean Out Your Office Day (COYO for short)! This is a biannual event held each semester where members of the Emerson community can drop off unwanted…
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Coming up: Fall, 2023 Clean Out Your Office (COYO) day
Calling all faculty and staff! Are you looking for a festive way to celebrate Campus Sustainability Month this October? Do you have some old office supplies you’re not using anymore? Or are you looking for the perfect stapler for your desk? Join sustainability staff on Wednesday, October 18, for our fall Clean Out Your Office…
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Vegan catering suggestions near campus
Interested in pursuing Emerson’s Green Event Certification? Just want to provide delicious plant-based food for your gathering? We’re here to help! Along with the many vegan options offered by Bon Appétit for campus delivery, many local eateries offer great plant-based food options for any size or style of event. Check out the guide below for…
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October is Campus Sustainability Month
Happy fall! October is Campus Sustainability Month. Check out the list below for a rundown of all the opportunities we’ll have for you throughout the month related to sustainability. Be sure to sign up for Project Green Challenge before it starts on October 1! There will be prizes every day. Oct. 1 – 31 (Sign…
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Weigh the Waste — April, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig The final Weigh the Waste event of the year took place on April 26, Stop Food Waste Day. Eco Ambassadors ran the usual routine—tables out upstairs and downstairs with labeled, plastic tubs for weighing waste during the dining period—one last time before the end of the school year. This time,…
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Griff Gives, 2023: Sustainable Move-Out
Time flies and the semester is almost over! As you begin wrapping up another year at Emerson, consider actions to reduce your waste as much as possible. Today, Campus Services, with the help of our four student Eco Ambassadors, is launching a reimagined sustainable move-out program called Griff Gives. From this afternoon until noon on…
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Recap: Teach-In on Sustainability
By Student Sustainability Analyst Marine Savoure From March 27 to 30, Emerson College conducted its first ever Teach-In on Sustainability. With 13 events and almost 40 guest speakers, the Teach-In was a celebration of the incredible interdisciplinary nature of sustainable initiatives and a reminder of the urgent need to champion sustainability across all fields. In…
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Recap: Campus Race to Zero Waste
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga It’s official! The nationwide Campus Race to Zero Waste competition ended on March 25, 2023 after running since January on campus here at Emerson College. After three months of non-stop events, hard work, and campaigning to promote waste diversion, the results are in. Before getting to how we did as…
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Library Love: an upcycled art competition
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga On Wednesday, March 22nd, a semester’s worth of work and planning culminated in successfully hosting Library Love, an upcycled art competition in the CoLab space of the Iwasaki Library! For a few hours, students, faculty, and staff members came together to create and discuss sustainability on campus through crafting. With…
