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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…
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Earth Hour 2023
On Saturday, March 25, Emerson will be participating in the 2023 Earth Hour to raise awareness about climate change. We’ll be turning out the lights across campus from 8:30 to 9:30 pm as part of this global movement. Every member of the Emerson community—whether on or off campus—is encouraged to participate in whatever way they…
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Next week: Teach-In on Sustainability
In 2015, the United Nations introduced 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a blueprint for a better, more sustainable future for all. Here at Emerson, we’re on it. Across the College and around the world, Emersonians are contributing to a better future in many ways, big and small, because we all have a stake in what’s ahead. The 2023 Teach-In on Sustainability (March 27-30) will feature a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and interactive exploration…
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Weigh the Waste — February, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katelyn Koenig Wondering why we’re asking you to sort your waste this evening? You’ve come to the right place! During the fall semester and now once again in spring, Eco Ambassadors set up weigh stations in the dining hall to track the amount of waste that students produce in an average dinner…
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December Weigh the Waste events brings in one pound of edible food waste per minute
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig On December 7, the Eco Ambassadors worked with the dining hall to set up tables with large, labeled bins to collect all the waste from that evening’s dinner period. Eco Ambassadors worked the tables, directing waste into organized categories, both to encourage dining-goers to properly dispose of their waste and…
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Eco Ambassadors host Compost Concert event with WECB
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga On December 6, 2022 we hosted our first “Compost Concert” event on Emerson’s campus. Located in the Bill Bordy Theatre from 6 to 8 pm, the event centered around spreading awareness of Emerson’s compost initiatives around campus and celebrating the end of the semester through groovy music and vegan treats. …
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Fall Swap and Shop donation drive — starting Wednesday!
By Eco Ambassador Ava Tribe Have any items you want to donate before winter break? Campus Services is organizing a fall semester donation drive for students to donate the following items: Donation bins will be out from December 7th to the 16th in the locations listed below. Upon returning to campus, students will have the…
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Fall, 2022 Clean Out Your Office day recap
Last week, faculty and staff from across Emerson brought office supplies, electronics, books, and more to the fall, 2022 Clean Out Your Office (COYO) days. Held over two days in the Bordy Theater to accommodate hybrid work schedules, the event diverted an estimated 200 pounds of supplies from the trash stream. Archives staff were also…
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Emerson students attend the annual Sustainable Student Leadership Symposium
By Eco Ambassador Ava Tribe On November 5th, Eco Ambassadors Ava Tribe and Katie Koenig represented Emerson at the annual Sustainable Student Leadership Symposium. The Eco Ambassadors traveled to the symposium at UMass Dartmouth with Boston University students. The all-day event included sustainability representatives and leaders from Boston University, UMass Dartmouth, UMass Lowell, UMass Amherst,…
