Here are some announcements made during the council meeting on Friday, March 5:
• Dr. Giles Gee asked about the standings in Recyclemania. Our current figures are based on historical information as we wait for the most recent bills from appropriate vendors. We’ll update with actual figures next week. Overall our recycling figures are good and our [...]
Earth Hour is March 27 at 8:30 p.m. local time. visit www.myearthhour.org for more info!
Student Leader for Earth Day - more info at www.earthday.net
The Department of Environmental Studies welcomes the next in our continuing series of visiting speakers:
On Tuesday, March 9, Zuzana Jezerska, director of the Slovak Center for Communication and Development (SCCD) in Bratislava, Slovakia, will give a talk on the topic of sustainable development issues in post-Soviet Union eastern Europe and Central Asia. She has spent [...]
On Tuesday, February 9th Keene State’s eco-reps put on a presentation for RecycleMania during the halftime of the Men’s Basketball game. The purpose of the presentation was to raise awareness of and create some excitement around the 2010 RecycleMania competition.
RecycleMania is a 10-week competition between schools all over the country with the goal of building [...]
Submitted by Dave Morrill, Assistant Recycling Coordinator at Keene State:
We are currently ahead of Plymouth State and UNH in our recycling rate per person. And we rank 77 out of over 315 in Recycling Rate with 3.35lbs of recycling per person over the first two weeks. However, we are behind both PSU and [...]
Submitted by Kathleen Johnson (Management Department) on behalf of the food subcommittee of the President’s Council for a Sustainable Future:
What many overlook in the discussion of global warming are the connections to the activities associated with unsustainable food production (namely, factory farming). EarthSave.org provides some clarity on the link between global warming and vegetarianism:
“Global [...]
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen visited Keene State College today to tour the College’s new biodiesel quality testing laboratory at the Monadnock Biodiesel Collaborative (MBC).
Read the full story here.
The Dining Commons at Keene State now offer fair trade coffee and tea: Sodexho’s new brand “aspretto,” a “truly innovative hot beverage experience.”
All aspretto products are naturally grown. Also a point is made in tracing the journey from the farmer right to the cup. All materials from the coffee machines to the posters on the [...]
Information from a recent conversation between Mary Jensen (Sustainability Coordinator) and Ralph Palmer (Energy Coordinator) about the campus water use.
Even with the addition of the new Zorn and two new residence halls, water usage on campus has been steadily declining since 2004. Much of that has been through the installation of aerated shower heads, [...]
Recent and planned energy savings measures, reported to us by Bill Rymes, Physical Plant:
I have been replacing all of the shower heads on campus from 2.5 gpm to 1.5 gpm units.
We have replaced the units in the Gym, Holloway Hall, Owls Nests, Carle Hall, Monadnock Hall, Randall Hall, Fisk Hall, Pondside I, Pondside II, Procter [...]