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Part of the process of living an eco lifestyle includes knowing how to make the right motions to turn your college campus into a green campus, and how to sustain those efforts with future students and staff. It’s not an easy process, but there are many universities out there that are already contributing to the green campus effort.
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| Newsweek's Campus Magazine, which is titled Current, recently named Washington College in Maryland as the "Sexiest in Sustainability." Do you know why? We think it has something to do with its campus sustainability program called George Goes Green, which encourages everyone on campus to do something to preserve the environment... |
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It’s not hard to see why college students are notorious for accumulating tons of trash both in and out of their dorm rooms.
There wasn’t a week that went by when I was in college that I didn’t see fast-food containers, packets of ketchup, empty paper towel rolls, soda cans, half-empty bags of Doritos, plastic CD wrappers or Chinese take-out containers lying in random piles in someone’s room... |
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Ripon College, a small liberal arts school of 1,000 students located about an hour and a half from downtown Milwaukee, is providing a great incentive to incoming freshmen: if they sign a pledge not to bring a car on campus for the entire semester, they’ll get a brand spanking new mountain bike!
This new program is called Velorution, which is... |
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I must give Duke University an “A” for its eco-effort at last night’s game against N.C. State. The game was the first in a series of activities promoted by the Duke Students for Sustainable Living that would incorporate educating the Duke community about ways to reduce your carbon footprint into a wide variety of Duke events, including highly publicized basketball games.
However, what was meant to make an environmental impact only ended up impacting on the floor... |
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As a student taking classes in college there are a few things that you'll do at least once or twice every semester:
- Procrastinate writing a paper
- Fall asleep in your dorm room or in the library researching that paper
- Stay up late the night before typing the paper
- Run out of ink printing the final copy of the paper (and it’s due in 15 minutes)
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Even though every college across the U.S. is different, one thing that I’ve noticed at all the colleges that I’ve visited is their huge desire for action. Action can take the form of students organizing food-drives for local homeless families, putting together a fund-raising concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina or setting up a recycling program in the cafeteria. It can be a few students or a whole dorm of them... |
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