Current Sustainability Hub Projects
Fall 2009

Want to help out? Feel free to work on any of the projects below, or suggest new ones.

• Big Red Bikes – This is a project to create a bikeshare on campus, where students could check out a bike from a library for a 24 hour period

• Water Bottle/Back to the Tap – Raising awareness about environmental and social impacts of bottled water

• Greeks Go Green –Sustainability Chairs were elected in each fraternity and sorority house (Cornell has 42 fraternities and 11 sororities). A website has been created, and program such as Compact Fluorescent Light bulb switches, partnering with a local Community Center to donate recycled refundable can returns to their program, and a pilot program of waste assessments.

• Sustainable Event Planning – Creating a guide for making all events on campus more sustainable

• Orientation – outreach to incoming freshman on sustainability and how to get involved on campus

• Composting in Dining Halls – outreach to people about post-consumer composting

• Collegetown Waste – addressing issues of restaurant sustainability and access to trash and recycling receptacles. Possibly working with a local middle school to put student artwork on the cans.

• Earth Day and Campus Sustainability Day – planning campus’s celebrations for these days.

• Powershift – arranging for a Cornell delegation to attend this national summit in D.C., and working to make transportation and housing free

• Sustainable Investing – working to use Cornell’s endowment to influence companies via proxy voting

• Big Red Bikes – This is a project to create a bikeshare on campus, where students could check out a bike from a library for a 24 hour period

• Water Bottle/Back to the Tap – Raising awareness about environmental and social impacts of bottled water

• Greeks Go Green –Sustainability Chairs were elected in each fraternity and sorority house (Cornell has 42 fraternities and 11 sororities). A website has been created, and program such as Compact Fluorescent Light bulb switches, partnering with a local Community Center to donate recycled refundable can returns to their program, and a pilot program of waste assessments.

• Sustainable Event Planning – Creating a guide for making all events on campus more sustainable

• Orientation – outreach to incoming freshman on sustainability and how to get involved on campus

• Composting in Dining Halls – outreach to people about post-consumer composting

• Collegetown Waste – addressing issues of restaurant sustainability and access to trash and recycling receptacles. Possibly working with a local middle school to put student artwork on the cans.

• Earth Day and Campus Sustainability Day – planning campus’s celebrations for these days.

• Powershift – arranging for a Cornell delegation to attend this national summit in D.C., and working to make transportation and housing free
  • Sustainable Investing – working to use Cornell’s endowment to influence companies via proxy voting

   

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