New projects are happening everyday, contact the Office of Environmental Stewardship to volunteer and coordinate efforts.
Students, Volunteers, Researchers, Faculty and Office of Stewardship Sustainability Projects between 6/2007 and 6/2008
(Volunteers will be needed in FY2008, please contact us!)
Sustainability efforts across Georgia Tech, and especially with our students who are essentially volunteering thier precious time and talents, has proven to be amazingly vast and successful in 2007. I, we, thank everyone who contributed. Some of the joint efforts include:
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Earth Day 2008 (1300 people pledged at the Maze)
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EnergyStar Pledge CFL Light Bulb (3059 light bulbs given out in 4 hours to pledgers)
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Stewardship website goes live
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GreenBuzz website goes live
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Student websites go live
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ISS website goes live
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Klaus Recycling Cove opens in newly certified LEED Gold Building
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Recycling Masters Series Recycling Expansion Study
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Fraternity seeking LEED Silver
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Pan-Hellenic all Low Flow to Save Water!
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SGA elections where all 6 candidates ran on sustainability platforms, among others
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Library Water Display from SOS, Environemental Alliance and Campas Water Conservation Taskforce
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Day in Dining Services
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Slow the Flow, Save H2O campaign across campus and at 3 home football games
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Georgia Govenor's Water Conservation Program announced at Georgia Tech first
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FASET outreach campaign to promote green PC's, EnergyStar Appliances, and green lifestyles to new students and thier familites
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Legislature support and email campaign
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Killowatt Assessments in Residence Halls
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EAS' Department Greening Projects
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Green Peach Conference where students across Georiga united to work for sustainability
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Policy Classes coming to Environmental Stewardship for sustainability stats and GHG options
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Joint grant aplications for sustainability projects between students, Faculty, and Administration
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Dining Services and Facilities Used Cooking Oil to Biodiesel conservsion and pilot
And all of this in addition to Administration and Operations' Campus Master Plan Updates, Housing Master Plan creation, Transportation and Parking Master Plan creation, and constant Maintenance and Operations on a Campus the size of a small city.
For those project not included, please accept my apology and send me an email to have me add your projects to the list.