Tag: sustainability

  • Yes, you too can compost!

    Yes, you too can compost!

    June has arrived and so has the bright summer sun, bringing hot temps to help heat up your compost bin! Interestingly, I realized that I’ll have to move my bin this year because a neighboring tree has now leafed out a branch that shades it. Shade cools your compost and slows the process of breaking…

  • Green IT for May!

    Green IT for May!

    Greetings Green ITers! April’s last week continues to celebrate Earth Day, Earth Week and yes Earth Month! Here’s the latest: Recycling for electronics and document shredding services that were offered by Emory Recycles throughout the month of April were a huge success. Go to BriarcliffRecycling for more info! Don’t Dump It – DONATE IT! Emory Recycles said…

  • It’s all about the Earth!

    It’s all about the Earth!

    Emory’s Office of Sustainability Initiatives has much planned for April, but it starts in March with Earth Hour, 3/29 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. What’s Earth Hour? Go to earthhour.org for details, but to summarize, it’s Lights Out all over the world for one hour! Millions of people, multiple countries, whole continents are getting…

  • Know our QEP…SACS is coming!

    Know our QEP…SACS is coming!

    The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is coming March 17-19, beginning that Monday at the Oxford Campus. SACS tours the southeast providing ongoing assessment of educational improvement via accreditation; more info here – http://www.sacs.org/ On Tuesday and Wednesday they will be on the Emory Campus, conducting spontaneous ‘walk up’ interviews with students, faculty and staff all around the campus.…

  • It’s Easy Being Green at Emory!

    It’s Easy Being Green at Emory!

    You know that Blue and Gold make Green…read on to see how Emory continues to go the distance in true colors! Give yourselves and each other a hand for we have much to celebrate for 2013! In the first few years of our 21st century, Emory began making plans to reduce energy; in 2006 we…

  • Fall Semester – Sustainability and Us!

    Fall Semester – Sustainability and Us!

    Fall is in the air and so are the autumn leaves! Whether you bag them for county collection or “bank” them for use in your own yard, know that either way the leaves get back to the soil…as compost or mulch to feed yards and public spaces. Personal electronics are recycled twice a year through…

  • Repairs Underway to 1762 Parking Lot

    Repairs Underway to 1762 Parking Lot

    If you have parked in the rear parking lot of the 1762 building in the past few years, you may have noticed an alarmingly growing sinkhole that has been eating away some of the spaces. This sinkhole was the result of erosion towards the railroad tracks that travel between 1762 and the intramural fields. Areas…