"How to Be a Green Wolverine." That's the title and subject matter of a new, 17-page, environmentally-responsible Student Sustainability Guide now available on campus.
With content compiled by an undergraduate project team from the "Sustainability and the Campus" class (where the handbook idea originated), and with additional input from the Student Sustainability Initiative (SSI), the Student Sustainability Guide includes practical information about the following topics:
- Eco-Tips
- Sustainable Weekends (i.e. how to throw a sustainable party)
- Environmental Student Organizations (with contact information)
- Transportation Options
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- The Green Market (with student suggestions about where to shop, dine, etc.)
- Activities & Recreation
- Green Media (including suggested books and movies
The guides are being distributed throughout the U-M campus. For example, they are being delivered to undergraduate Residence Halls during Welcome Week (one copy per dorm room), to sororities and fraternities, to Co-Op housing locations, and with a newsletter to graduate students in North Campus apartments. Several schools are also distributing copies to their respective students, such as the Program in the Environment, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE).
If you're interested in receiving one of the Student Sustainability Guides (which, by the way, were printed with vegetable-based inks on 100% post-consumer material), then we invite you to pick up a copy at one of the following locations:
- Office of Campus Sustainability: Occupational Safety & Environmental Health, 1239 Kipke off of Stadium Blvd., near the U-M Stadium and Chrisler Arena.
- Graham Sustainability Institute: 625 E. Liberty St., on the 3rd floor above Starbucks at the corner of Liberty and State.
- U-M Residence Hall Community Centers
- Student Events: Such as Festifall, NorthFest, Winterfest, etc. (They will not be available at EarthFest, which is striving to be a zero-waste event.)
- Other locations TBD
The guide was produced by the SSI and the Graham Institute with input and support from the Office of Campus Sustainability and the Division of Student Affairs.