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Green Campus Initiative
The Green Campus Initiative is SUNY-ESF’s campus activist group that aims to revolutionize the school to “practice what we teach!”
Current Projects
- Pesticides - Get rid of pesticides on campus
- Clothing Swap - everyone brings clothes they don't want anymore to campus, and people can go through it and take what ever they want!
- Documentary Club - watch a documentary once a month and then take action on that issue- for example table on campus, write a letter to the government, etc.
- Carbon Recycling Project
- Sustainable Food - Working hard to convert current tasteless fast food to sustainably harvested, local food for students, faculty and staff.
- Waste Audit - Conducting at least one waste audit every semester to analyze the composition of campus waste and taking action to reduce unnecessary waste and increase proper recycling.
- Compost and Campus Gardening - Manage the campus composting program first begun by GCI. Look into the possibility of on-site campus gardening in our greenhouses.
- Bio-diesel - A newly-formed group will take on campus bio-diesel production. Please contact Greg Boyd at gdboyd@syr.edu if you would like to participate.
- Recycled Notebooks - The GCI makes recycled notebooks from single-side paper and cereal boxes which are then bound at the Copy Center. We are collecting boxes in the foyer of the library next to the recycling bins. Notebooks are made at potlucks and at spontaneous get-togethers.
To become involved, please contact one of the members of the executive board listed below. To join the listserv, please contact mrpochar@syr.edu.
Advisor: Paul Otteson, ESF Web Coordinator
