What Are Other Schools Doing?

Other universities right here in Michigan are making sustainable changes!

Eco-Thon

 

Every year, Western Michigan University holds a month long competition between the residence halls. The competition is meant to teach and foster sustainable behaviors. The competition is broken into three categories; electricity reduction, recycling round-ups, and resident assistant and hall government involvement





For more information go here!  http://www.wmich.edu/sustainability

Eco-Reps

 

An Eco-Rep is an ecological representative of each GVSU housing community that promotes sustainable initiatives in their living centers. They work with either their Community Councils or their Resident Assistants and are part of a peer-to-peer education program.
Grand Valley Eco-Reps volunteer their time to help educate the campus community on the many sustainable projects the university has and to help get them involved. Their most recent project was the Pizza Box Project; getting pizza boxes composted instead of taken to landfills.7,275 pizza boxes were composted in one semester!



For more information go here! http://www.gvsu.edu/sustainability/

Surplus Store

 

MSU created a new recycling facility that recycles three times the amount of the previous center. This has allowed MSU to expand recycling collections to 553 buildings. The construction of the building itself is green. Recycled green glass is used mixed in the concrete around the building, rainwater collection provides 60 percent of filtered gray water for toilets, urinals, and power washers, and rooftop solar panels, which produce 10 percent of the building’s electricity.





For more information go here! http://sustainability.msu.edu/