Campus Sustainability News
An Earth Day packed full of activities on campus came to a close Monday night, with a keynote address from filmmaker and environmental activist Annie Leonard.
Leonard, whose film “The Story of Stuff” has reached over 20 million...
The Green Building Committee, a sub-committee of the Environmental Performance Advisory Committee at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is pleased to announce the launch of the ...
In partnership with Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECo), the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently completed an energy efficiency project expected to save the campus more than $220,000 in energy costs per year and reduce annual...
On Monday, November 5, 2012 UMass Amherst launched the new course listing website that hosts a searchable listing of sustainability related classes being offered during the spring 2013 semester as well as a listing of related majors in...
"Hazmat suit-wearing UMass students helping campus go green by picking through trash"
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All in one bin: Campus moves to single stream recycling (From UMass In the Loop, published 9/6/12)
Call it recycling 2.0. This month, the campus is moving to single stream, in which paper, along with clean plastic, glass, aluminum and...
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Web Maintenance & Image Cataloging Needed for Summer:
Looking for a student worker for the College of natural Sciences, the student responsibilities include: entering content into college websites; review and clean-up existing web...
UMass Amherst Students Win International Prize for ‘Acts of Green,’ Promoting Campus Sustainability Education and Awareness
"This university did a great job spreading awareness to the students on their campus and beyond....
It was a very earth-friendly weekend in the Amherst area to say the least. Sunday marked the 42nd celebration of Earth Day, so there were multiple events going on both on-and off-campus throughout the weekend. Saturday April 21st...
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Journalism 397E - Environmental Journalism; Global Issues & the Connecticut River Valley
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Climate change, air and water pollution, the...
When students and the general public attending the men’s lacrosse game against St. Joseph’s on the afternoon of March 31st , they were treated to a “Green Out” t-shirt to help raise awareness of...
The third annual Amherst Sustainability Festival will take place on Saturday April 21st from 10 AM-4 PM at the town common. This celebratory effort began in 2010 and features exhibits stressing the benefits of saving money through home...
Friends of UMass Permaculture helped put on a Composting Workshop the evening of April 10th in the Earthfoods Café. To say the least, it was not for the squeamish. The hands-on lesson sponsored by Friends of UMass Permaculture, UMass Student Farm...
The Spring 2012 Green Games are underway at UMass and the environmental competition has begun! This nine-...
UMass and the surrounding community were treated to a special guest lecture on the night of Tuesday March 6th. Charles Mann, award winning and best-selling journalist and lecturer, gave a presentation on where our environment stands...
Wintry weather did not stop the Blue Sky forum from meeting on Wednesday, February 29th in the Campus Center basement. Efforts such as these have helped UMass become one of only 25 colleges in the nation to get a STARS (Sustainability Tracking...
The UMass Amherst Blue Sky Initative Report was submitted to the Five College Board of Directors on March 3, 2012. The report highlights the diversity of ideas that were generated from the campus community to make the University a more...
On the evening of Wednesday, February 22nd, the Net Impact Club of UMass put on a special screening of the documentary, “Tapped” at the Isenberg School of Management. The...
Patrons of the Blue Wall eatery in the Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have new options for composting and recycling with the introduction of three shiny new stainless steel units designed to make it easier than ever to...
Herman Miller, Inc. is launching its third annual video contest for full-time students attending two or four-year U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. Students...
The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a high-visibility effort to address global climate disruption undertaken by a network of colleges and universities that have made institutional commitments to...
Inspired by her three years devoted to sustainability activities and "greening the campus" at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recent graduate Rachel Dutton of Burlington won first prize and $500 in a...
Students and staff who work to make the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus greener and cleaner with the Campus Sustainability Initiative received a big pat on the back this month with national recognition for their efforts to reduce waste...
The UMass Amherst Pemaculture Garden Committee, which is a student-led part of Auxiliary Enterprises, recently won the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ (NASPA) Silver Excellence Award in the Careers, Academic...
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The new UMass Amherst Bike Share Program has hit the newstands yet again! Check out the article that also features the first semester rental results!
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For the UMass Minutemen football team’s last home game of the season on Saturday, Nov. 19, the Campus Sustainability Initiative hosted the national EPA Game Day Challenge. The campus joined thousands of other recycling events across the...
UMass Amherst has been making strides to include sustainability related courses in its already expansive catalogue of opportunities. During the 2011-2012 Winter session and Spring 2012 semester, new courses will be offered to educate students...
Since 2009, the Green Living Project’s Mobile Tour has been on the road to promote its message of sustainability. As part of the University of Massachusetts’ first Campus Sustainability Week, the Mobile Tour came to campus to provide...
This semester, the Campus Sustainability Initiative celebrated the first annual Campus Sustainability Week (October 24-28), intended to highlight student organizations and university programs that are working to make UMass Amherst an...
For the past four years, UMass Amherst has hosted the Clean Energy Connections Conference at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, MA. The conference is an excellent learning opportunity and...
The UMass Amherst Alumni Association hosted award winning environmental journalist Peter Thomson for a public interview on Thursday, October 6th. Thomson, who graduated from the university with a major in Social Thought and Political Economy in...
On October 7th, 2011, the University of Massachusetts Amherst was chosen to host the New England Climate Science Center, with the College of Menominee Nation, Columbia University, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Minnesota, University...
The Franklin Permaculture Garden at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been a long time coming. Since the Fall of 2009 students and faculty have been working to create a permaculture garden on campus that could supply the dining halls...
Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom gave an impassioned and intellectual talk about solutions to climate change this past Thursday, September 22 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The Department of Economics invited Ostrom to give the...
Turning the corner in the Campus Center across from the Bookstore, tables piled high with fresh food were visible. Posters tacked on the cement walls announced the three organizations coming together here: Garden Share, the...
In the United States and across the globe, there is a growing need for professionals with extensive knowledge of sustainability related concepts. UMass Amherst has recognized this need, and in response has created a dynamic program to prepare...
The UMass Amherst Bike Share program is officially up and running. As of Monday, October 3rd, students have free, daily access to a bike, lock and helmet.
The Bike Share program is managed by the Student Government Association...
Ezra Small, the new Sustainability Manager at the University of Massachusetts, is a western Massachusetts native, a UMass, Amherst alum (07G), and has just relocated from Philadelphia, PA where he was working with the Delaware Valley Green...
