Beeswax Wrap serves as an alternative to plastic wrap, ziplock bags, aluminum foil, and other single use storage means. It’s a non-toxic, and more environmentally friendly way to store your food. The best thing about bees wrap is that it’s easy—and fun— to make yourself. There’s just a few simple steps. Read more
My Green Grants project is the Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab, which is a small team of students, artists, ethnographers, and media designers who produce a podcast about climate change. We invite scientists, writers, and artists to talk about a particular organism, ecology or site that they study, and the interdisciplinary methods or tools that they’ve used or developed in the course of their research. We also discuss their teaching practices or how they engage others around difficult conversations about climate change. What makes our podcast different from other podcasts about climate change, I think, is that we are interested in giving voice to the human interviewee, as well as the thing or place that they study. So we aim to combine interviews with field recordings and experimental soundscapes to give listeners a more intimate and visceral sense of the liveliness of worlds outside. I’m interested in experimenting with ways of listening to nonhumans, or allowing animals, plants, microbes, water to speak alongside the human voice.
“The intent of NYU’s sustainability program is to enhance our academic mission by providing comfortable and healthy spaces that enhance NYU’s excellence, while having the energy savings help pay for it – and we’ll achieve our carbon goals, too.”
– Cecil Scheib, Chief Sustainability Officer, NYU
Last week, Chief Sustainability Officer Cecil Scheib testified before members of the NYS Assembly Committees on Higher Education and Environmental Conservation to highlight NYU’s carbon emissions goals and efforts to engage our community in sustainability initiatives.
Sustainable initiatives are happening in every facet of NYU Life – infrastructure, student life, transportation, housing and so much more. Our NYU Faculty are taking action to reduce their waste, save energy, and become leaders for green action on campus. Read on to learn more about how NYU faculty housing is going green.
