by Jason Pessel
Hey NYU — a cheap and eco-friendly alternative to bottled water is here!
We know you love carrying your reusable bottles on campus, but we also know that most of you buy bottled water when you’re off campus. Thanks to a Green Grant project from the Office of Sustainability called Reefill, now you can fill your reusable bottles wherever you go. It’s all part of an effort to help the NYU community reduce its consumption of bottled water, which is an extremely wasteful product. Not only does it create tons of plastic waste (literally), but its manufacture and transportation wastes water and oil and creates greenhouse gases. All for a product that is often just purified municipal water, as is the case with Aquafina and Dasani. Meanwhile, the water from our tap is tested far more often and rigorously than bottled water and NYC’s consistently beats bottled water in taste tests. Read more
I was a filmmaker before I was an environmentalist. If you had told me when I was in film school that I would be using my B.F.A. from Tisch to organize an industry-wide sustainability campaign, I would not have believed it. As a film producer, I viewed film as a creative vehicle for change. Little did I know that that hunger for change would lead me down a very different path. 
Welcome back to NYU! The NYU CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program will be up and running again this fall, so if you want to get involved, keep reading! The CSA is a great way to get delicious veggies and support the local-food economy …nothing but good vibes and good food.