August 26th marks the start of a fun-filled week of events welcoming students to NYU, so of course we’re going to be there. The Office of Sustainability is organizing events all about sustainability on campus, and this is your one-stop guide for all the green events happening that week!
It seemed like graduation was just yesterday but NYU students are flocking back into the city for summer classes and internships. Hopefully, there won’t be too many assignments or your work hours aren’t too long because the best part about being in NYC in the summer are its parks! There are hundreds of events from May to August you can scroll through here, but I found the series that you should definitely check out if you get a day off to get out. Read more
2017 has been an exciting year for the Office of Sustainability, check out some of our highlights!
Residence Halls Competed in NYUnplugged
For the second year in a row, Lipton Hall saved the most energy and raised awareness about conserving energy through the NYUnplugged residence hall energy competition. Residence halls put sustainable ideas into action by replacing their lightbulbs with LED, lowering their thermostats, and making delicious smoothies with a bike-powered blender.
We #MarchedForScience
Earth Month includes several interesting programs and activities. In addition to our Educating for Sustainability lecture with waste experts Robin Nagle and Dr. Cassandra Thiel, members of our community held events on meat consumption and food justice, religious perspectives on the environment, and urban ecology. Dr. Jane Goodall spoke at an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Jane Goodall Institute!
On Earth Day, 150 members of the NYU community, representing the Office of Sustainability, students organizations and activists, and President Andy Hamilton packed a DC-bound bus with beautiful posters and a desire to see evidence-based policy through the March for Science. The day was filled with marching, teach-ins, and an event with former EPA employees.
Welcome to Green Grants: The People Behind the Projects. Below is an interview with Jon Chin (NYU Steinhardt, Graduate) and Kitty Liang (NYU Stern, Undergraduate) of Open Kitchen, an initiative of Share Meals that received a Green Grant. Open Kitchen is a series of community classes that brings NYU students together and teaches them how to cook. Stay up-to-date with upcoming events here.
Jon Chin: Another Steinhardt Master’s student [Leanne Brown] a couple years ago did her thesis on developing a $4 per day cookbook, so I thought it would be great to take that and put it into practice. Our first Open Kitchen class was led by her, and we were able to get students the culinary and shopping skills that they needed.
NYU is this weird and tricky thing. It’s in the middle of NYC, so the cost of living is extremely high. This is the first time students are living on their own and also a lot of them probably aren’t coming from high-cost living areas, so it’s really tough for them to be able to budget correctly–to pay for tuition, clothes and especially food–and I know that if students aren’t eating well, then they’re not performing well. So one really great way to build a stronger community, to build a better NYU, is to make sure our students are eating well. I want to show students a) how to cook for themselves–if they can cook at home, they can reduce their grocery budget by a lot–and b) how to cook healthily. We might be feeding ourselves, but we might be feeding ourselves the wrong things, and that does disastrous things for our health and for our energy and performance. I want to build a better NYU through food.
Walk down any street in NYC and you’ll be met with smells of sizzling Halal Guys, hot dogs slathered in sauerkraut and marinated jerk chicken. As a vegetarian and an NYU student on a ~tight~ budget I find myself too often desperately Google Mapping “cheap vegetarian near me.”
Stress no longer, prudent plant-eaters and curious cuisine lovers, I compiled a list of the best vegetarian and vegan eateries with noshes under $10 all near campus. Star away! Read more
