Tag: Waste

November 20, 2019

Chief Sustainability Officer Cecil Scheib Testifies on Environmental Impact of Universities

“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.

Read the full testimony here.

November 7, 2019

Faculty Housing Sustainability Efforts

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.

October 30, 2019

GREEN GRANT UPDATE: The Carry Your Own! Challenge

Written by Sarah Dietz

The Carry Your Own! (CYO) Challenge officially came to a close on Thursday October 17th, culminating with a celebratory evening awarding the top three plastic waste mitigators for their efforts. (If you are unfamiliar with the CYO challenge, please visit the first blog post to learn more.) Winners were presented with reusable tote bags filled with generous prizes. In the totes were hundreds of dollars’ worth of low-waste lifestyle prizes, including gift cards to Precycle, NYC’s first package free grocery store. These awesome gifts were made possible largely due to donations from local, low-waste lifestyle companies, Precycle and Your Local. The winners were selected based on their level of participation in the three-week challenge, which asked them to eliminate as much personal plastic waste as possible, mainly through two items commonly used by students on campus; coffee mugs and utensils. The contest was judged by an NYU student who chose the winners based on quantity of posts about their challenge experience.

October 29, 2019

Green Your Halloween

Autumn is packed with the feel good festivities. While Thanksgiving is around the corner, most people would agree spooky season gets its fair share of love. Whether you love Halloween for the horror and gore, the drama and extravagance in dressing up, or the decadent sweets from trick-or-treating, there is a lot of awesome ways to get in the Halloween spirit.

This year, try making your Halloween spirit more sustainable.

June 30, 2019

“Give goods, find goods, and do good.” Reflections on the NYCxREUSE Conference and Expo

by Joann Lee

On June 21st, I attended the first ever NYCxREUSE conference and expo hosted by donateNYC. donateNYC is a program run by the Department of Sanitation whose slogan is “give goods, find goods, and do good,” and this was the theme of the conference’s panel discussions. The conference brought together leaders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors to discuss strategies in landfill diversion, as well as the social impact and economic opportunities created by partnerships designed to redistribute resources.