Tag: water

July 22, 2022

Green Cleaning

Many ingredients in conventional cleaning products may pose environmental and health risks. This guide will help you easily identify sustainable and effective alternatives!

Better Commercial Products

Look for reputable certification labels – Check out the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comprehensive guide on greener cleaning products. Look for “Safer Choice” and “Design for the Environment” certification labels created by the EPA to identify products made with ingredients that are safer for you and the environment. There are other third-party certifications with various goals and standards. The EPA provides a full list of recommendations in regards to private sector standards and eco-labels.
Use your products to the last drop – Don’t throw a product away until it’s fully empty. Store bottles upside down to get every drop. If you’re at the start of your green cleaning journey, use up what you have left and switch over to sustainable alternatives as you run out.

February 5, 2021

Tips for Sustainable Plant Care

by Jane O’Mahony

Taking care of a plant is similar to self-care! Just like you, plants need certain things in order to THRIVE:

A regular intake of water to keep hydrated
Food for strength
Daily access to light
Enough personal space to allow for growth
A friend that looks out for you

July 2, 2020

#GreenGraduates: Featuring Raunak Shrestha

The Green Graduate series is a collective of interviews and conversations with environmentally-minded and eco-conscious NYU graduates. As these students move on to the workforce, graduate programs, and other opportunities, we are struck with how different the world seems today than it did a few months ago. Our hope with this series is to inspire, motivate and most importantly, honor the class of 2020.

Throughout his four years of college, Raunak Shrestha has seen many victories, large and small, towards making NYU Abu Dhabi a greener campus.

As a first-year, Raunak joined the student interest group, Ecoherence, which works to promote on-campus sustainability through efforts like increasing student awareness and pushing the school to adopt more environmentally conscious policies.

May 21, 2020

#GreenGraduates – An Interview with Josi Riederer

Josi Riederer, like many of us, is currently home with her family in Ashland, Virginia. When I spoke to Josi, she had just finished her thesis for Global Liberal Studies on the topic of rural-urban water inequality in Mumbai and Chennai. Through her research, Josi explores what she describes as “the rural-urban water inequality nexus.” Essentially, rural water is brought to upper- and upper-middle class urban residents and industries because those groups are made out as more economically valuable. Conversely, poor, rural communities are not seen to use water “beneficially,” which is used as justification for the diversion of water from rural to urban areas. For Josi, caring about water equality isn’t a choice, but a duty.

March 25, 2020

10 Actions For a VIRTUAL Earth Month

As we practice social distancing and find ways to reach out and check in with our neighbors, we are being called to consider how our actions affect the most vulnerable among us; is that not the very same collective action the climate crisis demands?

To that end, recent reports have examined how social distancing due to the spread of the coronavirus may have unexpected consequences for climate change. Many of the actions people are taking during this time from reducing air travel to consuming less could significantly reduce one’s carbon footprint.

Though in-person gatherings in honor of Earth Day at 50 have been cancelled or postponed, there are still ways to mark this occasion even in self-isolation. Here are 10 things you can start doing during this unique moment to stay healthy and safe while honoring the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and committing to a more sustainable life now and into the future. Read more