Sustainability
For the second year in a row, Temple will be offering students the opportunity to recycle their graduation gowns, which will be donated to next year’s graduates. Gowns will be collected at locations around Main and Ambler campuses after Commencement on Thursday, May 10. In exchange for donating their gowns, students will receive a 15 percent discount coupon redeemable at the Temple University Bookstore.
May 8, 2012
Diana Fernandez, B.S. Landscape Architecture. Fernandez was able to combine her leadership skills with a love of design and drawing, which led her to discover architecture as a potential career.
May 4, 2012
Julia McCabe, M.S. Community and Regional Planning. At Temple Ambler, McCabe, 36 from Upper Dublin, Pa., is president of the Temple Planning Student Organization, co-chair of the Ambler Campus Sustainability Council and a research assistant with the Center for Sustainable Communities.
May 3, 2012
Students moving out of university residence halls are encouraged to donate unwanted clothing, shoes, non-perishable food, electronics, carpets and school supplies through Temple's Give+Go Green program. Run by the Office of University Housing and Residential Life, the end-of-year move-out program brings together volunteers to sort items left behind and distribute them directly to local charitable organizations.
The best way to learn new things is to actually try it for yourself. On Tuesday, Temple anthropology graduate Liz Bada took that concept to the kitchen for a canning and jamming workshop that gave participants a hands-on opportunity to learn about making and storing their own preserves.
The Office of Sustainability kicks off Campus Sustainability Week today. The annual recognition of green living is centered around a simple call to action: “learn by doing.” Many of the week’s events include workshops and demonstrations that offer staff, students and faculty and opportunity to develop useful pursuits that can lead to a more sustainable lifestyle.
With only two weeks left in RecycleMania 2012, the Office of Sustainability is encouraging the Temple community to amp up its recycling efforts in order to reach the university's goal of 415,000 pounds of recycled paper, bottles, cans and cardboard.
A new green room certification program launched by the Office of Sustainability, the Sustainability Living and Learning Community (LLC) and Residential Life will rate residence hall rooms based on how environmentally friendly they are. Modeled after the LEED building certification system used in industry, the program is being piloted in the Sustainability Living and Learning Community in 1940 residence hall.
For the sixth year in a row, Temple will participate in RecycleMania, an eight-week friendly competition among colleges and universities to see who is the best at reducing, re-using and recycling. .
Temple’s Office of Sustainability offers tips on staying green during the holiday season.
Now is the time to turn your attention to getting your home prepared to keep you warm this winter, says Mechanical Engineering Professor Steven M. Ridenour.
The Office of Sustainability has a solution for members of the Temple community looking for a way to get home for Thanksgiving without breaking the bank: Zimride. Temple’s free online carpooling network allows individuals with a temple.edu email address to post or search rides, whether regular commutes or one-time trips.
As part of an effort organized by Greeks Go Green and sponsored by Temple’s Office of Sustainability, Kappa Delta Rho brothers watched as Pete Barnes of the Energy Coordinating Agency in Philadelphia demonstrated ways they could improve the residence’s energy efficiency, replicate the energy-saving tasks in the nine other fraternity houses in the Interfraternal Council.
