Recycle Mania

I recently saw a facebook group for UPenn and they are participating in Recycle Mania. It's a 10 week competition in which schools participate to see which school recycles the most. Sadia had also mentioned this earlier this semester. Doing this in CCNY will create awareness of the fact that there are places to recycle at CCNY, since the Campus group has gotten more recycling bins for the school/cafeteria. Participating in this event would help CCNY reduce its footprint in terms of recycling at least. Also, it would help more people learn how to recycle at home, after they learned about it at school.
The competition starts at the end of January... and if we participate in it, we will be the first college in NYC to do so!

http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/rules.htm

Carbon Offsets Daily News has brought to us finalized Carbon Dioxide rules

Our focus as a whole class this semester is to reduce carbon footprint on our CCNY Campus and the community in which it resides. Today's news from Carbon Offsets Daily inform us about the rules regarding carbon emission are released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The rulings are passed to protect clean water to drink and to tract the greenhouse emissions in U.S.

More information about this can be found here by going to the link or clicking on the title above.

Metro had an article today on how "Global Carbon Emissions head for a record in 2010". The article states that CO2 emission will reach a new height, mostly due to the growing economies of China and India and their reliance on coal. In 2009 annual emissions dropped by 1.3% from 2008 as a result of the global financial crisis; while the CO2 emission of the US and Japan dropped by 6.9% and 11.8% respectively, the emissions of China and India increased. The article also states that emissions due to deforestation have decreased.

Every Monday is Healthy Monday at CCNY

If any one is interested there is a Healthy Monday event every week at CCNY outside NAC cafeteria. This event is supported by Health and Wellness center. It is great to learn about good nutrition, sleeping habits, physical activity, and emotional well being, which are all common in current college students. The event runs from 12-2pm every Monday and they also give out free giveaways. It is beneficial if you would like to learn more about your eating habits because they give you great facts on being healthy and wealthy!
Note: more information can be found via CCNY home page, and then going to events.

CCNY Campus Group Survey

Hello Everyone,
Attached here is a survey for our group. We printed 40 copies from Ms. Campbell's office and used it for our survey of what students think about recycling cans/bottles and motion sensor detectors in vending machines on campus. We did our surveying in Marshak Cafeteria and Nac Rotunda and we are still going through them to calculate results. So far surveys show positive results and i hope soon we can implement the importance of both projects on campus.
Note: please feel free to comment on what you think about it.

CCNY Service-learning in Health and Wellness

CCNY Campus Group Survey

Recycling project

Circle Yes or No

1) Do you recycle your bottles and cans every day?

Yes No

2) Do you think that CCNY NAC cafeteria should start recycling bottles and cans?

Yes No

3) Are you aware of recycling on our campus?

Yes No

4) Where do you prefer recycling bins to be placed on our campus?

Circle as many as you like

Cafeteria NAC Rotunda Faculty dining Hall Marshak Café

5) Do you know how much energy does recycling cans and bottles can save every year?

20% 80% 60%

6) Do you think our vending machines are energy efficient?

Yes No

7) Do you think vending machines should be installed with motion sensor detectors?

Yes No

8) How many times do you buy from vending machines every week?

NYC Green Cart

I found a facebook page about the NYC Green Cart. This cart sells fresh fruits and vegetables and is funded by a grant from the Laurie M Tisch Illumination Fund. If we can't get a farmer's market we might be able to get a green cart on campus.

"Ready-to-Grow" Kits for rooftop garden

I just found this website on ready-to-grow kit for rooftop gardens which seemed very interesting. It's a self watering container which comes with everything required to grow any types of produce. It has many for rooftop gardening such as:

* Recovery of household compost
* Up to 4 days of water autonomy
* Easy to move and to adapt
* Guaranteed good soil quality
* Affordability

Some very cool facts on Green Roofs

As I continue to work on our proposal, I am coming across quite a few interesting and in-depth pieces on the topic of green roofs. There is an article that I found will be very beneficial in improving our proposal.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12710-green-roofs-could-cool-warming-cities.html

Rooftop Garden NJIT

Though this is not a student run organization, it still goes to show the benefits of running a rooftop garden with fruits,vegetables etc. However, you can also notice the worries and issues some students may have with such a garden.

farmers market

hey everyone

i found this website by accident. this is some of the local farmers-market they have in nyc. there are various event that held in manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens or Staten Island. each market strives to be an anchor to their community providing not only fresh, locally-grown food, but it is convenient to find them. if possible maybe the farmers market group can invite them to participate in our campus.