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The Madness Begins
This month, Megawatt Madness will match up dorms in head-to-head energy competitions that rotate each week. The competition runs for three weeks, from Monday February 4th through February 24th, giving every dorm a good shot at being a winner.
Taking on Storm Water
A team of civil engineering majors has taken on the EPA’s first ever Campus RainWorks Challenge. In this challenge, the EPA asked college students from across the country to design innovative green infrastructure projects for their campus to tackle storm water runoff issues.
In Transition
Transition Michiana is a January 24-26 conference at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in South Bend focused on building a strong community to face the challenges presented by modern environmental issues.
Sustainability in Surprising Places
Classes in Romance Languages and Literature, Management, and Theology have something surprising in common: they all have an important focus on sustainability.
New partnerships divert items from landfill
A collaboration among Notre Dame departments provided 227 mattresses to eight local not-for-profit organizations, diverting the used dorm mattresses from the landfill while providing a rare opportunity for the agencies to fill an often-overlooked need.
ND Beats WF in Energy Bowl
Game day hasn’t even arrived and Notre Dame has already claimed victory over Wake Forest. Notre Dame finished the Energy Bowl competition with a 9.6% reduction and Wake Forest reduced their consumption by 8.1%.
Want Mondays Off?
This month, Notre Dame Food Services is introducing its own take on Meatless Monday, a national grassroots initiative aimed at reducing meat consumption by 15% in order to improve personal health and the health of the planet.
Beat Wake Forest Twice!
Having challenged the Demon Deacons to a two-week dorm energy competition leading up to the November 17th game, Notre Dame students can beat Wake Forest before anyone even steps onto the field.
Research Labs Culture Efficiency
Notre Dame’s laboratory efficiency program, greeNDiscovery, recently passed a major milestone, having audited over a third of all campus research laboratories.
More Energy Than Ever!
Notre Dame’s sixth annual Energy Week has concluded, but the ideas and inspiration generated during the week-long ode to energy live on.
Dorms kill watts by the millions
Howard Hall has emerged the winner of the fiercely contested Kill-a-Watt Energy Competition.
Howard’s 52% reduction from its baseline was the best performance to date in Notre Dame’s five-year history of dorm energy competitions.
St. Francis and Sustainability
On Thursday October 4th, the Notre Dame community will celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the environment.
Time to Kill-a-Watt
Students across campus are gearing up for the first Dorm Energy Competition of the year, and the stakes have never been higher. The winner will be treated to a chalk-talk with Coach Jeff Jackson of ND Men’s Hockey for the entire dorm plus $1,500 in GE Energy Star appliances.
Game Day Challenge Grows
Game Day Challenge is a friendly competition between universities with three main goals: reduce the waste generated at college football games, heighten awareness of waste reduction programs, and increase participation in waste reduction programs.
Moreau joins Green Seminary Initiative
Moreau Seminary recently joined the Green Seminary Initiative, an organization that promotes efforts by theological schools and seminaries to incorporate care for God’s creation into the identity and mission of the institution.
All Abuzz About Bottles
Many new and returning students this August were greeted upon arrival to their dorms not only by smiling friends and hall staff, but also by brand new stainless steel reusable water bottles.
Pancake Tailgate wins green certification
On Saturday September 1st, Keough and Welsh Fam celebrated the Notre Dame victory in sustainable style with a hugely successful Pancake Tailgate.
A Long Lost Friend
The Office of Marketing Communications and Public Relations held a three day reintroduction-to-the-stairs competition; reducing their carbon footprint while burning a few of their own calories.
Biking Juniper soon to be much safer
A bike lane on Juniper, which has been of great interest to the campus community and South Bend at large, is soon to become a reality.