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Spring 2008
Penn State Kicks off Inaugural Green-PSU Listserv
What's Green at Penn State by Laura Priaino
Penn State is Taking the "Green" Challenge with New Campaign
About Us
Green-PSU is a collection of several units of Penn State that share several sustainable and ecological goals to better the future of the University and the way of life today.
By integrating groups, programs, and units of the University, Penn State can maximize each area’s potential to achieve environmental goals. It can also maximize the University’s likelihood of living and working in an environment that is as sustainable as possible.
green.psu.edu
This Web site is both a guide and reference point to Penn State’s environmental strategies and processes. Updates and general information about what Penn State is doing to build a more sustainable future will be available. The goal is to inspire faculty, staff, students, and anyone who is interested in the innovative steps Penn State is taking and engrain important practices in the way Penn State operates.
Find out how to get involved, get contacts for University groups, and learn what you can do by viewing the many resources Green-PSU offers.
Welcome
Welcome to Penn State’s Environmental Stewardship Web site. At Penn State, we are proud of the many initiatives our institution has undertaken to ensure the University’s business is conducted in a manner that demonstrates our commitment to environmental stewardship. We are equally proud of the successful research and academic programs that focus on finding solutions to the most pressing environmental issues facing our world. Penn State is not only working to operate in an environmentally sensitive manner, it is also developing new innovative approaches to solving environmental issues and educating our students to be future leaders in developing and implementing environmentally sensitive business practices around the globe.
The environmental challenges facing our generation are great and it is incumbent upon all of us to come together and do our part in ensuring that we do not pass these challenges on to future generations.
I hope you find our Web site to be informative and stimulating, and I further hope that it stirs you to action in helping to protect and preserve our most precious resources.
Thanks for visiting.
Steve Maruszewski
Chair of the Finance & Business Environmental Stewardship Key Initiative
Student Volunteers Help Penn State Stay Green and Clean
STATERs is a student group that promotes recycling awareness and other green activities on campus. They are best known for passing out blue recycling bags at football games, an activity that helped collect 87 tons of recyclable items last season.
Upcoming Events to Watch For:
April 20- Hub Lawn Earth Day Celebration
April 22- Official Earth Day
April 20-26- Conservation Challenge
April 29- Environmental Colloquium
For more events, visit the Green-PSU Calendar.
Penn State Encourages Conservation with Earth Week Challenge
Penn State is challenging faculty, staff, and students from every department and office across its campuses to reduce resource consumption. During this year’s Earth Week (April 20-26), the University community is encouraged to cut down on its consumption by 20 percent. The objective of the challenge is to promote conservation efforts in hopes to create long-term habits. Be sure to check Take Charge! and Green-PSU in the coming months for more information about Earth Week and Penn State’s challenge.
New Videoconferencing Program Saves Time and Money
Instead of driving across campus, why not hold your meetings right from your office? Thanks to Adobe Connect, Penn State employees can save time, money, and gas by using this new videoconferencing program.
Penn State Holds Inaugural Forum for the Future
On October 24, Penn State held one of many important meetings about what the University is doing to become environmentally friendly and sustainable. The Forum for the Future attracted many University leaders to discuss climate change and environmental action. For more information, contact Environmental Stewardship chair, Steve Maruszewski.
Green-PSU is Online
Green-PSU is a new Web site that is growing every day to become a central location for environmental information. The site will continuously grow and will provide up-to-date information about environmental happenings and innovations. Please provide us with any suggestions, comments and feedback.
Take Charge Tip of the Month
Take Shorter Showers
Why: If every student who lives on campus at University Park reduced his or her shower by just five minutes, we would save 100,000 gallons of water each school year. That’s enough to fill five swimming pools!
Get more tips at: www.takecharge.psu.edu