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Composting: Looking Back On The Inaugural Year
May 8, 2013

It’s been a year since composting became a sustainability standard on the Morningside campus with the purchase and installation of a composter at Ruggles Hall. The Rocket, as the composter is called by its manufacturer, is simply an 8’ by 2’ by 4’ cylinder that uses “brown and green” technology.

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Green Market
April 24, 2013

Happy Earth week to all! Bit by bit Spring is arriving. There are ramps, asparagus + plenty of greens in the market. Lots of colorful flowers and fragrant herbs for your windowsills. Do not forget to stop by the managers table to see what market manager Laura Emerson is cooking up this week.

The Columbia market is open year-round on Sundays and Thursdays and as always, accepts credit, debit, and EBT.

On Sundays ONLY, we collect food scraps for compost from 8am to 1pm, and textiles for recycling from 8am to 3pm.

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Green Kudos For Columbia In Earth Week!
April 23, 2013

As Columbia begins its Earth Week celebrations, the University itself is being celebrated for its care for the Earth.

The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition, released last week, has included Columbia in its collection. And that’s not all.

Within the Guide is an Honor Roll listing 22 of the colleges and universities for having achieved its highest possible “Green Rating” – a score of 99. Columbia is one of the 22.

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Join Eco Reps in Celebrating Earth Week
April 22, 2013

 

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Clean Plates, Less Waste: Eco Reps Throw Down The Challenge
April 15, 2013

On four evenings during the current academic year, students leaving John Jay Dining Hall have handed over their dirty dinner plates to a group of EcoReps on a mission. That mission was clear and direct: Stop wasting food. On the evenings of Nov. 13, Jan. 29, Feb. 26 and March 26, between 5 and 8 p.m., the average number of diners at John Jay was 1110. The average amount of left-over food scraped from their plates by EcoReps weighed in at 192 pounds.

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  • Columbia Surplus Re-Use Program
  • Recycling
  • Energy Efficiency
  • The guide to green computing
  • Food

Office of Environmental Stewardship  ●  635 W 115 Street, 4th Floor  ●  New York, NY 10025  ●  212-854-7046  ●  environment@columbia.edu