The UW Sustainability office is looking for a web developer to continue to develop a newly-launched interactive online interface for the Green Certification programs (green-certification.uw.edu), including improvements to the editing and end-user interfaces, new reporting tools and notifications as well as other improvement. The developer would also update and build new features for the sustainability map, create features to better browse and find content on the site, and general development and maintenance work on the UW Sustainability...

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Category: Technology
Tags: jobs | internship

Beginning February 8, the University of Washington will be competing for the fourth year in RecycleMania - a friendly tournament where national college campuses compete during the course of eight weeks to see which can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste. The UW will take on nationwide universities including Pac-12 rivals Arizona State University, Stanford, University of California Berkeley, University of Oregon and Washington State University.

Under the guidance of UW Recycling, a student committee is leading the charge for event outreach. During the kickoff week of...

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Category: Recycling, Compost & Waste | Student Organizations
Tags: RecycleMania | UW Recycling
UW Sustainability's weekly events banner.

Safety Expo event bannerOn Wednesday, join us for the UW Safety, Sustainability, and Preparedness Expo! We will be in the HUB Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., offering fun and interesting activities to UW faculty, staff, and students.

The Expo will include light refreshments and door prizes. You'll be able to start your own personal, portable emergency kit...

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Category: Events
Tags: Weekly Events

Hundreds of guests gathered in Kane Hall’s gigantic auditorium last week, waiting patiently for UW history professor Linda Nash to present a lecture on Seattle’s environmental past. 

“Tonight, I want to propose a different way of looking at Seattle’s history,” she began. “My goal here is to emphasize that our city is not an isolated entity, but is itself a product of connection.”

Through a collection of visuals, ranging from key Seattle leaders to businesses and...

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Category: Environment | Events
Tags: history | Linda Nash

EcoReps is continuing its Green Greek Representatives blog segment with Danny Maier from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, who wrote a piece on his chapter’s new Sustainability Chairman position:

Recently, my fraternity made a huge stride in going green by adopting a new house position called the 'Sustainability Chair.' Serving on this chair requires you to fulfill 5 major duties. These duties are as follows:

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Category: Green Certifications | Student Organizations
Tags: EcoReps | Green Greek | Sigma Alpha Epsilon | Danny Maier

Great news! Seattle City Light is now going to rebate $600 to labs that purchase Stirling ULT (ultra-low temperature) freezers.

A graph comparing the electricity use (in watts) of two brands, Stirling and Revco, ultra-low temperature freezers.The Stirling ULT freezers are very energy efficient. The University of Washington Facilities Services conducted an analysis between the Stirling freezer and another brand freezer. The graph from the research shows that the Stirling freezer...

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Category: Energy | Green Certifications
Tags: Green Labs | freezers | rebate

You already know that cutting down on purchasing helps the environment, but sometimes you can't help it. In those cases, where you decide to shop can have a major impact on your local economy and the environment.

Buying locally helps reduce processing, packaging and transportation waste – all leading to less pollution. Plus, local businesses put more of that money back into the local economy. 

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Category: Environment
Tags: Sqwatch secrets | Sqwatch | buy local

Interested in learning more about sustainability courses offered on campus? We have a solution for you.

UW Sustainability is introducing our newly renovated sustainability courses page. On the page you will find several featured courses from a variety of departments, ranging from the College of the Environment to the Department of Scandinavian Studies. Our goal with the page was to create a useful webpage for students and present important information to help you find a sustainability course for you. On each course's page, you will find a description, the...

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Category: Academics
Tags: Sustainability in the Curriculum | Sustainability Courses

There’s a whole new lineup of sustainability events this week, ranging from discussions on global warming to chickens and worms on urban farms! Some of the week's highlights are listed below, and you can find out even more items happening on campus with our full calendar. The full Sustainability Events calendar is the best place to find the most up-to-date listings and details on all events. Also, if you know of any events, please let us know. We’d love to add them to our calendar! And if you'd like to get a weekly email of...

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Category: Events
Tags: Weekly Events

Claudia Frere-Anderson at her deskWelcome to the first edition of my new quarterly blog series, Claudia's Corner!

This year has definitely begun on an active note.  I just returned from the 12th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability at Portland State and co-presented with our Associate Vice President, Ruth Johnston, on "Transforming the University through...

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Tags: Claudia Frere-Anderson | Claudia's Corner