The UW Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability office will be presenting at the Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference!
Trash-In 2011 will take place on April 13 at the Bryants Building Annex. Recycling & Solid Waste will receive one day’s worth of trash from eight designated campus buildings and sort it into categories currently collected on campus. Please share your availability to volunteer, or email us at recycle@uw.edu for more information. Let’s get trashy!
GoGreen ’11 Seattle is a one day sustainability conference for businesses in Seattle on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 built to motivate, inspire, and educate business owners to “go green” and become more sustainable. As an action-oriented, non-typical conference, GoGreen ’11 Seattle teaches tactical steps on how to “green” your business and provides actionable next steps to sustainability for business owners and decision makers.
Looking for an environmentally related job or paid internship? Save the date for the 2011 UW Green Career Fair, sponsored by the College of the Environment and the UW Career Center.
The Green Career Fair will feature corporate, non-profit and government employers looking for interns, volunteers and full-time employees. This brand-new event is a great chance to meet environmentally-focused employers, or those with major green initiatives that mesh with your values and career goals.
WHEN? January 26th 10am to 2pm
WE HAVE A CHALLENGE FOR YOU - If you’ve got a passion for clean-tech, the smarts to play in the emerging green economy, and the desire to leverage your engineering background to make an impact, the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge can provide just the platform (and the funding!) you’ve been looking for.
The UW held its first Sustainability Summit yesterday, which was an event organized by the Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) committee with the goal of gathering ideas on how its funds can be used.
The $340,000 fund, approved by the Services and Activities Fee committee last year, will serve as financial support for campus projects conducted by students, faculty and staff that aim to promote sustainability on campus.
Date: November 3, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Main Lobby
See new ideas and product info, product samples and literature, and sustainable solutions. Come win door prizes and meet your Office Depot representatives.
What: Learn about UW's sustainability efforts and the Campus Sustainability Fund.
When: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sept 27th & 28th
Where: Communications Building Room 230
BONUS: We will be giving out free CFL bulbs.
Dear friends of UW Bothell,
You are invited to join us for a monthly showcase of research-in-progress by Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences faculty members. The campus-community and the general public are invited to interact with faculty in conversations about their research, gain a sense of how research practices shift as they move across disciplines and sectors, and think critically and creatively about the implications of different forms of research design.
Seminars will be held each month – here is the speaker lineup: