Student Chapter in Serbia working towards the success of 350.org

During the International Conference of Energy and Environmental Protection (14-16 October), Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Union University and Association of Geophysicists of Serbia, including two SEG Student Sections, organized program related to the Day of Climate Action. Each day, students were presenting lectures to youth of different ages and held quizzes, testing the [...]

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Water Group Update

We will be holding a water tasting event on the Tuesday of dead week, December 1st, at lunchtime (12-1pm). The experiment will test whether tap water tastes any different than bottled water: we will put tap water in three bottles – two of which are different brands of bottled water, and one which is marked [...]

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New Winter class: CEE/EarthSys 109 Green Buildings and Behavior

Sustainers: Answer this call to action and forward widely! A partnership between the Woods Institute for the Environment, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Sustainability and Energy Management, Students for a Sustainable Stanford, and the Green Living Council is bringing you a new Winter course focused on TRAINING you with industry best practices in resource [...]

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Another Group R Update

-Bad news: next waste audit won’t be until January…Good news: There may be a nice big photo of it in Stanford Magazine! -With Copenhagen coming up, we wanted to bring some attention to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with product lifecycles. We’re thinking of bringing some local businesses to White Plaza during lunchtime on a [...]

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Sustainability + Fun

http://thefuntheory.com/ This website has examples of creative methods people have used to change behavior.  One idea was to make a staircase with piano keys for stairs, encouraging people to skip the escalator.  Another approach was to install a speaker in garbage cans that makes a sound of something falling down a deep pit, encouraging people [...]

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