Brown Bag Presentation

Here’s the PowerPoint presentation from our Brown Bag on ink & paper savings at the printer!!

 

TST Brown Bag

Updated TerraCycle Totals

Chip Bag Brigade®

• Chip Bag collected: 1,319!!

• Cash value: $22.54

Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade®

• Energy Bar Wrapper collected: 13,477!!

• Cash value: $258.92

Recycle Your Computer @ Tufts

To recycle your computer:

 1.  Contact your local support organization. They will copy all data from your old computer to your new computer. Data stored locally on the computer will not be preserved anywhere else. Data on Tufts’ network shares will still be available.

 2.  Complete Facilities’ online service request form and request a pickup of your old computer. Log in to https://fsrequest.tufts.edu/WebMaint/ with your Tufts username and Tufts password and fill out the form as specified. Note in the description field that this is a pickup for “Tufts Recycling Program.”

 3.  Most Tufts computers are recycled domestically for free. However, charges may be applied to large scale clean-outs.

Terra Cycle expands across campus!

The Eco Ambassador luncheon was a great opportunity to network with staff across all three of Tufts’ campuses.  Members of TST used this opportunity to expand our Terra Cycle collection sites.  In the weeks to come look for collection bins, for chip bag and energy bar wrappers, in Tisch’s Tower Cafe, Fletcher and possibly 80 George Street. 

We also took the opportunity to chat with 2 Eco Reps who are doing pretty incredible things on campus.  We will continue to collaborate with their organization as well as the Tufts Sustainability Collective!

Gold Certification

At the Eco Ambassador Luncheon, hosted by the Office of Sustainability, Tisch Library is awarded Gold Certification for having a Green Certified Office.  Current Eco Ambassador and TST member, Carol Ellis, accepts the award on our behalf!

Tisch Celebrates Earth Day!

Check out the new exhibit, located in the lobby of Tisch Library!!  It features Eco-friendly books in the glass case and a slide show of videos, available in the Media Center, on the computer screen to the right.

 

 

Thanks to Fannie Koa from the Office of Sustainability for the great pictures!!

TST Book Appearance

TST appears in new book: The Entrepreneurial Librarian Borrow it from Tisch Library and check out page 189-190!!

Eco Book Contest Winners!

The Tisch Eco-Grant* Books Contest

Sponsored by the Tisch Library Sustainability Team

 Here are the winners, and their winning book nominations.  Thanks to all who entered!

 The Tufts Catalog record for each winning book will receive a notation that includes the nominator’s name 

Hallie Abelman (Tufts Eco-Reps) –  Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran-Foer

Julie-Ann Bryson (Lilly Music Library) – The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet… by Elizabeth Rogers & Thomas M. Kostigen

Amey Callahan (Tisch Library) – Knack Clean Home, Green Home by Kim Delabney

Carol Ellis (Tisch Library) – You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farm Enterprise by Joel Salatin

Dan Hurwit (Academic Support-Fletcher) – Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard

Joshua Metersky (Tufts Eco-Reps) – What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers

Katherine Segal (Tufts Eco-Reps) – Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte

Laurie Sabol (Tisch Library) – Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin

Kris Thompson (Tisch Library) – The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe

Jessica Warner (Tisch Library) – Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm-Friendly Food by Joel Salatin

Tina Woolston (Office of Sustainability) – Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good (4^th ed.) by Nancy R. Lee and Philip Kotler

 * Book purchase funds provided by a grant award from Tufts University’s Eco-Ambassadors program

Cradle to Grave

Learn about how organizations are encouraging manufacturers to be responsible for their products from cradle to grave: WRAP |  Product Policy Institute | Product Stewardship Institute and what some businesses are doing: Apple | Subaru

Terra Cycle Update

New TerraCycle Totals:

• Chip Bag Brigade: 514 bags collected
  

• Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade: 11,260 wrappers collected
  

• We just sent the Tufts Eco Reps our earnings: $231.64