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Blue + Gold = Green: UNCG Celebrates Earth Week 2009!
Earth Week 2009: April 20-24
Monday, April 20: Sustainability Research Fair. Details coming soon!
Wednesday, April 22: EARTH DAY! Foust Park, 12-4 pm. Live music: Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Eating the Invaders, Our Horse Jethro and WUAG DJ's! Kids activities, prizes, environmental info, tasty treats, arts and crafts, DIY workshops and MORE! Bring a blanket and come celebrate your mama earth!
Thursday, April 23:
- Landfill on the Lawn: College Avenue, 10 am-2 pm. Do YOU know what's lurking in your trash? We'll be emptying two dorms' dumpsters to reveal the dirty truth about just how many recyclables end up in the landfill. Look for the big pile of trash on College Ave-- it'll be hard to miss.
- UNCG Commuter Challenge: March 24-April 30, every Tuesday and Thursday, 11 am-1 pm, Walker Circle. Come learn about all your alternative transportation options, from bikes to buses! Pledge to use an alternative to driving ONE time within the month, and be entered to win prizes!
- ArtCAN! Creative Food Drive and Farmer's Market. Weatherspoon Art Museum Sculpture Garden, 2:30-4 pm. UNCG departments and student organizations battle in the first-ever team sculpture building competition using only canned and boxed foods. All cans will be donated to the Greensboro Food Bank.
- Sustainable World Film Series: Wal-Town. 6:30 pm, Weatherspoon Art Museum Auditorium, FREE and open to the public.
Friday, April 24: P4: Peabody Park Protection Project! 1-3 pm. Get down and dirty-- clean up your park and eradicate invasive species. Wear long sleeves, pants, close-toed shoes and BYOG (bring your own gloves) if you got 'em! We'll meet on the pedestrian bridge to the music building.
OSE (Office Supply Exchange)
Attention, faculty and staff! Do you have unused office supplies cluttering up your office? Need new ones but don’t wanna spend the money? Come check out the OWRR’s brand new Office Supply Exchange! Faculty and staff are encouraged to drop off unwanted, lightly used items and take office supplies as needed from our inventory. Located at the back of North Spencer residence hall (Gray Drive next to the Atrium), the OSE is a one-stop shop for all your office needs. We have three-ring binders, hanging folders, envelopes, computer paper, pens, pencils, desk organizers, staplers, and much more—and it’s completely free!
We at the OWRR are excited about the launch of this program for a number of reasons. Every year, departments spend thousands on office supplies. By providing an opportunity to acquire free office supplies, this program will help to mitigate some of those costs. In addition, the OSE will reduce waste at its source (by avoiding unnecessary supply orders), and divert already purchased materials from the landfill. So whether you’re taking supplies or leaving them, everybody wins!
How it works
- Bring your unwanted office supplies to the OSE and place them in the designated drop box. Don’t bother restocking shelves; an OWRR staff member will replenish supplies on a weekly basis.
- If you are in need of office supplies, simply survey the space, find what you want and take it with you.
Hours: The space will be open to the public from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM every Tuesday & Thursday.
Accepted Items
- Three-ring binders
- Hanging file folders, manila folders
- Spiral bound notebooks
- Composition books
- Reams of paper (computer and notebook)
- Desk, disk, and file organizers
- Pencils, pens, highlighters, markers, white-out
- Rulers, erasers, staplers, hole punchers
- Ink toners (UNUSED)
- Bookends
If you have items you’d like to get rid of that are not on this list, call us and we’ll let you know if we can accept them.
The OWRR is happy to provide this free service to university employees. Please let us know if you have questions or suggestions! 334.5192, recycle@uncg.edu.
UNCG Cleanout! - Summer 2008
This summer, join your colleagues in a campus initiative to preserve, recycle, and securely dispose of records that have met retention requirements!
Activities will include:
- Preserving UNCG's History: Transferral of Historical Records to University Archives.
- How to participate: To arrange courtesy pickup of historical records during the UNCG Cleanout initiative, contact the OWRR at 334-5192 by Friday, July 11th, 2008.
- For more info about historical records, contact the University Archives at 334-4045.
- UNCG Shred-a-thon: Campus-wide Paper Records Disposal Event.
- Location & how to participate: Simply collect sensitive paper records that are no longer needed or required to be kept by the University. On Thursday, July 24th from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm, bring these items to the Walker Ave. Circle (behind Jackson Library Tower).
- For questions about recycling or reuse of non-paper items, contact the Office of Waste Reduction & Recycling (OWRR) at 334-5192.
Note: For more info about retention and disposition of records, go to the Records Management web site or contact the University Records Officer at 334-3111. No destruction of records may take place if litigation or audits are reasonably anticipated or foreseeable.
This initiative has been made possible by Information Technology Services and Business Affairs through a partnership with Shred-it, a document destruction company.
Sustainability Assessment
Check out UNCG's first Sustainability Assessment (PDF). This campus-wide analysis evaluates UNCG's social, environmental, and economic impacts in hopes of providing a baseline framework for future planning and measuring progress.