Green Guide: Winter 2019 - Present
About this campaign:
The Green Guide is a new campaign to enact a mandatory educational program for incoming U of O students. The program will include information about how to be sustainable while at the U of O. We are hoping to relay information as an interactive online program in the future to discuss one's important participation in sustainability on campus. In the meantime, we are creating a physical Green Guide, which will be in the form of a brochure detailing the resources on campus and why one ought to use them.
The Green Guide is a new campaign to enact a mandatory educational program for incoming U of O students. The program will include information about how to be sustainable while at the U of O. We are hoping to relay information as an interactive online program in the future to discuss one's important participation in sustainability on campus. In the meantime, we are creating a physical Green Guide, which will be in the form of a brochure detailing the resources on campus and why one ought to use them.
Interested? Join us on Tuesdays at 6 pm in Gerlinger 248!
Some quick facts:
- If you buy just one cup of coffee or tea in a disposable cup every day, you’ll end up creating about 23 lbs of waste in one year
- According to a study conducted by Starbucks and the Alliance for the Environmental Innovation (April 2000), each paper cup manufactured is responsible for 0.24 lbs of CO2 emissions.
- Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day or equivalent to146 billion cups of coffee per year, making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world
