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Community Action – What sustainability activities are you excited about in Corvallis and Benton County?
Please comment on March 11.

Individual Action – What is your top personal priority this year, related to sustainability?
Please comment on March 11.

Topic Area Action – What would you like to do this year to help our community become more sustainable in this topic area?
Please comment on March 11.

For your reading pleasure, I’m posting contents from the the January 2010 edition of the Sustainability at OSU Update.  For more information about the update, and to subscribe, please visit this Ecologue post.
From our friends at Campus Recycling
Recyclemania has Begun – Pitch In to Win!
Recyclemania is a 10-week, nationwide recycling competition between universities which started [...]

After a fair amount of fine tuning, I’m pleased to report that we’ve worked out an arrangement with Enterprise’s WeCar division that will bring car sharing to OSU.
What is “car sharing” you may ask?  It’s similar to an hourly rental.  Members can make a reservation online, walk up to the car with a member card [...]

In an effort to expand the sustainability conversation to a wider and more diverse audience, the Sustainability Office has started two related programs targeted specifically at OSU faculty and staff.
First, in an effort to support wider awareness of campus resources, a newly-created listserv will distribute information that highlights sustainability activities at OSU.  While similar resources [...]

Our students are OSU’s greatest resource. Not only because they are the future, but also because they are intensely interested in how the campus is operated.
Due to this ever-increasing interest, the Sustainability Office has begun a series of pilot partnerships with various academic units. In these partnerships, we offer students an opportunity for [...]

I’ve been asked a few times by administrators to investigate what energy savings OSU might see if we shifted to a 4 day workweek (each day 10 hours).  I don’t plan on posting my rather lengthy response here unless someone requests it.  But the short answer is, there is indeed some net energy savings potential [...]

The new OSU Sustainability website went live moments ago, and we’re still working through some issues and have some minor cleanup/fixing to do over the next few days, so please bear with us!
Along with much of OSU, we made the switch to using Drupal to maintain and expand our website.  Honestly, I was reluctant to [...]

Hello everybody,
For the past seven years, the Society for College and University Planning has planned a major webcast in October, when many colleges and universities celebrate their sustainability initiatives. I’m particularly excited about the program this year, because of the cross-section of panelists, and the program moderator is Andy Revkin, science editor for The New [...]