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Participating in Sustainable Academics

What can you do at Union College?

  • Join a club! Contact Tom Perry to join the Environmental Club.
  • Take a class! A good place to look for classes is the Environmental Science and Policy website
  • Ask your professor to devote at least one class to issues of sustainability. Whether your are studying English Literature, Sociology, or Visual Arts, issues of sustainability are relevant.
      (They can check out the Environmental Literacy Teaching Bank, soon to be accessible from the Environmental Science and Policy website.)
    Read up on Recent Environmental News
    Some easy-to-read books covering environmental topics such as global warming, dwindling water resources, melting glaciers, changing ecologies, and pollution include:
  • Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (Brown, Lester)
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Diamond, Jared)






















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    U Sustain seeks to promote sustainability initiatives and educate the campus community about ways to live, work, and enjoy Union in the most environmentally friendly and sustainable ways possible.

     

    Academics
    In an age of pressing environmental concerns, the government, businesses, and universities need graduates that understand basic environmental concerns and solutions. By incorporating environmental and sustainability education, we empower our students to participate in and strengthen our changing society.

    Recycling
    Everything we purchase, use, throw away, or recycle has an impact. U Sustain seeks to help you diminish or eliminate that impact as much as possible through recycling, reduction, and reuse.

    Energy
    Energy is an important component of sustainability and encompasses the electricity that keeps the lights on and the gas that keeps us warm in the blustery Schenectady winter. Knowledge about reducing our energy, and, in turn, our carbon footprint, can enable us all to make a difference.

    Food
    One way we can all make a difference is by being conscious of what we eat and how we eat it. U Sustain seeks to help us all lower our environmental impact by eating local and organic, buying fair trade, using less packaging, and making vegetarian options appealing.