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U Sustain Solutions

Transportation to and from campus and around campus is an important issue. U Sustain is striving to make transport around Union and the greater community easier.

Pedestrian Friendly Campus

Union College keeps a pedestrian friendly and easily walkable campus. Bike racks are installed about the main quad and near major residence halls so that students and local faculty and staff can easily bike to campus. The campus walkways are kept clear by snow removal and by spraying more eco-friendly deicers (Magic-OTM) for traction. It takes less than five minutes to walk to most parts of the campus and the farthest walk is only fifteen minutes.

Campus Trolley

The campus has a trolley that can transport you around the campus in poor weather or at night for safety. The trolley loops around the campus and takes about twenty minutes to make one full loop. Just find a T-stop during normal operating hours.

The trolley schedule lists the operating hours and approximate route and stops the trolley will make.

Biofuels

Dining services now recycles its waste oil for recycling into biofuels used in biodiesel vehicles. Hundreds of gallons of waste oil are now diverted from landfills to clean, closed loop fuels.















 
 
 
 

 

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.

Transportation
Union is a residential, walkable campus, but U Sustain is working on ways to help you get around Union and the greater Schenectady area comfortably, while keeping the environment in mind.