RIT is home to several groups interested in raising environmental awareness and making the campus more sustainable.
Student Environmental Action League (SEAL)
is the Institute’s primary "Green" organization. SEAL coordinates a number of events throughout the year, including the annual Campus Clean-Up (April 20) and Waste Audit (April 22). To learn more about SEAL, visit the group’s website at http://www.rit.edu/seal/RIT Habitat for Humanity
strives to expose its members to a variety of building opportunities with a goal to help families in need of housing. Each Spring break is traditionally used to work on a house in different area. In the past, the participants traveled to Alabama to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. For more information, visit HFH website at http://www.rit.edu/~w-habit/Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)
is composed mostly of engineers, but the group is open to anyone interested in improving sustainable practices. ESW focuses most on innovative applications and hands-on projects to improve sustainability on campus. Recent events include a GM fuel cell demonstration and UV tube workshop. For more information, visit the ESW website at http://www.rit.edu/esw/The P3 Workgroup
was founded by faculty and students in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering. With focus on ‘P3’ philosophy (people, prosperity and the planet) the group works on advancement of sustainability “by increasing the level of awareness on all sustainability dimensions among students, so that they can later make a positive impact on our planet and society”. In April 2007, the group won first place from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for design of a solar oven for use in developing countries. For more information, visit the website at http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/ise/p3/gRIT
(GreenRIT) is a networking group for members of the environmental community at RIT. You can subscribe to this group through the gRIT web interface or via email.If you have a (free) Yahoo account (or would like to open one), you can subscribe to the gRIT Network through its web interface at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gRITnetwork/. Log in to your Yahoo Account; click the "Join this group" link on the right-hand side of the page.
If you do not have a Yahoo account, subscribe by sending an email to gRITnetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Send the email from the address you want to use to send and receive messages from the group.
twitter.com/RITgreen
www.facebook.com
Environment and Sustainability "Eat-In's"
This group meets regularly every Thursday, noon – 1:00 pm starting September 10th in the lobby of the Center for Student Innovation. This is a casual, no-fuss, BYO lunch. Just drop-in, no rsvp needed. The goals are to meet each other, network, exchange information about environmental happenings at RIT, build cross-campus teams for sustainability initiatives and brainstorm sustainable issues. For more information contact: rljpro@rit.edu.Environmental Manager Home, sponsored by the McCarthy Chair
EnvironmentalManager.org is part of a larger international effort to identify common ground upon which environment professionals can stand in
solidarity of purpose, with commonly held goals, and delineated opportunities and responsibilities. Sponsored by Dr. John Morelli and the
endowed McCarthy Chair, the website is a clearing house for information and a public forum for environmental managers around the globe. For more
information contact Dr. John Morelli at john.morelli@rit.edu or 585-475-7318.
http://www.environmentalmanager.org
RIT Climate Change Expert Group
The RIT Climate Change Expert Group is a group of faculty from many different Colleges on campus, including the COE, COS, GCCIS, CLA, CAST, COB, and GIS. The goal of the expert group is to provide a resource for RIT students and faculty interested in climate change issues. For more information, contact Dr. James Winebrake jjwgpt@rit.edu.
Promote awareness of unnecessary paper usage. Add this note to your signature block on all emails.
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
If your email client supports HTML markup, you can copy and paste the message above into your email. If you have the Webdings font installed on your computer, you can also create this graphic yourself easily. The tree graphic is the letter P using the Webdings font. Make the rest of the text green, and attach this signature to all your emails to promote environmental awareness.
Double Sided Printing
Double sided (duplex) printing is possible on printers equipped with this option. To find out more:
Change the Margins
http://www.changethemargins.com/ is a website and movement dedicated to reducing paper waste by reducing the margins used when printing. It is a simple concept but makes a difference by saving paper. Try it.
