GMU Sustainability

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Title

GMU Sustainability

Subject

Items relating to sustainability efforts across campus.

Description

This collection contains material relating to sustainability efforts across GMU campus.

Collection Items

Recycling Program Encourages Waste Reduction
Fourth Estate article discussing the implementation of recycling bins to reduce waste reduction in dorm rooms.

GMU First Greenhouse
Photo of the first greenhouse on GMU's campus.

Sustainability at the Forefront of Mason's New Initiative
A newspaper article describing faculty contributions to sustainability on campus

Mason Ranked as a Top "Green College" by Princeton Review
A newspaper article describing how Mason ranks highly as a green college

Ground shop initiative creates bee havens, gardens
Fourth Estate article discussing an initiative held by The Mason Grounds Shop to create bee havens in low use or areas with less plant material.

Students construct wetlands ecosystem
Fourth Estate article that discusses the creation of a wetlands ecosystem in Mason Pond done by students and led by associate professor of environmental science and policy, Changwoo Ahn. The main reason of construction was to "bring a living ecology…

Ike's will serve Mason grown food
News article from student run Fourth Estate describing how Ike's will repurpose food grown in the presidents park greenhouse in meals.
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