Garden
This person has been a Garden Intern for the past year and has now been promoted to LEAD Garden Intern.
Who is Brendan Werries? :)
This initiative recirculated around 2,000 lbs of stuff last year.
What is the Free Store?
This type of engineering uses the steady temperature of groundwater to regulate temperature in buildings.
What are geothermal heat pumps?
A niche hobby that John and Julia both share.
What is birding?
This item is the most frequently seen as contamination in the bottle/can recycling.
What are cups?
Originally, this project was started by an ENST class in 2009.
A club started in 2017 that was recently disbanded after the garden bee colony became very aggressive.
What is the Beekeeping Club?
This initiative acknowledges that campus is already experiencing the impacts of climate change and that we must preemptively address those impacts.
What is climate resilience and adaptation?
This person is the new Associate Provost of Sustainability.
Who is John Pumilio?
Greasy pizza boxes go in this bin (in Madison County).
What is the paper/cardboard recycling bin?
This bed grows corn, beans, and squash and is supported by the Oneida and Onondaga nations in planting each year.
What is the Three Sisters plot?
This event certification requires that an event have NO single-use plastic in order to be certified.
What is the Oak Event Certification?
This past Colgate president signed the President's Commitment to carbon neutrality.
Who is Rebecca Chop?
This key member of the Sust Retreat NEVER recycles.
Hint: Not a human.
Who is Blizz? John's dog.
Clear plastic berry containers go in this bin (in Madison County).
What is the landfill bin?
Half of all garden produce goes to this community location.
What is the Hamilton Food Cupboard?
This framework is part of what the Sust team uses to influence behavior on campus.
What is Community-based Social Marketing?
These two main reasons are part of why we do not have solar panels on buildings on campus.
Very low cost of electricity in town makes it a poor financial decision. Our current electricity is already emission-free.
These two interns share the exact same birthday on the same year.
Who are Vishnu and Ella?
These are the first ways to try to reduce landfill waste downstream.
This program has collected almost 8,000 lbs of food scraps since 2022.
What is the Broad Street compost program?
A group of staff, faculty, and students that meet to discuss, plan, and implement broad-scale sustainability goals on campus.
What is the Sustainability Council?
This substantial on-campus program was originally funded around 2009ish based on the justification of estimated reduction in emissions. It still runs to this day.
What is the Sustainability Internship Program?
Early next spring semester, this event will take place for the FIRST TIME to continue to foster community within the Sust Interns.
What is the spring intern orientation/retreat?
This Chinese national policy from 2018 prevented the U.S. from exporting recycled materials to China.
What is the National Sword Policy?