Habits
Process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
What is Recycling?
Meeting current human needs without compromising the ability o future generations to meet theirs.
What is Sustainability?
Federal agency that protects human health and the environment by enforcing regulations of their own making.
What is the EPA?
The most basic form of advocacy wherein one gains an understanding of environmental issues for themselves.
What is staying informed?
Source to find upcoming events from the SUNY ESF office of sustainability.
What is Engage or Instagram?
Common way to reduce excess energy use at home.
What is shutting off lights when you leave the room?
Fair, non-discriminatory distribution of environmental benefits and responsibilities.
What is Environmental Equity?
Federal committee that handles the introduction of sustainability-based bills to the House of Representatives.
What is the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis?
The undergraduate student governing body at ESF through which students can help enact or suggest changes in school policies.
What is the Mighty Oak Student Assembly?
Online magazine which is a key source for understanding recent events in the environment.
What is Yale E360?
Way of finding and reusing clothing to keep it from landfills.
What is Thrifting?
Idea and movement which especially seeks remediation for environmental oppression people have faced.
What is Climate Justice
Federal law which created regulations against releases of hazardous substances by the chemical and petroleum industries. It is currently under attack.
What is CERCLA (or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)?
Legal act of attempting to influence government decision making, often through arguing the case of certain laws to legislators.
What is lobbying?
Number of trees that have been planted by ESF students through default use of Ecosia on campus computers as of March 2026.
What is 1,239 trees?
Important home-habit for preventing draughts.
What is Conserving Water?
Sector that produced the fewest emissions in 2023, yet still is most likely to make changes towards sustainability.
What is the Residential Sector?
Year that New York State’s Department of Environmental Ccnservation was formed.
What is 1970?
Method used by advocacy groups to reach many voters and discuss environmental legislation with them.
What is phone banking?
How much the world’s total renewable electricity capacity is expected to grow in the next year.
What is 4500 gigawatts (equal to the power output by China and the United States combined)?
Organic waste that has been decomposed by microorganissms into a valuable fertilizer.
What is Compost?
Group which first defined sustainability
What is the United Nations Brundtland Commission?
The decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the principal internation treaty for addressing climate change.
What is the COP?
New York State Senator in the 48th District (which includes Onondaga County) who is an alum of ESF.
Who is Rachel May? (Know your representatives!)
Nonprofit environmental law organization in the US that successfully won a case against Trumps administration to preevent the use of 400000 protected waters for commercial fishing last year.
What is Earthjustice?