University of West Georgia
EN-3: Student Life

1. Green Elite - This organization, known as the Green Elite, is established for the purpose of increasing participation and contribution of students in sustainability efforts on campus and in the community. Yes student governred. 2. GREAN (formerly Love Not Litter) – no description provided to Center for Student Involvement. Yes student governed. 3. Wolves Helping Others: Wolves Helping Others (W.H.O.) is a student organization whose purpose is to provide on and off campus volunteer opportunities for the campus community. Their programs are selected by students and implemented through five committees. Yes student-governed. 4. The ACS (American chemical Society) club is not focused100% on sustainability, per se, but is an ongoing interest to the group. Student governed. 5. Tri Beta Biological Honors Society. Student governed.

Community Garden established Spring 2014. The garden includes a small garden greenhouse on-site. We have a passive composting site adjacent to the garden where we dump all our removed leaves and herbaceous plants from the campus. The campus group Green Elite is the driving force behind the garden. They are mainly Geoscience students. Dr. Shea Rose is their faculty sponsor and James Hembree is the facilities sponsor. Garden was established in partnership with Tanner Health Systems, Home Depot, and Keep Carroll Beautiful. Food is consumed by students or donated to local soup kitchen. Yes student-governed.

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1. Earth Week- student governed events included: Tie Dye Shirt, Bamboo Plant event, live Earth Day twitter feed, recycled bottle art. Yes student governed. 2. Carve on the Quad was made "green" (2013, 2014) through Green Elite's student led composting of pumpkin wastes and saving of seeds. The folks carving pumpkins and participating were from the Art Dept. Yes student governed. 3. Environmental Awareness Week: Was not student governed. 4. Global warming talk sponsored by Library. Not student governed. 5. The College of Arts and Humanities organized a symposium on the humanities and the environment at the most recent Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG. Not student governed.

1. Earth Week – Poem Reading. 2. Environmental Awareness Week – Dirty Car Artist. Not student governed. 3. An artist from Georgia State who makes art pieces from ocean waste and ocean plastic came to speak on campus 2 years ago and students were in attendance. Not student governed.

1. University Recreation's Adventure Trips – Hiking, Kayaking, Bouldering, and Camping events are done each semester The Outdoor Recreation program is centered around the Leave No Trace principles. The program offers numerous trips a year ranging from backpacking to sea kayaking, climbing to whitewater rafting, and on-campus seminars and clinics that focus on backcountry skills. 2. Outdoor Recreation also offers a rental program to provide equipment and resources to the university community. Not student-governed.

There are two. 1) Sustainable Cities: The Sustainable Cities Learning Community is organized for students interested in thinking creatively about cities and towns. All cities and towns are the products of natural and social systems. The city is as much “natural” as it is “social”—it is an assemblage of economic and water flows, political boundaries, air and soil, culture and biological landscapes, etc. How can we evaluate cities and towns (e.g. Atlanta and Carrollton) as socio-natural places? Which ones will last (they’re sustainable”) and which ones will need to change, and how? Can we envision a “better” Atlanta and/or Carrollton? What would it look like? Answers to these questions will require considerations from many perspectives, from the scientific, economic, and political to the ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic. WEBSITE: http://www.westga.edu/fyp/index_21952.php 2. The Globalization Learning Community is organized for students interested in the economic, political, social, and cultural transformations brought about by globalization. We will take a hands-on approach to learning about how global supply chains are involved in the production of commonly used consumer products such as blue jeans, cars and gasoline. We will also explore how the forces associated with globalization are challenging the primacy of the nation-state. And, importantly, we will discuss how these changes will affect the professions for which you are currently preparing.

1. First-year students living in residential halls are introduced to resource conservation principles through a communication & engagement campaign that includes the following: - A sustainability video centered around the sustainability achievements in the residence halls and aimed to raise awareness of energy consumption/water usage within their rooms. This is posted on social media site by both the Residential Life office and the main UWG accounts. - During resident orientation meeting students were requested to fill out a pledge card to reduce their environmental impact through specific lifestyle habits. These cards were prominently displayed in the buildings lobbies. - A series of edu-tainment collateral pieces centered on reducing energy consumption, encouraging the use of reusable resources and discouraging one time disposable items are disbursed in the residence halls throughout the semester.

1. Housing employs 10 students to help with recycling collection. These student workers are dedicated to the recycling efforts in all of the residence halls. They pull bags and place new ones in the containers. Count the number of bags, record weight, put in spreadsheet for sustainability documentation. Out of the 10, 4 are a dedicated Recycling team (4) and some of the ones we hired for Greek Village are currently being cross trained into the recycling program as well. 2. There are currently 3 students working within the Risk Management Department who specifically focus sustainability efforts. Their responsibility is to pick-up materials for recycle / reuse and are mainly restricted to the following: Cardboard Plastic and aluminum bottles Wooden pallets Printer cartridges 3. A group of students work in landscaping and learn to follow sustainable landscaping practices.

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Housing and Residence Life worked with Good Will this past move out day to collect unwanted student items to be donated to this operation. Plans are to prepare in advance this upcoming move-out period for an ongoing effort to build this program in years to come.