The Daily Green

The Daily Green is a great resource for gathering 'green' information, offering tips on green living, recipes for green cooking, and daily news updates.

Interesting features:
470.4 Billion Ways to Go Green This Holiday Season

Organic Foods and More: 30 Days to a Greener Diet

Quiz: How Green Are You?

30+ Ways to Save Money By Going Green

Email signature to save paper

Email signatures are a great way to encourage paper conservation. Consider adding a message like this to the footer of your outgoing messages:

Be Earth-friendly, please do not print this e-mail unless there is
truly a need.

Community Green Tip

The suggestion to open the blinds instead of turning on the lights disregards other complicated reasons for closing blinds, e.g., to keep out the hot rays of the afternoon sun that result in a temperature increase for classrooms leading to an increase in the demand for air-conditioning. Surely, running the air-conditioning is more expensive than running the lights.

Would it be possible to install reflective film on the west side of buildings in the direct path of the setting sun to cut down on excess heat?

*Have a tip of your own? Email sustainability@meredith.edu to be featured here!

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...to the Meredith College Sustainability Journal!

This site will be used to announce and discuss events on campus as well as track the progress of the Sustainability initiative. Please feel free to make comments on any of the post and discuss your personal views on where sustainability could potentially soar at Meredith.