For the fifth year in a row, UT Knoxville will compete in RecycleMania, an annual, intercollegiate recycling and waste reduction competition that takes place over ten weeks during the spring semester.
As we near the end of the fall and winter’s chill moves in, UT Knoxville’s energy conservation efforts are heating up: Over the past 15 months, your actions and ideas to save energy and work efficiently through the Switch Your Thinking campaign have saved the campus more than $1 million in energy costs alone.
This Knoxville News Sentinel article explores how the university is working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and “make orange green.” Gordie Bennett, sustainability manager for UT Knoxville, explains how UT is taking a more in-depth approach, analyzing carbon dioxide emissions and creating a comprehensive plan for reducing its carbon footprint.
UT Knoxville took top honors in the state and the Southeastern Conference in this year’s 2010 College Sustainability Report Card. The report, published annually by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, gave UT Knoxville a B grade, placing the campus higher than any other Tennessee college or university and tied with two other universities for the top
To strengthen UT’s responsibility toward helping to preserve the environment, the Office Supply Store now offers recycled paper. This 30% post-consumer fiber recycled paper is engineered to the same high quality standards as non-recycled paper to ensure optimal performance in copy machines and laser and ink jet printers.
When he started college as a math major, Gordie Bennett never thought that he would end up an environmental advocate who spends his days with a nine foot tall light switch affectionately named “Switchie.” But for Bennett, the sustainability manager for UT Knoxville, it’s just another day at the office.
Temperatures are up, and so, likely, are your utility bills. Energy costs can rise significantly during the summer months, when peak demand rates go into effect. Hot summer months create an increased demand for energy consumption, but they also bring increased opportunities for energy cost savings. Energy costs are one of UT’s largest non-personnel expenditures,
UT is more than halfway to the “Switch Your Thinking” campaign goal of reducing energy use on campus by 10 percent this fiscal year. To help the campus reach this milestone, Make Orange Green and the Committee on the Campus Environment have created an energy conservation program for faculty and staff called “Friends of Switchie.”
Faculty Senate President and professor of philosophy John Nolt speaks with the UT Minute staff about UT’s efforts to create and maintain a sustainable campus.
Do you know someone at UT Knoxville who goes the extra mile to advance environmental stewardship on campus? If so, then you can nominate that person by Thursday, April 2, for an Environmental Leadership Award.
Effective April 2009, the University of Tennessee’s VolXpress statements will be delivered electronically. Students will receive an e-mail at their official UT e-mail address indicating their e-VolXpress statement is available for viewing.
Join the Make Orange Green POWER Challenge! The challenge is an annual competition between residence halls during the month of February to see who can conserve the most water and energy, recycle the most and which resident assistants can provide the best educational environmental programming to their residents. After three weeks of the competition, Morrill