Sustainability

Students in select classes have the chance to skip traditional course evaluations this spring and instead offer feedback about professors in a new online program put together by the Academic Council.

Two student organizations have teamed up for a series of events this month to celebrate the environment. The Green Team and Sierra Club are raising awareness of environmental sustainability, which includes Earth Day on April 22, during the campus community’s first ever “Earth Week.”

Read this note for a special message from President Leo M. Lambert regarding the final results of RecyleMania 2008 ...

As the 2008 POWER Less Energy Competition comes to a close, every residence hall on campus has shown reductions in the amount of electricity consumed on a weekly basis.

Anthony Weston, professor of philosophy and Elon's 2007 Distinguished Scholar, led a workshop titled "Green Dreaming: Environmental Visions After the Emergency" on March 31. Weston told those in attendance that environmentalism must remain a hopeful celebratory cause. Details...

Students on campus have cut back their electricity use more in the past week than at any time to date in the 2008 POWER Less Energy Competition. The building results are positive for the first time as well. 

The push is on for Elon students, faculty and staff to surpass the amount of material recycled in the 2008 nationwide RecycleMania competition over levels measured during last year's contest between hundreds of colleges and universities. More than 82,000 pounds of material have been recycled through Week 8.

The week of Spring Break helped every residential building on campus show a drop in energy use during Week 5 of a seven-week university competition that encourages students and staff to reduce power use.