This spring, five UW–Madison students joined the Zero Waste Atlas Fellowship. The Zero Waste Atlas is a new scoring system and benchmarking tool to assess a university’s capacity to achieve its zero waste goals. Fellows …
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Post-Landfill Action Network membership offers benefits for UW–Madison community
The Post-Landfill Action Network, or PLAN, “aids college students, as well as campus faculty and staff, in tackling unsustainable infrastructure on their campuses. To do this … [they] provide digital and in-person support via our …
Smart Restart: Disinfectant Bottle and Box Program
To ensure a Smart Restart amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is adopting new practices to keep the campus safe, fiscally responsible, and sustainable. The Disinfectant Bottle & Box Refill-Reuse Program aims to …
Office of Sustainability student interns partner with Texas Woman’s University team to achieve Zero Waste
Interns Catie McDonald and Riley Collins collaborated with students, staff, and faculty at Texas Woman’s University to help make the 2020 Sci-Southwest Regional Symposium a zero-waste event, which means 90% or more waste was diverted …
New year, new certifications: Office of Sustainability interns continue to expand campus partnerships
In June 2020, the Office of Sustainability (OS) undergraduate intern program will welcome its newest cohort of undergraduate student employees. Alongside several veteran interns who are returning for a second year, the new interns will …
Earth Week 2019 Highlights Campus Partnerships and Opportunities
What does environmental injustice mean, and how does it manifest in Madison? How does one create an activist campaign to address climate change? Let’s say you tear your favorite jeans—how do you stitch them up …
Graduate Student Achieves Waste Sustainability By Way of Good Relationships
Emily Knipp spent the summer interning for the St. Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team that plays at the Greenest Ballpark in America—CHS Field in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her internship marked the final semester …
Several Hundred People, 11 Pounds of Trash: A Successful Zero Waste Pilot on Earth Day
“Zero waste”—it’s an idea that can feel slightly naïve in our consumerist culture. Nearly everything we do produces waste of some kind. And when large groups of people gather for an all-day event—say, hundreds of …
Earth Week Celebrations Return to the UW
The Office of Sustainability is celebrating the 48th annual Earth Day with a dynamic week of events. And they aren’t doing it alone: several organizations on campus are working together, including the Sustainability Committee of …