Helping you go GREEN!
UGBC needs students to join the BCisGreen Week Committee for 2010!
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What's Going on at BC?
BOSTON COLLEGE COMMUNITY GARDEN
Update on the status of the Boston College Community garden. Thanks to RealFoodBC for putting it together. Download the PDF here.
FLAT-SCREEN NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
UGBC has worked hard to provide students with a new, environmentally conscious method of advertisement. The recent implementation of flat screen televisions into the University’s communication infrastructure will serve as an efficient and cutting-edge medium through which clubs and organizations around campus can easily broadcast their event advertisements. Content on this recently implemented notification system will include local weather advisories and updates, important athletic information, security warnings and a presentation of events around campus designed in a captivating fashion. Using a state-of-the-art digital signage service, UGBC hopes the flat-screens can help reduce the clutter often caused by traditional advertising techniques and help better notify students about exciting and eye-opening events that occur here daily. Learn more at UGBC.org/FSNS.
Contact: Kevin Hylant (
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST
In an effort to be a model for the Boston College community, UGBC has developed an environmental checklist that would allow any student-sponsored event to become “Green Certified”. A recognizable green logo would be available to the club or organization sponsoring the program, allowing it to advertise that it meets the environmentally-friendly criteria. By holding ourselves accountable to our environment we can begin to increase awareness of the important issue of environmental sustainability. Find the checklist online here or in the Office of Student Programs and help keep our campus green.
Contact: Ryan Beck (
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BC DINING WATER BOTTLES
UGBC has also partnered with BC Dining Services to provide students with an environmentally friendly way of ordering drinks from any dining hall. Visit McElroy, Lower Live or Stuart to purchase your very own BC Dining water bottle, offering not only convenience in carrying around your beverage of choice but also a way to help our planet by reducing the waste of paper cups and plastic bottles. BC Dining will offer a discounted price on all fountain beverages, juice, milk, hot coffee, tea and, of course, water, if it is contained in the reusable bottle. Help the environment with UGBC and BC Dining Services; buy an eco-friendly water bottle and start using it right away!
Contact: Jimmy D’Ambra (
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Easy Ways to Go Green
1. Bank Online - Online Banking, BillPay and Paperless Statements
Not only will you save time and money with online services, you'll help the  environment. If every U.S. household stopped receiving paper bills and statements, 687,000 tons of paper would be saved every year, enough to circle the Earth 239 times.
Javelin Strategy and Research: www.payitgreen.org/get-the-facts.html
2. Check it out
Eliminate writing checks by signing up for an FNBO Direct Online BillPay Account to pay your bills. Plus, earn 1.50% APY* on your deposits. A simple switch to using your Visa ® Debit Card for purchases is an easy way to reduce even more paper!
3. Bright Idea
At home, replace your light bulbs with CFL bulbs. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an Energy Star qualified bulb, it would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars¹.
¹www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls
4. B.Y.O.Bag
Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide. That amounts to over one million per minute. Billions of bags end up in land fills each year. When shopping, bring your own reusable bags. Most grocers offer them for less than $1.50. The reusable bags preserve resources by cutting down on the huge number of paper and plastic bags that are discarded annually.
www.reusablebags.com/facts.php
5. Give up the Glow
A screen saver is not an energy saver. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 75% of all electricity consumed in the home is standby power used to keep electronics running when those TVs, DVRs, computers, monitors and stereos are "off.” For example, turning off your computer when not in use would save you about $70 a year. The carbon impact would be even greater; shutting it off would reduce the machine's carbon emissions by 83%. Unplug to save more.
www.time.com/time/specials/2007/environment
Bonus Tip: Pass the Green Torch
Going green with your children is a great way to spend time together, have fun as a family, and develop habits in your children that will benefit the environment for years to come. Check out www.kidsbegreen.org to help your children go (and grow) green! Give your kids the responsibility for your family's recycling program. Consider matching whatever they earn through recycling. They'll learn about going green and saving money at the same time.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/green-living/ways-to-go-green-4
*Tips from the bank FNBO Direct
BCisGreen Week is a collaborative effort to support sustainability at Boston College by the various stakeholders on the campus. It aims to promote what “green” initiatives the University has already accomplished, while attempting to expand the backing for sustainability in the short and long-term future.
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