What Can I Do?

You can:

• take advantage of all the recycling opportunities at Michigan Tech!
• support the activities if the Students for Environmental Sustainability by sharing information with others and joining this student organization!

You can help out no matter where you are!

Quick Tips to Help You Save Energy While You’re Away on A University Break

For an interactive list of what you can do in your dorm room, go to:

www.thegreenguide.com/doc/121/dorm

Everywhere you are you can:

Live by the 10 minute rule: Turn off the lights if you’ll be gone for more than 10 minutes.

Turn off computers at night, or when they won’t be used for a long time.

Ride your bike to school/work/ downtown/etc., or take public transportation.

If you must drive, at least carpool!

Join other organizations that are environmentally friendly.

Compost! Try these links for “How to..."

www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/compost.htm

www.vegweb.com/composting

What’s your ecological footprint? Take this quiz and find out!

www.conservation.org/act/live_green/Pages/ecofootprint.aspx

Join a subcommittee on the ESC! (View subcommittees.)

Join the MTU Green list serve to receive messages and updates about ESC meetings and related campus sustainability issues. To join, click the link below and simply hit send!  mtugreen-l@mtu.edu 

Try to use less paper in general. Print on scrap paper and print double–sided whenever possible.

Buy recycled content paper. (Using less paper in general is even better than buying recycled paper!) A great, great recycled paper web site: www.treecycle.com/

Contact Information

If you have general questions or comments, contact:
Shalini Suryanarayana (shalini@mtu.edu) and please put
"ESC Question/Comment" in the subject line.

Electronic mail

If you have any questions on the recycling program at Michigan Tech: recyclinginfo-l@mtu.edu

General Information: shalini@mtu.edu