Colleges Going Green

Check out this list to see 40 things that colleges are doing to reduce water consumption and save money!

Don’t forget that you can help save energy and water when doing your laundry by choosing the bright colors setting. Send us your ideas for other things we can do to save water at Barnard!

Do It In the Dark at Greenborough!

Come celebrate the end of Earth Week with a good old fashioned, dimly-lit, raging party! We’ll be turning off the lights as a gesture of awareness of the small ways in which we consume electricity, and procede to dance around with glow sticks like these fun-loving kool kids pictures above. 

Come party like it’s 1970 (the first-ever Earth Day) at Greenborough, 604 W. 114th St., between Broadway and Riverside. 

We will provide snacks and beverages, so Greenborough requests that you kindly BYOCup.

Join the Facebook event, and we’ll see you on Saturday, April 21 at 9:00!

EARTH WEEK HIGH FASHION: GREEN ON THE GREEN

This Friday, April 20th, the ecoreps are putting on a TRASHION SHOW!!!! Come out to Lehman Lawn from 12:30-2:00 PM for free food, awesome fashionable outfits made completely out of TRASH, music, and fun!

Vote on which outfit is the best designed, best looking, or most creative [being made ENTIRELY out of TRASH!]  The overall top choice will receive a gift certificate from the Farmer’s market, and other competitors will receive similar smaller participatory gifts.

NO! It is NOT too late to enter.  While we asked for notice of submission by Friday the 13th, we will accept applicants up until the night before, that’s APRIL 19th!!!!!  Please email era2129@barnard.edu for approval of the outfit.

Peace & Love,

Barnard EcoReps

EcoRep Potluck this Monday!!!

 

HYDROPOWER POTLUCK:

 

Most renewable energy today comes from hydropower.  Hydropower includes wave power, tidal power, and ocean thermal power.  It’s also a controversial source of energy due to the ecological impacts of dams and concerns of energy inefficiency.  Is hydropower an inevitable bust or part of the solution for solving our energy crisis? Find out at this week’s potluck, Why You Should Give a Dam: Water Power, Tidal Power, and Ocean Thermal Power, on April 9 at 7:00 PM in Sulzberger Tower.  
Come eat delicious (and some Passover-kosher options) with your lovely Barnard EcoReps. Bring a spork and a plate!

 

Recycled Crafts!

Recycled Crafts!

These coke bottle butterflies were classy enough to be used as wedding decorations but are also easy enough for your dorm room.  This kind of ingenuity is exactly what we’re looking for in our trashion show submissions! Here’s the info on this 4/20 that you don’t want to miss!

 

Interested in fashion?  What about TRASHION?  Barnard’s Earth Week Committee is putting on: Earth Week High Fashion: Green on the Green. 4/20/2012.  12:30-2PM. Be There. Watch students strut their stuff in plastic bags, newspapers, cans, bottles, and whatever else, on Lehman lawn.

To enter the trashion show, competitors must follow the following rules:

1. Use anything that has been used before, that you would consider “trash”.
2. Should be sturdy enough to have been worn at least 3 times.
3. Participant has to find another person to model [or choose to model themselves]
4. Anyone from Barnard or Columbia can participate!
5. While clothing can be creative, the choice must be tasteful enough. The outfit will be approved by the participant coordinator the night before. 
6. Footwear does not have to be part of the outfit, but heels are not allowed.  We encourage you to go barefoot!
7. Notice of submissions (whether complete or not) must be given by Friday the 13th.

8. BE CREATIVE!!! :]

The winner of the Earth Week Trashion Show will receive a prize!

PLEASE contact Lizzie [era2129@barnard.edu] or Caroline [cem2181@barnard.edu] by April 13 for notice of submission. Unfortunately, if it rains, the event will be cancelled, so hope for sunshine!

Parking Lot(s of) Possibilities…

The New York Times ran a very interesting op-ed on parking lots this past week by Eran Ben-Joseph. Worth taking a look at! From the article:

“We need to redefine what we mean by “parking lot” to include something that not only allows a driver to park his car, but also offers a variety of other public uses, mitigates its effect on the environment and gives greater consideration to aesthetics and architectural context. …A better parking lot might be covered with solar canopies so that it could produce energy while lowering heat. Or perhaps it would be surfaced with a permeable material like porous asphalt and planted with trees in rows like an apple orchard, so that it could sequester carbon and clean contaminated runoff.”

Definitely makes you think about the ways we could transform spaces and practices that we take for granted everyday!

(photo via NYTimes)

EARTH WEEK HIGH FASHION: GREEN ON THE GREEN

Interested in fashion?  What about TRASHION?  Barnard’s Earth Week Committee is putting on: Earth Week High Fashion: Green on the Green. 4/20/2012.  12:30-2PM. Be There. Watch students strut their stuff in plastic bags, newspapers, cans, bottles, and whatever else, on Lehman lawn. To enter the trashion show, competitors must follow the below rules:

1. Use anything that has been used before, that you would consider “trash”.

2. Should be sturdy enough to have been worn at least 3 times.

3. Participant has to find another person to model [or choose to model themselves]

4. Anyone from Barnard or Columbia can participate!

5. While clothing can be creative, the choice must be tasteful enough. The outfit will be approved by the participant coordinator the night before. 

6. Footwear does not have to be part of the outfit, but heels are not allowed.  We encourage you to go barefoot!

7. Notice of submissions (whether complete or not) must be given by Friday the 13th.

8. BE CREATIVE!!! :]

 

The winner of the Earth Week Trashion Show will receive a prize!

PLEASE contact Lizzie [era2129@barnard.edu] or Caroline [cem2181@barnard.edu] by April 13 for notice of submission. Unfortunately, if it rains, the event will be cancelled, so hope for sunshine!