Recent Asides
- Proposition 37: the Right to Know
- Over Half of Germany’s Renewable Energy Owned By Citizens & Farmers, Not Utility Companies
- Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!
- Sustainable Packaging: Curbing your Wrap Rage
- Green in Brooklyn
- Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
- Envirolutions President Hailey O’Connor appears in this television story on Steve Jobs
- Plastic
- Recycle A Bicycle
- 100% Recycled Architectural Resin Panel
- Bikes, Street art, and Sustainability!
- What to Recycle with Sanitation
Author Archives: kcurto
RFI Campaign Update and Green Week
Two weeks ago, we asked you to send us your unsustainable observations from around campus. Information not relayed to you was where your submissions are going. When you send in observations, we are collecting your responses for future use … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Events by Envirolutions, Other Events, Room For Improvement Campaign
Tagged Green Week, posters
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Room for Improvement Campaign: Part 1
Have you noticed something around campus that you thought was unsustainable and wondered why no one did anything about it? Questioning where some of the resources used on Pratt’s campus are going and worried that they aren’t being used efficiently? … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Issues
Tagged carbon footprint, energy use, prevention, Room for Improvement, unsustainable
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Copenhagen’s Fixation with Bikes: The Inside Advantage
This semester, our last president, Tonya Kennedy, as well as some of our other members of Envirolutions are studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the first things she was eager to notify us about was the abundance of bicycles: … Continue reading
RISD: Giving a “Second Life” to Recyclable Materials
By Rebecca Wong Check out RISD’s Second Life Center, a sustainable center for donating reusable materials where RISD’s students are able to recycle unwanted materials that have been purchased for prior projects and in return, retrieve any material that suits their … Continue reading
Giant Pile of Trash in the Ocean?: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
As a kid, you may have wondered what happens to all of the trash that gets pulled out into the ocean. You may have been told it floats around space, or maybe that it just sinks to the bottom of … Continue reading
The Presidential Elections: Environmentally, Where Does Your Candidate Stand?
The presidential election is fast approaching and everywhere you turn, there is some sort of political support or slander. Most may already know who they will be voting for on the November 4th Election Day, but even … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Issues
Tagged Election Day, environmental standing, November 6, Obama, Presidential Election, Romney
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NYU and Sustainability in the City
Just a short subway ride away from Pratt is New York University, a fellow NYC university dedicated to reducing their environmental impact . NYU GREeN is the sustainability program located on campus that tackles the environmental issues and is … Continue reading
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Tagged New York University, NYU, NYU GREeN, recycling, sustainability
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