This week’s tip is authored by Jonathon Little of Chemistry & Geosciences. Professors and students can save thousands of pages of paper per semester by grading electronically. MCC’s technology infrastructure provides students and professors with a network to save, share, and grade documents. This past semester, I electronically graded essays for four Geography classes. [...]
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Green Tip of the Week: Saving Paper with Electronic Grading
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Green Tip of the Week – 4/30/08
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s tip is authored by David Boni of the Transitional Studies Department. The Internet abounds with gas savings tips. You can decide if they are myths or reality after examining the evidence of experts. For example I received these claims in a recent email: claim #1. Only buy or fill up your car in [...]
Green Tip of the Week – April 23, 2008
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day in order to promote environmental awareness and protection. Since then, EarthDay has been celebrated around the world annually. This year, you can do your part to honor the earth and promote environmental awareness and sustainable practices in your own home, workplace and community. [...]
Green Tip of the Week – April 10 2008
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Green Tip of the Week: Composting Disclaimer: Composting can be addictive. I began composting because I garden, but now I garden because I compost. With spring’s arrival, most people start thinking about flowers, birds, and picnics. I start thinking about compost. Composting is an excellent way to cut down on your household waste stream and [...]
Green Tip of the Week – April 1 2008
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just for fun on April Fool’s Day, perhaps celebrating “What’s NOT Foolish” could be an interesting exercise. Consider … A typical motor-commute of 7.5 miles though Rochester city streets might normally take 20 minutes. Taking the freeway around might save 5 minutes, but could nearly double the miles travelled and shorten the warranty period of [...]
Green Tip of the Week: Paper Use @ MCC
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How much do you think about the paper that YOU use everyday here at MCC?? Most people would be surprised to hear some “paper” facts specific to MCC. Currently, MCC buys and uses 780 cartons of paper a year. That amounts to 378 tons or 756,000 pounds of paper used by MCC annually with a [...]
Green Tip of the Week: Saving money and helping the environment
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s tip is authored by Jonathon Little of Chemistry and Geosciences. Going green can save you cash while reducing the impact on earth. You can literally knock off at least ten percent of your electrical bill by turning things off. For example: 1. Turn off your computer and appliances (coffee pot, TV) when not [...]
Green Tip of the Week: Bottled Water
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: This week’s tip was written by Clayton Munnings, Campus Environmental Coordinator for SGA. Another pervasive product with a severe environmental footprint, which can be eliminated by small lifestyle changes, is bottled water. In 2003, the average American consumed nearly 23 gallons of water. For starters, plastic bottles are made from oil—an obvious problem. Oil [...]
Green Tip of the Week – 2/27/08
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Green Tip of the Week from the MCC Sustainability Group When it comes to sustainability, small efforts can make a big difference and making environmentally-friendly decisions in your everyday life can be fairly easy. Why not start with something you probably do everyday? Drinking coffee. If you brew your own coffee, you can eliminate paper [...]
“Plant a Tree” Program
Posted in Green Living - Green Tips, Service Learning on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Bender sends in the following news: I thought the folks on this list might be interested in a campaign that iChapters is running, which directly reduces the number of trees that are being cut down to produce textbooks, while also helping plant more trees to increase reforestation and further enable students to easily purchase [...]
