In Our Nature

The centerpiece of the SustainableUW Festival, the sustainability exhibitor fair on Red Square last Wednesday gave thousands of UW students, faculty and staff a look at the sustainability efforts of organizations across the university and the community.

Despite rain and cool temperatures, there was a constant crowd of people expoloring the tables of more than 50 exhibitors - including nine food vendors, who provided tastes of sustainable food items which are available on campus. This year's fair featured exhibitors such as Seattle City Light and their MobE (Mobile solar kiosk), a T-...

Photo courtesy of the Center for Penguins as Ocean Sentinels

A tourist, a camera and a good eye may just be the trick to saving the endangered Galapagos penguins.

Tourists and the photographs they take can provide valuable information about the health of the Galapagos penguins and their surrounding environment. From a single shot, UW researchers can determine whether a penguin is breeding, molting or migrating, as well as the bird's age, health status and other information.

"It’s really expensive to go to the Galapagos...

This year, EcoReps is unveiling the Green Greek Representative Program, a brand new outreach program aimed at increasing sustainable operations in the Greek Community. The program is currently run by Kiyomi Morris and Tali Haller, who have been working nonstop for the past couple months to create it.

In the Green Greek Representative Program, a member from each fraternity and sorority in the UW Greek Community attends monthly meetings that will teach them about sustainable chapter operations and resources available to chapters. The representative is then responsible for installing...

Help keep Seattle green this Saturday!

The 10th annual Green Seattle Day starts Saturday, Nov. 7, at 9 a.m. in parks throughout Seattle. The event brings together hundreds of volunteers to plant thousands of trees and other plants in parks throughout Seattle. Green Seattle Day is a celebration of the forest that makes this the Emerald City. Help us keep it that way!

The day is family-friendly - all ages are welcome, and no experience is necessary. The Green Seattle Partnership will supply all the plants,...

The SustainableUW Festival has come to an end, with two big chances to cheer on the Huskies, in athletics and sustainability!

The cap to the SustainableUW Festival is Saturday night's Husky football game against Arizona. The competition isn't only on the field -  the UW is participating in the GameDay Recycling Challenge, a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote waste reduction at football games. The University of Washington will be tracking how much waste ends up...

It's been a great week of SustainableUW Festival events, and we've loved seeing everyone get involved with campus sustainability. The festival is winding down, but it's not over yet.

Come celebrate with us this afternoon at the Bullitt Center - the greenest commercial building in the world - for the opening reception of the "Campus as a Living Lab" exhibit, co-hosted by UW Sustainability and the UW Center for Integrated Design. Explore the presentations on a variety of innovative campus sustainability projects while enjoying...

The SustainableUW Festival kicks off day four with volunteering opportunities and a wide variety of seminars and discussions to choose from, along with a careers event and poster session at Odegaard Library in the afternoon.

Stop by Mercer Court and volunteer with the UW Farm from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Or head down to Harborview Medical Center at noon and hear King County’s Tom Watson discuss...

Day three of the SustainableUW Festival kicks off with cookies, muffins, cupcakes, and plenty of coffee! Pick up some delicious Halloween treats in the lobby of Fishery Sciences and support the Student Environmental Affairs Society, an on-campus group dedicated to actively addressing emerging coastal issues. The Halloween bake sale will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Then, head over to Red Square for the SustainableUW Festival exhibitor...

Tuesday gets started early at the SustainableUW Festival.

At 8:30 a.m. in Architecture 147, Nicole Faghin of Washington Sea Grant will talk on "Reduc­ing the Impact of Shore­line Devel­op­ment in Puget Sound" as part of the Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Resource Man­age­ment Sem­i­nar: Water in the Pacific Northwest.

If your alarm isn't going off that early, you'll have an easier time making it to...

It's the opening day of the SustainableUW Festival!

UW Sustainability, the Campus Sustainability Fund and EcoReps are kicking off the festival with an open house - including Free Pizza - from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Find us in the basement of Gerberding Hall, room B40 (enter on the south side of the building across from Johnson Hall and go down the stairs). We'll be here to let you know about sustainability efforts and opportunities on campus, and you can talk with students from the Campus Sustainability Fund regarding projects they've funded and how you can apply to make...