The Loveliest Village

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he Environmental Awareness Organization serves as an informant to the student body about Going Green. On March 6, they held a “Green Living” workshop.

Living green is all about taking steps to do things that are beneficial or at least not harmful towards the environment. It is be beneficial to help stop global climate change and lower America’s dependancy on foreign oil. Plus, it’s economically wiser than most of us are living now.

The Green Living Workshop laid out many ways that we can all start going green. The EAO says that it is small day-to-day changes that can make a huge difference.

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RecycleMania, a competition between 400 universities in the nation, is now here at Auburn. The competition held a kickoff event on Cater Lawn this past Wednesday. Its goal is to spread recognition about how easy and useful recycling is, especially on our college campus.

The Recycling/Solid Waste Coordinator, Donny Addison, says another goal of RecycleMania is to make people think twice before throwing something away when they could easily recycle it instead.

You may have noticed more recycling bins around campus lately. Addison explained that this initiative was helped by Coca-Cola. The company donated many bins to various buildings on campus.

The recent recycling rate among Auburn students is 1.27 pounds per person. Although this number is larger than it has been in the past, there is still a long way to go to make a world of a difference.

Not only is RecycleMania a competition between the universities who are part of the Southeastern Conference, but there is an on-campus competition at Auburn, too. Different campus residences are recycling to win in a battle of their own. Addison explained that the total amount of recycling will be counted at the end and the winner will receive a party brought to their door.

Watch the video as Donny explains what the winner can expect to get.

For more information about RecycleMania or Auburn University Recycling , visit www.auburn.edu/recycle. You can also contact Addison at addisdt@auburn.edu.

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Auburn Sustainability Action Program (ASAP) wants to take your picture today on the concourse for their “What’s Your Plan?” campaign. The campaign is part of a national New Voters Project organized by student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG).

Brittany Branyon, co-chair of ASAP, held the first day of photo shoots yesterday. The organization will also be out there today looking for more students interested in becoming involved in the campaign. Students will be posing for a photo with a “What’s Your Plan?” sign. The photos will be sent to presidential candidates and state representatives to urge them to address issues like global warming.
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Auburn University is celebrating “America Recycles Day� today on the plains. The AU Recycling program is sponsoring the second annual “Landfill on the Lawn� event at Cater Lawn from 1-3 p.m. today.

This event will collect percentages of recycled trash from the university’s single-stream recycling program. This in turn, will be used for the Recyclemania Competition, which is held in the spring. (more…)

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Auburn University Students returned on Tuesday afternoon from the Power Shift conference held at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. The 19 students met with representatives of Alabama’s Congress members in Washington D.C. to discuss initiatives for the state’s environmental and energy policies.

The students were sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, Dean of Students and Natural Resources Management and Development Institute. They left on a chartered bus to Atlanta at 5 p.m. November 2 and arrived on an Amtrak train the following morning at 10:30 a.m. in Washington D.C.
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