This week’s Quick Tip!

How do you garden for wildlife? In 5 easy steps.

1. Provide food sources with plants that provide nuts, berries, or nectar, or provide a feeder.
2. Provide water with a pond, birdbath, or shallow dish.
3. Provide cover with a hollow log, rock pile, dense shrubs, or roosting box.
4. Provide places to raise young such as a water garden, pond, or nesting box.
5. Practice sustainable gardening by mulching, composting, or reducing your lawn area.

Green Fisher Activities

RecycleMania

January 27 – April 5, 2008

RecyleMania is a friendly competition among collegiate-level recycling programs across America. The challenge provides campus communities with a fun, proactive activity in waste reduction. For ten weeks, campuses compete to see which institution can collect the most recyclables.

In our first year of participation, we finished 46 out of 180 schools. Twelve other schools in New York State participated in the same competition. We were ranked sixth of those twelve; RIT was fourth!

22.5 pounds of waste per person was recycled during the competition! Next year we hope to do even better.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Think twice before throwing “trash” into a garbage bin. It is quite possible that all or part of that item is recyclable. Fisher’s Recycling Program includes a lot more items than your blue bin at home!

Earth Day

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Over 50 people came out to work on a glorious sunny day! Twenty trees were planted to replace damaged, dying ones near Murray and Keough Halls. Six truckloads of mulch were spread around campus. Everyone was eager to get to work. Thank you one and all!

Many thanks to all our generous raffle prize donors: Barnes & Noble Bookstore at SJFC, Office Max, Waste Management, Hillyard, and others.

We hope you all will join us next year as we hope to do even more!

Recycling Bins for Residence Hall Rooms

Fall 2008

As part of Fisher’s new recycling initiatives, recycling bins were made available in the Spring of 2008 to any interested residents through a pilot program, which was a great success. Recycling bins will be added to all residence hall rooms for the Fall 2008 semester.

Instead of walking down the hall each time you have a recyclable item, you can collect them in your bin and make just one trip to the nearest lounge. These bins are Fisher property and should remain in rooms after checkouts.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Recycling Centers are located on every floor of each residence halls. They are also located in classroom buildings. We want to hear from you about where else on campus Recycling Centers are needed. Your feedback is very important to us. Please contact us at recycle@sjfc.edu with your input. The more convenient it is to recycle, the more waste will be recycled.

Please contact Lynn Wernert, Office Manager of Facilities, for more information.

Student Involvement:

Your SJFC Recycling Committee is comprised of various faculty and staff representatives from several departments here on campus. We also have a resident student contributor. Our committee is now calling for student involvement, both with this year’s RecycleMania contest, and with our continuing efforts. If you are enthusiastic about recycling, or interested in the environment, please contact the Recycling Committee at recycle@sjfc.edu. Join our Committee, or start your own Club. We look forward to hearing from you!