Holiday
gift ideas
This holiday
season, give something a little more
meaningful. Over the years, the Office of Sustainability interns have
put together a list of gift ideas that aim to make the season more
sustainable. Try giving a gift that:
Teaches a new skill
Encourages creativity
Helps others
For more gift giving ideas, check out our Holiday
Gift Guide.
Auburn
offices
reduce paper use
October's
newsletter
highlighted the strides Housing and Residence Life has made
to reduce paper use in their office. Others, such as the Program for
Students with Disabilities and the
Contracts and Grants Accounting Business Office, are moving in the same
direction.
Together these three offices will save an
estimated 21,000 sheets of paper per year, with an even greater savings
in office efficiency. Some common
advantages and instigators of change have been identified.
Advantages of using less paper
include:
Money saved on purchasing paper
Better tracking of documents
Quicker reporting time
More convenience
Less storage needed for papers
Time saved from transporting forms for
signatures
and filing
Instigators of
change include:
Director buys into the idea
Needs to be a team approach
Ask, “How can we do this
electronically?”
Change your way of thinking about paper
You can make a difference too!
Encourage your
peers and office to reduce their paper use! If you are
interested in ways to make your office more efficient, please contact
the
Office of Sustainability.
January
Green Lunch: “Nature’s Tap: Sustainable Water Solutions”
Speaker: Scott
Kubiszyn, founder and president of
Nature’s Tap
Date: Tues, Jan 18,
2011
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Student Center, Rm 2222
Once a month the Office of Sustainability hosts a
Green Lunch Seminar. The talk is free and open to everyone. The Office
of Sustainability keeps previously recorded
webcasts here. For additional information see our Green
Lunch series.
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Auburn
tackles invasive plants
Parkerson Mill Creek, the stream that runs through
campus, is looking different these days. A team that includes Auburn's
Landscape Services, Department of Horticulture, and Rouse Land
Services has begun the
process of physically removing Chinese privet from the stream at the
intramural fields.
Chinese privet is an invasive, nonnative plant
that:
Shades out other vegetation
Degrades wildlife habitat
The privet removal is part of a larger ongoing
effort to improve Parkerson Mill Creek watershed. A management plan was
developed to outline how different stakeholders can work together to:
clean up stormwater
stabilize the streambanks
manage nonnative, invasive plants
keep out trash and
other pollutants
By removing the privet, students and visitors can
now see the stream,
and will hopefully learn more about their role in protecting it. You
can become part of the solution.
Volunteer to remove invasives!
Join
IMPACT
student volunteers at the weekly stream clean up,
Contact Jess
Roberts, ACES.
For information on Auburn privet removal contact Charlie
Crawford at Landscaping Services, or
Gary Keever from the Department of Horticulture.
For more information on Parkerson Mill Creek,
visit the
Alabama State Water Program.
To
learn more about invasive plants, please visit the Alabama Invasive
Plant Council.
Identify
and control invasive plants
Free copies of A
Field Guide
for the Identification of Invasive Plants
in Southern Forests are now available to landowners,
gardeners and
others concerned about nonnative plants in the South.
Learn
to identify invasives!
trees
shrubs
vines
grasses
ferns
forbs
The book is posted in PDF format
and is available in html
format.
Copies are available by sending your name
and mailing address, along with the book title, author and publication
number GTR-SRS-119 to pubrequest@fs.fed.us
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Learn to control invasives
through the new
companion book: A
Management Guide for
Nonnative Plants of Southern Forests.
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