Sustainability

Anthony Weston, professor of philosophy and Elon's 2007 Distinguished Scholar, led a workshop titled "Green Dreaming: Environmental Visions After the Emergency" on March 31. Weston told those in attendance that environmentalism must remain a hopeful celebratory cause. Details...

Students on campus have cut back their electricity use more in the past week than at any time to date in the 2008 POWER Less Energy Competition. The building results are positive for the first time as well. 

The push is on for Elon students, faculty and staff to surpass the amount of material recycled in the 2008 nationwide RecycleMania competition over levels measured during last year's contest between hundreds of colleges and universities. More than 82,000 pounds of material have been recycled through Week 8.

The week of Spring Break helped every residential building on campus show a drop in energy use during Week 5 of a seven-week university competition that encourages students and staff to reduce power use.

Organizers of a campus energy conservation contest have noticed greater reductions in power use as more students learn of the event. Thirty-one of 40 buildings showed energy reduction for Week 4 of the competition.

Results for Week #6 of the RecycleMania national recycling contest are in. The Elon community continues to show  awareness and effort in the spring campaign.  Current results reflect one of the strongest collection weeks to date. 

More than three quarters of residence facilities showed a reduction in electrictity during the third week of a competition that encourages students to cut their energy use on campus.

More residence facilities on campus are cutting back their power consumption as a university competition enters its third week.

Elon University has collected 19 percent more recycled material in the RecycleMania 2008 contest than at the same midpoint of the competition a year ago.

Nearly half of all buildings taking part in Elon University's inaugural POWER Less Energy Competition have shown a reduction in electricity usage since the contest kicked off a week ago.