How I Got Involved During the summer after my freshman year, I interned with an environmental organization down in Denver and through one of my projects there, I stumbled across the Environmental Center’s website. I can now say without a doubt that was one of the best finds of my...
Freshmen year I attended my first Environmental Board meeting and sat in awe of the impressively accomplished, seemingly omniscient faces of the E-Center’s governing body. Bylaw and budget lingo bounced around the room and took root in my brain, eventually becoming a second language as I committed my extracurricular time...
After three years of working as a student employee at the Environmental Center I can say that I’m pretty bad at watering plants. If you’ve been in the office lately, I can only hope they’ve livened up in the absence of my care. The truth is I never thought about...
The Environmental Board, a joint board of CU Student Government, is responsible for allocating the student fees that become the Environmental Center’s yearly budget. The board is also responsible for distributing student fee funded Sustainable CU grants to projects aimed at advancing sustainability initiatives. CU Student Government: How does it...
From the labconscious blog: "The best public resource on how to highlight laboratory sustainability in grants is the Bringing Efficiency to Research Grants program. Kathy Ramirez-Aguilar, Ph.D. the program manager for CU Boulder Green Labs, kindly explained the functionality of this program especially when it comes to laboratory equipment. Shared...
The International Institute for Sustainable Labs (I2SL) annual conference is the preeminent gathering of individuals who work on laboratory sustainability issues throughout the United States and worldwide, bringing together engineers, designers, architects, safety professionals, scientists, and sustainability professionals to discuss cutting-edge ideas to reduce the environmental impact of scientific research...
Proud to be a Pac-12 Conference alum. Even more proud to be a Buff. That’s how I felt throughout the 2nd Annual Pac-12 Sustainability Conference hosted at none other than the stadium with the best view in college football, CU’s very own Folsom Field. According to Commissioner Larry Scott and...
