Saturday, February 28, 2009

La Crosse Green Initiatives Featured in Press

Articles in the La Crosse Tribune and the online component of Converge magazine both feature sustainability initiatives at the three La Crosse higher education institutions; UW-La Crosse, Viterbo University and Western Technical College. Both Matt Groshek, UW-L student and environmental sustainability director for the UW-L Student Association, and Dan Sweetman, UW-L environmental and sustainability program manager, were quoted in the article.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

UW-L Transportation Committee Meeting

The next meeting of the UW-L Transportation Committee is:
Wednesday, February 25, at 1:00 p.m. in Cartwright Center room 263.

This will be a longer meeting, going until 3:00 p.m., but you can come and go as you need to. Remember that we do not have official committee members so everyone is welcome to attend at all times, and we are not an officially recognized UW-L committee.

On the agenda for Feb. 25:

1:00 p.m. – Presentation by “Community Car” founder Sonya Newenhouse, who is working with the City of La Crosse on starting a pay-by-the-hour car-sharing program with cars at various locations in central La Crosse, including UW-La Crosse. For more information visit: http://www.communitycar.com/

2:00 p.m. – Presentation by Larry Kirch from the City of La Crosse, to discuss the Transit Study underway that is partly intended to increase student ridership on the La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility (MTU) and make the system more useful to students. One item up for discussion will be the creation of a circulator bus route that targets student neighborhoods and runs frequently enough that students will not need a transit map with a timetable.


--information courtesy of Jeremy Gragert.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

RecycleMania Comes to UW-La Crosse


UW-L is one of 510 colleges and universities participating in this year's RecycleMania event. The schools represent all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as institutions from outside the United States. Over a 10-week period from February 1 to April 11, 2009, participating schools will compete in various categories measuring the success of their recycling and waste prevention efforts.

Colleges and universities choose to participate in one of two divisions, the Competition or Benchmark. The Competition Division houses the traditional competitive rankings based on standard reporting criteria. The Benchmark Division allows schools to unofficially compare themselves with other schools and to promote RecycleMania on campus, without the formal reporting requirements of the competitive ranking. UW-La Crosse is in the competitive division this year.

The RecycleMania competition began in the spring of 2001 as a friendly challenge between recycling coordinators at two schools in Ohio, Miami University and Ohio University. From the outset, the competition was meant as a way to get students and staff more excited about participating in recycling efforts.