Kick the Carbon Habit
Contact: Jessica.Oh@tufts.edu

Save Paper - Use Whiteboards!
Sick of all the wasted paper? Help us replace paper announcements by installing 
whiteboards in the most popular flyering locations.
Contact: Meera.Gajjar@tufts.edu

Do It In The Dark
Turn off the lights and save energy with ECO every fall to win a party and 
raffles! Then come to ClimateFest on October 29th in Hotung to celebrate 
doing it in the dark, watch awesome speakers and performers, win cool prizes,
and to pick up some glow-in-the-dark condoms.
Contact: Mara.Gittleman@tufts.edu; Sarah.Yoss@tufts.edu

Do It In the Dark Results are In!!!

Click here for more info.

Fair Trade, Local and Organic Food, Composting
Help coordinate with dining services and on-campus eateries to promote 
fair trade, local, and organic foods. Support our effort to get front-of-the-house
composting at the campus center and in the community.
Contact: Erin.Madara@tufts.edu

Green Buildings
Get involved with the new construction on campus by encouraging green standards
Contact: Adam.Frank@tufts.edu; Daniel.Brady@tufts.edu

Alternative Energy
Help get the Joey running on biodiesel and promote 
alternative energy and efficiency on campus with RECs 
(renewable energy credits)! We are currently investigating 
converting the Joey and/or Tufts diesel-powered grounds 
vehicles to use bio-diesel. We hope to collaborate with 
the chemical engineering department to build a processor 
to convert the waste oil that dining services produces.
Contact: Rebecca.Gallagher@tufts.edu

Think Outside the Bottle
Continue to promote drinking tap water rather than bottled water and help
spread awareness of the need to support public water sources
Contact: 

Bag the Bags!
Help make Tufts plastic-bag-free!
Contact: Paula.Kaufman@tufts.edu; Adam.Fischer@tufts.edu

Want to Write about Environmental Issues?
Write an Op-Ed for the Daily and have your peers edit and critique your
writing.
Contact: Mara.Gittleman@tufts.edu

EarthFest!
ECO promotes Earth-friendly practices, hosts documentaries, panels,
and clean-ups, and leads celebrations for the Earth for the week
leading up to Earth Day, Tuesday April 22nd, 2009. Help us plan and
coordinate our biggest event of the semester!
Contact: Yosefa.Erhlich@tufts.edu

Focus The Nation/Climate Solutions Coalition
Now a separate club! Focus the nation on climate related issues via
nationwide teach-ins and discussions. Taking place for the second year
in a row on April 18th, 2009. Check out Focus the Nation at Tufts for
more info.
Contact: Adam.Frank@tufts.edu; Emily.Wier@tufts.edu

What else have we been up to?

Do It In The Dark 2007 Do It In The Dark is our annual energy reduction competition.  The dorms will compete to reduce energy use by the greatest percent from October 15th to November 14th.  We will be holding Climate Fest on November 29th to celebrate the completion of Do It In The Dark.  The winning dorm's students will be eligible to enter raffles for fabulous prizes!

Think Outside the Bottle Have you thought about where the water that you drink comes from?  Tufts students are teaming up wit the national Think Outside the Bottle Campaign to educate about the environmental impacts of drinking bottled water.

Wind Energy Power your dorm with wind energy! Thank you to the over 300 students who bought wind power in the Fall 2006 semester.  ECO is again selling $10 wind renewable energy credits to offset the dirty energy used by students. RECs can be purchased at any time by following the instructions at http://www.tufts.edu/tie/tci/getclean/, or via the 3phases website online at http://www.3phases.com/footprint-calculator/.

Step It Up! Tufts Participates in the National Step It Up Rally. Check out images of the event.

Did you know? Climate change education campaign.  Keep your eyes posted for informational displays around campus.  Information will be from various sources including the Stern Review on economics of climate change. For now here is some info you can read about.

Fair Trade Tufts Dining Services has agreed to make fair trade coffee available in the dining halls.  If they see enough interest they are considering changing to entirely fair trade coffee, so drink up! NEW: Fair Trade bananas are coming soon!

EarthFest This year EarthFest will be spread across the month of April.  Events to be posted in the spring.

Do It in the Dark A campus wide competition to reduce energy usage in the dorms. 2006: Do it in the Dark, Climate Fest and RECs 2005: Do It in the Dark

Wind REVOTE - Wind referendum on 4/20/06

EarthFest 2006 - Tufts's week for the Earth.

New Ideas: ECO is always open to new ideas! If you have a project in mind, just let us know.

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