Resident Assistant Award for Environmental Education
This year the Tulane Office of Environmental Affairs will recognize a resident assistant who thoughtfully incorporates environmental sustainability into his or her work as a leader and educator. This could include helping students residents further their understanding of environmental issues, participate in campus environmental events, and/or take individual actions such as saving energy, reducing waste, and recycling. We especially encourage activities that continue the conversation about climate change begun by this year's first-year book.

Here are some links to further help you with your programming.

Continue the Conversation about Climate Change
As a follow-up to the first-year book, Focus the Nation: A Campus-wide Conversation about Climate Change (January 30 & 31), will give your residents a chance to talk about climate change with faculty from many different departments. There will be an environmental career & activity fair outside the Kendall Cram room during the Jan. 31 sessions. Later in the spring, the Tulane Environmental Law conference (April 5 & 6) features outstanding panels on the hottest environmental topics, this year following the theme of "Climate Change: In the Community and the Courtroom."

Rally Your Dorm for RecycleMania
RecycleMania is a 10 week friendly national challenge held January 27-April 5 to see which college or university can recycle the most and throw away the least. Tulane hosts a parallel on-campus competition between student teams. Butler finished 2nd overall last year. To read the rules and enter your student team, visit Tulane's RecycleMania Competition Website If you would like to help promote the competition in your hall or join campuswide efforts, contact the student recycling coordinators at recycle@tulane.edu

Recycling 101
Information on all aspects of campus recycling is available at recycle.tulane.edu; student recycling coordinators are available to help through recycle@tulane.edu.

Bulletin Boards
Use the images & information from these powerpoint slides to create your own bulletin boards: Tulane Recycling & Climate Change & New Orleans

Calculate your Climate Footprint
Online calculators are available to help you estimate your own impact on climate change. The Nature Conservancy Calculator can help you compare your emissions to average person in the U.S. and world.

Go Together to a Green Club meeting
Green Club meetings are held every month and often feature speakers from local organizations speaking on important local issues. Subscribe to the Greensrv to receive a weekly email about meetings, events and opportunities.

Make Groceries at the Crescent City Farmer’s Market
Shopping local supports our local economy, reduces the energy spent on transporting food, and just tastes better. The Tuesday Farmers’ Market is held from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. at Tulane’s University Square, where Broadway meets the river. They have lunch, baked goods and other prepared foods, in addition to fresh produce and seafood. Tulane’s University Square Shuttle leaves from the corner of Law Road and Freret several times an hour. Extra credit: go to the Saturday morning farmers’ market via the bus or streetcar. Visit the Crescent City Farmers’ Market website to see what’s in season. The University Square Shuttle is run by Tulane Public Safety.