Office for Sustainability May Newsletter - Bike to Work ... · This Friday is Bike to Work Day Join cyclists around the world and those in and around Cleveland to celebrate biking

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This Friday is Bike to Work DayJoin cyclists around the world and those in andaround Cleveland to celebrate biking to work thiscoming Friday. Our office is helping UCI host theenergizer station right off of campus next to Thwingfrom 7:00am - 9:30am. At this station, we'll haveiPads on hand to unveil the new Gohio Commuteportal, the new regional tool to help you transitaround Greater Cleveland. We will also be raffling offa Patagonia fleece to support our CWRU bikecommuters who sign up on Gohio. Find moreenergizer station locations with coffee, breakfast andsome swag throughout town on Bike Cleveland'swebsite. Remember that passengers with bikes ridethe RTA free all day if you get too tired!

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Hiring Student Workers for 2017/ 2018We're hiring a number of student workers for thenext academic year: sustainability ambassadors,green lab auditors and a graduate fellow. Find jobdescriptions and a Google Doc on our website toapply. We will be conducting phone interviews overthe summer on a rolling basis.

UH Bikes are on CampusEnjoy the summer on two wheels instead of inside astuffy car! A UH Bikes station was recently installedon campus across from the Village, two morecoming soon. Students can take advantage of adiscounted monthly membership of only $8 percompared to the normal $15 per month rate. Plansgives members an hour of free rides per day.Regular annual memberships are $120 or you canpay as you go for just $3.50 per half hour.

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Green YourKitchenWe love these ideason how to makeyour kitchen moreEarth friendly fromthe Green HomeGuide.

Community EventsDIY Rain Barrel WorkshopThursday, May 186:30 - 8:00pmNature Center at ShakerLakes

Centennial: Ride the EmeraldRingSaturday, May 209:00am - 4:00pmMill Stream Run Reservation

Recycle Pots and PansCollection DaySaturday, May 20



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Sustainability Champion Awards 2017At the end of this academic year, the Office forSustainability is honoring three great advocates forsustainability at CWRU. Thank you to SSC, SACand other partners for helping to nominate campuschampions.Student: Grace Cammarn - Grace, a senior, hasbeen a leader in many forms as part of CWRU'sStudent Sustainability Council. During her four yearsshe has worked to shift CWRU's student culture tobetter embrace sustainability principles, helped passseveral USG sustainability related resolutions andperformed SURES research to benchmark theUniversity's greenhouse gas footprint. We're going tomiss her sustainability spirit!Staff: Brian Gray - Brian leads the Unversity'svolunteer campus garden, located behind Leutnerand next to the softball field. He has shown strongleadership coordinating day-to-day garden care,service days, recruiting volunteers as well as anddonation of harvested produce to local food pantries.Faculty: Dr. Narcisz Fejes - Narcisz has providedinformation and inspiration to students and theCWRU community concerning global and local foodsystems. She is advisor to the Food RecoveryNetwork student group. She has also helped theUniversity host two annual CWRU Food Weeks,focused on bringing greater awareness to our foodsystem and its environmental and social footprint.Learn about past winners on our Champions pageand longer write up about these winners on ournews page.

Countryside Conservancy

Metroparks Dinner and a Chat:MushroomsThursday, May 256:30pm - 8:00pmLakefront Reservation

ciCLEvia MetroSunday, June 41:00pm - 5:00pmClark-Fulton/Tremontneighborhoods

Fourth Global ForumWednesday, Thursday, FridayJune 14-16CWRU Tink

Compost Seminar & RainBarrel WorkshopTuesday, June 206:00pm - 8:30pmStrongsville Recreation &Senior Center



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Live in University Circle to ReduceYour CommuteUniversity Circle has some great housing optionsincluding apartments, rental homes, and houses forsale. Consider reducing your commute and yourcarbon footprint by living close to where you areevery day: our CWRU campus. There are Mayleasing specials, incentives for home buyers (closingcosts covered!), one month free rent and evenmatching funds for rehab projects through UniversityCirce Inc (UCI). Peruse the many places to rent orbuy within this rich, cultural center on the UCIwebsite.



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Tree Planted on Arbor DaySustainability Ambassadors worked hard this year toproduce a campus tree plan, assemble a campustree committee, and plan an Arbor Day celebration,all in order to prepare CWRU to qualify as a TreeCampus USA. The early Arbor Day celebrationwished a Happy Birthday to the oldest tree oncampus on Friday, March 31st (Arbor Day was April28th) in the Thwing Atrium (inside due to weather).The week preceding the event, studentsdocumented their love of trees on reclaimed paperleaves which were made into an art piece.Participants played tree-via (tree trivia!) and enjoyedcupcakes before a new tree, a beautiful sugarmaple, was planted near the fountain "Merging." Two sustainability ambassadors, Kayla and Claire,and a member of the Student Sustainability Council(SSC), Catherine, will submit CWRU's application tobe certified as a Tree Campus USA at the end of2017.

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