We hope you enjoyed Sustainability Week 2009!!!!

Campus Wide Green Challenge

We can not believe how much effort was put into the submissions for the Campus Wide Green Challenge.  Congratulations to all, every entry deserves a prize.

Winners!

Department/Group: The Supreme Green Girls

This team submitted an entry whereby they would pledge to conserve paper, put waste and recyclables in the appropriate bins and use glass cups instead of disposable cups.  The created an awareness campaign around this pledge.  In each of their work areas, they became the cheerleaders for the earth.  They not only got faculty members, staff members and students to sign their pledge along with them, they also engaged them in activities that required them to sort properly.  They have over 25 photos of pledge participants on the OMAoG site, check it out.

They saved over 35 disposable cups each amongst the three of them through use of reusable mugs in 5 days.  Their 25 + (and growing) pledge participants did the same, this can have a great impact over time.  They have created a poster board and will take their poster board from wing to wing in their areas to highlight the efforts of the participants and keep them engaged in the process over time. They have become the "who to ask gang" when you want to know what goes where in the recycling bins.

Congrats! and Thank you!

Student Society /Group: The SMUSA Green Team

This team took "re-think" to another level.  The SMUSA Green Team was comprised of the Information Desk and Husky Patrol department staff member.  The Information Desk put up a marquee above the desk with a new green tip for each day of the week, they had a green act sheet at the desk for customers to write their green acts (more on this later!), they tallied their paper usage for the whole year and did a fundraiser to purchase a tree to offset their paper usage, the Husky Patrol changed their sign up process to be a computerized sign up rather then a paper system, they passed out did you know tips in the Husky van and more. 

The SMUSA Green Team won a competition amongst the three SMUSA teams entered into the challenge.  Each of the three teams, The SMUSA Lean, Green and Clean teams, had a challenge within a challenge, whereby they each had to collect green acts and their goal was to gather 1000 acts throughout the week between the three teams.  They achieved and surpassed their goal by a fantastic amount, with a total 7710 green acts for the SMUSA Lean, Green and Clean team.  Absolutely amazing!!!!

The SMUSA Lean team came in with 2967 acts of green

The SMUSA Green team came in with 3513 acts of green

The SMUSA Clean team came in with 1230 acts of green

Absolutely amazing!!!!  Fantastic job!

Individual: Shellie Petrossie

Shellie Petrossie entered the Campus Wide Green Challenge with her entry called "I am Mother Earth: I don't want to die".  Shellie is a General Worker at Saint Mary's University.  She cares about the environment and she takes recycling seriously.  She wanted to demonstrate that there is still some encouragement necessary to change peoples behaviours and attitudes around recycling.  She took the recyclables, organics and paper out of the office waste cans on her floor and placed it out in the hallway with the note attached.  Thank you for caring! 

We would also like to send out a thank you to Wood Wyant for donating the Individual Prize, which is a $50 Gift Certificate to the Wooden Monkey Restaurant in Halifax. Each of the Groups will receive a $100 cheque to go towards any sustainable event/cause of their choice.  Also in the planting season, the winners will have a tree planted on campus in recognition of their efforts.

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