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Promoting Sustainability Through Student Innovation
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Fall 2018 Events

​Power Down HSU
✓ September 5
✓ October 3
     November 7
     December 5

Res Hall Energy & Water Competition 
✓ ​October 1-31

Weigh the Waste
✓ October 2-4
​     November 13-15
Weekly Club Meeting

​Who: All are welcome!
Come say hi & attend a meeting!

When: Fridays 5-6pm
Where: ​Conference Room 
Facilities Management Office
​14th and B St 
South side of campus
​​Green Campus is a student group that operates under Humboldt State University's
​Offices Of Sustainability and Clubs & Activities.
Our project coordinators, interns and volunteers are all HSU students who work on sustainability projects each semester to improve infrastructure and policy on campus, save energy and water on campus, and educate our community about sustainable daily living.

Our mission is to improve environmental sustainability at HSU by: 
- achieving measurable energy and water savings;
- educating the campus community about sustainability;
- encouraging daily behavioral changes that benefit the environment;
- preparing future professionals in environmental fields; 
- and collaborating with other sustainability organizations on campus.

The Month of October: Water

Tips to Save Water
  • ​Take shorter showers! Queue ~3 songs to listen to while you're in the shower, and get out at the end of the queue.
  • ​Take a shower instead of a bath! If your shower is shorter than 19 minutes it's likely using less water than a bath would, and if your shower is closer to 10 minutes you're certainly using less water, according to BBC Focus Magazine.
  • Don't let the sink or shower run unattended! Cool showers reportedly have numerous health benefits, so start your shower while it's warming up.
  • Turn off the tap while you're brushing your teeth!
  • Recycle water! Water plants with leftover drinking water or after boiling a pot of water.
  • Fill up your dish washer and washing machine all the way before running a cycle!
  • Plug the sink drain so the faucet doesn't have to run while washing dishes in the sink!
​See GabiH2O's Top 10 Water Saving Tips
World Water Day Cartoon Collection
from Cartoon Movement
​March 22, 2018
"Water is Life"
​by Gianlorenzo Ingrami
October 2011
"The Hunt for Clean Water"
​by Gianfranco Uber
June 2014
"Saving Water"
​by Kap
​July 2011
See the entire collection on Cartoon Movement's website 
​www.cartoonmovement.com/collection/32
The Month of September:  Light
Tips to Save Energy
  • Turn off the lights when you leave a room.
  • Spend time and do homework outside or in an area lit naturally.
  • Have class outside, if possible. 
  • Dim adjustable lights to lower brightness.
  • Use ambient lighting such as lamps and string lights.
  • Switch to LED light bulbs.
  • Use shear curtains to let natural light in and not let heat escape.
  • Turn off your headlights when you park.
  • Take time to appreciate the sunshine!
Sunrises & Sunsets in Arcata
during Sept 2018 ​from TimeandDate.com

Take a photo of your solar experience and email it to greencampus@humboldt.edu 
​to be featured on our Instagram page 
@greencampus_hsu!