Sustainability Centre

Contact

Alana-Dawn Eirikson
Sustainability Centre Coordinator
Phone: (403) 440-8751
Email:

Go Green Competition

Purpose:
With the Go Green Competition our goal is to further a culture of sustainability at MRU while having fun! This will be a month long competition that motivates students, staff and faculty to make easy, yet significant, actions to reduce their detrimental eco footprint. Participants will also be challenged to design a creative and resourceful project that will improve campus sustainability.

Description:
The beginning of each week all teams will be presented 4 challenges in a survey format in order to track their results. They will be asked to track their participation and send the results back to the organizing committee at the end of the week. We will give away weekly prizes. There will be a wrap-up event where we award the grand prize winner and the winners of the bonus challenges as well as give a chance for all the participants to meet.

Prizes range from gift certificates for eco and socially responsible businesses to white water rafting trip!!!

Bonus Challenges
1. Get creative and develop a project to improve campus sustainability using the resources around you.
2. Get involved and get connected to your campus community! View our listing of MRU and SAMRU events happening in the month of March and see how many you can attend in one month.
3. Calculate your eco footprints at the beginning and end of this challenge using the City of Calgary Footprint Calculator

Submit your results to sc@samru.ca and see if you qualify for the most improved Eco Footprint Award

Registration Requirements:
Be a team of two or more people. Participants must be a member of the MRU and SAMRU campus community.
To Register email sc@samru.ca with your name, contact info and identify whether you are a student, staff or faculty member and your department.

National Water Bottle Free Day - March 11th.

What’s it all about?
It’s time to ditch the bottle and turn on the tap! Join the Canadian Federation of Students, the Sierra Youth Coalition and the Polaris Institute March 11 for Canada’s first Bottled Water Free Day!

Across Canada post-secondary institutions and high schools are organizing campus events to raise awareness to take note of the environmental, social, health and economic impacts of bottled water and the commodification of this precious natural resource.

Schedule of events:
10:00am – 11:30am Water Bottle Give Away & Taste Test – Wyckham House Food Court
1:30pm – 3:30pm Water Bottle Give Away & Taste Test– Wyckham House Food Court
10:00am – 3:30pm Info Booth– Wyckham House Food Court
4:00pm – 6:00pm Screening Blue Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb4WG8UJRw  and the trailer for Tapped http://www.tappedthemovie.com/  - Art Gallery, 2nd floor Wyckham House (the former Council Chambers)


In an effort to help students make more environmentally-friendly choices when it comes to water on campus, the Sustainability Centre in the SAMRU will be challenging students, staff, and faculty to a bottled vs. tap water taste test, giving away free reusable water bottles, sharing information about the impact bottled water has on our world, and screening –Blue Gold a film that examines the privatization and control of water, world water wars and the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.


For more information on the Sustainability Center’s plans for National Water Bottle Free Day, more about the Go Green Competition, or other plans for the month of March, please visit http://www.samru.ca/supportServices/sustainability