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Office for Campus Sustainability
521 South Razorback Road, D111
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701

P: 479-575-5186

uaocs@uark.edu

No Impact Semester Volunteer Opportunities

The OCS and the Student Sustainability Council will host a number of volunteer opportunities across campus during the Fall 2011 semester.  From cleaning Mullins Creek to Project Clean Plate, students will be able to offset their carbon footprint and help their community.

For a detailed list of events, times, and needs, please follow this link: No_Impact_Semester_volunteer_opportunities.docx

No-Impact Competition Fall 2011

The OCS is pleased to announce our No Impact Competition!

Our competition measures participants' carbon footprints and awards individuals with the lowest impact on our environment. We measure energy, water, waste & recycling, and transportation to determine the annual contribution of carbon to the atmosphere. The carbon is measured in metric tons (MT) and is then translated into points.

Participants are then encouraged to mitigate their carbon output, or lower their points, by participating in a number of events related to No Impact Semester. Volunteering, donating, attending film or lecture series, planting trees, establishing a garden, or other pre-approved activity will decrease the participants overall points. The people with the lowest points win the competition!

Participation is easy. Choose either off or on campus user file, fill in appropriate fields, resubmit to uaocs@uark.edu with the following file name: last name,first name.xlsx

Off campus users: No_Impact_Competition_-_off_campus.xlsx

On campus users: Copy_of_No_Impact_Competition_-_on_campus.xlsx

For detailed rules of participation in No Impact Competition, click here.

For detailed instructions for the competition score card, click here

To RSVP on Facebook for events, click here.

  Off Campus tutorial

 On Campus tutorial

 

A note to some users:

This competion is not designed to be a comprehensive calculator for total GHG responsibility. The main purpose of this competition is to estimate the personal contributions to climate change and act as a platform from which dialogue of additional GHG ownership may arise. In most cases, individuals are likely to have much larger carbon footprints than what we allude to with the GHG calulator when personal lifestyle choices are taken into consideration.

 

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No Impact Semester (NIS) Kick-off Next Month!

The Office for Campus Sustainability, in conjunction with One Book, One community, is proud to present our “No Impact Semester” campaign. No Impact Man author Colin Beavan emphasizes the importance of living a socially and environmentally just lifestyle. “No Impact Semester” will offer students the chance to learn about environmental and social stewardship through film and lecture series, sustainability competitions, and volunteer opportunities on the University of Arkansas campus. Events will begin in September and run through October 2011.

  • Conspicuous Non-consumption Week lecture Sseries

            September 12-15, 7:00 PM each night

            Giffels Auditorium, Old Main

  • Care for the Creek volunteer stream clean up

            September 16, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

            The Gardens

  • Moving Planet Day and Fayetteville Freecycle

            September 24, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

            Old Main Lawn

  • Sustainability Film Series

            September 26-30, 7:00 PM each night

            University Programs Theater, Arkansas Union

  • World Food Day Food Drive

            October 1-14

            Across campus and northwest Arkansas

  • Clean Plate Competition

            October 10-20, various times

            Arkansas Union, NW Quad, Brough Commons and Pomfret Hall dining facilities

  • World Food Day

            October 14

            Location TBA

  • Think Outside the Bottle

            October 24-28

            Across campus

  • Care for the Creek volunteer stream clean up

            October 28, 2:00 - 6:00 pm

            The Gardens Pavillion

  • No Impact Man visits UA

            October 27-28, 11:30 PM

            Location TBA

Click here to see the full events and description: No_Impact_Semester_Events.pdf

Visit the following sites for more information about No Impact Man:

No Impact Semester
onebook.uark.edu

Colin Beavan’s Blog
noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/

Make sure to keep updated on upcoming events and competitions via our facebook and Wordpress blog!

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Internship opportunities with the Office for Campus Sustainability

Students will report to the Director of the Office for Campus Sustainability (OCS). Interns are expected to work 8 – 10 hours per week. The OCS will work around student schedules. However, attendance will be expected at regularly scheduled and periodic campus sustainability team meetings.  Positions are unpaid but the experience will help students excel in the field of sustainability.

University departments are encouraged to support internships through academic credit.  Students pursuing the undergraduate minor degree in sustainability are highly encouraged to apply to these positions.

Internship opportunities:

  1. Website manager
  2. Communications
  3. Reduce, reuse, and recycle coordinator
  4. Water conservationist coordinator
  5. Energy efficiency and conservation coordinator

Click here to see full descriptions and requirements for each position.  Please send a short cover letter and resume to uaocs@uark.edu. Applications received before September 16, 2011 will be given full consideration. Internships are to begin Monday September 26, 2011. If you have any questions, please call 479-575-5186.
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    Sustainability at the University of Arkansas

    The University of Arkansas is a leader in campus sustainability efforts, in large part due to its commitment and dedicated resources to reduce its environmental impact and neutralize its carbon footprint. The university will lessen its environmental impact:

    • through education of students and citizens about environmental stewardship and sustainability;
    • through research to develop knowledge and technologies that facilitate sustainability and improved environmental stewardship;
    • by committing to become a carbon neutral institution as soon as it is practical;
    • by committing to become a zero-waste institution as soon as it is practical; and
    • by serving as an exemplar of environmental stewardship for our community, Arkansas, and the world.

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    NEW! The University of Arkansas will begin offering an undergraduate minor in sustainability for students, who may declare the minor as early as Aug. 15. 
     
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    The University of Arkansas Climate Action Plan details the steps the university will take to attain carbon neutrality and was submitted to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Part of that commitment entails the following documents be made available to the public: