News:
May 2012
Chuck It For Charity
Bulk of food and clothing were picked up by Roxana Roman, the
International Coordinator for the Teolinda Foundation in Ecuador.
These items will be sent to help the many people displaced by the
flooding in Babahoyo, Ecuador.
Jackets, gloves, scarves, hats, pillows and small blankets
were collected for St. John's University's Midnight Run
Service and will be given to the homeless this upcoming winter.
We were also able to give some women's clothing and bedding as well
as some home and kitchen goods and nonperishable foods to John
Vaval from Shiloh Bilingual SDA Church who will be sending those
items to PortauPrince, Haiti.
The remainder of the items were picked up by Wearable Collections,
NYC.
St. John's is proud to announce their
submission for a presentation in the AASHE 2012 Conference in Los
Angeles this October! This is a ten minute documentary on organic
soils management with the help of all members of the St. John's
community. Linked below we have the four minute preview.
To view more information about the
conference visit the AASHE website.
To watch the preview click here!
Students Help St. John’s Reduce
Carbon Footprint
St. John’s University has cut its campus carbon dioxide emissions
by 13,498 metric tons over the past three years, equivalent to the
amount of gas released by 2,747 vehicles during the same time
period.
This achievement — which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) noted in its most recent assessment
report — stems from the many
innovative energy conservation and recycling initiatives the
University has introduced since 2009.
These measures were taken as a result of St. John’s commitment to
become a higher education PlaNYC
Challenge Partner and reduce
its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2017. They are also a
result of the University’s historic agreement with the EPA. “In
2008, we became the first private institution to sign
a Memorandum of
Understanding with the agency,” said
Thomas Goldsmith, Director of Energy and Environmental Conservation
at St. John’s. “Under the terms of the memo, we agreed to reduce
our greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2017.”
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For more information on sustainability
initiatives on campus send us an email.