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The GreenWise
Bulletin: Communicating NAU’s Commitment to Sustainability
Do you want to
know what NAU is doing to become a sustainable university? Do you
want the definitive answer on NAU’s recycling program? Just what is
an ecological footprint, anyway? The answers to these questions, and
more, can be found in The GreenWise Bulletin, NAU’s sustainability
newsletter, brought to you by the Campus Sustainability Steering
Committee. Together, we are making a difference! Check it out today!
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The NAU Green
Practices Guide is Here!
Northern Arizona
University is working hard to become more eco-friendly and
sustainable and is taking another important step with the new
Ambassadors Network Green Practices Guide. This 15 page guide was
developed to read, share and promote in your office, residence hall,
apartment complex or even your home! Enjoy these colorful and
comprehensive energy and resource saving tips designed to help you
understand how easy and fun it can be to live, work and play
sustainably. (more...)
Engaging Students in Field Research Collaborations
A cooperative agreement
between Northern Arizona University, the National Park Service
(NPS), the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Division (USGS-Bio) and
other federal agencies provides NAU undergraduates and graduates
rich opportunities for applied research in ecology, wildlife
behavior, cultural preservation and land management. (more...)
 Southwest Regis-Tree: Working to Celebrate and Conserve the Region’s
Heirloom Fruits and Nuts in Historic Orchards
The
Center for Sustainable Environments has revived and revamped
regional efforts to document and save over sixty of the Southwest
region’s most celebrated fruits and nuts.
(more...)
Campus Sustainability Program
Ambassadors of Change Network Meeting
Thursday,
March 2, 2006, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
 You are invited to join the Campus Sustainability Ambassadors
Network. The Ambassadors currently consist of more than twenty NAU
faculty, staff and students who have joined together to promote and encourage
more sustainable practices on NAU’s increasingly green campus.
(more...)
Campus
Sustainability Program:
Saving Resources and Cutting Costs
Wednesday, March 15,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Gary Deason, Deputy Director of the CSE
will speak on Campus Sustainability at the Service Professionals
Advisory Council monthly seminar. (more...)
NAU Technology and
Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) - Request for Proposals
The
following request for proposals focuses on the two R&D initiatives
of TRIF: Growing Biotechnology (GBI) and Environmental Research,
Development, and Education for the New Economy (ERDENE).
Approximately $1,000,000 is expected to be available for NAU faculty
or staff members (or teams led by an NAU faculty of staff) for
financial support of projects that promote the mission and goals of
GBI and ERDENE. (more...)
NAU
Recycling – What is it Good For?
Absolutely Everything!
NAU has a new Recycling System set up through the City of Flagstaff
and Norton Environmental. So what does that mean to you? Well, quite
a lot actually. Check out some of the new and improved things
happening as a result of the new program. (more...)
Sustainability Awards
Re-Opened
The Hooper Student Fund Committee and
the Center for Sustainable Environments announce a re-opening of the competition for
awards of up to $1,000 for individuals or up to $1,600 for small
groups to support sustainability projects at NAU or in northern
Arizona. (more...)
October Pledge
Campaign Sets the Stage for Increased Sustainability at NAU
In
October the Campus Sustainability Steering Committee embarked on its
first effort to gauge the “sustainability mindedness” of the NAU
community. The October Pledge Campaign asked each member of the
faculty, staff, and student body to make a commitment to reduce his
or her overall consumption by 10 percent for the month. (more...)
 CSE and NAU's
Campus Sustainability Plan featured in New York Times, "The
Greening of America's Campuses"
For the second time this season, the
Center for Sustainable Environments has garnered praise from the
New York Times. On January 9, 2006, the Times featured NAU as
one of twelve campuses leading the way in greening America's
universities, and praised the inclusive process that the Campus Sustainability
Committee developed to gain broad participation in
implementing a campus-wide sustainability initiative. (more...)
Seafood Traditions at Risk in North
America:
A
RAFT List for Biological Recovery and Cultural Revitalization
 When fish and
shellfish populations are depleted or brought to the brink of
extinction, this biological loss generates culinary and other
cultural consequences that may be too deep to immediately fathom.
The loss of marine biodiversity affects all of us, but especially
the coastal peoples of North America—both native and immigrant—who
have built their bodies, minds and communities from the flesh of
fish, a fact their salty stories, songs and sacred ceremonies
celebrate. (more...)
Linking
Arizona's Sense of Place to a Sense of Taste:
Marketing the
Heritage Value of Arizona's
Place-Based Foods
 Arizona has more heritage
food diversity and a longer history of farming than any other state,
but it will take implementing new strategies to help rural and
tribal communities more fully benefit from this legacy. That message
is among the conclusions of a new book by Northern Arizona
University’s Center for Sustainable Environments, introduced and
endorsed by Governor Janet Napolitano: Linking Arizona’s Sense of
Place to Its Sense of Taste: Marketing the Heritage Value of
Arizona’s Place-Based Foods. (more...)
Water and Energy: Understanding the
Link
Water and energy are rarely considered
together although their infrastructures are inextricably linked.
This is especially true in the West where water is used for cooling
electrical generating plants and where electricity is used to move
water over vast distances and high elevations. On the average in the
eight Intermountain western states, fossil fuel generation of 1
kilowatt-hour of electricity requires one-half gallon of water.
Dominated by coal and gas fired steam generating plants, electrical
generation in the Intermountain West consumes over 650 million
gallons of water per day, primarily for condensing steam that has
been used to drive turbines (Last Straw, p. 1). This is enough water
to meet the needs of four million people, about the population of
the state of Colorado. (more...)
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