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The WORD Studio is the resource where St. Lawrence students go to improve their writing and oral communication skills. Previously professors received a paper record of each time one of their students visited the Studio, as you can imagine this starts to add up.

Considering their environmental impact, the WORD Studio and the Science Writing Center have switched to e-mailing records of student visits, significantly limiting their paper use. 

AASHE (the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) “provides resources, professional development, and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research.1”

St. Lawrence has been a member for the past three years and with that membership comes access to great resources. If you have a class project, are developing a course on sustainability or are looking for ideas on how to ‘green’ your piece of campus simply go to the registration page and complete the user profile. Use your campus-based email address as your “username,” and the system will send a password to that address. When you receive it, go to the login page, enter your username, and type or paste the password into the password box. Click the “log in” button and you should be logged in with access to all locked resources.

Let the sustainability projects continue, ENJOY!

1 AASHE Website

Thanks to our many bike testers!

With your help we’ve selected the new cruiser style bike for our Green Bikes Program, the Kona Africa Bike One; the sleek black model with the front basket and convenient built-in lock. Smooth ride and a place to stash things and yet it gets even better, for every two bikes we ordered (and we have seven) one bike is donated to people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Check them out at ODY.

Happy Riding!

St. Lawrence University has been awarded a grant of $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, for support of its Environmental Education Initiative for Active Learning, Research and Advocacy, a four-year collaborative project with broad multi- and interdisciplinary participation.  details...