Tag Archives: sustainability

Students Return from National Concrete Canoe Competition

Team members steer their “green” canoe into 11th place at the 2008 National Concrete Canoe Competition in Montreal. Sixty percent of the glass used in the canoe’s concrete mix was recycled from deposits made on NYU-Poly’s campus.
After winning first place at the Metropolitan Regional Concrete Canoe Competition in late August, NYU-Poly’s Student Chapter of the [read more]

Othmer Residence Hall Shows Campus How To Go Green

Residence assistants cutback on paper waste by creating this recycle-inspired, paperless bulletin board.Did you know that recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours?
Students living in the Othmer Residence Hall have been learning similar energy-related facts every day this spring since the Office of Residence Life, with support from [read more]