NYU Law is Going Green
This site is meant as a resource for the many initiatives that have already been undertaken by individual members or departments around the Law School, while soliciting new ideas and sharing tips and suggestions for what members of the community can do on a daily basis to make a difference.
Wilf Hall Is Platinum!
Sustainability Committee
Believing that small incremental changes do matter, a group of concerned students, administrators and faculty came together to institutionalize the Law School's commitment to sustainablity across the community. The mission of the committee is to expand on existing efforts while fostering a deeper understanding and awareness of environmental issues and sustainability throughout the broader community. > more about the Sustainability Committee
Your Input
Send us your ideas for how we can do even more at NYU Law to operate sustainably. > make a suggestion
Sustainability News and Announcements
Teaming up with the NYC CoolRoofs Program and NYC Service, we will paint a city rooftop white to help reduce building temperatures, reduce CO2 emissions, and improve air quality! The NYC CoolRoofs initiative enables building owners to cool their roofs by applying a reflective white coating that reduces energy use. The program supports New York
[...]Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:15:11
Celebrate Earth Day by bringing in a bag of your old clothes and swapping for some new treasures! Then join a DIY workshop and learn how to re-accessorize your new finds. Can’t part with your clothes? Then feel free to drop off books, CDs, or anything else you’d like to share. Live bands will be
[...]Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:13:30
The Environmental Law Society is hosting an afternoon of games and refreshments to promote sustainable initiatives on campus, such as composting bins in the cafeterias and refrigerated water bottle refilling stations in the law school buildings. Try your hand at a bean bag toss and learn how to properly sort your everyday trash into recycling
[...]Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:11:21
Prepare to join forces and meet some fellow NYC collegiates with the New School’s Urban Forestry Club for a day of tree planting, street tree care, and, of course, delicious fresh food! Meet at the New School at 10am (318 E15th Street), for coffee and tree-planting, then take a guided nature walk to NYU’s Green
[...]Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:09:29
Fixers’ Collective NYC is a group of folks dedicated to working together to fix things – encouraging improvisational fixing and mending and fighting planned obsolescence. Join them for “fixing sessions” where people bring in something broken and we work together to try to fix it or creatively reuse it as something else. The group includes
[...]Posted: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:29:26
The School of Law Sustainability Committee will be expanding the composting program in Golding Lounge and the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz Cafe. Watch for future announcements and information on this new initiative.
Posted: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:31:15
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded Wilf Hall with a LEED Platinum Standard rating, which is the USGBC’s highest certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. In order to achieve this certification, given to an elite few of New York City’s buildings, Wilf Hall was evaluated in five categories, including water and
[...]Posted: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:55:46
NYU Bobst Library’s Coles Science Center presents: There is plastic in every ocean in the world. Plastic is a unique pollutant that defies current theories and practices of pollution control we have come to depend upon. This illustrated talk will focus on a single sample of ocean plastics taken from the North Pacific Ocean and
[...]Posted: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:55:55
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