Washington University’s annual Green Cup competition is only halfway over, but the organizers are already seeing a noticeable difference in students’ energy consumption on campus. The competition, which has two categories—residential life and Greek life—already has frontrunners.

There’s a new gang on campus, and the University is supporting it. The Student Union-approved Wash U Bike Gang seeks to promote sustainability and encourage bike riding as a means of transportation to explore the city and foster community. The new student group is working to incorporate bike culture into the Washington University campus.

The Office of Sustainability encouraged students to be conscious of the environment at an event last Thursday night entitled Defining Sustainability. Numerous student groups participated in Defining Sustainability, held in the Danforth University Center, to showcase their varying interpretations of sustainability.

In Washington University’s continued effort to remain green, the Office of Sustainability has come up with a plan that it calls a pledge for sustainability. The pledge aims to deal with the issue of sustainability on a micro level, teaching the Wash. U. community to take small steps towards becoming green.

Washington University has earned a B on the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s college sustainability report card for the 2011 school year and the report has garnered mixed responses from students and faculty.

Washington University students returning to campus after winter break will find that the Dasani and Evian bottles in the vending machines and campus bookstore will be gone. The “Tap It” […]