George Mason University Sustainability Studies

11/29/2024

This looks like a documentary worth watching the day after Thanksgiving…

Discover the award-winning film giving us real hope for the future – and what you can do to help. Watch The Need To GROW for free during this exclusive limited-time screening.

09/13/2021

This site was created long before I began teaching at George Mason University. The ideas expressed an

08/07/2020

07/27/2020

02/05/2020

Hey Mason Green Patriots! Look what we can now recycle at George Mason University, thanks to alumnae -- .babcock2 .russell.33865 Serena Seiler -- and our Patriot Green Fund : beauty products, snack bags and wrappers and 3D printing scraps! 👍👍👍👍

01/20/2020

Hey George Mason University! Make your textbooks & stuff more ($$$) sustainable w/Mason students' own circular economy Facebook groups:

George Mason University Buy/Sell/Trade*
GMU Clothing Exchange
GMU Food Exchange*
GMU Generalposting
GMU Textbook Exchange

* Created by EVPP480 actioneers!

(FYI GMU Alpha Kappa Chi Esp Gsa Gmu Mason Green Patriots Sustainability Living Learning Community -GMU George Mason University Office of Sustainability)

01/13/2020

Useful list for new semester ...

11/13/2019

Want free/cheap food/clothes/etc?

If so, see these student-led Facebook groups:

1. George Mason University Buy/Sell/Trade

2. GMU Clothing Exchange

3. NEW! GMU Food Exchange Group

4. GMU Patriot Pantry

5. GMU Campus Kitchens

6. GMU Organic Gardening Association (GOGA)

Sustainably yours,

Dr. Dann

12/12/2018

How could sustainability studies at Mason make a big societal impact - and sustain itself in perpetuity? Todd LaPorte and Dann Sklarew suggest a Sustainability Shop -- something like this? — supporting Sustainability @ George Mason University at George Mason University.

12/12/2018

And here as "nerd clould" [via principal components analysis]:

12/12/2018

Below, see sustainability interests of 80 George Mason faculty & staff as word clouds. Go Sustainability @ Mason!

09/23/2018

George Mason University students, faculty and alumni turned out for this great event in Great Falls, VA yesterday!

Thanks to our amazing community partners: Clean Fairfax, EcoAction Arlington, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions, Friends of Accotink Creek, The Greater Prince William Climate Action Network, Green Muslims, NOVA Trash Action Work Force, Great Falls Group Sierra Club Virginia!

08/02/2018

What's cool about Mason vis-a-vis sustainability? More than 100 academic programs, 140+ scholars and >230 courses advance human rights, fair labor, the environment and/or work against corruption. Details in our recent (May 2018) update:

"A Top University for the World: George Mason University Global Community Engagement Report and United Nations Global Compact Communication on Engagement"
http://tinyurl.com/gmuungc2018

Provide support to UN Global Compact business participants in their own sustainability implementation and disclosure efforts

08/02/2018

Thank you for all of your invaluable contributions to Sustainability at George Mason University and our Patriot Green Fund program, Samira Lloyd! You will be greatly missed here...

08/02/2018

♻️‼️ Alice Ferguson Foundation has asked George Mason University about hosting the next Potomac Watershed Trash Summit this fall (Oct. 2018). Interested in contributing or participating? Others we should approach @ Mason?

For details, please see http://fergusonfoundation.org/potomac-watershed-trash-summit/potomac-watershed-trash-summit

Since 2006, the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Trash Summit has brought together elected officials, business leaders, community activists, and municipal managers to explore local and regional policies and efforts to reduce trash in communities along the Potomac River Watershed, particularly the Anaco...

05/20/2018

What if we built an model home in ? On campus? 🤔

05/14/2018

A Top University for the World, Mason's latest global community engagement report, just posted to UN Global Compact website, includes lots to inspire us and aspire towards. Check it out at - http://tinyurl.com/gmuungc2018

Provide support to UN Global Compact business participants in their own sustainability implementation and disclosure efforts