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• MSU Recycling Center: Michigan State University celebrated the opening of their new Surplus Store and Recycling Center on campus. The new building will help both the University and its surrounding communities increase their green effort.

• High Sustainability Ratings for UC Davis: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the greenest of them all? Soon the answer could be UC Davis if the campus maintains the high rankings that have helped it receive accolades from environmental groups. UC Davis was recently ranked among the top 10 campuses nationally by Greenopia, an organization that rates universities

• R4 Recycling's Program Manager, Lin King, is featured on UC Davis's homepage in announcing UC Davis's sustainability rankings.: UC Davis's commitment to the environment is being graded! UC Davis has been ranked as...

• UC Davis behind in 'RecycleMania' rankings: Lab waste, composting affect recycling rate: Amidst the goal of a Zero Waste campus by 2020, UC Davis struggles to keep up with its previous success in RecycleMania. After a little over one month of Earth-friendly competition, UC Davis has fallen from last year's final standing of eighth place and is currently ranked 174...

• Lin King's presentation at the 2009 Plan Green Conference: R4 Recycling Program Manager, Lin King, presents at 2009 Plan Green Conference.

• RECYCLEMANIA. Campus becomes full participant in national competition: UC Davis is turning RecycleMania into a campuswide project. RecycleMania is a national competition, and it starts Feb. 1 and runs through March 28. Almost 500 colleges are signed up, competing to see which ones are the best at recycling.

• Working ‘green’ is smart, efficient: Going green is a concept that has become popular throughout the UC Davis community. More and more people and units are making an effort to adopt environmentally friendly practices and to work toward reducing their carbon footprints.

• Sacramento region recyclables pile up as resale market crashes: The dealer for Sacramento city and county recyclables wants the curbside materials delivered for free until the global scrap market rebounds from a free-fall...

• California exceeds recycling goals: Californians get high on recycling. California is leading the nation in its recycling efforts, according to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, or CIWMB. California currently diverts 58 percent of its waste to recycling, or about 54 million tons...

• 'Recyclemania' comes to Davis: Recyclemania, a nationwide competition among 100 universities, kicked off on Sunday, running until Mar. 27. During the competition universities strive to collect as much recyclables as they can during the..

• City offers 'low carbon diet' to residents: Selected residents will soon begin a city-sponsored project called the Low Carbon Diet, intended to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions by 5,000 pounds per year. The city's ...

• The Electronic Wasteland: Where does our electronic refuse end up? CBS 60 minutes special...

• The Story of Stuff: a look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns

• Movers Receive an Alternative to the Dumpster: There may be more room for actual garbage in apartment dumpsters this week. In order to save more reusable items, the Davis Public Works Department is expanding its move-out week waste reduction...8/28/2008

• UC Davis Students Win National EPA Awards: Two groups of UC Davis students participated in this year’s annual P3 (People, Prosperity, and the Planet) Student Design Competition for Sustainability, held by the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC. Both teams received recognition for their efforts, with the Plastics Team winning one of six $75,000 grants,... 7/23/2008

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