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In this Issue
1. Get Involved: March for Sustainability
2. Save the Date: Professional Clothing Drive
3. Program Success: Sustainable Office Certification
4. UFV Highlight: Fluorescent Farewell, LED lights the way!
5. Resources: Black History Month
6. Tip of the Month: Watt's up with E-Waste?
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Get Involved
- March for Sustainability 2024 -
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March for Sustainability returns in 2024 for its 3rd year in a row with more events than ever before!
March for Sustainability is a series of collaborative events, co-hosted by various UFV departments and groups throughout the month of March. Events address sustainability topics such as climate change, biodiversity, EDI, and gender diversity.
The initiative debuted in 2022 with five events and returned last year with 13. This year there are 20 events that encourage actions, expand networks, share knowledge, and inspire hope for a more sustainable world. March for Sustainability is intended to foster awareness and understanding to create a thriving, harmonious, and just future for all.
This year offers a mix of returning and new events. Learn all about them on the March for Sustainability webpage at ufv.ca/march-for-sustainability/.
Click here to read more about March for Sustainability in our recent blog post.
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Save the Date
- Professional Clothing Drive -
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Mark your calendars ...
Back for its second year, we will be having a Professional Clothing Drive!
From February 12 - March 12, please drop off any donations of gently-used, good quality professional clothes and/or shoes.
These clothes will make up a "Career Closet" as a part of our March for Sustainability "Clothes the Loop" event. These clothes will be given to students that are in need of professional clothing leading into the interview season.
Drop-off locations:
- Student Union Building (South Entrance)
- G Building (Bus loop entrance near library)
Click here to see a video from last year's event.
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Program Success
- Sustainable Office Certification -
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We held a closing ceremony in celebration of our first Sustainable Office Certification Program!
During this successful pilot project, we supported sustainability champions from 6 departments to improve the sustainability of their workspaces.
See the final results below!
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Sustainability Champions holding their plaques and certificates with members of the Office of Sustainability
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We are so pleased that this pilot project was a success!
The next round of the Sustainable Office Certification program will begin in May! If you are interested in participating, please email the Office of Sustainability (sustainability@ufv.ca)
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UFV Highlight
- Fluorescent Farewell, LED lights the way! -
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A large lighting overhaul took place in January at the Abbotsford Campus Envision Athletic Centre (Building E)
An upgrade to lighting in the Envision Athletic Centre is helping to cut the building's energy use on lighting by 46%!
The lighting upgrades saw the replacement of existing fluorescent and metal halide lighting with LED (or light emitting diodide) light technology.
99% of the material from the old lights is being recycled ensuring that we are further reducing the environmental impacts of lighting at UFV.
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New LED lights illuminate the North Gym
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Did you Know?
Besides being extremely energy efficient, LED lights:
- Have a longer life span-meaning less waste and less maintenance
- Do not contain toxic elements such as mercury.
- Are easier to recycle
- Do not produce a lot of heat - helping to keep buildings cool.
- Have a high light quality. Other bulbs may need a warm-up period when switched on and may begin to flicker over time, but LEDs produce consistent light over their lifetime.
- Are dimmable, providing flexibility in controlling light output and also contributing to energy savings when full brightness is not required.
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Resources
- Black History Month -
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Let's honour and celebrate the achievements, struggles, and powerful stories of black people throughout history. Here's to honouring the past and looking to the future.
Join us in uplifting the humanity, innovation and vision of African American artists. Throughout February, take a journey organized around five weekly focus areas that celebrate the Black people who have used their art as their platform for social justice.
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Sustainability Tip of the Month
- Watt's up with E-Waste? -
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E-waste is any electrical or electronic equipment that's been discarded.
This includes working and broken items that are thrown in the garbage or donated to thrift stores. Often, if the item goes unsold in the store, it will be thrown away.
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Electronics Recycling Resources:
- Return-It - list of accepted items in BC, Locations, Recycling process, Reuse information
- Recycle My Electronics - residential and business recycling tips, locations, recycling prep for devices
- Electrocycle - small appliance and power tool recycling program, list of collection events
For more ideas on being sustainable, click here for all of our Sustainability Tips of the Month
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