Check out This Week's Huxley Speaker!

On Thursday, April 10th at 4pm, James Meadow will be discussing architectural design and indoor microbiology as part of the Huxley Speaker Series. In his talk "Can We Design Buildings Towards a Healthier Indoor Microbiome?" Meadows will consider recent revelations from microbiology and discuss some of the ways architectural design influences indoor microbes.

This talk will be held in the Environmental Studies building, room 100, and it is free and open to the public.For more detailed information, check out this piece that was posted to Western Today.

A timely message

Funny video; clever message.

Thirty Days of Biking

Here's an organization asking people to get on their bikes every day in April.  Why not?  Thanks to Ryer Banta for the tip. 

Top 10 Books on Sustainability

Over at Booklist Online Donna Seaman has compiled what she says are the ten best books on sustainability 2014.

Trashion Show!

Check out this year's Trashion Show featuring WWU's Industrial Design students' creations from re-purposed and re-cycled materials.

How do you feel about billboards?

I think you're going to love this one. 

WWU Bottle Water Ban Effective April 1, 2014

Gerald and Carolyn, the EOHS GEF Team, (photo from the GEF Facebook page)

In case you haven't heard, it's official! Beginning April 1, 2014, Western Washington University will become the largest university, public or private, in Washington state to end bottled water sales on campus, following a student initiative in the spring of 2012 that stated that the selling of bottled water was an unsustainable practice, and asked the university to halt the sale of bottled water on campus.

According to a press release, WWU student, member of Students for Sustainable Water, and one-half of the student team that partnered with Western Libraries on a GEF grant to have a water-bottle refilling station installed in the library, "Bottled water and water privatization is detrimental to the environment, to human rights to water, and simply doesn't make sense in a region where we have clean, amazing tap water." As she points out, this change is important "because it means upholding Western's values in sustainability and social justice."