GREEN INITIATIVES SHOWCASED ON DISPLAY BOARDS AROUND CAMPUS
Good
�green� deeds are not going
unnoticed at service locations
throughout the campus. The Green UH
student marketing team collaborated
with its auxiliary partners to
create Green Showcase boards. Each
board will be proudly displayed
within the location to demonstrate
its green practices and products for
all to see.
Since April 2011, the Green UH
student team visited auxiliary
locations around the campus to
perform a �green audit� and discover
the efforts being made by each
business. Both dining halls on
campus along with the C-stores,
McAlister�s Deli, Chinese Star,
Tealicious, UH Bookstore, Cougar
Card and the University Copy Center
took part in the green project.
�From this project, we wanted to
present to our students the efforts
already being made within our
university services so they would be
more aware of the steps UH is taking
to become more green,� said Suong
Le, student supervisor for the Green
UH student marketing team. �We hope
to increase the participation in our
sustainability actions and for
students to use these practices
throughout the campus.�
The Green Showcase boards will serve
as a visual reminder to patrons to
go green and do their part in making
our campus more sustainable. It also
allows the businesses to pat
themselves on the back for their
efforts and examine ways to further
their green initiative.
The boards may also teach students
ways they can participate in the
green practices and point out
certain products that they can
purchase to support sustainability.
For example, the UH Bookstore sells
reusable tote bags or the plastic
cups and utensils used at
McAlister�s Deli can be recycled. UH
Dining Services is hopeful the
boards in its facilities will inform
students of lesser-known efforts it
is making to go green as well.
�We�re very excited to have the
boards going up,� said Amber
Arguijo, marketing coordinator for
UH Dining Services. �The reusable
to-go program is pretty well known
but many of the other green
initiatives listed on our boards are
not. It�s a great way to show what
we are doing and to hopefully
inspire others to join in on the
movement.�
With the help of the Green Showcase
boards, Green UH hopes to further
educate the University of Houston
campus about going green. For more
information on what you can do to
get involved, visit
www.uh.edu/green.