While Miami makes it easy to recycle on campus - just place your recyclables in the single-stream blue bins - non-recyclables sometimes end up mixed in. These contaminated loads are sent to the landfill.
In response to a charge from President Crawford in September, Miami University's sustainability committee submitted a report Feb. 1 recommending that Miami become a signatory of the Presidents Climate Leadership Commitments.
Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys is one of the few environments on Earth where living organisms are dramatically affected by minor changes in climate. Miami's Rachael Morgan-Kiss is one of dozens of scientists who have been investigating the polar deserts ecosystems through the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) project.
Converting campus energy systems away from fossil-fuel-powered steam to systems that are powered by electricity increases the opportunities to purchase renewable electricity off the grid, such as wind or solar power.
