Interns Receive Entrepreneurship Awards

Each year the Wake Forest Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship holds a banquet honoring students and faculty for their accomplishments and innovative ideas.  This year, two interns for the Office of Sustainability and the Office of Energy Management respectively were honored for their projects: […]


Success in Campus Conservation Nationals

Final results are in for Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN), a competition to reduce energy and water consumption in residence halls in the US and Canada.  Between February 4th and April 26th participating colleges and universities selected a three-week period for students to take direct […]


FAQ: Sustainable T-Shirts

Q: I’m a leader in several organizations and I end up making quite a few t-shirt purchases.  How should I go about making those purchases as sustainable as possible? A:  There are many factors to consider in evaluating the sustainability of a t-shirt, from where and how […]


Class of 2013 To Sign Sustainability Pledge

Many members of the class of 2013 will leave Reynolda campus behind this spring, but all Demon Deacons carry Wake Forest values with them wherever they go.  These values include our campus-wide commitment to sustainability. For a third year, the Office of Sustainability is […]


Competition Motivates Students to Conserve

Get ready, get set, reduce!  This spring, students can join their peers around the nation in cutting down their electricity and water consumption during the Campus Conservation Nationals. With about 200 participating campuses, students compete against one another on each campus, and between campuses […]


Forward on Climate:There is No Plan[et] B

Obscenely early on Sunday morning I joined eleven sleepy Deacons in a van headed to the Forward on Climate rally in Washington, DC. Five and a half hours later we arrived at a DC Metro station and boarded a train bound for the National […]


EcoReps lead change at Wake Forest

Peer education, long a well-loved tool in the field of public health, has inspired curiosity from sustainability advocates in recent years.  As research in psychology and marketing continues to affirm that environmental awareness alone does not result in environmentally preferable behavior changes, those seeking […]


Recap: Energy Bowl 2012

This month Wake Forest competed with Notre Dame in Energy Bowl 2012 – Lights Off, Lights Out, an energy-reduction competition between the residence halls at the two universities. The competition ran November 1st to 14th —the two weeks leading up to the […]


Greeks Go Green

Greeks Go Green (GGG) is a student-led initiative located at the intersection of sustainability and Greek life. Upon its inception in the spring of 2011, the idea was met with considerable interest among members of the Greek community. Greeks Go Green interns with the Office […]


Halfway to victory? It’s up to You.

On November 1st we kicked off a residence hall energy conservation competition against Notre Dame — Energy Bowl 2012: Lights Off, Lights Out.  We’re now at the halfway point of the competition, which wraps up on November 14th. The first half of the competition has […]


Energy Bowl: Lights Off, Lights Out

This November, Wake Forest and Notre Dame will be competing not only on the gridiron but on the grid in an energy-reduction competition. The Energy Bowl competition between Notre Dame and Wake Forest will be held in conjunction with the football […]


Spring 2013 internship available

The following internship is open for Fall 2012. In order to apply, please fill out this form.  Applications are due by 5:00 pm on Friday, November 2nd. Office of Sustainability – Communications and Outreach The intern will work with the director and the fellow […]


Faces of Sustainability: Nathan Peifer

Nathan Peifer is a competent and capable person; that’s why it was extremely disconcerting when, one year ago, he realized, in the most basic way, he did not know how to feed himself.  Thus began Nathan’s study of gardening, a journey of self-directed learning he […]


Congrats Class of 2012 Interns!

Congratulations to our graduating interns from the Class of 2012. We look forward to watching them grow into sustainability professionals. Carrie Stokes graduated Cum Laude with a double major in Anthropology and Religion and an Environmental Studies minor. She also earned honors in the Religion […]


Where are they now: Andrew Collins

This article is the first in a series about sustainability grads. We hope you enjoy it! Andrew Collins (’10) joined the Office of Sustainability intern team during the spring semester of his senior year, after a study abroad internship with International Union for Conservation of […]


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