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RECYCLE GLASS ON CAMPUS

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Emerson Andrews, Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund coordinator. Originally posted on Jan. 9 2017.  Glass recycling has arrived at the University of Utah thanks to the combined efforts of three students, Facilities Management and the Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund, or SCIF. Fifty bins will be placed in buildings during the beginning of the spring 2017 semester and available for […]

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SEMINAR: GREENLAND ICE SHEET MAY HAVE LARGER THAN EXPECTED IMPACT ON SEA LEVEL

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By: Liz Ivkovich, Sustainability Office. New research suggests that the Greenland Ice Sheet is far less stable than current climate models predict, which could mean those models are severely underestimating potential sea level rise. The ice sheet contains the equivalent of 24 feet of global sea level rise if it melts. Joerg Schaefer, a paleoclimatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth […]

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