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When at the grocery store looking for a new face wash to try out, I thought about some of the benefits and drawbacks of each brand and type: what would be best for my skin, what smells good, etc… I was basing my decision off of general labeling and not what is necessarily inside the wash or how the contents can harmfully affect our world. Average consumers know little to nothing about the products they use on an everyday basis- and that’s pretty concerning.

Etiquette and tips for using the ChargePoint electric vehicle charging station on ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ's campus.

Environmental activists have recently taken to intertwining the issues of the environment with human rights abuses. The amalgamation of these two movements is more widely known today as environmental justice. The principle of environmental justice asserts that no people, based on their race or economic status, should be forced to bear a disproportionate burden of environmental risks. Innocent bystanders or communities that are not party to the activities generating burdens should not be subject to such burdens (Adeola, 688). Environmental injustices involve a systematic exclusion of minority groups in vital environmental policies and decisions. Environmental justice is the movement that links environmental degradation with social justice in a fight for sustainable human rights.

Compared to ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s 2009 baseline inventory, the university decreased its emissions by 3,512 MTeCO2, or by 20.2 percent.

Compared to ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s 2009 baseline inventory, the university decreased its emissions by 3,536 tons, or by 20.4 percent.

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s 2011 gross emissions were 5.63 tons per full-time student and 7.02 tons per 1,000 square-feet of building space.

In 2010, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent.

In the summer of 2009, Ben Taylor ’10 spearheaded an effort by the Sustainability Office to complete the university’s first comprehensive baseline carbon inventory.