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I C Green Club

I C Green is a student organization that strives to educate and increase awareness about environmental issues in Iona's community and world-wide. We hope to make recycling on campus more efficient and user-friendly, and to encourage a reduction in energy consumption. Our outreach will be generated toward students but we will collaborate with faculty, facilities, and administration to carry out future major sustainability projects.

The color GREEN is having the Best Year Ever!

With a world becoming increasingly conscious of the growing eco-crisis, the students of Iona College have seen the need to step up and promote sustainability on our campus. Following the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities in the Fall of 2006, four students teamed up to found this student organization that would resurrect the mission of Project Earth and rename it I C Green.

GREEN is everything you love, everything you missed, and everything you need to see again!

Executive Board:

President - Bryan Hart
Vice President - Greg Roughton
Co-secretaries - Kiersten Giusto/Catherine Morris
Treasurer - Vincent Sorrentino
Advisor - Dr. Joseph Stabile

 Contact Information:

To join I C Green, send us your comments, and to find out about our meetings and events, please contact:

President Bryan Hart
or

Co-secretaries Kiersten Giusto or Catherine Morris

Past Events:

  • RESPECT day Plant a Seed (April 2009)
  • Recycling drive for Gael Guts (April 2009)
  • Tie- Dye T-shirts for Earth Day (April 2009)
  • National Geographic PSA contest (December 2008)
  • LIGHTS OUT! (October 2007 and October 2008)
  • Green Fair (November 2007)
  • Nature Study Woods Clean-Up during Make-A-Difference Week (October 2007)
  • Trip to the American Museum of Natural History(September 2007)
  • Trip to the NYC Botanical Gardens (April 2007)
  • “Do It In The Dark,” Energy Awareness Luncheon (February 2007)

We are currently working with Facilities to establish a more effective and lasting recycling system on campus and enlighten the college community on the easy things we can do to reduce our wasteful actions and benefit the planet. Please share your ideas with us!

Conferences:

Iona College is one of the forty-nine institutions that are part of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities (ECHVCU):

  • 5th Annual ECHVCU Conference, Climate Change: Science, Culture, and the Regional Response (January 2008)ECHVCU Student Summit at NYU (April 2007)
  • 4th Annual ECHVCU Conference, Greening the Campus: Exploring Practices, Curriculum, and Management in Higher Education (November 2007)

How YOU Can Be Green:

Helpful Sites:

These are some shocking facts about recycling! - http://www.ecocycle.org/tidbits/index.cfm 

Play this fun sustainability game! - http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/