Our bioswales are more than just pretty landscaping features! These green infrastructure projects reduce stormwater runoff, help recharge the Chicot Aquifer, improve the quality of runoff, and provide a habitat for our pollinator friends.
The Office of Sustainability is working with Ragin' Cajuns Athletics to make Cajun Field a Zero Waste stadium. That means we are going to start collecting compost during football games! To make this run smoothly, we need student help as "zero waste goalies" during the games.
Check out our 10 ways to live a more sustainable life and get ahead for the Cajuns Don't Waste Challenge!
Campus sustainability efforts are integrated into the everyday lives of UL students, faculty, staff, and administration and Residence Life is no exception!
Zero Waste means we will be trying to divert as much waste from landfills as possible. As part of our Zero Waste Campaign, started in 2014, we will continue our recycling efforts and now we will be composting on game days at Cajun Field. Our goal for 2018 is to divert 60% of gameday waste from landfill. Look for red bins to recycle and black bins to compost at Cajun Field!
The new water bottle filling stations have saved over 268,340 water bottles across campus since 2016. The Union contributed the most with 77,057 water bottles saved, Madison Hall saved 29,583 bottles, and Martin Hall was a close third with 28331 bottles saved.
UL’s bike share program is still growing in ridership. In the Fall of 2017, we reached 1000 rides and the entire year resulted in over 2000 rides. Thanks for riding Geaux Velo!
This year 619 universities in 76 countries participated and UL placed 150th in the world and 22nd in the United States. It is the only university ranking system in the world that measure a university’s commitment in developing an ‘environmentally friendly’ infrastructure. The rankings look at 6 categories focused on sustainability: setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation and education.
Have you see Monty the magnificent Montezuma?
Congratulations to our UL Lafayette students who took first and third place in the LAGCOE Green City Student Design competition. Five final teams from Lafayette, Canada, and Mexico presented design proposals to make cities around the world more sustainable.
