Donald Chavies- music video

Do It by: The Multi-Greeners

Carlos' "Are You Doing It" Music Video

Nantucket Nearly Waste Free — There once was a place called Nantucket that grew tired of the old adage “chuck it.” All the residents joined in, sorting waste by the bin, and save resources now by the bucket! It wasn’t all fun and limericks along Nantucket’s journey to become the first Zero Waste community in the U.S. It all began in 1989 when this summer vacation hotspot 30 miles south of Cape Cod had a measly residential recycling rate of 7% and a leaky landfill that threatened the island’s only freshwater aquifer. Rather than choose to ship everything off the island at quadruple the existing price, residents and town officials took responsibility to manage their waste locally by mandating recycling, banning plastic and Styrofoam® packaging, and investing in construction and demolition recycling. Plus, the island invested in a facility to pre-treat all its leftover waste so any remaining materials that are landfilled will not produce greenhouse gas emissions or threaten the groundwater. Fast forward 20 years and Nantucket is on track to exceed 100% recovery thanks to efforts to mine the old landfill, pre-treat the old waste, and safely bury whatever still remains. Nantucket’s story is so much bigger than its 50 square miles—its efforts are proving Zero Waste is a real alternative to building a new landfill or incinerator and showing the world the new future of sustainable resource management.

What is Recycling – 7 Benefits of Recycling

Student Training for Environmental Protection

The George Mason University Student Training for Environmental Protection Summer Program is designed to give students the skills they need to become effective environmental advocates. It is a weeklong course facilitated by some of the best youth organizers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. During the week participants will learn how to create or extend strong and successful groups that will be able to run effective environmental campaigns on their campuses or in their communities.


For more information about the upcoming camp, click here.

Other NJ Colleges Doing It

Hey guys! Here are just a few of other NJ college environmental groups. See what they're doing to improve their schools and environment. If you know of any other schools that are striving for environmental awareness, feel free to add a comment.


Stockton College
Ramapo College
Bergen Community College
Union County College
Centenary College
The College of New Jersey
Princeton University
Brookdale Community College

Bloomfield Students were doing it at the Multicultural Expo.

Students came together to share cultural experiences and world wide environmental concerns. The event featured food, native costumes, dance, music and artifacts of the many cultures presented both on campus and in the community.

How to Save the Environment

People often ask "what can I do?"  We can all think of four or five things to do to save the environment. but here are 51 — count 'em, 51 — suggestions!

How to Help Save the Environment - WikiHow

Let me teach you how we be doing it

BC honors going greeen

Here's an interview with Courtney Camon and Emi Evering, last years student coordinator for the Honors Program. Check it out to see what honors students are doing to go green.

BCSG President Gives Thoughts

John Eagan Interviews Tashon Jackson, The Bloomfield College Student Government's President. Check it out to see what clubs, organizations and administrators are doing around campus to keep it clean and environmentally friendly for its students.

How green is Bloomfield?

Here's an interview with Peter Doyle, supervisor of custodial service. Check it out to see what it means to be the director of physical plant and what Bloomfield College is doing to go green.

I'm Recycling

The Question

Bloomfield interviews

Chris Jordan's Doing It

Chris Jordan is using art to help make a statement about America's consumption and waste. There is a series of several projects shedding light on recycling and waste in a completely different way.



His 2009 project, "Midway" focuses on the amount of plastic consumed by birds:

These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

~cj, Seattle, October 2009

Check out his other projects focusing on the amount of bottles, cans, paper bags and plastic cups used in America daily at

Elephants, Gorillas and Recyclables (Oh my!)

Yeah, lots of people are doing it, but in different ways. Animals are coming alive, one can, bottle and wire hanger at a time. Recyclable art is becoming a change in our way of life.

Check out these incredible sculptures done by artists making a difference:

 "Great White Elephant" created by Mike Sims, entirely of milk bottles.

 "Gorilla" created by David Mach using wire hangers.

 "Pegasus" created by Sarah- Jane van der Westhuizen using metal car pieces. 

"Horse" created by Yong Ho Ji using used tires.