Peggy Biga and Shantay Williams, two of more than 70 Sustainability Ambassadors, channel their passion for green practices into positive change within their units.
Melody Gillezeau, project manager for sustainable project development, wants UAB to set new standards to inspire Birmingham and beyond.
UAB, with its more than 4,400 trees, is being recognized as a Tree Campus USA for its work to promote healthy trees and conservation among students and employees.
Join UAB’s TRIP Lab for an information session with CommuteSmart 2-3:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in Hill Student Center 314.
Still deciding how to give back this year? The UAB Tree Fund helps maintain tree diversity, replace damaged or diseased trees and add to the overall tree population on campus.
An emphasis on community engagement, clean energy, grounds and waste management and more will help ensure UAB is an even better steward of financial and environmental resources and institutional role model.
Passionate about recycling, clean commutes and renewable energy? Join UAB Sustainability’s Ambassadors program and help ensure your campus unit has an investment in and exposure to sustainability efforts across UAB.
The list sounds simple: Wear recyclable gloves. Unplug lab equipment. Defrost freezers. Use recyclable batteries. But if you have most all the labs in a major UAB research facility checking those boxes at once, it could mean big savings — in energy and dollars.
Employees who want to use one of the 16 newly opened electric car-charging stations can obtain a special permit from UAB Parking and Transportation.
UAB has partnered with Alabama Power Co. to install employee-only electric vehicle-charging stations — adding to the eight public-access ones that already exist on campus.
