Waste reduction efforts on display with support from IC.
Recent OEMS Projects
IC, Dish Truck and Grassroots!
Ithaca College Helps Divert Over 11,000 Pieces of Garbage at Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival -
2024_ic_dish-truck_grassroots.pdf (163.93 KB)
In collaboration with the Dish Truck, Ithaca College students and recent grads helped to divert thousands of plates, cups, bowls, forks, spoons and knives from the landfill.
IC Sustainable Event Guide
Need help planning a more sustainable campus event?
IC Sustainable Event Guide -
IC Campus Sustainable Event Guide 05-2023.pdf (60.47 KB)
Based on research into higher education sustainable event planning and experience with IC's Sustainability Week, OEMS Intern, Rosie Bostian, helped to draft a campus sustainable event guide to help IC students, faculty and staff lessen the impact of campus events.
Chestnut Living Lab
The Chestnut Living Lab was a living research project involving two Garden double apartments and the two pairs of students living in them at Ithaca College. The data from a sustainably renovated apartment and a regular Garden apartment were compared to show that it is possible to have sustainable living habits while living in a college dorm setting.