There are many on campus organizations that focus on making the campus greener.

One of these organizations is the Energy Consumption Reduction Campaign, which focuses on reducing the campus’s overall energy consumption.

Tuesday trivia questions about an environmental issue are one of the ECRC’s ways of promoting environmental awareness

The ECRC also held a TOM’s fundraiser and is hosting green laundry week to teach eco-friendly pracitces.

Another environmental program is the Green Team, who are running a campaign called “Take Back the Tap,” a campaign meant to promote the use of re-usable water bottles

Junior Christina Coronis, a member of the Green Team, ecplained that “‘Take Back the Tap’ is an educational campaign designed to build a movement on campuses to protect and conserve water [and] decrease the consumption/sale of plastic bottled water.”

Coronis added that “Tap water is safe to drink, while drinking water out of plastic is not. There’s so much evidence showing that the chemicals found in the plastic (like BPA) can seep into the water we’re drinking.”

Coronis and the Green team hope to make tap water bubblers more prominent and accessible for students to use, like the water refill stations that are found in the New Hall

“We want to get students to use reusable and safe water bottles that are BPA free or possibly made of something else besides plastic,” Cornois shared.

Additionally, the college offers an Environmental Studies major and minor, which is also working to educate its students about environmental issues in order to help the community.

Professor Wicklow works within the environmental studies program here at Saint Anselm and explains some of the research his students are conducting.

“In my classes, I focus on real world problems and have my students look for solutions,” Professor Wicklow explained. “One of the research projects my students are working on is retrieving water samples from nearby streams, to observe the effect on climate change.”