Nominations open for the UM Sustainability Awards

January 30, 2023 —

Do you have a friend, co-worker or professor who shows leadership, creativity and dedication to a sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals on campus? If so, nominate them for a 2023 UM Sustainability Award.

The UM Sustainability Awards recognize and celebrate the collaborative efforts of students, staff and faculty to advance our campus commitment to excellence and leadership in sustainability.

The 5^th Annual UM Sustainability Awards offer the opportunity to be recognized in the following categories:

Undergraduate Student Sustainability Award
Graduate Student Sustainability Award
Student Group Sustainability Award
Staff Sustainability Award
Faculty Sustainability Award
Collaborative Sustainability Award

Nominations will be reviewed, and the award recipients will be selected by the UM Sustainability Committee. The winners for the 2023 UM Sustainability Awards will be announced at Sustainability Night on March 8, 2023.

The deadline for nominations is February 26.

View the nomination form.

Check out past winners of the UM Sustainability Awards

https://news.umanitoba.ca/sustainability-award-winners-2022/

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Waste Watchers: Composition and contamination

The Office of Sustainability, in collaboration with Operations and Maintenance, is leading a waste composition study for the week of March 18. A team will be collecting a day’s worth of waste from a variety of high-traffic areas around the Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses and sorting through everything they find in our garbage, recycling and organics bins.