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HT Receives Sustainability Award; Sports Recognized

Huston-Tillotson University

Co-Chair Darrien Jones talks about Green is the New Black campus awareness.

(AUSTIN, TX) 7.1.16 — Huston-Tillotson University was named the winner in the small-campus category of the College Sports Sustainability Makeover Contest at the Green Sports Alliance Summit held recently in Houston. The contest is designed to highlight college athletics’ unique and powerful impact on community sustainability; to influence fans’ sustainability behaviors where they live, work, and play; and to boost college sports’ sustainability capacity. Contest sponsors Max-R, Greendrop Recycling, Eco-Products, EcoSafe Zero Waste, and the University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Center provided prizes and support packages valued at over $50,000 for each winning campus.

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) won in the large-campus category

 “The Makeover Contest was an overwhelming success as proven by the number of high quality submissions—and the outstanding leadership of the two winning campuses,” said Scott Jenkins, Chair of the Green Sports Alliance Board of Directors. “College sports has distinguished itself as a sustainability leader capable of using its cultural and market influence to promote healthy, sustainable communities. We all win in that game.”

Huston-Tillotson University will receive ten new custom recycling and compost collection cabinets from Greendrop Recycling, a supply of compostable foodware from Eco-Products, a supply of compostable compost bags from EcoSafe Zero Waste, and on-site sustainability assistance from University of Colorado Boulder technical experts. HT set itself apart from a strong field of 48 campus entries with is robust commitment to sustainability in operations and curriculum as influenced by the HT Center for Sustainability and Environmental Justice and HT’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2048.

Additionally, HT’s  active student-led group, Green is the New Black

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