- Tread Lightly is a proactive group of students and faculty who keep informed about environmental issues facing the campus and surrounding community, and who promote more environmentally friendly practices and lifestyles through demonstrations, service projects and other activities.
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Formerly known as the Recycling Club, Tread Lightly has expanded its focus to include a broad range of sustainability issues, including the "Don’t Frack New York" movement, Power Shift, and opposition for the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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Every fall semester Tread Lightly hosts Sustainability Week, a celebration of “eco-friendly” events planned to promote sustainability on campus. http://http://www.sbu.edu/About_News.aspx?id=40257&terms=tread%20lightly
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Join Tread Lightly in Recyclemania to raise our recycling efforts from 12% to 20% from February 1 to March 31:
http://www.sbu.edu/campus-life.aspx?id=41299&terms=recycle
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Tread Lightly is hosting Project Runway: Bonas Gets Trashy, a fashion show contest where students up-cycle beautiful and inventive outfits out of 75% post-consumer materials. For more information contact Alexandra Bulszewicz or Marie Dirle.
7 p.m. Thursday April 4, 2013 at the Regina A. Quick Center 3rd Floor Loft |
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The College Democrats are teaming up with Tread Lightly to bring one of the leading experts on fracking, Anthony Ingraffea, to campus:
Monday, March 25 at 7:00 in Murphy Auditorium
Anthony Ingraffea is a highly published professor of engineering at Cornell University. He used to be an insider with the fracking industry but is now an avid opponent. See http://www.cee.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=ari1 for his faculty Web site, and http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/blogs/news/posts/cornell-professor-speaks-out-against-fracking for an interview with him.
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