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Nutrition you can taste

January 22, 2015

In a repurposed room at the Weber State University Davis campus, students chopped fresh ingredients and experimented with herbs in a classroom featuring six newly constructed cooking stations. Exploration...

WSU works to improve its recycling program

November 16, 2014

While Weber State could recycle 75 percent to 80 percent of the university's waste, the university only recycles about 20 percent. Jennifer Bodine wants to change that. Bodine, the university's sustainability...

Conservation efforts pay off at Weber State

October 28, 2014

Weber State University saved $1.4 million in water and energy costs through energy and sustainability projects in the fiscal year that ended June 30. “The money we save each year is reinvested in...

Weber State addresses water conservation on campus

August 11, 2014

With over 26,000 students attending each year, Weber State is forced to address the issue of water sustainability on campus, especially with California in a drought. Though several sustainability efforts...

Creative ways to recycle your copy of The Signpost

July 28, 2014

Here at the Signpost, we thank all of our loyal readers, some who faithfully pick up our weekly printed issues and others who view from online (you smart cookies, you). In an old fashioned manner,...

WSU co-hosts Fifth Annual Sustainability Summit

March 16, 2014

In a rare alliance of economics and environment, Utah businesses and ecofriendly activists descended on Weber State University’s Shepherd Union Building for a two-day conference of lectures and workshops. The...

CCEL examines effects of idling

February 13, 2014

Students at Weber State University teamed up with the Center for Community for Engaged Learning to produce two educational skits entitled "Hey, Utah, Stop Idling" and "Dead on Red" yesterday in the Wildcat...

Science Weekly: Mars rover reveals planet could once sustain life

January 25, 2014

The Mars Opportunity rover hit its 10th anniversary on Mars, which coincided with the landing of the Spirit rover on the planet as well as a special release of "Exploring Mars Habitability" in the journal...

Last panel of semester discusses sustainability at WSU

November 14, 2013

Weber State University has been pulling efforts together to help promote cleaner air in the Ogden City area. The Environmental Issues Committee has organized projects and conducted discussion panels...

"On Air" series presents documentary on fracking

September 24, 2013

The Center for Community Engaged Learning and the Environmental Issues Committee hosted a showing of “Gasland” on Monday, an award-winning documentary about the adverse effects of fracking on the...

WSU takes strides to conserve water

September 14, 2013

The water shortage is becoming more apparent each year. Ogden City just moved into Phase 2 of its water shortage enactment plan, and Weber State University wants its community to know it is also taking...

WSU dancers reach out to community

February 5, 2013

Twenty-three years ago, Joanne Lawrence began a community outreach initiative called the Moving Company through community-based learning. Three years ago, Lawrence brought the Green Map Project to Weber...

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