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University of Central Missouri: Choose Red (and Go Green)

This video is an entry in a contest we've launched with Second Nature's Climate Leadership Awards. See below for how you can vote for it. See more entries in this contest University of Central...
Students at the University of Central Missouri partnered with the school and local community to launch an initiative that will lower their energy expenses by 31% and free bike rentals.
Manny Abarca and Taylor Hermann

Planet Forward Contributor

March 13, 2012
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This video is an entry in a contest we’ve launched with Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Awards. See below for how you can vote for it.
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University of Central Missouri’s Office of Sustainability, the only student-run office on campus, leads sustainable efforts on campus including educational programing, community outreach, and program expansion. Through a direct relationship with our administrators we are able to make sustainable campus-wide change very quickly to curb behavior and create a culture of sustainability. Through these efforts our students at UCM to not only “Choose Red” but “Choose Red, and Go Green.”

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