Is your campus hosting a green graduation?
Kristy Jones
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Is your college or university hosting a green graduation? Investing in carbon offsets, local food, no-waste event? Who is your commencement speaker? Will he or she infuse a sustainability theme?
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My alma mater, Warren Wilson College, presents each graduate with a Hemlock sapling along with their diploma at graduation. It is a symbolic gesture as well as an environmental one. The hemlock tree is one of WWC's school icons and so as each WWC graduate leaves the College to go "lay down roots" and grow the graduates are encourages to plant their seedings away from campus to represent their mark as a WWC grad on the greater world. 
At LIU Post, all caps and gowns are made from recycled water bottles. Each set is equivalent to 23 plastic bottles. They are manufactured by Oak Hall Cap & Gown. We also host a Green & Gold Pledge, which was pioneered by Bentley College years ago. Our first 2 graduates (me being one of them) from our Environmental Sustainability Master's program will also walk. The two of us also just got inducted to the Beta Chapter of the Honor Society for Sustainability.
Amira Odeh
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Sadly, my campus doesn't or have any motivation to do so (which is a reason why we're working a lot to change the administrations mind). They give away plastic water bottles, the don't have recycling cans or even enough trash cans so a lot of the trash ends on the floor. It's an eco nighmare!
But hope is not lost! Lately we have been getting a lot of recognition because of our campign (No more bottles) from the people in charge of those kind of thigs and we are working on making the campus different and the 2015 graduation greener.
No, I do no think my school has something like that. That sounds cool what your school does for a green graduation Courtney! :) 

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