Students educate their peers to live in a more sustainable way
Carnegie Mellon Eco-Reps was started in the Fall of 2005 by Diane Loviglio, as her Fifth Year Scholar Community Impact Project. The goal of the program was to make students aware of their everyday lifestyle decisions and understand the effects an individual can have on the environment, but specifically in their residence hall, sorority, fraternity or apartment building. In a way, Eco-Reps act as environmental resident assistants, programming lectures, events, workshops and activities as well as hanging posters ad having causal conversations with the peers in their house. It started as a joint program between Green Practices and Housing and Dining Services and now is being transitioned into a Student Affairs program.
