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UNC-Chapel Hill Morrison Residence Hall competed in the 2013 Campus Conservation Nationals competition organized by Lucid, USGBC Center for Green Schools, NWF, and ASE.  Morrison Residence Hall was one of the top five schools with the greatest average percent reduction in electricity. Savings ranged from 16-19% reductions across all participating buildings. This…

UNC at Chapel Hill announced today that its NC Area Health Education Center, Tarrson Hall and Neurosciences Building successfully crossed the finish line in EPA’s 2012 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. NC Area Health Education Center reduced its energy use by more than 20 percent placing…

UNC Morrison Residence Hall is competing again in the Lucid Campus Conservation Nationals competition. They have also entered a video in the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology-Campus Conservation Nationals 2013 Video Contest.  Please vote for them at CCN Video contest tab of the Campus Ecology Facebook page.

During the Spring of 2013, John Moran, an Institute for the Environment Field Site Intern conducted waste assessments in three buildings: Morrison Residence Hall, the Dean Smith Center and Mary Ellen Jones.

The landscape plants around the South Building were installed more than 20 years ago. At this current time, the landscape is in an advanced state of decline due to age and disease.