Practicing sustainability nearly feels impossible to do over the holiday season with it being such a busy time of the year, but UW Sustainability has provided us with ten suggestions to help! We encourage you to choose one or two actions from each category below. Shopping & Buying Gifts Purchase gifts that are long-lasting or [...]

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The power of the dollar is real. The National Retail Federation estimates that American’s will net more than $460 billion dollars this year on holiday spending. This year, it’s more important than ever to divert your holiday spending to local, small businesses. As we continue to stay home and slow the spread of COVID-19, many [...]

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This year most of us are foregoing our traditional holiday season plans and camping out at home to stop the spread of COVID-19 and ensure our families and friends stay safe and healthy. For many of us, that means we are now the sous chef, baking extraordinaire, turkey master, and mac and cheese expert rather [...]

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Traditions are a critical piece of who we are and who we are becoming. They give form and foundation to our lives. They link us to our history, our present and our future. And as we stare down the oncoming holiday season – with the ongoing uncertainty of COVID-19 – finding ways to honor the [...]

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Happy America Recycles Day! To celebrate this year, UW Recycling wants to take a trip down memory lane to the early days of recycling at the University. Our History While recycling might seem like something the university has always been a part of, it was actually a reaction to student environmental movements in 1970. Holding [...]

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UW Wellness Week is a week focused on bringing you events, classes, and information sessions about total well-being. Attend sessions that are of interest to you and explore areas of wellness you want to learn more about. There are so many amazing well-being programs and resources at the University of Washington. Get to know them [...]

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Turmeric. We see it bottled in health elixirs lining grocery store shelves and its benefits extolled on blogs around the web. But what exactly is this increasingly omnipresent orange-colored ingredient and, perhaps just as pressingly, how do you pronounce it? (It’s TER-muh-rihk, by the way.) Turmeric is a perennial plant that comes from the ginger [...]

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Every year when October turns to November it seems as if the seasons swap out almost immediately. Our clocks move forward, the wind and rain sweeps in, and those of us in the Pacific Northwest settle into our winter routines. The colors of fall stick around for a few more weeks, but the days begin [...]

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