Welcome to the Green 'Horns website! Green 'Horns is a volunteer organization for UT employees; we help staff and faculty reduce their environmental footprint at work and home, and we help reduce the footprint of the UT campus as a whole.

Green 'Horns Meetings 2008  

All of the meetings for 2008 will be in ACES 2.404B at noon:

January – No meeting (time to honor the hibernation drive in us all).
February 11th – Recycling.  Recyclemania kicks off on January 28th!  We’ll kick it off with a sideshow on recycling.
March 14th – Local Food month.
April 15th– Green Building.  The Cool House Tour will be on in May – hone up on your green building knowledge so you can ask all the questions you need on the tour.
May 9th – Bicycle month!  Dust off your two wheeler and get fit.
June 17th – Gardening – how to garden in a hot, dry environment to generate habitat for birds and beneficial insects; food gardening.
July 11th – Water conservation – essential during the summer.
August 12th – Energy conservation.  How to reduce your A/C bills.
September 12th – Transport options.  Do you really need an 8 miles/ gallon Hummer?
October 4th – Fair Trade month!  Learn about the good economics of fair trade business.
November 11th – Household hazardous waste and national recycling month
December 12th – Greening your holidays.

Learn Easy Ways to Be Green - Take the "Bleed Orange, Think Green" Pledge

Being green is a lot more simple than it looks, and there are many options for how you can easily reduce your impact. We've picked some of the most important and included them in our "Bleed Orange, Think Green" pledge, which you can take by clicking here. When you take the pledge, you are joining hundreds of other UT students and employees in helping make our campus and our planet more green. You'll also automatically be added to our monthly newsletter, which will help you learn a new, easy way to be green each month.

Contacts for Other Green Teams on Campus

Get Our Monthly Environmental E-Newsletter for UT Employees

The monthly "Green Acres" e-newsletter includes simple tips for an environmentally friendly office, campus sustainability news, and upcoming events. It's short, useful, and only once a a month. You'll be automatically added if you take the "Bleed Orange, Think Green" pledge. If you wish to subscribe directly, you can do so at: https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/greenacres

What You Can Do!

We have a variety of guides to help you reduce your impact. Using simple, straightforward language, each guide explains how you can make a difference at home and work. Just click the links on the left-hand menu!

For information on chemicals and environmental regulatory compliance, please visit Environmental Health and Safety.

Green Teams

Green Teams are volunteer groups of faculty, staff, and/or students that works together on campus environmental issues at the departmental or building-wide level. They are fun and effective! Most decisions that affect the environment at UT are decentralized and made at the department, office, or individual level, so Green Teams have a big opportunity to make a difference.

Please visit our Green Teams webpage for more information, including a schedule of our monthly meetings and a guide for how to start your own team!

UT Sustainability Network

Each month everyone involved with sustainability on campus - staff, faculty, and students - gathers to share information and collaborate at the UT Sustainability Network meeting. Click here to find out more information on the Network, upcoming meetings, and how you can get involved.

Contact Us

Green 'Horns is co-organized by Environmental Health and Safety (a UT department) and the Campus Environmental Center (an agency of Student Government). You can contact us by emailing greenhorns at UTenvironment dot org