Made up of faculty, staff, and students, the HMSC Green Team helps advance environmentally sustainable practices at Hatfield Marine Science Center.

Environmental Sustainability at HMSC

 

Discover some of the resources available at HMSC that can help your unit, personnel, and students have a lighter impact on our coast and the planet.

Green Team virtual meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at 9:00AM. Join online using this Zoom Link

 

Save the Date! 

July 20 - COMMUNITY Repair Fair

10am - 4pm in the HMSC Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building - Newport, OR

Do you have a broken or damaged item that could be repaired instead of thrown away? Bring it to the Community Repair Fair! Volunteer Expert Fixers will help repair your broken item, and you can learn as you watch. This free event will also feature short skill workshops, demos, and displays from community partners who will share strategies for waste prevention.

Do you have repair skills you can share? Sign up to be a Repair Fair Volunteer! 

Sign up to Volunteer

The Community Repair Fair is sponsored by Oregon Sea Grant and HMSC iLab, and endorsed and promoted by the HMSC Green Team.

Community Repair Fair - July 20, 2024

What kind of items can be brought in for repair? It depends on the expertise of our volunteer Expert Fixers! Items might include small electronics, lamps, radios, vacuums, clothing/fabric, bags/backpacks, ceramics, bikes, jewelry, tools, dolls, or something else that a volunteer may suggest. Stay tuned!

June EcoChallenge

Are you growing your own food? Greenscaping your workplace? Using creative repurposed containers to start your seedlings? Share these or other GREEN practices on social media with a photo and #HatfieldEcoChallenge during the month of June so we can get great ideas from each other!

 

Past Meeting Notes
Articles of Interest
Working Space

https://tinyurl.com/HatfieldGreenTeam


Arms full of Farmers Market vegetables

Fresh Food Options

Spring Clean Green March EcoChallenge 2022

Spring Clean Green

OSU campus

Sustainability at OSU

EcoChallenge infographic Jan 2022

Green Certifications

Waste wizard helps you know what to do

Waste Wizard

Infographic with map and description of trails near Hatfield Marine Science Center

Get Outside

NexTrex

Plastic Film Recycling

Become a Green Gremlin

(the good kind)

Want to know how to be involved in the HMSC Green Team but can't make the monthly meetings? Consider signing up to volunteer for a simple task!

Opportunity:
  • Green Gremlins needed to transport plastic film - The Green Team is currently looking for people who will volunteer to take the plastic film that accumulates in labeled bin in the Gladys Valley MSB mailroom over to the NexTrex bin at Fred Meyer or Safeway. Learn more and sign up to help

 

 

News You Can Use

Article: Understanding Oregon's New Shopping Bag Law. Newport News Time, Nov 16, 2023.

Science Daily News Feed: Recycling and Waste

 

 

 

Article: If you want to fix your own clothes, try this easy style of mending. NPR, June 3, 2023.

 

 

 

 

Article: The dirty secret of alternative plastics. Time, November 28, 2023.

Article: Can plastic recycling ever really work? New York Times, September 1, 2023.