Greek Goes Green leverages passion, commitment, and leadership among UGA’s Greek organizations to create an increasingly just and sustainable campus and community. Participants report progress in community service, racial unity, resource conservation, and innovation to become recognized as official UGA Green Chapters. Follow Greek Goes Green on Instagram to stay updated on the program.
Here, the Office of Sustainability UGArden intern delivers fresh produce to the Panhellenic-run Student Food Pantry in the Tate Student Center.
The UGA Greek Goes Green certification process is inspired by both the Triple Bottom Line and B Corp certification. Greek Chapters strive to find the perfect harmony of being economically, environmentally, and socially responsible. Underneath this structure, there are yearly established Pillars, each loosely representing a sphere of the triple bottom line, but all connecting back to protecting the planet. The 2022-2023 pillars of Greek Goes Green Certification are Cans, Clothes, and Community.
Our focus this semester is the three C’s: Cans (reducing waste), Clothes (slowing down fast fashion – encouraging clothing swaps and sales), and Community ( collaborative events, social events, and more)
You will be competing to turn the most items into the recycling facility. They will pay you for your cans! I will send out an instructional document on how to do this. The house to collect and recycle the most cans per capita will receive a prize. When you turn in your cans to the recycling facility, ask for a receipt, and submit it to me via google form. There will be an active leaderboard showing which houses have turned in the most cans.
If you are a house that does not produce very much can waste, let me know and I can partner you with a house that does (there are a lot of frats that do not have sustainability coordinators and I am sure they would appreciate it if you collected their cans). Also, feel free to develop partnerships on your own.
We want to slow down the fashion cycle and encourage shopping second hand. Do clothing swaps, sales, and more. Also, attend these events. Don’t forget to document the events you host and attend with pictures.
Ideas: date night clothing swap, big little box swap, holiday swap, ect.
It is critical that we create spaces for students to learn about sustainability, and also the sustainability coordinators should know each other. Community events are intended to encourage connection, opportunity for growth/learning/fun, and engagement. Points will be rewarded to houses who both attend and host community events. Greek Goes Green will host some for you, but if you host your own, you can get double points.
The Greek’s Most Green Award winners earned the highest number of points in the subsequent categories of Cans, Clothes, and Community.
Cans
Alpha Gamma Rho
Clothes
Alpha Phi
Community
Delta Phi Epsilon
Certified Green Chapters demonstrate leadership, commitment, and innovation by implementing positive social and environmental practices.
Panhellenic Sororities
IFC Fraternities
Multicultural, Business, & Service Organizations
Use this assessment tool to see where your chapter is doing well and where you need improvement. Chapters that submit a final scorecard at the end of the academic year are reviewed for official Green Chapter designation. The highest scoring chapter will receive a prize to support their selected philanthropy.
Alpha Kappa Psi: Sophia Aiken
Delta Kappa Epsilon: Zach Donegan
Delta Sigma Pi: Jean-Luc Mohele
Gamma Sigma Sigma: Annaliese Poliner
Alpha Sigma Rho Sorority, Inc.: Michelle Zhu & Anna Zheng
Alpha Chi Omega: Rachel Dickson
Alpha Delta Pi: Margot Murphy
Alpha Gamma Delta: Emily Ezratty
Alpha Omicron Pi: Ramey Sayler and Elizabeth Powers
Alpha Phi: Carson McAfee and Sadie Race
Chi Omega: Molly Mulhern and Kait Garcia
Delta Delta Delta: Callie Heckman and Hailey Louckas
Delta Gamma: Ally Reynolds
Delta Phi Epsilon: Callie Dellinger
Delta Zeta: Jaden Delperdang & Haley Carman
Gamma Phi Beta: Chloe Darveau
Kappa Alpha Theta: Elsa Edmonds
Kappa Delta: Kira Picinich
Kappa Kappa Gamma: Franny Pettway
Phi Mu: Elliot Yood, Keira Ely, Katie Barber
Pi Beta Phi: Meg Gleason and Emma Guglielmo
Sigma Delta Tau: Lauren Kostuchenko
Sigma Kappa: Skylar Perez and Sidney Baker
Zeta Tau Alpha: Brielle Becker
Alpha Gamma Rho: James Gibbs
Beta Theta Pi: Brandon Rice and Nate Guenard
Beta Upsilon Chi: Bennett Brock and John Rainwater
Chi Psi: Sean Johnson
Delta Sigma Phi: Connor Morris
Delta Tau Delta: Frank Rhobotham
Phi Delta Theta: Austin Lalomia
Phi Gamma Delta: Ben Jessup
Phi Kappa Tau: Mathew Dingmann
Pi Kappa Alpha: Lukas McClory
Sigma Nu: AJ Stevenson and Joseph Waters
Sigma Phi Epsilon: Joe Kendrick-Holmes
Tau Epsilon Phi: Brandon Sherman
No Chapter House? No Problem!
We would still love for your chapter to participate in our program.
The Sustainability Certificate incorporates applied learning in interdisciplinary settings and equips students with critical skills to address global sustainability challenges through real-world solutions.
