UW Honors

GetGreen & UW

UW Honors Pilot Program Spring Quarter

Daily Sustainability Actions and Support a Greener Campus

If you are a UW Honors student, you are invited to try our app for free this quarter - GetGreen. GetGreen is the new app for people who want to help solve the climate crisis. It makes it easy to make a difference by showing you where to start and how to build climate-positive behaviors.

If you missed it in the email invite, you can compete for prizes awarded for completed actions (you earn leaves with your actions as you avoid carbon impact in your life) and for insightful suggestions you make in the app between now and June 1st. Your collective, measured impacts will support the UW Campus Sustainability Fund. Double your impact and reinforce daily steps to greener living.

How to get started

1. Download the app - using the links here (Android or iPhone)

2. Sign up using your uw.edu address

3. After onboarding, select the UW Campus Sustainability Fund as your Project to get on the Top Supporter leaderboard

4. Start making climate-positive actions!

Prizes

Practicing the Most Green Actions

After June 1st, prizes will be awarded to the top 10 Honors students on the UW Campus Sustainability Fund project Supporters leaderboard - Top 3 will win $20 gift certificates to a low-carbon food/eatery like Frankie and Jo's plant based ice cream, Farm Bucks to University Farmer's Market, Cedars or other local vendors featured in the app.The next 7 will win $5 certificates.

Sharing Your Insights

$5 gift certificates to the student(s) who suggest the 5 best carbon-savings actions not already in GetGreen.

To provide feedback on the app or make action/suggestions, use the instabug function built into GetGreen. You can enable it while in the app by shaking the phone.

Review On Google Play / Apple Store

Please consider leaving a rating and a review on the stores - it’s very helpful for spreading the word.

The Math
Your Efforts Will Be Measured And Doubled To Support UW Sustainability

All leaves earned by Honors students for this pilot will be paid to UW Campus Sustainability Fund. 1 leaf in the app is equivalent to 10 pounds of carbon you have averted with your action(s). 200 leaves = 1 ton of carbon averted.

A GetGreen investor and Advisory Board Member for UW Honors program has made the commitment to apply the Honors earned leaves to the UW project - doubling the impact of your planet-positive actions.

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