PHS Goes Green!

In recognition of the University-wide effort to "Go Green" (see http://www.albany.edu/gogreen for more information) PHS has taken steps to be more environment-friendly:

• Invitations to members are being sent to on-campus addresses where possible to reduce the use of envelopes.
• The semester-ly "Member Profiles" have been eliminated in favor of digital records and databases.
• Meeting agendas have been eliminated and all the information will be available on the reformatted PHS website.
• Meeting minutes will no longer be printed and available in the office, instead they will be available on the PHS website.
• Hours report forms have been eliminated and an online submission form has been designed so supervisors send volunteer information directly to PHS.
• The food we make available at meetings has been selected to require the least amount of papergoods (no silverware).
• The New Member Handbook is now available online. To access it click on this text or the tab on the left hand side of this page.
• Welcome back letters to old members are now being sent through e-mail instead of using paper copies. Only new members are receiving paper letters."

This is a handful of changes at once. To help current members transition, and to acclimate new members to the organization and our proceadures.

If you have further suggestions on how PHS can reduce its impact on the environment please contact Nick at nf515738@albany.edu.

Did you know?
The spring tradition of "Campus Clean Up Day" was started by PHS as a small project to clean up the pond behind Indian Quad, and then slowly expanded and was taken over by the University?