Case Study: Junk Mail Parties to Reduce Waste
Host a party to minimize paper waste, keeping unnecessary mail out of landfills while conserving natural resources and protecting trees. Read about RiverWoods Durham’s unique approach!
NEW! Earth Day Resources 🌍
Looking for creative ways to celebrate Earth Day, Earth Week, or even Earth Month? Explore the Earth Day section on the SSAFE website with resources such as flyers, brochures, a free video to download, and a photo album.
NEW! Download the SSAFE Earth Day Resource Guide to enhance your Earth Day/Week/Month planning at your community! 🌍💚
Journey of the Universe
Journey of the Universe is a dramatic and expansive film that reimagines the universe story and reframes the human connection to the cosmos. Created by a renowned team of scientists, scholars, and filmmakers, it is beautifully filmed in HD on the Greek island of Samos, the birthplace of Pythagoras.
2011 (56 min)
Updated SSAFE Video Library
Explore the latest recordings of SSAFE General Committee guest speakers, project team presentations, and Chapter showcases in the SSAFE Video Library! Organized by category and video type, the library now features 42 cataloged videos as of January 14, 2025, covering a wide range of topics.
Case Study: Sustainable Food Program at Wake Robin
Eating sustainably helps fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with food production, transportation, and waste. Read about Wake Robin’s unique approach.
Case Study: Plastic Free July
Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics?
What’s a Watt? Learn how electricity is measured from Watts to Terawatts!
At the October SSAFE Greening Our Campuses meeting, George Alexander, a SSAFE Board Member and Longwood resident presented an overview of electricity measurement. The presentation covered scaling from watts to terawatts, with practical examples to illustrate the concepts. Watch the video here.
New: Recommended Viewing Listings
Looking for engaging ways to learn about the environment? Check out SSAFE’s curated list of impactful movies, TV series, and videos on environmental topics, handpicked by our members.
The Smell of Money
“The smell of money”—that’s what Big Pork calls the stench of pig waste in the air in eastern North Carolina, where much of the world’s bacon and barbecue is made. But to Elsie Herring and others who live near the state’s giant pig factories, the revolting odor is a call to battle against generations of injustice.
2022 (1 h 23 min)
An Inconvenient Truth
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
2006 (1 h 36min)
