The College of William & Mary, in conjunction with the Environmental Law Society and Environmental Law & Policy, Review is launching a “Do One Thing for Sustainability” campaign. We hope to diminish the campus’ environmental impact through students’ commitments to reduce our use of natural resources.
Students and Faculty/Staff Members can commit to “do one thing” at the Environmental Law & Policy Review’s Symposium or by visting the campaign’s Facebook fan page.
For example, the credit conferring journals at the William & Mary School of Law have committed to each attempt one “paperless cite check.” In journal speak, this means using technology to find the information in each article, turning it into a pdf, highlighting each and every page cited using software, and then placing each piece of information in numerical order by footnote to be checked by an articles editor and an executive editor using a system of folders. The usual process requires journals to print out all of this information and place it in source books. This digital system will help reduce our paper usage, which for the 4 credit conferring journals at W&M currently exceeds 650,000 pages a and collectively costs nearly $20,000 annually.
