Welcome to the Green Labs Newsletter! We hope this monthly round up of news, tips, and awards will help incite and continue your interest in sustainable practices in the laboratory. 

By participating, your lab could win up to $5,000 for improving your freezer maintenance practices. 

Join the dinosaur hunt

and enter for a chance to win a new PHCbi VIP® ECO SMART ULT freezer!

THE CRB FARMER'S MARKET HAS RETURNED

And will continue on Thursdays until the end of the season!

Please bring your compostable food scraps!

Meet YoLOF (Your Lab's Organized Freezer)!

By being well organized, YoLOF helps the lab by making samples easy to find as well as increasing space availability by utilizing high capacity sample boxes and sliding racks. It helps the environment by utilizing less energy to stay cool by reducing opening!

In its free time, YoLOF enjoys beeping and thinking about being -70°C instead of -80°C.

Does your lab turn off equipment after use, have automatic lights, utilize outlet timers, or have high efficiency freezers? You likely are already eligible for a Green Labs certification!

Contact sustainability@jh.edu directly with questions or to start the process. 

Learn more here!

Check out Green Labs Ambassador Training** to learn more and start your lab off with more sustainable practices safe and beneficial to your experiments and work!

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Be one in a million [signatures]! Join other scientists worldwide who want to see the scientific field lead the world to a better climate future and are requesting action by research funders to set expectations for efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability in the way scientific research is conducted.

Maintaining your freezers with routine cleaning with an ice scraper and/or brush can help prolong the lifespan of your freezer and make it more efficient! Stop relying on western blotting spatulas and sign up for your free scraper today!