Tiger Blue Goes Green
Green Fee
WHAT IS GREEN FEE?
蜜桃导航 Sustainable Campus Fee was initiated by students in 2007,
and involves all full-time students paying a $10 Sustainable Campus Fee, commonly
known as the Green Fee, each fall and spring semester. The purpose of the fee is to
support projects and practices that make our campus more energy efficient, environmentally
friendly and sustainable.
In the spring of each year, the Sustainable Campus (Green) Fee Committee, with representation from students, faculty and administration, invites proposals for use of the fee. The committee then makes recommendations for funding, which must be approved by the president. The committee also invites all students, faculty and staff to submit ideas on how the fee could be used to make our campus more sustainable.
蜜桃导航 Green Fee Committee is seeking proposals and ideas from students, faculty, staff, and academic or administrative departments for 2026-2027. Please visit the website to submit your ideas and/or proposals.
IDEAS:You may submit your thoughts on how the Green Fee could be spent. You do not need to be able to actually carry out a project envisioned in an idea. It may be a suggestion about how the university could spend Green Fee funds to make the campus more sustainable. The Green Fee Committee will review ideas and consider them in making recommendations to university departments on future use of the fee. Should you submit an idea, we may follow up with you about future implementation, but there is no guarantee of this follow up.
PROPOSALS: Proposals are requests for funding from the Green Fee Committee to implement a sustainability focused project. The person(s) and/or department submitting a proposal must be capable of managing the funds in a university account and carrying out what is needed to fulfill an accepted proposal. All projects should be completed within one academic year, in this case between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027. Extensions are rarely provided so it is important to be able to complete the project during the year for which funding was approved.
Each proposal is scored based on the following categories:
- Feasibility: ease in which project can be executed in the coming year
- Continuing Project: number of years in continuation/request of funds
- Campus Visibility: extent to which this project is visible and/or enhances UofM image
- Student Impact: extent to which it impacts current University of 蜜桃导航 students
- Long-term impact: project life expectancy without additional Green Fee funding
- Applicability: extent to which the project meets the Green Fee Objectives
** Anyone planning to submit a proposal that involves the installation or change of physical item(s)/structures must contact Racheal Walker with Facilities Development for planning, estimations, and approval PRIOR to submitting a Green Fee Proposal. Please understand that this process can take weeks to complete, so initial contact with Facilities Development must be made as soon as possible to give enough time for accurate planning and estimations.
Racheal Walker
Planner and Estimator
Office of Facilities Development
Email: rswalker@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.3247
Proposals for funding for 2026-2027 are due March 30, 2026.
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2025-2026
蜜桃导航 Campus Projects
- Brighter Futures Through Better Lighting
- Campus Rain Gardens: Demonstrating Permaculture Solutions for Stormwater, Biodiversity, and Education
- Dyson Portable Restroom Hand Dryers
- Rehydrate the Arts
- Sit Sustainably: Outdoor Seating to Support Student Success
- The Art Museum鈥檚 Final LED Lighting Project: Crone Gallery & Hallway
- The U of M Sustainability Program
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2025
- TIGUrS 鈥� Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings
- Volunteer Services and Digital Sustainability
Lambuth Campus Projects
- Sustaining Lambuth through the Healthy Eating Kitchen
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings on the Lambuth campus (TIGUrS II)
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2024-2025
- Art Museum of 蜜桃导航
- Bike Repair Shop installation
- Recycle Packaging
- Reuseable bags for the Wellness Fair
- Rose Theatre Hand Dryers
- Rose Theatre Stage Lighting
- Seeding the Future: Earth Day Collaboration
- Smart lighting in CCFA building
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green
- TIGUrS 鈥� Tigers Initiative for Gardens
- Water bottler filler for the 2nd Floor Wilder
- UofM Sustainability Program
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2023-2024
蜜桃导航 Campus Projects
- Art Museum of UofM
- Volunteer Services/Digital Sustainability
- UC Ballroom Lighting
- Outdoor Solar-Powered Smart Benches
- Patterson Planters
- Transportation of Campus School
- 蜜桃导航 Law Guide Mobile App
- Elkay Refiller Project
- Portable Dyson Hand Dryers
- Anthology Milestone to Increase Student Competency
- UofM Sustainability Program
- An Online Reality Show + Online Voting
- Tiger Blue Goes Green
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- TIGUrS Urban Garden
- Tiger Bike Relocation
- New Turf for Memorial Field
- Coffee Beans 鈥� An Alternative Compost Source
- Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Grant Cost Share
Lambuth Campus Projects
- Recycling & Food Recovery
- TIGUrS II Garden
- Lambuth Learning Commons Hydration
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2022-2023
蜜桃导航 Campus Projects
- Ancient Egyptian Gallery LED Lighting Project
- Beehive Restoration & Expansion Project
- Bottle Water Fountain
- Cost Share Support for CMAQ Grant
- LED Field Lighting
- Lipman Early Learning 鈥� Paperless Recording Keeping
- 蜜桃导航 Law Guide Mobile App
- Novel Self-Cleaning Glass Windows
- Outdoor classroom and instructional spaces
- Recycle Bins and Water Bottles
- Restroom Hand Dryers 鈥� University Center
- Solar-Powered Smart Bench
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2022
- TIGUrS-Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings
- University High, Paperless Textbooks
- UofM Food Recovery Program
- UofM Sustainability Program
- Virtual Instructions about Green Fee Funding
- Volunteer Services Digital Sustainability
- Water Sustainability Development
- Zero Motorcycles
Lambuth Campus Projects
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS II)
- University of 蜜桃导航 Lambuth Arboretum
- UoM Lambuth Recycling Program
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2021-2022
- Art Museum Main Gallery LED Light Retrofit Project
- Bottle Filler Fountain Station at Art Building
- Cost Share Support for CMAQ Grant
- Center for Service Learning and Volunteerism Digital Sustainability
- Got Milk? Go Green
- Lambuth Library Water Filling Station
- Liberty Bowl Parking Lot Recycling Proposal - Help Blue Go Green
- McWherter Library Water Bottle Filler Retrofit
- 蜜桃导航 Law Guide Mobile Application
- Portable Dyson Hand Dryers in the UC
- Reducing the Environmental Impact of Costume Design
- Sustainable Food Supply and Education Phase II
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2021
- TIGUrS Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings
- TIGUrS Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings (Lambuth)
- Toward a Water Smart Campus- Phase 2
- U of M Sustainability Program
- University of 蜜桃导航 Food Recovery Program
- University Schools STEM Centers
- Upgrading the Orchestra Shells Lights and the Work Light System in Harris Concert Hall
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2020-2021
- CCFA Drinking Foundation/Water Bottle Filler
- College Campus Nutrition Education Program with an Emphasis on Hydroponic Gardening and Food Demonstrations
- Drinking Fountain Bottle Fillers in Fogelman
- Liberty Bowl Parking Lot Recycling Proposal - Help Blue Go Green
- Sustainable Food Supply and Education
- 蜜桃导航 Sustainability Program
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green Day 2020
- TIGUrS - Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings
- Toward a water smart campus
- University Green Schools
- University of 蜜桃导航 Food Recovery Program
- UofM Resources App
- Volunteer Services Digital Sustainability
- Water Fountain Filling Stations in the Music Building
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2019-2020
蜜桃导航 Campus Projects
- Catch the Buzz/Honey Bee Colony Removal at Newport Hall
- Food Recovery and Composting Program
- Liberty Bowl Parking Lot Recycling Proposal
- 蜜桃导航 Law Add-On to Guidebook Project for Law Orientation Week
- Nanostructured based water purification system using natural sun light
- Project Green Schools
- Rose Theater LED House light Retrofit
- Sprayable Solar Cells for low-cost campus lighting (Phase 3)
- The Go Green Scan Initiative
- The Human Garden
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2019
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
- U of M Sustainability Program
- UofM Resources App
- Water Fountain Bottle Filling Retrofit
Lambuth Campus Projects
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS II)
- UoM Lambuth Recycling Program
- University of 蜜桃导航 Lambuth Arboretum
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2018-2019
蜜桃导航 Campus Projects
- Theatre Stage management green fee project
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
- Alternative Fuel Utility Vehicles
- U of M Sustainability Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2018
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Sprayable Solar Cells for low-cost campus lighting (Phase 2)
- Water Bottle Filling Stations at Downtown 蜜桃导航 Law
- Food Recovery and Composting Program
- Environmental Social Work: The Study of Person-in-Environment and the Potential Benefits of Green Technology
- Theatre & Dance Recruitment Efficiency
- University of 蜜桃导航 Guidebook App
- Water filling stations for Biologists!
- Water Fountain Bottle Retrofit for the Engineering Complex
Lambuth Campus Projects
- UoM Lambuth Recycling Program
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS II)
- Solar powered USB plug-in umbrellas
- Hydration Station at UofM Lambuth
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2017-2018
- Water Filling Stations on Downtown Law Campus
- Art in the Best Light: LED Lighting for The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art
- Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
- Sprayable Solar Cells for Building Exteriors and Windows
- Student Leadership & Involvement Green Service Initiative
- Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on the University of 蜜桃导航 Campus
- Blue Scrubs Go Green
- Green Interns for a Day; formerly Green Internships: Making the University of 蜜桃导航 Campus & Our Community More Sustainable
- Tiger Bike Share Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green Day 2017
- Tiger STUFF: Past, Present, and Future
- University of 蜜桃导航 Food Recovery & Composting
- 蜜桃导航 Sustainability Initiative (includes Lambuth)
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings on the Lambuth campus (TIGUrS II)
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2016-2017
蜜桃导航 Campus Projects
- Campus Sustainability Initiative
- Food Recovery Program
- Green Internships
- Outdoor Recycling Bins for the UC
- Rose Theatre Bioswale Project (Phase One)
- Tiger Bikes Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2016
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
Lambuth Campus Projects
- Lambuth Recycling
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2015-2016
蜜桃导航 Campus Project
- Campus Sustainability Initiative
- Carbon Footprint Reduction Through the Use of
- Propane as Alternative Fuel: Part III
- Ecological Enhancement of Park Ave Campus: Part III
- Food Recovery Network
- Green Internships
- iPads for Singers (Theatre Dept)
- LED Dressing Room and Stage Work (Theatre Dept)
- Park Green
- Revisiting the Recycling Zone Project
- Tiger Bikes Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2015
- Tiger Honey
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
- U of M Environmental Health and Justice Conference
- UCharge: Solar Powered Charging Stations
- Water Fountain Bottle Retrofit (University Center)
Lambuth Campus Project
- Green Internships
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS)
PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GREEN FEE FOR 2014-2015
- Bike Rack Expansion
- Campus Sustainability Initiative
- Carbon Footprint Reduction Through the Use of Propane as Alternative Fuel (Part 2)
- Ecological Enhancement of Park Avenue Campus (Part 2
- Green Internships (蜜桃导航 and Lambuth campuses)
- LED Houselight Conversion (Theatre Department)
- Occupancy Lights for Library Stacks
- Paperless Stage Management (Theatre Department)
- Police Bikes
- Revisiting the Recycling Zone Project
- Tiger Bikes Program
- Tiger Blue Goes Green 2014
- Tigers Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings (TIGUrS) (蜜桃导航 and Lambuth campuses)
- UofM Environmental Health and Justice Conference