Make Orange Green

Make Orange Green is the comprehensive program that coordinates and promotes environmental stewardship on campus. It is a collaborative effort of the Committee on the Campus Environment, Facilities Services, and the Student Environmental Initiatives Committee. The Switch Your Thinking initiative to save electricity, with its six-foot tall mascot, Switchie, is one of its most visible campaigns. Friends of Switchie, launched in 2009, provided an opportunity for offices and units to pledge to conserve, and the 2011 Switch Your Thinking Power Down Pledge Tree, with the opportunity to sign the pledge with an inky thumbprint along the tree’s branches, captured both the attention and the imagination of the campus.

The program operates the Game Day Recycling efforts. Among its other efforts are initiation (in 2011) of the Mug project, which seeks to eliminate the use of paper cups and other single-use containers on campus and provides reusable water bottles emblazoned with the Make Orange Green slogan to incoming freshmen.

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  • Title Make Orange Green
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  • Keywords Make Orange Green
  • Website Name Volopedia
  • Publisher University of Tennessee Libraries
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  • Access Date July 14, 2025
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  • Date of Last Update October 9, 2018