“The future will either be green or not at all.” - Bob Brown

This year's Team Dresden had the idea to make iGEM a greener competition. In the first place this means to make participating teams aware of the environmental implications of the projects and how to work more environmentally friendly.
Therefor the Team Dresden created a GoGreenGuide, a emission calculator, lab poster and much more. Moreover, they hosted a workshop during the German Wide Meetup . During the German Wide Meetup we participated in this workshop, afterwards we decided to take part. So, we read the guide and took some advice for a greener lab - below you can see the points we fulfiled - and we also used the calculator. In addition the Team Dresden suggested to think about ideas to compensate greenhouse gas emissions. We had the idea to give away Bryophyllum.

Our steps to a greener lab:

Freezer
✓ Become a sample minimalist.
✓ Share with a neighboring lab.
✓ Clean our freezers regularly.


Electrical devices
✓ Remember to turn them off every time we finish our task!


Lab consumables
✓ Dry orders: We order our oligos dry.
✓Follow iGEM goes green
✓ Get creative! → We are reusing old paper boxes in the freezer.
✓ Label our stuff!
✓ Pipette tips: We refill our empty tip boxes by purchasing our tips in bulk.
✓ Tubes: We get the tubes in bags and refill our racks.
✓ Waste manager: We have an expert for the wast, who knows where everything belongs.


Workspace
Paper and printing products
Lights
Computers


Sharing
✓ Autoclave
✓ ice machine
✓ water bath
✓ -80 Freezer
✓ Thermomixer
✓ Gel-Electrophoresis chamber
✓ cold room
✓ clean bench
✓ chemicals


Others
✓ video conference with Pakistan


Our steps to a greener life:

Waste management
✓ Reduce waste
✓ and separate.


Eating habits
✓ Drink tab water.


Transport
✓ Using the bike
✓ and public transportation.


#GoGreen