A Sustainable Future

A Sustainable Future (ASF) is a student-run, nonprofit environmental initiative that focuses on reducing paper consumption within the academic setting. We provide resources for students to educate themselves and others on sustainable paper consumption, as well as guidelines for students to conduct paper consumption research in their own schools. ASF was created on the basis of protecting our planet, wielding a potent combination of advocacy, research, statistics, and outreach to achieve our mission. We were initially founded as an advocacy project for SDG 12: sustainable consumption and production. Learning about SDG 12 encouraged us to become advocates for the environment, a mission that we now hope to spread. Ever since its conception, ASF has been educating students & communities through the mediums of videos, sustainable recipes, and presentations. ASF utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to advocating for sustainable paper consumption, through both the ASF Website and the ASF Consumption Model. Our target market is high school students and teachers, as we hope to spread awareness on the importance of sustainable paper consumption in the academic setting. We provide resources for students to educate themselves and others on sustainable paper consumption, as well as guidelines for students to conduct paper consumption research in their own schools through our website: https://che2547.wixsite.com/a-sustainable-future ASF has also created a statistical model that helps schools both predict paper consumption and determine appropriate paper expenditures based on various factors such as departments of interest, total number of faculty, month, etc. Through this model, schools can not only reduce paper costs but actively mitigate (and become aware of) paper's harmful environmental impacts.