4/14/10
Sustainability Council (SC) Minutes
10:00am-11:00am
Killian 104
Facilitator:
Lauren
R. Bishop
Attendees:
Lauren R. Bishop
See attached sign-in sheet
Minutes
Agenda
item:
Updates from Energy Management Office and
Announcements from Group.
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Planning Earth Day 4/22/10 on the UC Lawn. (Aramark, Eco CATS & EMO to
sponsor event). Participants include: Base Camp, Wellness Center, Yellow
Bike Program, EMO, Sustainability Council, Service Learning, WATR, Residential
Living, 2 bands (bluegrass & acoustic guitar), Hula Hooping, plus more.
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Please come and volunteer at our table.
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Karrie Joseph announced National Bik to Work Day on 5/21/10. Mad Batter
will be giving out free coffee and muffin to participants.
Discussion:
Agenda
item:
Edited mission statement for the SC.
Discussion:
“The Sustainability Council strives to increase awareness, support, and facilitate
sustainable practices throughout our university, local, and regional communities.”
Conclusions:
SC decided on the above mission statement.
Action items
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Send mission statement to Associate Vice Chancellor of
Facilities Management to share with administrations (A & F).
Agenda
item:
Discussion:
Conclusions:
Lauren Bishop
May
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Suggestion from IT to change font to Century Gothic to save ink.
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Suggestion to change printing setup in PawPrint to allow for ease to print
double sided.
Write recommendation letter on behalf of SC to IT.
Compose letter for approval by SC at next meeting.
Agenda
item:
Deadline
Font change recommendations.
Action items
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Person responsible
Sub-Committees groups discussed goals and
objectives.
Person responsible
Deadline
Lauren Bishop
May
Discussion:
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Programming & Outreach
o Would like to work with media more.
o See water quality as a concern for students and faculty. Students
think water is dirty. Compare bottled water with WCU water. Students
not recycling water bottles.
o Discussed organizing self guided green walking tours of campus for
visitors, orientation, etc. Dirk is currently creating virtual tours for
campus (podcast for download on website).
o Meghan Kearns mentioned importance of marketability of being
green.
Education & Academic Integration – academic curriculum
o We’d like to work toward getting more members of academic affairs
on the Council—especially faculty. Also, in considering how
sustainability and environmental issues and texts can be worked into
our academic curriculum, we’d like to know which courses already
have such content.
o To do this, our first step will be for Catherine to e-mail Beth TysonLofquist, both inviting her to join the Council and asking her if she’d be
willing to e-mail Academic Affairs, requesting that faculty send us
information about which classes include content relating to
sustainability, ecology, environmental health, or other “green stuff.”
Catherine will offer to compose and send the e-mail if Beth would
prefer it.
o After this, we’d like to invite faculty who are already academically
involved with issues of environment or sustainability, and we
brainstormed a possible list today, 3/10/10. But we think this e-mail
could provide us a more complete list.
o We brainstormed a bit as to what might be desirable outcomes with
regard to sustainability, environmental issues and texts, and academic
curriculum. What would this look like, five or ten years out? Would we
liaise with service learning to start generating and publicizing green
course content and activities? Would we have a goal of X% of classes
incorporating green content by a certain date? We don’t know yet.
o We also brainstormed some areas which might fall within our
subcommittee’s bailiwick: curriculum development; faculty
involvement; educating people on what courses are available right
now; staff participation; liaising with the Faculty Center on offering
workshops on incorporating “green stuff” into courses that aren’t bio or
environmental health. Lauren at some point wants to do a STARS
assessment of the campus.
Planned & Natural Environment – waste reduction & recycling, green building,
dining services, energy management.
o Terry Riouff shared most recent annual waste totals with group. See
attached to minutes.
o Mentioned recent recycling article in The Reporter.
o Grounds Dept. chips and makes compost w/ all leaf matter collected
on campus.
o Matt Lugo, Aramark, has subcommittee notes.
o Spring move out. Discussed best way to collect discarded items from
residence halls for resale or donation. George Ford suggested having
Goodwill trailer on campus for convenient drop-off. Yard sale in
Ramsey?
o Readdress policy for holding abandoned student items for 5-years.