CAMPUS, COMMUNITY & CURRICULUM
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RECOMMENDATIONS and ACTIVITIES |
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PROGRESS |
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Recommendation 1: To maintain and increase presence of the Sustainable Sterling initiative.
Activity 1: maintain the Sustainability Coordinator position.
Activity 2: Design a Sustainable Sterling Logo
Activity 3: Create a section on the Sterling Website for Sustainable Sterling information, including the results of the Sustainability Assessment |
1. President/Dean of College
2. Any willing artist
3. Webmaster |
1. salary
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1. indefinitely
2. Fall 2005 |
1. Ned Houston will become Interim Sustainability Coordinator for 2006-2007
2. Draft logo, Fall 2005. Logo now used on website and signage around campus, spring 2006
3. New pages for upcoming website, Fall 2005. Regularly updated website, Spring 2006.
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Recommendation 2: To increase visibility of intuitional commitment to sustainability and to further this commitment through implementation.
Activity 1: Hang signed declarations including the Talloires Declaration and the NEG/ECP Climate Change Action Plan
Activity 2: Explore the use
of the Earth Charter in campus policy
and curriculum.
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1. Fall 2005
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1. Talloires Dec. as part of Campus Sustainability Day display for Fall 2005, need a permanent display. Hung a copy of the Declaration in the Foyer, Spring 2006
3. Campus membership, fall 2005, paid for by Student Activities, coordinated by Caleb Fisher |
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Recommendation 3: To set institutional policy on sustainability, including building standards, energy, purchasing, grounds, and publications
Activity 1: Define what sustainability means at Sterling College
Activity 2: Research other institutions’ polices and draft an appropriate one for our institution
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2. Begin research Fall 2005; policy in place by Fall 2006 |
1. Brainstorming poster, fall 2005
2. Draft policies written for new incoming President to consider, Spring 2006. |
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Recommendation 4: To continue to document past and present efforts at campus sustainability
Activity 1: To update the Sterling College “Campus Greening Resume”
Activity 2: Produce an annually updated “State of the Sterling Environment” fact sheet
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1. Sustainability
Coordinator |
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1. Linked to Sustainable Sterling website, Spring 2006. |
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Recommendation 5: To assist the physical plant staff with campus greening projects.
Activity 1: Hire a student worker for the summer to assist with projects such as sealing doors and windows, insulation projects, Circus recycling, etc. |
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1. Work Program to cover cost of worker? |
1. Summer 2006 |
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Recommendation 6: To recognize those who have dedicated many years of service to sustainability efforts at Sterling College.
Activity 1: Occasional articles in The Common Voice. |
1. Sustainability Coordinator/other willing authors |
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1. One per year |
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Recommendation 7: To expand Sterling College’s presence in literature about sustainability in higher education.
Activity 1: Write a letter to contributing authors in the field describing Sterling and its program and practices. (Orr, Sterling, Corcoran, Shriberg, T. Berry)
Activity 2: Contribute articles about sustainability efforts at Sterling to journals and periodicals. |
1. Sustainability Coordinator
2. Sustainability Coordinator/other willing authors |
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1. Spring 2006
2. Ongoing |
2. Article by Christina Erickson about “A Sense of Place” in the Summer 2006 edition of the Community Works Journal. |
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Recommendation 8: (SLRP—Student Body) Promote the practice of sustainability and lead by example as a whole college.
Objective 1: Future remodeling, construction and building to be considered in the light of sustainability.
Objective 2: Learn and practice sustainability as an independent and private college through sustainable courses and living as best as we can.
Objective 3: Research and renew Sterling’s woodlot certification(s) and management plan(s).
Objective 4: Investigate what percentage of Sterling’s food the farm could grow and then grow it! |
1. Communication between architect and practical sustainable ideas
2. Curriculum Committee, and all Sterling members
4. Students willing to supervise through Work Program Work Program position, Kitchen Manager |
1.Cost varies per building project
2. Time
3. $500
4. Time
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1. Prior to constructing, remodeling or building.
2. Continue to increase sustainability where and whenever it is applicable.
3. Fall of 2004
4. By early spring 2005.
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