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Create Center for Environmental
Studies / Center for Environment and Sustainability / Center for Environment,
Design, and Sustainability to integrate efforts, raise awareness, and support
initiatives. Sustainability Committee, David Smith / Environmental Science
and Policy Steering Committee, Nina Antonetti, Don Baumer, Jeff Blankenship,
Bob Burger, John Burk, Dean Flower, Drew Guswa, Helen Horowitz, Susannah Howe,
Linda Jones, Barbara Kellum, Leslie King, Ann Leone, Kirin Makker, Michael
Marcotrigiano, Doug Patey, David Smith) SD6-1, SD6-2, SD6-3 |
- Add a new sustainability coordinator position for outreach, analysis, and project
management and as a central resource to support currently dispersed efforts. (Sustainability
Committee) SD6-1
- Explore the culture and physical qualities of the environment through courses,
projects, and activism. (Landscape Studies and interested faculty) SD6-3
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Continue sustainability
committee comprised of faculty, students, administrators and staff, and adding
an executive committee consisting of the sustainability committee chair(s),
the Vice President for Finance and Administration, and the Dean of the College. |
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Further incorporate
environmental literacy, stewardship, policy, and impact into the curriculum
by integrating sustainability topics in existing courses in multiple disciplines,
coordinating existing programs that focus on the natural and built environment
and on the sustainable use of resources, and approaching operational efforts
(e.g. co-generation, conservation, etc.) as teaching opportunities. |
- Provide educational programs to faculty to advance their knowledge of sustainability
issues and course-related practices in other disciplines and institutions.
- Provide educational opportunities that prepare our students to understand and
address pressing sustainability-related issues. (Sustainability Committee) SD6-1
- Support the landscape studies program with permanent classroom space and more
course offerings. (Group of Concerned Students) SD6-4
- Establish an environmental scholar-in-residence program to bring distinguished
environmental policy-makers, writers, scientists, and activities to campus for
a few days to two years. (Virginia Hayssen, Joanne Benkley) SD6-5
- Include landscape history and sustainability objectives in first-year orientation.
(Group of Concerned Students) SD6-4
- Create opportunities for students to learn about landscape studies, get to know
the campus landscape, and become aware of how the landscape links us together.
(Group of Concerned Students) SD6-4
- Create team-taught semester long courses and short travel courses in Environmental
Science and Policy to provide set of opportunities for student, faculty, and alumnae
to examine environmental issues in an interdisciplinary context. (Amy Rhodes, Andrew
Guswa, Leslie King) SD6-6
- Conduct a coral reefs education program by Smith students for school children
in Belize. (H. Allen Curran, Susan Etheredge, Paulette Peckol) SD6-7
- Establish a Smith College Environmental Research Group to explore answers to
critical environmental problems. (Robert Newton) SD6-8
- Establish a field laboratory for experiential environmental learning. (David
Smith, Virginia Hayssen) SD6-9
- Promote environmental literacy and attract students by elevating environmental
science and policy from minor to major, developing a core curriculum in environmental
literacy, offering a certificate in environment literacy, and providing faculty
workshops on environmental literacy. (David Smith, Joanne Benkley) SD6-10
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Enhance college’s
responsible stewardship on natural resources. |
- Sustain and enhance energy conservation through equipment changeovers, community
awareness, energy policies, etc.
- Integrate environmental awareness into planning efforts for facility renovation
and construction projects.
- Develop incentive structure to encourage house participation in sustainability
initiatives.
- Provide opportunities around campus to try out new ideas, such as testing facilities-related
initiatives on selected buildings as part of normal renovation schedule.
- Broaden reach to surrounding communities by engaging faculty, students, and staff
in environment-related projects through volunteer and service learning opportunities.
- Expand purchase of local food. (Kathy Zieja, Ann Finley, Roger Guzowski) SD6-11
- Establish comprehensive waste program that diverts food waste from sewer system
and local landfill. Explore opportunities to divert foodservice waste to infrastructure
that converts waste into biofuel. (Kathy Zieja, Ann Finley, Roger Guzowski) SD6-11
- Stop providing bottled water at college functions and grab and go lunches. (Liora
O’Donnell Goldensher, Elizabeth Sullivan, Rosalie Ray, Elisabeth Wolfe, Marguerite
Davenport, Miki Duruz, Hallie Applebaum) SD6-12
- Reduce the use of to-go containers and other foodservice disposables. (Kathy
Zieja, Ann Finley, Roger Guzowski) SD6-11
- Reduce substantially greenhouse gas and toxic emissions that result from our
energy consumption and materials usage. (Sustainability Committee) SD6-1
- Increase our use of renewable resources and correspondingly decrease our use
of non-renewable resources. (Sustainability Committee) SD6-1
- Phase out our use of toxic materials in operations (e.g. grounds, custodial,
laboratories) that adversely affect human health and the environment. (Sustainability
Committee) SD6-1
- Authorize and fund a protocol for tracking resource use and disposal. (Sustainability
Committee) SD6-1
- Direct each department that operationally administers facilities on campus (e.g.
Physical Plant, Dining Services, The Science Center, etc.) to develop a sustainability
plan for their facilities, in conjunction with the Sustainability Coordinator and/or
the Committee on Sustainability. (Sustainability Committee) SD6-1
- Create a more compelling and relevant landscape for our community and professionals
throughout the world by designing areas currently in crisis with culturally significant
sustainable eloquence. (Group of Concerned Students) SD6-4
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Increase understanding
and visibility of sustainability efforts underway on campus. Improve communications
to off-campus constituents, including alumnae and potential donors, to build
commitment to and support for the programs and enhance the college’s
reputation for addressing critical and timely issues. |
- Continue to develop the creative recycling center (TRACES) in the Center for
Early Childhood Education to educate children, teachers, and the Smith community
about the potential uses of recovered materials for educational, creative, and
artistic purposes and for the benefit of the environment. (Martha Lees) SD6-13
- Make ongoing statements regarding campus sustainability goals and accomplishments
and, where applicable, endorse regional, national, and/or global sustainability
initiatives. (Sustainability Committee) SD6-1
- Recognize and publicize studies in the environment as one of the college’s
great strengths that is producing cutting-edge scholarship, innovative teaching,
and student graduate work and careers at the forefront of sustainability issues
from the arts to the sciences and engineering. (Nina Antonetti, Don Baumer, Jeff
Blankenship, Bob Burger, John Burk, Dean Flower, Drew Guswa, Helen Horowitz, Susannah
Howe, Linda Jones, Barbara Kellum, Leslie King, Ann Leone, Kirin Makker, Michael
Marcotrigiano, Doug Patey, David Smith) SD6-3
- Include the sustaining of the campus landscape in student, faculty, administrative,
and staff codes of ethics. (Group of Concerned Students) SD6-4
- Reaffirm that preservation of the campus landscape is an objective and partial
responsibility of the Campus Planning Committee, and charge the Campus Planning
Committee with regularly reviewing progress on implementation of the 1996 landscape
master plan. (Group of Concerned Students) SD6-4
- Sponsor student summer project to travel throughout the United States in a diesel
bus running on vegetable oil and visiting organic farmers. The students would use
the information gained from the summer project to establish a sustainability coalition
in the fall to promote Smith programs and efforts toward energy, conservation,
transportation, and food choices. (Sarah Albert, Chealsea Broido, Iemanja Brown) SD6-14
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Strengthen
Essential Student Capacities
Promote a
Culture of Research, Inquiry,
& Discovery
Encourage
Purposeful Engagement with Society’s Challenges
Deepen Students’ Awareness &
Appreciation of
Other Cultures &
Global Issues
Prepare Women
for Rewarding Lives in a Rapidly Changing
World
Support & Promote
Environmental Sustainability
Open Doors
to
Women of Promise
Extend Smith’s
Impact on the World
Other Proposals
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