Student Affairs Sustainability Committee

The Student Affairs Sustainability Committee believes that small things add up to big change. 

We welcome your ideas and sustainability tips to share. 

Based on the Key Objectives Leading Towards a Sustainable Future*, the Goals of the Student Affairs Sustainability Committee are:

The committee shall create a plan with sustainability indicators for the Student Affairs to reach the key objectives as stated below.  To accomplish this goal, the committee will explore practical and specific ways to:

1.  Investigate and identify opportunities for paper use efficiency, reduction, and sustainable purchasing,
2.  Reduce single occupancy car travel to and form Evergreen campus for Student Service staff members,
3.  Increase student involvement and participation in sustainability-based planning within the division and on the greater campus,
4.  Identify ways to reduce outdated and unnecessary electronic equipment,
5.  Increase ways to buy food and other products locally,
6.  Increased educational initiatives for the community about energy reduction, seeking a goal fo 30% reduction by 2010,
7.  Create a mindful sustainable community through education and direct engagement.

* Key Objectives Leading Toward a Sustainable Future:

Become carbon neutral by 2020;
Become a zero waste college by 2020;
Increase our locally produced food purchases to 40% by 2010;
Reduce our energy consumption by 30%, on a per full time equivalent basis, by 2010;
Reduce our paper consumption to 50% by 2010;
Reduce the number of computers per capita by 15% by 2010;
Reduce the number of individual desktop printers by 50% and photocopiers by 10% by 2010.