The Brendle Group is offering students a unique chance to participate in CC’s first ever Environmental Inventory & Sustainability Management Plan by assisting us with the next round of assessments of CC’s buildings for energy and water efficiency opportunities. As a volunteer, you’ll receive hands-on training by The Brendle Group's engineers (enginNERDS extraordinaire) in the first week of Block 6 on March 27th and spend an estimated 20 hours throughout the rest of the block conducting building walkthroughs, identifying and counting lighting and water fixtures, gathering data to estimate cost savings and payback through retrofitting, and reporting your findings. Your findings from these assessments will contribute directly to the drafting of CC's Sustainability Management Plan.
Sign up individually or in teams of two, and specify whether you prefer to focus on lighting or water. Please contact Emily.Wright@ColoradoCollege.edu if you have any questions or to sign up and help make CC’s buildings greener, more sustainable places.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Environmental Inventory & Sustainability Management Plan Website
Check the progress of CC's Environmental Inventory & Sustainability Management Plan at:
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/sustainability/inventory.htm
The roughly 6-month project, spanning from January to the end of June 2008, includes a carbon footprint analysis, building energy and water assessments for buildings larger than 20,000 square feet in area, and collection of quantitative and qualitative data on a full spectrum of campus activities and operations, from energy and transportation to procurement and curriculum. The project will also include benchmarking to demonstrate Colorado College’s position on sustainability relative to peer colleges across the country. The Sustainability Management Plan will include both short-term and long-term goals to help bring the College towards carbon neutrality, as well as in greater alignment with sustainability on a wide range of issues. The Plan will be prepared with involvement of the entire campus community, including facility staff, faculty, alumni, and students.
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/sustainability/inventory.htm
The roughly 6-month project, spanning from January to the end of June 2008, includes a carbon footprint analysis, building energy and water assessments for buildings larger than 20,000 square feet in area, and collection of quantitative and qualitative data on a full spectrum of campus activities and operations, from energy and transportation to procurement and curriculum. The project will also include benchmarking to demonstrate Colorado College’s position on sustainability relative to peer colleges across the country. The Sustainability Management Plan will include both short-term and long-term goals to help bring the College towards carbon neutrality, as well as in greater alignment with sustainability on a wide range of issues. The Plan will be prepared with involvement of the entire campus community, including facility staff, faculty, alumni, and students.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
EnAct meeting minutes January 22, 2008
EnAct Meeting Minutes January 22, 2008
Thursday January 24, 2008→Joel Salatin
12:15-1:00 Lunch discussion in Palmer 230
1:30 Farm visit behind the President’s house
5:00 Reception in Bemis Great Hall
7:30 Shove Chapel Lecture
Food Bid:
-913 Responses to the survey
-Data being compiled, hopefully to be published in the Catalyst
-Laura Parker is working on a sustainability food vision with Bruce. Goals: local & organic food incorporated into the food service, encourage the food service to adopt LEED goals and green buying practices.
-Creating a definition of sustainability & building defense off of that.
-Focus on practical implementation, & communication between the chefs, local farmers, and the food service company
CSC
-split up into smaller committees for topics like policy writing
-Energy competition blocks 6-7: Goal = 10% reduction in electrical usage
-Need posters & to draft pamphlets for RAs & RLCs
-Spread the word
Sustainability Website
-student templates coming up for student groups
-will be a resource for direct energy use & news
-meeting Thursday 3:30 in Tutt ERC-1 in Tutt Basement computer lab for input & helping
Compost
-Money being raised to get another Earth Tub
CC Farm
-hiring interns
-trying to raise money, generate compost
-bring your compost to the bin behind synergy labeled CC Farm
New Interns
-Focus the Nation: January 30th 6-7pm in Bemis for the live webcast
Energy Audit
-January 30th 3:15 Open House in Bemis
-Giant inventory of everything we consume
-4:15-5:15 Bemis presentation
Vehicle Fleets
-The years to come will probably see a variety of vehicles
-10-12 passenger diesel Dodge vans are the most promising—can be later converted to biodiesel
-looking into smaller electric cars
-looking at Zipcar rentals for students
Baca Area Drilling
-There’s a moratorium on the drilling—gives us more time
-US Fish & Wildlife services did an assessment—they say it won’t cause significant impact but their assessment might not be thorough enough
Campus Tours dealing with sustainability
-Interested in helping? Talk to Katie Elliot
Greenwipe
-Should be at the Worner Desk after Thursday
-Pick some up, cross of a building, and distribute them to the bathrooms
Small fish
-Stickers for light switch covers
-Litter pick up
-Plaque reminders (ex. laundry rooms)
-Clotheslines outside of dorms
-Off campus education (energizing Colorado Springs?)
-Seafood sustainability education
-CC Bound
-CStore sign/discount/extra charge
Earth Week
-Working on a grant, finding speakers
Green City Summit
-6:30pm Penrose Library Carnegie Reading Room
-Hosted by the Sustainable Living Working Group
-Presenters will include Megan Day on Manitou Springs' climate action plan and Richard Skorman.
- For more information or to RSVP, contact Steve at sustain@ppjpc.org or (719) 632-6189.
Green Round Table
-Has lots of projects, committees, experts coming up
-Late February
-Most professional one yet
Questions…
CCCA Sustainability Funds?
Eco Fund?
Consolidating listservs? Fat one?
Thursday January 24, 2008→Joel Salatin
12:15-1:00 Lunch discussion in Palmer 230
1:30 Farm visit behind the President’s house
5:00 Reception in Bemis Great Hall
7:30 Shove Chapel Lecture
Food Bid:
-913 Responses to the survey
-Data being compiled, hopefully to be published in the Catalyst
-Laura Parker is working on a sustainability food vision with Bruce. Goals: local & organic food incorporated into the food service, encourage the food service to adopt LEED goals and green buying practices.
-Creating a definition of sustainability & building defense off of that.
-Focus on practical implementation, & communication between the chefs, local farmers, and the food service company
CSC
-split up into smaller committees for topics like policy writing
-Energy competition blocks 6-7: Goal = 10% reduction in electrical usage
-Need posters & to draft pamphlets for RAs & RLCs
-Spread the word
Sustainability Website
-student templates coming up for student groups
-will be a resource for direct energy use & news
-meeting Thursday 3:30 in Tutt ERC-1 in Tutt Basement computer lab for input & helping
Compost
-Money being raised to get another Earth Tub
CC Farm
-hiring interns
-trying to raise money, generate compost
-bring your compost to the bin behind synergy labeled CC Farm
New Interns
-Focus the Nation: January 30th 6-7pm in Bemis for the live webcast
Energy Audit
-January 30th 3:15 Open House in Bemis
-Giant inventory of everything we consume
-4:15-5:15 Bemis presentation
Vehicle Fleets
-The years to come will probably see a variety of vehicles
-10-12 passenger diesel Dodge vans are the most promising—can be later converted to biodiesel
-looking into smaller electric cars
-looking at Zipcar rentals for students
Baca Area Drilling
-There’s a moratorium on the drilling—gives us more time
-US Fish & Wildlife services did an assessment—they say it won’t cause significant impact but their assessment might not be thorough enough
Campus Tours dealing with sustainability
-Interested in helping? Talk to Katie Elliot
Greenwipe
-Should be at the Worner Desk after Thursday
-Pick some up, cross of a building, and distribute them to the bathrooms
Small fish
-Stickers for light switch covers
-Litter pick up
-Plaque reminders (ex. laundry rooms)
-Clotheslines outside of dorms
-Off campus education (energizing Colorado Springs?)
-Seafood sustainability education
-CC Bound
-CStore sign/discount/extra charge
Earth Week
-Working on a grant, finding speakers
Green City Summit
-6:30pm Penrose Library Carnegie Reading Room
-Hosted by the Sustainable Living Working Group
-Presenters will include Megan Day on Manitou Springs' climate action plan and Richard Skorman.
- For more information or to RSVP, contact Steve at sustain@ppjpc.org or (719) 632-6189.
Green Round Table
-Has lots of projects, committees, experts coming up
-Late February
-Most professional one yet
Questions…
CCCA Sustainability Funds?
Eco Fund?
Consolidating listservs? Fat one?
First Meeting, Second Semester
For those to who check the blog, Welcome Back.
We've got mouths to move and topics to move them around this fine Tuesday night at 8 pm in the ERC, Tutt Science.
We also have food (!) So c'mon and eat, expound, or e-lec-tri-fy around this coming semester with EnAct-- we've got the campus-wide sustainability/energy audit kicking off, we've got updates on everything and everyone you know, and we've got some astonishingly productive movement on a (really cool) sustainability website-- all lined up on the docket.
Catch up on the news, join a committee, or start a project for the semester. We hope to see you there.
Brazenly,
Yer High-Steppin Enact Co-Chairs
We've got mouths to move and topics to move them around this fine Tuesday night at 8 pm in the ERC, Tutt Science.
We also have food (!) So c'mon and eat, expound, or e-lec-tri-fy around this coming semester with EnAct-- we've got the campus-wide sustainability/energy audit kicking off, we've got updates on everything and everyone you know, and we've got some astonishingly productive movement on a (really cool) sustainability website-- all lined up on the docket.
Catch up on the news, join a committee, or start a project for the semester. We hope to see you there.
Brazenly,
Yer High-Steppin Enact Co-Chairs
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Introducing...
Bruce's 3 new Sustainability Interns! Here's the scoop:
Colleagues,
I’m pleased to announce the appointment of three new sustainability interns; Molly Dilg, Katie Elliott and David Sullivan. Each of the interns brings a substantial record of green advocacy and leadership, to support and enhance sustainability efforts at CC. As a team, the interns and I will form the core staff of the emerging Sustainability Office at CC. Based on current priorities, we divided responsibilities in the following way:
David Sullivan – coordinating and providing resources to the ongoing CC sustainability website redesign, facilitating communication and acting as liaison between the sustainability office, the sustainability council and ENACT
Katie Elliott – planning and implementing the new “CC Sustainability Tours” program offering the campus a behind the scenes look at the ongoing greening of CC, coordinating CC participation in sustainability webinars and teleconferences
Molly Dilg – coordinating and promoting CC participation in the effort to prevent Lexam for drilling for gas near the Baca campus in Crestone, collecting information on available technologies and solutions for making our CC transportation fleet more green friendly
All three interns will help our office:
coordinate campus publicity about the upcoming CC energy audit and sustainability plan through the Brendle Group
connect to regional sustainability efforts such as the Earth Day Planning Committee, Focus the Nation, a local green ballot initiative, and connecting to Colorado Springs Utilities
assess possible programs proposed by external consultants and corporations interested in partnering with CC on sustainability projects
the interns offered to assist the Campus Sustainability Council and its subcommittees as needed
Our new interns join the sustainability interns working out of the college communications office. We will be coordinating our work. This is so exciting.
Colleagues,
I’m pleased to announce the appointment of three new sustainability interns; Molly Dilg, Katie Elliott and David Sullivan. Each of the interns brings a substantial record of green advocacy and leadership, to support and enhance sustainability efforts at CC. As a team, the interns and I will form the core staff of the emerging Sustainability Office at CC. Based on current priorities, we divided responsibilities in the following way:
David Sullivan – coordinating and providing resources to the ongoing CC sustainability website redesign, facilitating communication and acting as liaison between the sustainability office, the sustainability council and ENACT
Katie Elliott – planning and implementing the new “CC Sustainability Tours” program offering the campus a behind the scenes look at the ongoing greening of CC, coordinating CC participation in sustainability webinars and teleconferences
Molly Dilg – coordinating and promoting CC participation in the effort to prevent Lexam for drilling for gas near the Baca campus in Crestone, collecting information on available technologies and solutions for making our CC transportation fleet more green friendly
All three interns will help our office:
coordinate campus publicity about the upcoming CC energy audit and sustainability plan through the Brendle Group
connect to regional sustainability efforts such as the Earth Day Planning Committee, Focus the Nation, a local green ballot initiative, and connecting to Colorado Springs Utilities
assess possible programs proposed by external consultants and corporations interested in partnering with CC on sustainability projects
the interns offered to assist the Campus Sustainability Council and its subcommittees as needed
Our new interns join the sustainability interns working out of the college communications office. We will be coordinating our work. This is so exciting.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Meeting Minutes 1st week, 4th block
Hi All-
As I promised, I am getting this up earlier than last time :)
Synergy House
-one spot is open for next semester...contact David if you are interested
Farm/Garden on campus
-location: behind President's house...CC Farm is taking initiative
Car Share
-location: Left of Worner Desk
-changing location next semester
-please use them and spread the word
Food Bid
-reaching out to campus community to get some feedback on food service
-ultimately creating some kind of food vision or values
-Food Survey coming out SOON
-Worner center sitting...to get people's attention and ask them to fill it out <- Help needed. more detail to follow
CSC update
-Tomorrow, Wednesday Nov. 28 @ ERC from 3:30 pm
-sub-committees coming together and bringing back their ideas
Vehicle Fleet
-more coming later this week
Earth Week
-working on the speakers
-potential for a movie screening
-starting to put together a rough schedule
Bike CO-OP
-proposal for sustainable co-op, focused on bike
-aim to teach students to take care of the bikes and use it more
-class/seminars for students
-bike recycle--seniors who want to leave their bikes here can, and anyone that fixes it (with some help from co-op, if necessary) can have the bike
-meeting with Res Life next week
Green Wipe
-ideas welcome to structure this publication
-contact Chris for some ideas
Website
-in action, looking for some template at this point
Focus the Nation
-Jan. 30 & 31
-needing some help...contact Lucy if you are interested
This is it for this meeting :)
As I promised, I am getting this up earlier than last time :)
Synergy House
-one spot is open for next semester...contact David if you are interested
Farm/Garden on campus
-location: behind President's house...CC Farm is taking initiative
Car Share
-location: Left of Worner Desk
-changing location next semester
-please use them and spread the word
Food Bid
-reaching out to campus community to get some feedback on food service
-ultimately creating some kind of food vision or values
-Food Survey coming out SOON
-Worner center sitting...to get people's attention and ask them to fill it out <- Help needed. more detail to follow
CSC update
-Tomorrow, Wednesday Nov. 28 @ ERC from 3:30 pm
-sub-committees coming together and bringing back their ideas
Vehicle Fleet
-more coming later this week
Earth Week
-working on the speakers
-potential for a movie screening
-starting to put together a rough schedule
Bike CO-OP
-proposal for sustainable co-op, focused on bike
-aim to teach students to take care of the bikes and use it more
-class/seminars for students
-bike recycle--seniors who want to leave their bikes here can, and anyone that fixes it (with some help from co-op, if necessary) can have the bike
-meeting with Res Life next week
Green Wipe
-ideas welcome to structure this publication
-contact Chris for some ideas
Website
-in action, looking for some template at this point
Focus the Nation
-Jan. 30 & 31
-needing some help...contact Lucy if you are interested
This is it for this meeting :)
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Meeting Minutes
...Sorry for not getting this up earlier. It's my falt, I forgot about it on Thursday and didn't remembered till now.
Food Survey
-to measure the tempreture of the students about the food issue on campus, more concentrated in local and organic foods
-coming up in 4th block, 1st week Wed + Thurs. More details to follow at the next block's meeting.
Recycling
-putting up 25-30 outdoor recycling bins, they are pricy so thinking about applying to the Sodexho Grant
-more blue "recycling" bins distribution into the dorms
-education about the recycling...example, glass is recycled. The myth is wrong!
-get the food waste out from the recycle batch...if the food is over cirtain percentage, they cannot be recycled.
Catalyst & Green Wipe
-Enact gets back of the Catalyst once a block for the 2nd week's publication
-perhaps get holiday infos on the catalyst
-difference with Catalyst and Green Wipe:
Catalyst->focus on campus, updates of on-going projects
Green Wipe->more larger prespective, tips + how-to, facts
-if you are interested on either of this projects, contact the sustainability interns
Viechle Flee
-meeting with other groups to get list of pros/cons and feasability of this project
-car shairing has a potential to collaborate
One idea: Have a bulletin board with some ways of putting info on, with a pin or something
Earth Week
-talking with heads of groups that may be interested...Communications may be interested
-April 21-26, 1st week of 8th block
speaker ideas needed
synagy tour and bike workshop
big party on Friday or something (with alcohol)
energy competition result from dorms
t-shirt design competition?
CSC update
-focused on longer term goals (because councel is conposed maily by staff & fuclty)
-broke up into smaller sub-comittees
Policy comittee->talk anout long term policy design
Green Buildging comittee->1st LEED cirtified campus, make it more adjusted program to Colorado than general LEED that is there now
-OPEN TO STUDENTS-> they like your inputs
-next meeting: Wed Nov. 28th, in ERC from 3:30 to 5:00
Focus the Nation
-Jan. 30th & 31st, 2008
-number of profs talking about climate change from their prespective
-nation wide effort, many universities involved
-climate change pannel discussion from different depatments-> intermingling...
-potential web cast...
-for more detail, visit the website: focusthenation.org
Printing
-met with ITS people
-next semester, default setting to be double sided
-recycle paper (from the buyer we get now) is expensive...more research needed
-perhaps email from President Celeste if someone is overusing the paper resource by printing too much
-set some limit to free printing, and charge the over-limit printing fee?
-email to notify how much you are printing?
This is all I have. Again, sorry for posting this so late! I will try to get it up earlier next block.
Food Survey
-to measure the tempreture of the students about the food issue on campus, more concentrated in local and organic foods
-coming up in 4th block, 1st week Wed + Thurs. More details to follow at the next block's meeting.
Recycling
-putting up 25-30 outdoor recycling bins, they are pricy so thinking about applying to the Sodexho Grant
-more blue "recycling" bins distribution into the dorms
-education about the recycling...example, glass is recycled. The myth is wrong!
-get the food waste out from the recycle batch...if the food is over cirtain percentage, they cannot be recycled.
Catalyst & Green Wipe
-Enact gets back of the Catalyst once a block for the 2nd week's publication
-perhaps get holiday infos on the catalyst
-difference with Catalyst and Green Wipe:
Catalyst->focus on campus, updates of on-going projects
Green Wipe->more larger prespective, tips + how-to, facts
-if you are interested on either of this projects, contact the sustainability interns
Viechle Flee
-meeting with other groups to get list of pros/cons and feasability of this project
-car shairing has a potential to collaborate
One idea: Have a bulletin board with some ways of putting info on, with a pin or something
Earth Week
-talking with heads of groups that may be interested...Communications may be interested
-April 21-26, 1st week of 8th block
speaker ideas needed
synagy tour and bike workshop
big party on Friday or something (with alcohol)
energy competition result from dorms
t-shirt design competition?
CSC update
-focused on longer term goals (because councel is conposed maily by staff & fuclty)
-broke up into smaller sub-comittees
Policy comittee->talk anout long term policy design
Green Buildging comittee->1st LEED cirtified campus, make it more adjusted program to Colorado than general LEED that is there now
-OPEN TO STUDENTS-> they like your inputs
-next meeting: Wed Nov. 28th, in ERC from 3:30 to 5:00
Focus the Nation
-Jan. 30th & 31st, 2008
-number of profs talking about climate change from their prespective
-nation wide effort, many universities involved
-climate change pannel discussion from different depatments-> intermingling...
-potential web cast...
-for more detail, visit the website: focusthenation.org
Printing
-met with ITS people
-next semester, default setting to be double sided
-recycle paper (from the buyer we get now) is expensive...more research needed
-perhaps email from President Celeste if someone is overusing the paper resource by printing too much
-set some limit to free printing, and charge the over-limit printing fee?
-email to notify how much you are printing?
This is all I have. Again, sorry for posting this so late! I will try to get it up earlier next block.
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