Volunteer for Mid-Level Building Assessments

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.

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.

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?

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