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With the publication of the College Sustainability Report Card 2010, more than 1,100 school survey responses from over 300 institutions are now available online. In total, these surveys offer more than 10,000 pages of data collected from colleges and universities during the summer of 2009. To access surveys from other schools, go to the surveys section of the website. To see grades, or to access additional surveys submitted by this school, please click the "Back to Report Card" link at the beginning or end of the survey.
Name: Philip Walter
Position (in student organization): Coordinator, mechanic, spokesperson for the Community Bike Program
Date survey submitted: June 14
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: COA Community Bike Program
Number of active members: 2
Website: N/A
Date of last meeting: N/A
Frequency of meetings: N/A
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: Maintenance of a fleet of 12 bikes for community use, visibility of bike use on campus
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: success
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[ x ] No
[ ] Yes. Please list details for each competition.
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ ] No
[ x ] Yes. Please describe: the CCS, or Campus Committee for Sustainibility, is a recently developed committee, though it had been a subcommittee of Campus Building and Planning Committee.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school:
During Earth Day, I ran a "Spring Cleaning Station" where students and community members could bring their bikes to have a quick tune up, oiling, and cleaning. We cleaned and oiled over 40 bikes.
5) Please list and briefly describe any other student-run organizations related to campus sustainability at your school, and provide URLs if available (e.g., student groups; student government committees; student-run food co-ops, gardens/farms, bike co-ops) and provide contact information of the student leaders, if possible: Yes, but there are many others whom are more involved with these that I'm sure you have heard from.
Questions 6 is for informational purposes only; your response will NOT be included in the Report Card evaluation process.
6) Please list any regional or national networks with which your group is affiliated (e.g., Energy Action Coalition/Campus Climate Challenge, Sierra Student Coalition, a state PIRG, a state student sustainability coalition):
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Name: Geena Berry
Position (in student organization):
Date survey submitted: 7/13/2009
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: SustainUS
Number of active members: Not known
Website:Sustainus.org
Date of last meeting: NA
Frequency of meetings: biweekly when active
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: Weatherizing local homes, bringing the climate issue to local people, attending Powershift 2009.
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: Members attended Powershift, College of the Atlantic is sending a group of students to the Copenhagen Negotiations on Climate Change in December, Weatherization project completed or residents were given kits for their own use.
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[ ] No
[x] Yes. Please list details for each competition. For home institution.
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Year initiated: September 2009, part of Orientation for new students with Student LIfe
Frequency of competition: undetermined
Participants:incoming students
Incentives:to understand the initiatives at College of the Atlantic
Goal of competition:learning and fun!
Percent of energy/water/waste reduced: NA
Lasting effects of competition: introduction for incoming students
Website: NA
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ ] No
[x] Yes. Please describe: the Campus Committee for Sustainability (CCS). The Committee is charged with:
A. Encouraging and maintaining a sense of social and environmental responsibility in all aspects of the college’s operation.
B. Promoting leadership, responsibility, and involvement among COA community members regarding issues of sustainability.
C. Maintaining and encouraging transparency, oversight and clarity in regards to College practices.
D. Advising the COA community on the most environmentally and socially responsible opportunities.
(Taken from the Charter passed in the fall of 2009.) CCS is run through a very in depth governance system at College of the Atlantic that is based on the Town Meeting Model, with a meeting open to the whole community at a set time on Wednesdays.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school: There has been a real push to have some more input from the broader community, but SustainUS at the national level has taken students to international conferences/meetings at the United Nations: COP meetings, Commission on Social Development and Commission on Sustainable Development. SustainUS has also had members be involved in trying to develop a statewide coalition of members for sustainability through student environmental or sustainability clubs, these discussions have taken place at the annual Maine Climate Summit.
5) Please list and briefly describe any other student-run organizations related to campus sustainability at your school, and provide URLs if available (e.g., student groups; student government committees; student-run food co-ops, gardens/farms, bike co-ops) and provide contact information of the student leaders, if possible: COA has a farm that has student work-study and volunteers, a bike program run through Student Life, a food subcommittee of Student Life (I believe).
Questions 6 is for informational purposes only; your response will NOT be included in the Report Card evaluation process.
6) Please list any regional or national networks with which your group is affiliated (e.g., Energy Action Coalition/Campus Climate Challenge, Sierra Student Coalition, a state PIRG, a state student sustainability coalition): EAC, SSC, Climate Action Network (CAN), Greenpeace
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Name: Matt Shaw
Position (in student organization): Secretary
Date survey submitted: July 2nd, 2009
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: Campus Committee for Sustainability (CCS)
Number of active members: five
Website: n/a
Date of last meeting: May 27th, 2009
Frequency of meetings: weekly
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: Critique of the College of the Atlantic Climate Action Plan, prepared by the College of the Atlantic Center for Applied Human Ecology; study of on-campus composting network
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: Climate Action Plan critique continues, as does the study how we can make our compost systems work more efficiently while educating the community about compost
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[ x ] No
[ ] Yes. Please list details for each competition.
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ ] No
[ x ] Yes. Please describe: CCS is the committee within the College’s governance system charged with encouraging and maintaining a sense of social and environmental accountability in all aspects of the College’s operation. It is meant to promote leadership, responsibility, and involvement among COA community members regarding issues of sustainability. CCS is also to maintain and encourage transparency, oversight and clarity in regards to college sustainability; and it advises the COA community on the most environmentally and socially responsible opportunities.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school: Leland Moore (Chair of CCS) and Jordan Motzkin were involved with starting a program called Green Light Bar Harbor. Run through COA, this program allows businesses in town to exchange their incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescents at no charge to the business.
5) Please list and briefly describe any other student-run organizations related to campus sustainability at your school, and provide URLs if available (e.g., student groups; student government committees; student-run food co-ops, gardens/farms, bike co-ops) and provide contact information of the student leaders, if possible: COA Community Bike Program; Beech Hill Farm (http://www.coa.edu/html/beechhillfarm.htm); COA Community Garden
Questions 6 is for informational purposes only; your response will NOT be included in the Report Card evaluation process.
6) Please list any regional or national networks with which your group is affiliated (e.g., Energy Action Coalition/Campus Climate Challenge, Sierra Student Coalition, a state PIRG, a state student sustainability coalition): SustainUS; Carbon Neutral Network; American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment; Clean Air -- Cool Planet’s Campus Climate Action Program; Maine Governor’s Carbon Challenge Program; Maine Green Campus Coalition, College Sustainability Directors.
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