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Name: Rachel Walsh
Position: Director
Date survey submitted: 6/29/09
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: FSU Environmental Service Program
Number of active members: 20
Website: http://sga.fsu.edu/esp/
Date of last meeting: 4/13/09
Frequency of meetings: bimonthly during fall and spring semesters
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008:
· Environmental Service Projects
· Environmental Activism
· Environmental Education
Our mission is to organize environmental service activities for the FSU student body, as well as engage in environmental activism and education on the FSU campus and in the Tallahassee community.
Examples of service activities we host are environmental clean-ups, plantings, and ecosystem restoration projects. We also host educational events such as film screenings, guest lectures, the Commuter Choices Fair in the fall, and the Focus the Nation town hall in the spring. We work for a variety of environmental causes, such as climate change mitigation, Green Fee advocacy, and Florida ecosystem conservation.
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008:
Environmental Service Projects:
· Wiregrass planting with Nature Conservancy
· Local clean-up with Tallahassee Super Clean Sweep
· Volunteering with campus used goods drive, Chuck it for Charity
We hosted a service project in fall 2008 with the Nature Conservancy in which we traveled to Apalachicola and planted wiregrass seedlings to aid restoration of the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem. We hosted a service project in spring 2009 with the Tallahassee Super Clean Sweep in which we picked up litter and mulched at a local community square. We had volunteers participate in a campus end-of-semester used goods drive called Chuck it for Charity in spring 2009.
Environmental Activism:
· Save Our Cypress call-in tabling
· Green Fee photo campaign
· Lobbying and phone-banking for Florida renewable portfolio standard bill
· Florida Alumni and Students for Sustainable Campuses (FLASSC) conference planning
We tabled on campus for a call-in to home improvement store presidents to ask them to stop selling cypress mulch as part of the Gulf Restoration Network Save Our Cypress campaign. We participated in the Florida Green Fee Coalition photo campaign by sending in photos of our members and FSU students holding signs in support of the campus Green Fee. We participated in lobbying and phone-banking with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy on behalf of the Florida renewable portfolio standard bill. We are currently participating in planning the upcoming FLASSC (Florida Alumni and Students for Sustainable Campuses) conference with the Southern Energy Network.
Environmental Education:
· Mountain top removal mining presentation
· Earth Hour event
· Organic gardening workshop
· Bike repair workshops
· Meat Out Day vegetarian dinner event
· Commuter Choices Fair and commuter races
· Focus the Nation climate change town hall
We hosted a performance and presentation on mountain top removal mining by the string band, Here’s to the Long Haul. We hosted an event for Earth Hour that included raw food, acoustic music, and education on reducing energy use. We hosted an organic gardening workshop with a community gardening nonprofit and several bicycle repair workshops with a community bicycle repair nonprofit. We hosted a vegetarian dinner with speakers for Meat Out Day with a student vegetarian organization. We hosted a Commuter Choices Fair as part of Commuter Services of North Florida’s Commuter Choices Week, which included music, many tabling organizations, and two races: a spectacle bike v. car race and an open participation walk/bike/bus triathlon. We hosted a Focus the Nation town hall which included many tabling organizations and speakers such as FSU science professors, environmental lawyers, representatives of nonprofit environmental organizations, and local government officials. This event received front page coverage in the FSU student newspaper. We have had many speakers at our meetings including representatives from the US Peace Corps and Commuter Services of North Florida, and have tabled at many events including an SGA Earth Day fair.
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
Not at this time
SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
Yes, there is a Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Sustainability in the SGA executive cabinet. Also, the FSU Environmental Service Program is an affiliated project of the SGA.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school: Energy Star “Change a Light” program
We have participated in the Energy Star “Change a Light” program by passing out CFL light bulbs on our campus and asking students to pledge to replace light bulbs with CFLs.
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:
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): None
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Name: Elizabeth Swiman
Position (in student organization): Staff advisor to Green Leadership Council
Date survey submitted: July 21, 2009
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: Green Leadership Council
Number of active members: 12 – made up of leaders for each environmental student organization and student government
Website: n/a
Date of last meeting: April 17, 2009
Frequency of meetings: weekly throughout fall and spring semesters
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: student involvement/campus organizing; campus beautification, waste reduction and recycling; education, awareness and activism, community service
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: the GLC was created in 2008 to bring together representatives from each environmental student organization in order to share information, resources, unite efforts in program planning, and strengthen the “student voice” for campus sustainability.
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. Competitions are organized through a collaboration between the Strategic Planning Group (faculty and staff) and the Green Leadership Council (student organizations). Please see #57 in the Campus Survey.
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Year initiated:
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Percent of energy/water/waste reduced:
Lasting effects of competition:
Website:
#2 - Name of competition:
Year initiated:
Frequency of competition:
Participants:
Incentives:
Goal of competition:
Percent of energy/water/waste reduced:
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Website:
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: Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Sustainability though the Executive office of the President collaborate with campus organizations and initiatives that seek to educate students on the importance of sustainability.
Additionally, the SGA Sustainability Committee was created to bring together leaders of the Florida State University Student Government who care for the environment. The group was founded in the fall of 2008, and continues to serve as a resource to those in student government who wish to make a positive environmental impact on the FSU campus. The goal of this group is to not only make an environmental change on campus, but also to serve as a model to students who wish to help the environment out, and see an impact through their student government. The committee is currently comprised of several members of the Student Senate and Executive branches, and is frequently visited by the SGA President and Senate President, both of whom wish to make a positive environmental change on campus.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school: All members and member organizations of the GLC planned and participated in Going Green on Landis Green, Sustainability Awareness Month, Chuck it for Charity, and hosted an online petition calling for increased support of the campus sustainability initiative.
--The Environmental Service Program (ESP) initiated an Energy Star “Change a Light” program by passing out CFL light bulbs on campus and asking students to pledge to replace an older bulb.
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:
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Environmental Service Program: the mission of ESP is to organize environmental service activities for the FSU student body, as well as engage in environmental activism on the FSU campus and in the Tallahassee community.
http://sga.fsu.edu/esp/
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Garnet & Gold Goes Green: G4 mobilizes and large and diverse groups of FSU students and staff to actively participate in campus and community recycling.
- http://www.sustainablecampus.fsu.edu/GGGGRecyclingProgram.htm
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Greeks Going Green: 3G is an alliance of student-run chapters across college campuses nationwide dedicated to mobilizing the Greek community to take action in adopting sustainable living practices.
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Project Aftermath: Project Aftermath is a group of students that supports campus beautification initiatives. They have adopted a particular area and help to keep it clean of trash.
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Project Reconstruction: Two student organizations (Fashion Incorporated & the Collegiate Merchandising Association) co-host Project Reconstruction, a recycled clothing fashion show to benefit Tallahassee’s Refuge House. Students deconstructed old clothes and redesigned outfits to showcase the usability of recycled and recyclable materials.
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):
Southern Energy Network
Florida Green Fee Coalition
Florida PIRG
Keep Tallahassee-Leon County Beautiful (local Keep America Beautiful affiliate)
Greeks Going Green
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