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Name: Kyle Beaulieu
Position (in student organization): President
Date survey submitted: 12/7/09
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: Environmentally Sustainable Students (ESS)
Number of active members: 15
Website: https://orgsync.com/chapter/5273?full=yes and http://www.snhu.edu/7884.asp
Date of last meeting: December 8th 2009
Frequency of meetings: Weekly
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: Some key issues include (but many others exist): Environmental racism, the reduction of plastic bottles and disposable containers through the reusable containers in One Earth. One Bottle. and One Earth. One Container., getting students to appreciate their part in keeping the environment clean through cleanups and beautification of local ponds, local communities, and the SNHU campus, and educating the SNHU community on environmental topics through our Green Themes series.
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: Speaker Ben Meiklejohn with Maine’s Green political party spoke on Environmental Racism to a group of 20+ students, faculty and staff in February of 2009 (as part of MLK month), distributed 2,500 reusable steel bottles to students, faculty, and staff to the SNHU campus in the academic year 08/09 in return for a signed pledge to use the reusable bottle with tap water over bottled water whenever possible and are purchasing 500 more bottles in January 2010 for distribution to Freshman for the academic year 09/10 and have helped implement reusable to-go containers in our cafeteria with our One Earth. One Container. campaign, which has completely replaced all disposable containers and is the only choice for to-go, helped collect 120+ trash bags of litter at a local city pond in October 2008, and helped collect 50+ trash bags of litter in October 2009, and have done a “cleanup” in Manchester as part of their Adopt-a-Block program in April 2009 and have done a “cleanup” and beautification effort on the SNHU campus by picking up trash and planting trees and plants around campus, and have had a speaker on “Panarchy Theory” in November 2009, and will be screening “Tapped” in early 2010.
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[ X ] No. However, we are looking at some, such as www.seslchallenge.org
[ ] Yes. Please list details for each competition.
#1 - Name of competition:
Year initiated:
Frequency of competition:
Participants:
Incentives:
Goal of competition:
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:
Lasting effects of competition:
Website:
SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ X ] No
[ ] Yes. Please describe:
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school: Along with the projects presented, which are more focused on presenting SNHU students with little experience or background in the topic of the environment a quick and easy way to get involved and provide valuable service to their community, ESS has 4 long-term projects that are intended to impact the sustainability on-campus for the school and/pr the students significantly. These are: getting a Greenhouse on-campus in order to use it as a teaching ground to provide hands-on experience with things like the differences between growing organic methods and growing conventional methods, and what they mean for the environmental and for humans; creating a guided or self-guided Eco-Tour that would highlight the points of sustainability on-campus that involve either the club or the school or both; create an Eco-House program that would set a specific living area on campus as a place that requires the students who live there to practice sustainable living principles; and create an Environmental Auditing program that would allow students at SNHU to conduct environmental audits on local high schools, in which students at the high schools could also participate in.
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:
Our Center for Service and Community Involvement is also involved with sustainability on-campus. You can contact them by emailing Sarah Jacobs, the Director of the office, at serve@snhu.edu.
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):
N/A.
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