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Names:
David Corrado, Associate Director of the University of Washington Green Coalition
Ashley Rumble, Executive Director of SEED (Students Expressing Environmental Dedication)
Position (in student organization) – See above position
Date survey submitted:
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: Green Coalition
Number of active members: 30
Website: http://students.washington.edu/greenco
Date of last meeting: May 27th, 2009
Frequency of meetings: Biweekly
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: General campus awareness of environmental issues as well as facilitation of communication between student organizations in order to increase the impact that the environmental movement has as a whole.
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: We held an Earth Day Fair this year with over 25 organizations from around the Seattle area. The Earth Fair was a true collaboration between all of the member organizations of the coalition.
Name of organization: SEED
Number of active members: 35
Website: http://students.washington.edu/uwseed/
Date of last meeting: June 4, 2009
Frequency of meetings: weekly
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: 1) Further development on the Student P-Patch garden; 2) working on moving compost onto every floor of every residence hall; 3) promoting and demanding a fully compostable cutlery line; 3) converting all lightbulbs to CFL’s
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: 1)we have built a compost bin for the garden and implemented a gardeners library to be used by our gardeners; 2) Housing and Food Services has agreed to adopt and support our initiative, and the project has expanded to three residence halls; 3) we worked with International Paper and Coca-Cola to release their first ever compostable coke cup in January; 4) worked with other organizations to replace every light bulb on campus with a CFL
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[ X ] Yes. Please list details for each competition.
#1 - Name of competition: One Thing Campaign (Sponsored by SEED)
Year initiated: 2008
Frequency of competition: yearly
Participants: University of Washington students against Washington State University Students
Incentives: beating our rival
Goal of competition: for each student to commit to one change they could make to improve their lives in a sustainable way, to raise awareness of how easy it is to live sustainably
Percent of energy/water/waste reduced:
Lasting effects of competition:
Website:
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[X] No
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school:
We have held a “Save the Earth Social” for all environmentally-minded students and invited all of the environmental groups on campus to participate. We explained a bit about each environmental group and allowed students to choose which group they would like to participate in.
We are a relatively young group. We have been in de facto existence since December 2008, but we recently became an official registered student organization in mid April of 2009. The purpose of the Green Coalition is to increase environmental stewardship on the University of Washington campus by facilitating collaboration between campus organizations that demonstrate a commitment to protecting the environment, organizing activities which educate students about the importance of sustainability and environmental awareness, and serving as an environmental leader to the university as a whole.
SEED activities
1. Group trips to the local Farmers Market
2. Helped develop/support the UW Green Coalition
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:
The Green Coalition is composed of Seed, The Sierra Student Coalition, Earth Club and WashPIRG. The acronym Seed stands for Students Expressing Environmental Dedication. Seed works with University of Washington Housing and Food Services to ensure that our on campus dining and living are more sustainable. Seed successfully worked with HFS to implement our composting program that includes food containers and utensils that are compostable. The Sierra Student Coalition is a student chapter of the Sierra Club and they work to generate environmental leaders and spread environmentalism. Earth Club is a student organization that promotes celebration of the earth and environmentalism. WashPIRG works on four major campaigns simultaneously that make strides in advancing the health and interests of the public. Aside from our global warming solutions campaign, we work on hunger & homelessness, textbook and education affordability, as well as promoting public transit. Aside from being an officer for the Green Coalition, I am also the current chapter chair of WashPIRG. Aside from the organizations that are a part of the Green Coalition, we work in partnership with the Associated Students of the University of Washington, the Young Democrats at the University of Washington, The University of Washington Farm and the Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability.
Green Coalition
Contact: David Corrado (myself), dcorrado@u.washington.edu
URL: http://students.washington.edu/greenco/Welcome.html
Seed
Contact: Krysta Yousoufian, krystay@u.washington.edu
URL: http://students.washington.edu/uwseed/index.php
Sierra Student Coalition
Contact: Katie Hoffman, keh23@u.washington.edu
URL: http://www.freewebs.com/sierrauw/
Earth Club
Contact: Vincent Gonzales, vincentgonz@gmail.com
URL: http://students.washington.edu/uwearth/
WashPIRG
Contact: David Corrado (myself), dcorrado@u.washington.edu
URL: http://www.uspirg.org/
Associated Students of the University of Washington
Contact: Tunny Vann, Director of Community Relations, tunnyv@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.asuw.org/
Young Democrats
Contact: Quinn Majeski, President, qmajeski@hotmail.com
URL: http://chapters.ydwa.org/uw/
UW Farm
Contact: TheUWfarm@u.washington.edu
URL: http://students.washington.edu/uwfarm/
Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
URL: http://f2.washington.edu/oess/home
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):
Our group is affiliated with all of the organizations listed and described above in the response to question 5. We are also a part of the Cascade Climate Network and many of us attended Power Shift 2009, so we are members of the Energy Action Coalition.
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