On Wednesday, Nov. 18, the Colorado College Campus Sustainability Council discussed goals for the spring semester and years to come. These goals are part of a strategic plan for the Council requested by President Jill Tiefenthaler’s office.
This strategic plan is part of a larger effort to continue cooperation and collaboration between the Campus Sustainability Council and the President’s Office.
The Campus Sustainability Council is broken into several smaller subcommittees based on committee members’ interests. Goals were presented for each subcommittee.
The Operations subcommittee’s goals were focused on buildings, waste diversion, and sustainable transportation. The goals were geared particularly towards encouraging Colorado College to invest in a carbon neutral-plan for the library and for the future East Campus development.
The Operations committee is also interested in assessing, standardizing, and expanding the waste diversion strategies that are currently being tested in Worner Center. Eventually, the committee wishes to bring this technique for sustainable waste diversion to the rest of campus.
The Academics subcommittee has been working for the past several months on deciding which courses would qualify for the sustainability designation.
“I think that our next step is making it easier for professors to designate their courses as sustainable and communicating with professors about how to list their courses as sustainability designated,” said Meredith Allen, the senior co-chair of the Academics subcommittee and the Care and Share intern for the Office of Sustainability.
The Investment subcommittee has been focused on developing ways for students to become more involved in the way Colorado College invests.
“I think it’s really important for us to push forward with proxy voting,” said Kendall Kultgen, co-chair of the Investment sub-committee and STARS intern for the Office of Sustainability. Proxy voting would allow students to vote in place of board members to potentially decide to invest more sustainably.
The Investment committee is also collaborating with the Student Divestment Committee to expand a sustainable investment fund that would allow alumni to donate to the school under the condition that the money is invested sustainably.
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