Areas of Focus

Ongoing Programs

Under leadership and guidance from Sustainability Office staff, students of Green Campus facilitate and support three ongoing programs throughout each academic year. They are:

Outreach

Green Campus regularly assists Sustainability Office staff in putting information out to the campus. Regular outreach tasks include:

authorship and editing of monthly sustainability newsletter
curation of social media content
provision of tabling and face-to-face canvassing
facilitation of events and activities

Events

Common events and activities that Green Campus contributes to annually include:

October - Higher Education Sustainability Month
February - Green Employer Fair
April - Earth Week

Events that may be offered in Spring or Fall, depending on the planning group include:

Green Speed Networking / Sustainability Practitioners Event (sometimes held in October)
Trashion Show (sometimes held in alignment with Halloween/October or Earth Day/April)

Other events hosted by campus partners, which Green Campus often supports or participates:

October/November - Harvest Festival (CCAT)
November - Zero Waste Conference (WRRAP)
End of April, beginning May - Spring Fest/May Day (CCAT)

Portfolio

Green Campus regularly works on one-off projects. Click links below to read about historical projects that have been completed:

Custodial products - finding a green certified floor wax
Landscape Mangement Report
Power Down - campus-wide energy saving campaign
Schematic design for Canyon Residence Hall Lighting Retrofit
Feasibility Study for toilet retrofit at The Hill Residence Halls

Projects come up and are assigned to students in Green Campus in a multitude of ways. Sometimes campus partners pose questions that require research and students are assigned the task of finding case studies, best practices, or solutions. Sometimes the group inherits successful programs from past years that have ongoing funding and provide foundational programming to the campus. Sometimes students support existing campus events and activities by integrating a sustainability lens in a new way to the programming. Sometimes the campus is offered one-time funding that requires feasibility research or proposal design before it can move to implementation. And sometimes students are simply asked to support sustainability pro-staff in the work that they do. Access accordion at left to understand the scope and breadth of projects that students in Green Campus work on year to year.