COORDINATORS: Drew Barton and Valerie Huebner

SCC MEETINGS
Every Tuesday, 12:30-1:15, Education Center 113

Current Projects

ACUPCC

(American College and University President’s Climate Commitment- signed by President Kalikow in fall 2007)

What the Commitment Includes

• Integrating sustainability into the curriculum
• Completing an emissions inventory (completed in fall 2008)
• Setting a target date for becoming climate neutral
• Taking immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

UMF’s Current Efforts

• Policy in place the all new campus construction will be built to at least LEED silver standard or equivalent
• Purchase of ENERGY STAR products
• Waste minimization

Comprehensive Energy and Carbon Emissions Plan

This plan includes the tangible steps that the UMF administration, faculty, staff and student body are taking in order to reach the goals that the ACUPCC commits us to. This is the major project the SCC is focusing on for 2009. To read the plan, click here.

Ongoing Projects

• Recyclemania
• Maurer Meals
• Halloween Recycled Costume Contest- held around lunch time on the Beach, with a panel of discerning judges, and prizes!
• Trash Day- starting in 2006, SCC member and volunteers bring 48 hours worth of trash onto the campus green to pick out what could have been recycled. In 2006 35\% of the trash was recyclable materials!
• End-of-Semester Salvage Program-SCC members help redirect items tossed out by students about to go on summer break
• Environmental Education Using the Ed. Center- This is one of the SCC’s major efforts led by Grace Eason, with support from her US Green Building Council grant. Students are hired and trained to provide tours for UMF faculty, staff, and students as well as community members . Andrea Freed and Rebecca Berger’s elementary science and social science students developed grade specific pre and post lesson plans and activity booklets, and will conduct tours for elementary and middle school teachers and students. Andrea and Grace recently presented this project at the Maine Science Teachers Association Conference and will give a presentation at the Association for Science Teachers Education International Conference. Sarah Hardy developed assessment instruments to assess the effectiveness of the tours and the quality of activity booklets and brochures.