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Environmental
Issues Committee
April
16, 2007
Attendees: Jim Blick, Announcements President
Frohnmayer has
signed the American College & University Presidents Climate
Commitment. He will speak on April 18th at
2:00 p.m. during the Earth Day celebration. Earth Day Kelly
announced that many
student and community environmental groups will have tables and
displays set up
by 9:00 a.m. In the afternoon President
Frohnmayer, the ASUO President Jared Axelrod, Mayor Kitty Piercy, and
Mary Wood
will speak. On April 19th Bill
Bradbury is scheduled to present an An
Inconvenient Truth slideshow. Subcommittee
Reports CASL:
Cathy said that
the ASUO will meet today to discuss the prospect of providing the
financial and
administrative assistance that CASL needs. Smoke
Free Campus: The subcommittee presented a revised draft of
the faculty/staff smoking survey. Additional
suggestions were made and Jim will e-mail a final draft to the
committee within
the week. Paula
said it’s been three years since the UHC has conducted a student health
survey. This spring they will be sending
out a survey
developed by the American College Health Association.
Campuses are using this instrument across the
country which will help with benchmarking.
The survey has some questions about smoking and the UHC
has added three
more. Old Business Anne had
asked Frank
Sharpy about the use of 30% recycled content paper in the copiers in
Lillis. He said that many copiers in the
offices can
only handle 30%, but was very receptive to testing 50% this summer. Frank also said that when LCB purchased
copiers they were not allowed to buy ones that could handle 100%
because the
professional grade copiers would compete with campus copy.
Karyn shared that Cannon has been working
with Facilities Services to retrofit machines so they can handle 100%
recycled paper. Ann also
found that there
is some willingness to consider signage in the Lillis building, but
there is
concern about aesthetics. If
sustainability kiosks existed in other buildings, such as the EMU, it
would provide
an incentive. Karyn shared
that during
her recent travels, she found an impressive amount of education and
signage at
the O’Hare airport. There are prominent
recycling bins and also touch-screen displays providing education about
their
green city initiative, green buildings, and energy conservation. Also Recommendations In order to
help save
paper and money, the committee would like to recommend that Francis
Dyke send
out a campus-wide message to promote the recycled paper policy. Karyn
expressed concern about
the need for a full-time campus sustainability manager.
Chuck thought that the job duties could now
be expanded to include attaining goals set out in the American College
&
University Presidents Climate Commitment.
The committee agreed that this recommendation should be
made in the year-end
report. Jim pointed out that The next
Environmental Issues Committee meeting will be
held from 10:30 – noon in the EMU Alsea room on Monday, May 21, 2007. Contact: Kay Coots, R.S., CSP Environmental Health and Safety Director Phone: (541) 346-5421 E-Mail: kcoots@uoregon.edu |
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