Sustainability and UNCW – Today’s Commitment to Tomorrow’s World
Reduce.Reuse.Recycle.Rethink. Renew.
Those powerful words must inspire each student, faculty member and staff member at UNCW to reflect on the decisions we make today and select choices that support a sustainable tomorrow – for our campus, our community, North Carolina and beyond.
Sustainability is not a new concept at UNCW.For years, we have worked diligently to reduce energy and water consumption, with energy conservation as our primary focus. Now we must implement sustainable practices in all facets of campus life.
The UNCW Sustainability Committee, created to guide our efforts, developed this Web site as an educational resource for students, faculty and staff. The committee, an outgrowth of work conducted in 2007 by a campus-wide task force, has formed working six working groups to make sure sustainability remains in the forefront of our operations, activities, academic programs and community relationships. I strongly recommend that the UNCW community get involved with the committee and its working groups.
I urge each UNCW student, faculty member and staff member to make a personal commitment to the protection and renewal of our world by adopting the committee’s powerful pledge “to evaluate the social and ecological consequences” of decisions and “to improve the sustainability” of the communities in which we all live, learn and work.
The future is ours to protect. Let’s work together to give the generations after us the best possible world.
Sincerely yours,
Rosemary DePaolo
Chancellor
The Campus Environmental Stewardship Committee has issued its Recommendations for UNC Wilmington Natural Areas, including the main campus forest and the campus in general, the Bluethenthal Wildflower Preserve, the Ev-Henwood property and the Broadfoot property. Consideration of recommendations set forth in the document will involve a number of different actions or responses: hiring various consultants, discussions with the City of Wilmington, administrative decisions, budget reallocation
decisions and Board of Trustees action. University administrators will review these recommendations and determine which are in the best long-term interest of the university.
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Campus Dining: http://www.campusdish.com/en-US/CSSE/UNCWilmington/Sustainability/
Housing and Residence Life Sustainability Efforts:
The first semester of the inaugural year for the Housing and Residence Sustainability Initiatives Committee has been very productive. The committee is led by Residence Coordinator, Clifton Williams, and he is joined by three other professional staff members, one graduate student, and six undergraduate students. The committee has been charged with educating residential students and HRL staff members within the department on how to promote sustainability.
The committee has focused on programming efforts in order to raise awareness and educate residential students through events such as “Recycling is Right” and a passive programming campaign highlighting facts about recycling and sustainable practices. Members of the committee also presented to the entire RA staff and HRL staff on how they can live a more sustainable life and what the effects of not being sustainable mean for the future and the environment.
Recently, the committee completed an inventory of all of the residential recycling centers with the objective that improvements can be made in the future. In addition to the inventory, the committee spent a large portion of the semester surveying students to gauge the student’s knowledge of campus recycling as well as their desire to recycle in the future and what HRL can do to improve the recycling program.
Campus Life Sustainability Efforts:
http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/union/sustainability.htm
Check out the Documents / Archives section for UNCW Sustainability reports.
