Sustainability Guide: Greenformation
Our workshop was given the task of developing a comprehensive sustainability guide for University students. Our team had the specific job of researching initiatives at other universities that had been successful in promoting sustainability. The goals of this research were to choose programs that were new to UVa and have had tangible results at other universities similar to UVa. We identified schools that were similar to UVa in size and demographic and also schools that have been lauded for their sustainability efforts. This double-sided approach was to ensure that we could pick programs that had tangible results as well as programs that would be well-suited to this student body. We contacted a number of sustainability coordinators to ask questions about their own initiatives and sustainability guides. We then performed research on events held at other schools, opportunities available to their students, and ways in which the schools integrated sustainability efforts into the community. We compiled all of our data and identified the methods that were successful across the board.
Sustainability Guide, University of Virginia, student engagement, universities, community, Whitney Paul, Ryan Lechner, and Kate Breimann
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Sustainability Guide: Greenformation

Education_SustainabilityGuide (click PDF)

Falle 2011

Team members: Whitney Paul, Ryan Lechner, and Kate Breimann

Our workshop was given the task of developing a comprehensive sustainability guide for University students. Our team had the specific job of researching initiatives at other universities that had been successful in promoting sustainability. The goals of this research were to choose programs that were new to UVa and have had tangible results at other universities similar to UVa. We identified schools that were similar to UVa in size and demographic and also schools that have been lauded for their sustainability efforts. This double-sided approach was to ensure that we could pick programs that had tangible results as well as programs that would be well-suited to this student body. We contacted a number of sustainability coordinators to ask questions about their own initiatives and sustainability guides. We then performed research on events held at other schools, opportunities available to their students, and ways in which the schools integrated sustainability efforts into the community. We compiled all of our data and identified the methods that were successful across the board.