Week 9 Progress
- Waiting on feedback on draft sustainability plan from STF (meeting Wednesday March 4th at 4pm in 311 HWCC) and alumni reviewers
- Submitted Legacy Internship proposal for Food Sustainability
- Considering teaching a section of UC 160 The OWU Experience with a sustainability & environment focus (Fall 2015 or Spring 2016)
Post Spring Break Work: updated Monday March 16
A few new additions in red below.
1. Put Thursday April 9 4pm meeting of STF on your calendar. Let me know who can attend.
2. Potential grant opportunities and fundable projects: please identify a minimum of three foundations and their specific grants we can consider.
- Foundation Center (Karen Crosman has a subscription and can search more options through the Center; I suggest compiling any questions you have or searches you suggest and we will send her a list from all of us).
- Columbus Foundation: several people with OWU connections are in significant positions at this Foundation, which is more or less a “meta” foundation which administers many smaller foundations and grant sources. Some are limited to the City of Columbus or Franklin Co., but others are available to Delaware Co.
- General Foundation Search: keep in mind what Karen talked to us about foundations and search for additional options. Sometimes it helps to have a project or projects in mind (dishwasher, natural gas powered vans) other times it helps to see what a foundation funds (to get ideas for possibilities on campus).
3. Review entire draft of sustainability plan and document ideas for specific, measurable goals. Please generate a minimum of ten sustainability goals for our sustainability plan.
- Determine which groups are covering which sections.
- Meeting with Gene Castelli (Chartwell’s related content).
- Review other sustainability plans for goal ideas and examples.
- Review President’s Climate Commitment page on Geog 499 Class blog (in tabs at top of page, or here) for ideas for sustainability plan goals. We have to review the 2009 report and focus on the issues which led to OWU not signing the Commitment and address those.
- Another source of ideas for goals are the Ceres Principles.
- Practice Greenhealth has a relatively succinct overview of how to put sustainability goals into practice. While aimed at hospitals, the principles seem to by and large work well for an academic institution:
- Sustainability Leadership and Infrastructure: introduction, with more detailed sections linked at the bottom of the page.