Campus Sustainability Roadmap

In the spring of 2008, the William and Mary Environmental Science and Policy Program held a seminar on campus sustainability that enrolled 120 undergraduate students and invited multiple speakers with expertise in university sustainability issues to campus. The seminar resulted in over 60 student-written proposals for sustainable-minded improvements to the College, in areas as diverse as greener landscaping and building materials to local food production and real-time energy monitoring. These projects were collected and refined this summer by six student assistants into a "Campus Sustainability Road Map" for the College. Intended as a building block for primary initiatives by the College's new Committee on Sustainability, the Road Map is a flexible document that shows both the opportunities for improvement available at William and Mary as well as the ingenuity, creativity, and initiative of its students. We want to thank all of the students, faculty, and staff whose help and hard work was essential in the creation of the Road Map.

Click Here to Download the Roadmap. 

 

 

More information about the Campus Sustainability Seminar:
The campus Sustainability seminar is a 1-credit seminar taught by twelve William and Mary faculty across disciplines.  Offered during the spring semester of 2008, the course is built around a series of five public lectures and small groups of students then meet in a seminar setting with their respective faculty to discuss the key issues. The overall goal of the course is to help students integrate and critically assess information from different disciplines (policy, management, and natural science) that all bear on the same issues—how can universities adopt environmentally sustainable approaches to their business practices, and how can this work enhance the educational mission of the university?  At the end of the course, students produced over 70 concrete project proposals.  The best proposals will be submitted to the administration.

For more information, see the course syllabus below or download our press release.
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Syllabus--Spring 2008