Fall 2010 Summit
Spring 2010 Summit
Duke Student Environmental Leaders Summit
31 March, 2010 Content of Networking Flip Chart PaperTransportation- GPSC Green Team
o Bus signs ("What bus comes here")
o Bike lines (on & at the edge of campus)
- DUGI Transportation Committee
o Researched biodiesel options for campus busses
Dining/Gardening- EA Real Food Campaign
o Working with the Real Food Challenge, a national organization that connects the food movements on campuses across the country
o Creating demand for fair, local, sustainable food on campus
§ Campus farm in development
o Awareness events
o Quantifying the amount of "real" food on campus at each eatery
§ Collaboration with SSL Dining Committee on sustainable dining metric
o Collaborating with other groups that have similar interests
- SSL Dining Committee
o Clamshell reusable to-go containers at Great Hall
o Green dining certification with audit of all Duke eateries
§ Collaboration with Sustainable Duke and Duke Dining Services
- Duke Culinary Society
o "Food@Duke" week in Fall 2010 to kickoff Duke Farm
o Collaboration with Duke Community )undergrad and grad)
o Brining in local sustainably minded restaurants to feature at Duke
o Forming an Iron Chef event focused on local produce
o Speakers: Alice Waters
§ ~50k depending (Should this have said 5 or 50?)
§ Should talk with Charlie Thompson, Brenda Brodie SEEDS
§ Ideas? Need to book NOW
o Jamie Oliver
§ Booked for the year
o Marion Nestle
§ $5k + travel
o Visits to local farms and farmer's markets
o Documentary showing - "Food fight" ?
o Bon Appétit/Duke Dining involvement
Land Use- Grounds
o Reuse of leaf compost
o Transplant material from building sites
o Replant storm damaged material (plants)
Water- Grounds
o Use collected water from cisterns to water annuals and trees on campus not on irrigation
- EA
o Take Back the Tap Campaign (See below in Purchasing)
Energy/Buildings- Dorm Eco-Reps from Wilson Hall
o Green dorm energy audits using kilowatt meters and a green dorm room checklist
- DUGI Energy Committee
o Researched building energy monitoring systems
- Procurement services
o Receive mass influx of green lighting vendors. Would like to plan implementation of more responsible lighting program on both University and Health System sides
- SESC
o Help promote LEED-certified building
o Educate students to practice conservation
Purchasing- EA Take Back the Tap Campaign
o Long term goal: End the sale of bottled water on campus
o Short term:
§ Awareness events
§ Improving water quality on campus
§ Reducing student demand for bottled water
- Green cleaning
o Procurement Services currently working w/ DUGI to evaluate products
o Need partnership w/ EA, DUGI - Statement from student about preferring green cleaning products
§ Contact andrea.myrick@duke.edu
- Office supplies
o Procurement Services asking departments to order only once weekly instead of daly an utilize green produces indicator on Eway
- Wilson Residence Hall Sustainability Committee
o We're hoping to purchase Brita filters for residents to reduce the number of plastic water bottles being wasted and drying racks to encourage other ways of reducing energy
Education/Outreach- SESC
o Work with student groups to "green" events, especially big DSG events
o create a green event planning guide for students
- Pratt
o Create a freshman introductory course (maybe mandatory, but not necessarily full credit) that will serve as a prolonged orientation to the Duke/Pratt community and will integrate sustainability education to make students aware of on-campus initiatives
- EA
o Eco-Olympics
§ Month-long competition involving energy, recycling, and awareness events
§ Events involve education about a wide range of environmental issues
§ Happens every fall between all the dorms on East Campus
- Grounds
o Fall Duke GROWS program with students, planting projects
o Arbor Day Foundation
§ Tree Campus USA
§ Arbor month - project with students and community revitalizing a landscape using edible plants and native plants
- DR/SSL
o Coffee Break - bring useful info about recycling & sustainability to office staff & administration on campus
Waste/Recycling- GPSC Green Team
o Recycling bin distribution program for grad student offices
o Recycling in hospital/med center (working on this)
o Opportunities for easier access/availability
- Procurement Services
o Working on recycling in hospital/med center
§ Contact Mary Crawford mary.b.crawford@duke.edu
o Giving free furniture/computers to Duke departments and area non-profits. Developing hospitals in other countries with used-medical supplies from Duke via GHPLUS
- SESC
o Working to increase, and even mandate, recycling at fraternity and sorority events
- Dorm Eco-Reps of Wilson Hall
o We're hoping to increase awareness about cardboard recycling by either establishing a location within each dorm or distributing maps indicating where the outdoor cardboard recycling locations are around campus (usually a large dumpster within easy walking distance behind each dorm)
- EA Recycling campaign
o Working with Arwen to:
§ Coordinate the move-out for charity at the end of the year
§ Help with the Garbology event during Earth Month
§ Update the campus recycling guide
- SSL
o Clamshells in the Great Hall with Duke Dining Services
- DUGI
o Working to update/improve recycling options in LSRC
- REMEDYo Donating unused medical supplies to countries in needDiscussionWhat challenges are currently limiting the effectiveness of sustainability groups?
- Central place for meeting spaces
- Physical space for collaboration
- Large amount of organizations - surprised by how many groups there are
o Need more communication between groups
- Thoughts on the wiki
o Like the wiki - success depends on whether people using it are checking it regularly
§ If everyone in the room was checking it regularly, it would be very successful
o Would support a periodic e-mail reminder to check the wiki
o Could be good to have some sort of open forum on the wiki where people could post questions - pages for diff. threads
o Wiki is more efficient use of our time in terms of contact info
o Staff should put on wiki answers to typical questions
§ Casey Roe will facilitate this
- Barrier for environmental groups is knowing who to talk to
o Compilation of what staff person to contact for certain things
§ i.e. dining, noise permit
- Grad school programs tend to be self-contained
- More meetings like this to get to know each other and collaborate together
o Twice a semester meetings like this
o General support for twice a semester meetings
- Figuring out now who wants to collaborate together to make sure the right people are talking
- We could create a "brown bag"
o Prior to meeting - groups should submit what they are working on
- Create a listserve of the people here today? Google group?
o Everyone can post events and get a digest e-mail
- Using all of the groups that are here to advocate for the same goals - this could create an opportunity for fundamental change
o EA has a lot of manpower, but there is a lot more manpower in this room
o We could work towards big policy change together
- Introductions and networking time were the focus of this event, there is interest in continued conversations
o How would you envision this time to make it most productive?
o Open networking, structured discussion?
o Open networking is important because students are leaving and new students are coming in, maybe we can evaluate what we have written down before the next summit - maybe we could form groups to present on ideas for the next summit
- From a staff perspective, students really do lead the way - students can drive the change, we have trouble mandating anything at Duke
o We value diverse backgrounds and choices
o If there are enough student groups coming together and mandating a change they can be successful
o Making a huge impact on 30,000 staff members
o We need students to drive this
o Figure out what the ideas are that you all want to see change in
o Don't think you are just changing the students
What opportunities exist for creating a more sustainable Duke, and how can students lead the way?
How do we get at the student population, how do we connect with them, how to we have a brand that is recognizable?
- EA - get name out as often as possible, be active
- Simple catchy phrases and marketing
o Bleed Blue. Live Green.
- Collaborating with more and more groups - helping out where you can
How can the groups assembled here work together to empower each other?
- As a staff member, work with many student groups on same projects - save money and time by collaborating more together
o Green guide would be good example for future collaboration
- In a lot of different groups there are several similar projects going
o These sub-groups should collaborate
- It would be helpful to meet again at the beginning of the semester before the projects are decided, projects now are already underway
- DUGI gets together in the fall to decide what campaigns and committees they will have, it would be helpful to hear what other groups are doing
- We all also have our unique constituents, so duplication isn't always ineffective
- Collaboration between all of our groups - having a green week
o "Purple week" in fall
o Some sort of collaborative event between 22 groups
o This would force us to see how our projects fit together
o Fuqua has a green week in the fall
§ Competition among the different sections of the business school
§ Bring in other grad schools as well
- We need to have some type of steering committee for this
o Ben Soltoff
o Casey Roe
o Arwen Buchholz
o Liz Bloomhardt
- We will send out a list of today's participants