Student Sustainability Summit
- Casey Roe
Fall 2010 Summit
Spring 2010 Summit
Duke Student Environmental Leaders Summit
31 March, 2010Â Content of Networking Flip Chart PaperTransportation- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â GPSC Green Team
o  Bus signs ("What bus comes here")
o  Bike lines (on & at the edge of campus)
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â DUGI Transportation Committee
o  Researched biodiesel options for campus busses
Dining/Gardening- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Grounds
o  Reuse of leaf compost
o  Transplant material from building sites
o  Replant storm damaged material (plants)
Water- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Grounds
o  Use collected water from cisterns to water annuals and trees on campus not on irrigation
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â EA
o  Take Back the Tap Campaign (See below in Purchasing)
Energy/Buildings- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dorm Eco-Reps from Wilson Hall
o  Green dorm energy audits using kilowatt meters and a green dorm room checklist
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â DUGI Energy Committee
o  Researched building energy monitoring systems
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â SESC
o  Help promote LEED-certified building
o  Educate students to practice conservation
Purchasing- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Office supplies
o  Procurement Services asking departments to order only once weekly instead of daly an utilize green produces indicator on Eway
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â SESC
o  Work with student groups to "green" events, especially big DSG events
o  create a green event planning guide for studentsÂ
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â DR/SSL
o  Coffee Break - bring useful info about recycling & sustainability to office staff & administration on campus
Waste/Recycling- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â SESC
o  Working to increase, and even mandate, recycling at fraternity and sorority events
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â SSL
o  Clamshells in the Great Hall with Duke Dining Services
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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?
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Central place for meeting spaces
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Physical space for collaboration
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Large amount of organizations - surprised by how many groups there are
o  Need more communication between groups
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Grad school programs tend to be self-contained
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We could create a "brown bag"
o  Prior to meeting - groups should submit what they are working on
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Create a listserve of the people here today? Google group?
o  Everyone can post events and get a digest e-mail
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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?
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â EA - get name out as often as possible, be active
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Simple catchy phrases and marketing
o  Bleed Blue. Live Green.
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Collaborating with more and more groups - helping out where you can
How can the groups assembled here work together to empower each other?
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â In a lot of different groups there are several similar projects going
o  These sub-groups should collaborate
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It would be helpful to meet again at the beginning of the semester before the projects are decided, projects now are already underway
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We all also have our unique constituents, so duplication isn't always ineffective
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We need to have some type of steering committee for this
o  Ben Soltoff
o  Casey Roe
o  Arwen Buchholz
o  Liz Bloomhardt
- Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We will send out a list of today's participants