SAU的可持续发展
在圣. 可以买滚球的正规平台, we believe sustainability is more than a cause; it is an individual and collective responsibility.
Our commitment to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and social正义 requires each of us to examine the use of natural, social, 经济资源, as well as seek solutions and adopt stewardship practices that will sustain our world today, and allow it to thrive for the generations of tomorrow. It is a commitment reflected in our actions, academics, and goals.
建立在我们已经开始的基础上
- 我们种植了传粉者花园, 安装了水瓶加气站, prioritized energy efficiency in campus construction, utilized fresh vegetables from our campus gardens to serve in our tray-less cafeteria, 改善回收教育, and established a 可持续性 Committee to lead new initiatives and promote stewardship of the natural environment.
- 在学术课程，如生物学, 环境研究, 业务, 和公共卫生, we provide 学生 with the tools to become sustainability champions.
- 我们的环保学生社团, 绿色生活, strives to educate their peers and lead earth-friendly initiatives.
- We spark collective action by hosting guest lectures and roundtable discussions where 学生 and community members gather to learn about environmental challenges and ignite change.
- 通过本科研究 and internships, our 学生 address environmental issues hands-on at partner organizations like Nahant Marsh, Niabi动物园, 生活, 土地和水域等等!
Our mission and shared values of academic excellence, social正义, and community service require Ambrosians do more than simply advocate for sustainability; we must also challenge ourselves to do more – on campus, 在这个世界上, 为了我们的未来.
Demonstrate your commitment by signing this 可持续性 Pledge 了解更多关于我们的工作.
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"绿色生活 initiatives allow me to make a difference in my community that will hopefully encourage others to do the same. I am especially motivated by the need to help protect all of the beautiful species diversity we have in our 状态." ——green Life总裁格蕾塔·索尔布里格
"Sustainable solutions to climate change are urgently needed to protect the most vulnerable populations. Being involved in Greenlife at SAU gave me the opportunity to learn leadership skills necessary for a career in sustainability, while also creating a positive impact on campus and in the surrounding community." ——前绿色生命组织主席艾玛·邓肯
“作为一名未来的医疗工作者, I see how the changing climate is changing the lives of individuals and their livelihood. It is impacting the environment and the health of others. I feel a calling to that, and I want to make it better for those people."——绿色生命前总裁安娜·施密特
作为一个校园正规买球平台有哪些，St. 可以买滚球的正规平台 intentionally nurtures our common home, 通过各种研究, 操作, 还有课外活动. We are committed to the research of 当地的 eco-systems, 雨水截留应用, 使用当地食物, 照顾好我们的花园和蜂巢.——艾米·C. 诺瓦克，埃德，圣. 可以买滚球的正规平台校长
我们的使命
Consistent with our Catholic heritage and Catholic Environmental Teaching, St. 可以买滚球的正规平台 commits to stewardship of our natural 资源 and protection of the rest of Creation.
这些举措将在财政上保持谨慎, 批判性思考, 教育, and potentially require difficult behavioral changes to reduce our impact on the environment.
We will collaborate with appropriate campus, 当地的, 状态, 和更广泛的支持者分享想法, 资源, 以及实现我们目标的解决方案.
我们的集体影响
“人们很容易认为我只是一个人, and this is only one plastic bottle – how will that make a difference? But if we all start making small changes to become more sustainable it will add up and lead to bigger changes. 它从个人开始."
-Kristina Shelman, 20岁, former 绿色生活 student leader and current medical student at the University of Iowa
从今天开始. Choose from the list of tips below and collectively, 我们可以在校园里有所作为, 在我们的正规买球平台有哪些里, 在世界各地!
更多的信息
委员会主席
艾米·布莱尔博士，生物学教授
Dennis Tarasi，博士，生物学协会. 教授
教师, 工作人员, 学生, and university administrators lead SAU's sustainability initiatives and promote stewardship of the natural environment.
The 可持续性 Committee's research and recommendations – whether focused on solar energy or reducing food waste – aims to decrease the university's environmental impact. The committee is igniting discussion and action by hosting projects and events, and it encourages each student and employee to commit to reducing their impact on the environment by signing the 可持续性 Pledge.
可以买滚球的正规平台 学生 and employees who want to participate in the discussion and planning of future sustainability initiatives are welcome to join the committee. 联系Amy Blair教授，博士，或 Dennis Tarasi副教授, PhD, co-chairs of the 可持续性 Committee.
绿色生活，我们的学生环保俱乐部, educates and encourages the campus to adopt practices that will protect and support a thriving Earth for generations to come.
Here's a sampling of their contributions over the past couple of years:
- 成员们建造蜂房, 种植多种传粉植物的花园, and a vegetable garden used by campus food service.
- 他们组织清理垃圾, labeled recycling bins (to reduce waste contamination), 领导减少食物浪费的工作, and coordinated an end-of-semester food drive in each residence hall. 绿色生活已经收集了超过1,200 pounds of food to donate to 当地的 food banks like Riverbend Food Bank and Cafe on Vine.
- “绿色生活”的成员可以带来改变. Three past presidents have earned scholarships as the recipients of the prestiguous "Future Leaders of Conservation" Oberholtzer Awards
- 2022年艾玛·邓肯
- 2020 20岁的克里斯蒂娜·谢尔曼和21岁的安娜·施密特
校园里有人吗?, 包括教职员工, is welcome to join and support 绿色生活 initiatives. 通过电子邮件正规买球平台有哪些 beegreen@mullenelderlaw.net
学术课程，如生物学, 环境研究, 业务, 和公共卫生 provide our 学生 with the tools to become sustainability champions.
通过本科研究, our 学生 are hands-on in addressing environmental issues, whether studying a nearby urban wetland or discovering a way to clean rivers and lakes. Learn about some of your opportunities below.
This interdisciplinary minor encourages 学生 to explore the physical environment from various perspectives, 包括文学, 神学, 生物学, 和艺术.
Students learn diverse approaches to understand, 涉及到, and responsibly manage the natural environment. All 学生 complete a capstone project that provides hands-on experiences in conservation, 保存, 和恢复.
Conserving 资源 and reducing our environmental impact is a long-standing priority at St. 可以买滚球的正规平台.
2021年春天, SAU became a certified Bee Campus USA® affiliate, making it one of only three colleges in Iowa recognized by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation for taking steps to protect and conserve native pollinators. 阅读这篇关于成为蜜蜂校园的故事.
在过去的几年里, 我们创造了传粉者花园, 整修了刘易斯大厅温室, 安装了水瓶加气站, and renovated and constructed energy-efficient buildings, including the 健康与娱乐 Center and McMullen Hall. 我们的自助餐厅没有托盘, and 学生 take to-go meals in a returnable and reusable container.
There are recycling bins in every residence hall and building. 地毯拆下后，我们回收利用, 如果我们拆除或翻新一栋建筑, anything that can't be reused or repurposed is donated. For instance, before demolishing five nearby homes in 2017, we invited the nonprofit Gateway Redevelopment Group to salvage anything it wanted. The all-volunteer group removed trim, windows, kitchen cabinets, wood flooring, doorknobs, and more. 盖特威随后卖掉了它所打捞的东西, using the money to restore abandoned homes in the Hamburg Historic District, 就在校园南边.
我们找到了节约资源的新方法. Storm runoff is now stored within 19 underground retention tanks around campus that, at surface level, are masked as aesthetic rock gardens. 在夏天, 场地管理员拉的是1,500 gallons weekly from the tanks to water flower beds and plantings.
Other efforts on campus, while basic, have cumulative effects, saving St. 可以买滚球的正规平台 thousands of dollars annually: low-flow showerheads in residence halls, low-energy light bulbs replacing regular bulbs, and energy management systems on many facilities' heating and air-conditioning units.
Finding ways to conserve energy and shrink St. 可以买滚球的正规平台's carbon footprint – even as the campus grows – are being implemented every year.
你能做什么
签署可持续发展承诺 and commit to reducing your environmental impact as a member of the St. 可以买滚球的正规平台正规买球平台有哪些.
Those who complete the pledge form will receive a placard signifying their commitment to environmental stewardship!
Do you have an idea to share or a topic or project you'd like explored further?
电子邮件 sustainability@mullenelderlaw.net to connect with the leaders of the 可持续性 Committee.
这里有一些开始的方法:
- 加入 绿色生活 或校园可持续发展委员会!
- Instead of throwing away clothes you no longer wear, donate them to the Davis Closet or the Career Center Closet.
- Take part in Bee the Difference Day, and with your peers, help campus tackle neighborhood projects.
- Or volunteer on a 校园部 spring break 服务访问. Past trips have included cleaning trash and debris from the Mississippi River, renovating and upgrading homes for people living in poverty, and helping build a school in Kentucky and more.
Learn about our student clubs and organizations
了解服务机会
了解即将到来的校园活动
Here are some of the small changes you can make, as recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that collectively can make a big difference:
- Nutritious, safe, and untouched food can be donated to help those in need. (Consider donating it to the 绿色生活 end-of-the-semester food drive or directly to the 河湾食物银行)
- 买饭的时候，只买你需要的. Too often extra ketchup packets and napkins go to waste.
- Change your printer settings to make double-sided pages. Use small point fonts when possible and use the "fast draft" setting when possible to save ink
- Turn off or unplug lights during the day to save energy and help lights last longer.
- Donate used (but still operating) electronics for reuse. This extends the lives of valuable products and keeps them out of the waste stream for a longer period of time. Recycling one million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by more than 3,一年500个美国家庭. (The Waste Commission of Scott County offers an Electronic Waste and Electronic Reuse Program.)
- 每回收100万部手机, we can recover 35 thousand pounds of copper, 772磅的银子, 75磅黄金, 还有33磅的钯.
- 买旧的而不是新的. Find everything you need from clothes to building materials at specialized reuse centers and consignment shops. Often, used items are less expensive and just as good as new.
- 寻找使用较少包装的产品. When manufacturers make their products with less packaging, they use less raw material
- Show your commitment to a clean environment by volunteering in a cleanup effort in your community. (加入 us each year for Bee the Difference day.)
- 分享旅程和道路. Public transportation and carpooling reduce pollution.
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