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Current

Events:

"Flick the Switch" Dorm Energy Competition concludes, April 23, 2008

3rd Annual "Pedal for the Planet" day, April 23, 2008

3rd annual "E-waste" day recycles 5,710 lbs. of electronic waste

"Is God Green?"
Professors from different departments discussed scientific and religious dimensions of environmental stewardship at the annual Katie Springer Forum on God and Science

"Focus the Nation"

  Saint Mary's presents Global Warming Solutions for America

January 23, 2008

SMC is the featured spotlight campus in the September 14th newsletter of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

 Summer Reading Program for incoming students focuses on global warming

 

  College Strategic Plan sets sustainability goals, tasks

 

"Project Green" student group receives

recycling grant

 

State approves funding for new energy conservation measures

 

State of the Economy Conference Examines Environmental Sustainability

 

Jon Waterman reports

on Arctic Warming

 

Saint Mary's Magazine reports

on campus sustainability initiatives

 

Students Study Science, Politics and Economics of Global Warming

 

Nell Newman of Newman's Own Organics and Rick Peyser of Green Mountain Coffee discuss their experiences as organic merchants

 

President Pledges Support for Campus Sustainability

 

Saint Mary's Signs Pledge to Conserve Electricity

Saint Mary's joins the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Take Action:

 

1) Join a Carpool to SMC 

 

 2)  Calculate Your Ecological  Footprint

and Your CO2 Emissions

   

3) "Green" Your Dorm Room    

   

4) What We Can Do About Global Warming

                                               5) How To Do An Environmental Audit

 

                                                                  

            "We invite teachers and educators to emphasize,

         in their classrooms and curricula, a love for

         God’s creation, a respect for nature, and a

               commitment to practices and behavior that

                bring these attitudes into the daily lives of

their students and themselves."

~The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,

“Renewing the Earth”, 1992, p.13

"As commonly practiced...the design of buildings and landscapes is thought to have little or nothing to do with the process of learning of the quality of scholarship... In fact, [they] reflect a hidden curriculum that powerfully influences the learning process." 

~David Orr

“Reassembling the Pieces: Ecological Design and the Liberal Arts”,

1993, pp.229-36.

 

This site is dedicated to helping Saint Mary's College of California become a more ecologically sustainable campus.

Learn More:

                     

                      

Higher Education

Sustainability Sites

Sustainability and Catholic Social Thought

Vatican becomes first state in Europe to go carbon-neutral

The Environmental History of Saint Mary's College

"A Longer View of Sustainability..."

in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Campus Sustainability in the New York Times

Sustainability Syllabi

 

Environmental Careers

 

 
       
 
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