Creation Care Council Blog

Dear EMU community — While the semester may be winding down, efforts toward making our university more sustainable must continue. Please submit your ideas as a comment to this posting. We’ll use them as the full CCC resumes in the fall. Meanwhile, this space will be updated with items that continue over the summer months.

Mission: to address usage of energy, promote sustainability with respect to buildings. Contact person: Eldon Kurtz

Mission: to addressusage of resources, to promote composting, bicycling, bus and other options and discuss parking. Contact person: Greg Sachs

Mission: to articulate our faith-based approach to sustainability and incorporate sustainability themes “across” the curriculum

Mission: to explore ways to build EMU’s community around sustainability themes and to make/ strengthen ties to our local community. Contact person: Jim Yoder

The mission of this subgroup of the Creation Care Council is to increase sustainable food choices, gardening on campus, and sustainable consumption and contracts. Contact person: Peter Dula

Welcome to EMU’s Creation Care Council blog. We hope this blog will provide a forum for people to share their ideas and feedback about anything related to sustainable living and EMU. You will find a category for each of the five subgroups of the Creation Care Council. Some agenda overlaps between groups so don’t worry [...]