Procurement subgroup
December 5th, 2007
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
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January 25th, 2008 at 11:40 am
At the Tuesday meeting with the Troyer Group, Bill mentioned a carpet company that ‘leases’ the carpets. When it needs to be replaced, the company comes back, removes and recycles the carpet. Do we currently have any recyclable carpets on campus? Could we make this a priority for future carpet replacements?
Another question I had was whether or not we were using paper products made from recycled materials. The campus does a great job of recycling paper, but if we’re not ‘closing the loop’ by using recycled products we’re still consuming raw materials.
Since I’m the first blog poster, I’ll also comment on a few things I heard in Tuesday’s meeting. Many students feel like the ‘environmentally friendly’ nature of campus extends only to the administration building. In some cases the problem is an unawareness of the many programs in place. In others, the problem is glaring- like the single pane, drafty windows in the ‘woods’ dorms. Some students wondered if some money might be better spent (and more beneficial to the environment) improving other old buildings on campus rather than making one building ‘Ultra’ green. I’d personally like to see the new science center be at least Gold LEED certified, but would encourage a commitment to update/renovate other existing buildings in the near future as well.