Advisor: Frank T. Kuserk, Professor of Biology

 

9/7/08

 

I'm in the beginning stages of making serious change at Moravian. I know that with any change there is a transition period, and I take this into account when putting all of these ideas into action!

 

 

 

Outline of projects for semester:

 

 

 

Composting

 

-Food scraps, cafeteria waste, and grass waste

-Talk to facilities about where waste goes (trees, shrubs, leaves, grass)Leaves, shrubs

-Where do they take it?

-Close to the compost center

-Talk to food services about where the waste goes?

 

Green House Gas Inventory            

 

 

-Finish it

-Make a list of what’s missing Realistically back to 2000, at LEAST 5 years

-10000 metric tons per year!            

 

Awareness

 

-Interview students about knowledge about sustainability on campus

-Interview admin/faculty/staff –gauge reactions, what they are doing

-Give Moravian a 'grade' on sustainability practices

 

 

 

11/06/08

 

 

·        Meetings

o       EnviroCo

§         Recycling bins-on their way, looked at Lehigh’s, need to know cost!-from facilities

§         Education-next week making signs for HUB and campus about recycling, energy efficiency, waste reduction

§         Vegan/Vegetarian Thanksgiving-Nov. 23rd

§         Recyclmania

·        Making a spreadsheet of all the buildings and locations of recycling containers on campus

·        GHGI

o       making a contact list of where information was gathered from

·        Documentary

o       Need to interview math, history, admin, staff, students

o       Need to edit

o       Need 5 more students, variety

·         Looking at checklist, update wikipage

·        Sustainability Article

·        Grant

o       ‘TOTB’ kind of Grant from Brita EcoChallenge due 11/14/08