2:00 pm - 3:00 PM
American Indian Hall 159

Attendees: Brett Gunnink, Ryan Knutson, Lee Spangler, Jennifer Thomson, Lucas Oelkers, Megan Sterl, Kara Landolfi, Steven Swinford, Kristin Blackler, Terry Leist, Paul Edlund, Rose Vejvoda, Brooke Lahneman, Calvin Servheen

 

Minutes

I. Welcome and announcements

  • Ryan Knutson makes motion to approve December meeting minutes. All in favor.

 

II. Discussion- Updates from Sub-Committees

a. Scope 1&2 Subcommittee

  • Increase communication and awareness of existing projects on campus, emphasis on telling the story
  • Campus wide planning efforts

b. Outreach Subcommittee

  • Summit is taking place on April 11th in SUB Ballroom A from 9:30am-4;30pm
  • Goals on summit are to report on progress being made on the Sustainability Framework, educate on sustainability, and build community
  • Summit will include updates on the sustainability framework, keynote speaker Daniel Anderson from the Common Ground Project, co-occurring workshops, sustainability shorts, campus tours, and lunch

 

c. Curriculum Subcommittee

  • Introduced definitions at the last faculty senate meeting and they were accepted
  • Launching the Sustainability in the Curriculum initiative on February 8th at Faculty Senate

 

d. Data Collection Subcommittee

  • Starting to define some numbers that we want to find including travel miles by car and airline for faculty, staff, students, and athletics, the amount of single use plastic on campus, and paper utilization numbers.
  • Also considering how to turn data into something meaningful
  • Identifying partnerships across campus to aid in figuring out where to find data
  • Lee: Can we analyze how we are doing compared to similar universities in terms of STARS performance (plot universities on a map based on climate zones, type of university)

e. Zero Waste Subcommittee

  • Still working to define the scope of zero waste
  • Want to focus on addressing waste at the source, developing policies and procedures that helps stop waste from coming onto campus at all

 

III. Other business

  • Terry Leist: Make changes to website to show what we are doing in these meetings
  1. Public comment
  • Calvin Servheen
    • Working on project around green technology entrepreneurship
      • Want to increase participation
      • Feb 11th, piloting event for graduate student researchers
      • Will give Kristin some more information, send students my way

 Meeting Adjourned at 2:57pm

Next meeting: March 2, 2023. 2-3 PM, Presidents Conference Room Montana Hall