Save The Earth, and Start on Campus

Experiences and thoughts from NEACURH alumni.
by George Proakis, Noel "Tex" Texeira, and Christopher Pontani.

Program details:

Learn how opportunities on your college campus can allow you to help improve the environment. Environmental activism starts on a local level, and YOUR campus is the perfect place to help clean the environment. Learn how to conserve, save, recycle, and improve your local environment - beginning in the residence halls. Also learn how to do an environmental audit in the residence halls. This program shows you actual environmental ideas that have worked on college campuses across the country. Student residents can use this information to improve the environmental well-being of any community.

This program:

• Teaches students about environmental activism
• Discusses recycling and conservation programs that can work in residence halls
• Encourages students to teach their peers about the importance of environmental issues
• Develops recycling and conservation programs at NEACURH schools

Some of the most valuable environmental information from campus can be compiled by engaging in the process of an environmental audit.  But creating an audit is only a first step. A comprehensive project by many student organizations must follow. Each area of the audit must be worked at, to bring about real improvement. Recycling programs require student and staff support. Waste reduction programs require administrative buy-in. Through tapping the environmental activism on campus, colleges can become the experimental communities for environmental innovation.

Items to download:

• Presentation Slides
• Presentation Handouts
• Detailed notes from the Presentation Discussions (coming soon)

All information and overhead slides are copyright 1996, 1998 by George Proakis, Chris Pontani, or Noel Texeira. Slides, information, and presentation data may be used for NACURH and its affiliates with no charge, as long as the authors are given proper credit. No individual or organization may use any of the information, and/or presentations for profit without expressed written permission from Fenmore Consulting Services.