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SCC is going Green - ARE YOU?
MISSION:
The Sustainability Committee at Scottsdale Community College explores and encourages sustainable operations including; reducing, reusing and recycling consumable materials, utilizing alternative energy sources, and incorporating green technologies in construction. The committee promotes learning opportunities, policies and practices that address environmental and social responsibility and lead to a more sustainable future.
VISION:
To serve as a model of sustainability in a desert environment. To act as a resource for the campus community and the surrounding community. To foster ecological literacy and stewardship amongst students, faculty and administrators. To become a certified "green" campus utilizing eco-friendly operations, energy sources, and construction. To offer courses and training programs for green-collar jobs and environment related careers.
Who are we?
We are a group of motivated students, faculty, staff & ARTIE striving to make SCC a greener campus. Our goal is to establish a new recycling system at SCC including plastic bottles, tin/aluminum cans, and to expand the paper recycling that is already in use.
We want to do our part to help save the planet through recycling, and we?d like you to join us.
How are we doing it?
We?re?
- Putting out specially-labeled recycle bins
- Working with Abitibi Consolidated--one of the largest recyclers of newspapers and magazines in North America (www.abitibiconsolidated.com)
- Organizing ?Green? on-campus public events
- Developing this online recycling resource center that will provide:
- Green resources
- Links to helpful sites and local green vendors
- Easy steps to becoming and staying green
- Ways to build a green community
- Ways to build a green lifestyle
- Tips to help you reduce your carbon footprint
- Green shopping resources
- Green activities around the Valley
- Articles about recycling and green living
- Green FAQs
"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive...and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us."
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Suggestions, Ideas, Comments? Please click here and let us know what you think about SCC's Green Initiative and what you would like to see happening in the future.
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Questions? Please contact:
Thomas Williams, thomas.williams@sccmail.maricopa.edu
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