Blog #3

Describe the program on AASHE and Sustainable Carolina’s websites that interest you the most. Write one questions for Margaret Bounds based on Sustainable Carolina’s website.

            When perusing through Sustainable Carolina’s website I was most impressed by the first campaign listed their project teams work behind. While each campaign is instrumental in the overall success in making the campus, community and individuals more sustainable, I found the first campaign, to promote campus-wide integrative, ecological thinking was fundamental in that goal. It is imperative that the third campaign, to promote sustainable management of campus resources, be active in order for the acceptance of greener lifestyles to take hold because without the resources available people would be less receptive and maybe even incapable of implementing the new habits. However, I thought the integration of sustainable options in curriculum, research, residence halls and daily discussion or conversation was an original and creative approach to assimilating eco friendly messages and behaviors into out culture as a university, community and society.
            On the site for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), I thought the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) was an interesting program. It’s mission to address global climate change and their institution’s own emissions through education works on a platform similar to Sustainable Carolina’s campaign to promote campus-wide integrative, ecological thinking. Not only does this program hope to reduce the environmental impacts of its own buildings, but to give back to the Earth and provide a more stable future in sustainability through the education of its students.
            After reviewing AASHE and Sustainable Carolina’s website, I would like to ask Margaret Bounds if a Campus Sustainability Day can be incorporated into the Sustainable Carolina calendar of events to celebrate green achievements and strengthening them by setting new goals and challenges in a public forum that gets the whole University involved.