November 2012 Newsletter
Date posted: November 17, 2012
November 2012 Sustainability at Bellevue College newsletter…
Date posted: November 17, 2012
November 2012 Sustainability at Bellevue College newsletter…
Date posted: November 16, 2012
Climate change is becoming a daily topic in the news and on campus. Bellevue College faculty, staff, and students are asking how they can engage the issue. A critical point of engagement is how the College invests. Members of the Bellevue College community joined their peers for a Seattle Town Hall event hosted by Bill ...more about Bill McKibben on Climate Change: 70 of Bellevue College Attend, Values Clear
Date posted: November 9, 2012
David Hales, President of Second Nature (a main supporting organization of the AUCPCC*), recently emailed signatories of the AUCPCC with some thoughts on Hurricane Sandy. The bullet points, including the specifics on Sandy, put very bluntly the issues we face: Climate change is real; it has consequences, and those consequences are already occurring. Observed and documented ...more about Thoughts on Hurricane Sandy
Date posted: October 25, 2012
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education hosted a conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. The conference fostered communication between college environmental representatives and teaches across the country. Bellevue College’s ASG (Associated Student Government) environmental representative, Mackenzie Williamson, was granted funds through the Student Environmental Sustainability Fund. Zack Boucher, the transportation ...more about AASHE Conference 2012 – What Did We Learn?
Date posted: October 25, 2012
That’s right, real time bus arrivals are now displayed in the bus shelter in front of the parking garage. Be sure to stop by and check it out, possibly the first one of its kind installed at a college campus in Washington. Ever caught wondering when the next bus will arrive? Not anymore, these new ...more about BC Launches Real Time Bus Arrival Screen
Date posted: October 24, 2012
The report is out! Bellevue College already at bronze and poised for silver. Bellevue College just completed an evaluation through the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) by a former UW graduate student, Suzanne Zitzer, who also worked on UW's rating. STARS is a tool produced by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in ...more about Going for Gold! Benchmarking by STARS
Date posted: October 24, 2012
Bellevue College has been offered free student tickets to Bill McKibben’s Do the Math Tour kicking off Nov. 7th 2012. It’s simple math: we can burn 565 more gigatons of carbon and stay below 2C of warming – anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Fossil fuel corporations now ...more about Free Tickets to Bill McKibben at Benayora Hall
Date posted: October 24, 2012
Bellevue College was awarded a $21,000 performance incentive as part of the PSE Resource Conservation Management program. Energy consumption decreased 8% or 6,188,099 KBtu from July 2011 to June 2012 at Main Campus for a total avoided cost of $76, 250. The calculations are adjusted for weather through Utility Manager software. Bellevue College saw the ...more about 8% Energy Savings + $21,000 Performance Bonus
Date posted: October 17, 2012
October 2012 Sustainability at Bellevue College newsletter…
Date posted: October 1, 2012
2013 - Bellevue College Wins National Climate Leadership Award 2012 – Office of Sustainability Launched 2011 – Transportation Management Plan launched 2011 – First Sustainability Curriculum Mgr. Hired 2010 – First Sustainability and Resource Conservation Mgr. hired 2009 – Environmental Advisory Committee completes first Carbon Audit 2008 – Students approve Student Environmental Sustainability Fund ...more about Milestones