Date posted: November 30, 2010
Terri Ramsey Hey There! I am very excited to join the Bellevue College Student Program department as the Project Development Intern supporting Deric Gruen and his team of Sustainability Interns. My role is to encourage employee outreach programs at Bellevue College. Projects are already underway and soon these projects will be a cornerstone of our ...more about Intern Introductions
Date posted: November 30, 2010
Shifting the culture and campus social norms from the paper based student evaluations to a paperless system is no easy task. There are certainly significant barriers like achieving a high return from students and maintaining the integrity of the data for our tenure candidates. But could there be a better model that benefits all? I think ...more about Campus Access to Paperless Evaluations
Date posted: November 30, 2010
More immediate feedback. The results of the survey are available a couple weeks after the quarter ends instead of 7 weeks or more. Trackable results. You can login to your links and see how many people (but not who) have responded throughout the quarter and encourage students to respond more by going to the same link above ...more about 8 Reasons to Join the Paperless Evaluation Pilot
Date posted: November 4, 2010
Metro Transit is proposing changes to routes that serve Bellevue College, including: 221, 245, 271 and 926. Here is their summary: "Metro is trying to free up hours to improve the midday headway of routes 245 and 271 to 15-minutes and they are considering the deletion of 926 with replacement service from a rerouted 233. In ...more about Metro Changes and Transportation Task Force
Date posted: October 11, 2010
Greetings! I am very pleased to join the Bellevue College community in a new position as the Sustainability Coordinator / Resource Conservation Manager. This position was created out of a partnership between Campus Operations, which received a grant from Puget Sound Energy to reduce our energy consumption, and Student Programs, with resources from the Student ...more about Greetings from BC’s new Sustainability Coordinator
Date posted: May 27, 2010
The bike is an efficient invention. With it, I can integrate my task list. Dropping my daughter off at preschool is the same thing as getting a work out. Going to work is exercise. I don't have to schedule time for each task, they are automatically integrated. When I bike I stimulate my blood flow which excites my brain, ...more about Bikes are Beautiful
Date posted: March 15, 2010
It may not surprise you, but nobody on campus prints more than the students. So at the request of students and in an effort to make a significant reduction in the amount of paper printed in the N250 Open Lab, Computing Services has recently set up duplex printing (ie double sided) as an option for all ...more about Duplex printing in N250
Date posted: March 14, 2010
I've operated under a personal limited paper use policy for the last couple years. I don't use much paper and most of the paper littering my desk has been given to me from some committee or meeting. It sits in useless piles for a few months until I get up the nerve to use it as scratch ...more about Pause the Printing
Date posted: March 11, 2010
Welcome to Bellevue College's Environmental Advisory Committee blog. Come back soon to read personal stories of sustainability at the college, and to see how Bellevue College is reducing its consumption and waste production.
