Paula Williams, Director of the Office of Sustainability at the University of Alaska Anchorage, shared information about the history of environmental sustainability at UAA; efforts by UAA Facilitites, Planning and Construction in creating a Master Plan\u00a0that includes\u00a0sustainability; actions that UAA students, staff and faculty can take to help the environment; and\u00a0opportunities for students to get involved in sustainability efforts on campus.<\/p>\n
OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY<\/p>\n
The Office of Sustainability was introduced in 2009 thanks to the efforts of a faculty-driven council on sustainability.\u00a0 According to their web site, an ad hoc committe on sustainability was first established in 2003, the year that Faculty Senate and USUAA approved the Talloires Declaration University Leaders for a Sustainable Future.\u00a0 For more information about the Talloires Declaration, go to http:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\/sustainability\/talloires.cfm<\/a>.\u00a0 Read more about the history of the Office of Sustainability at: http:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\/sustainability\/About\/history.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n Information, in general, about the Office of Sustainability can be found at http:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\/sustainability\/<\/a><\/p>\n ARE YOU INTERESTED IN TAKING A COURSE ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY?<\/p>\n Students interested in taking sustainability-minded courses can find a list at:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\/sustainability\/upload\/Sustainability-Courses.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n GREEN FEE Grants<\/p>\n A three dollar Green Fee per student\u00a0was voted on and approved by the Union of Students (see\u00a0referenda #12-01 at \u00a0http:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\/unionofstudents\/structure\/upload\/Referandum-12-1.pdf<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n The Green Fee money will be used to fund projects that are sustainability-focused.\u00a0 More information to come…<\/p>\n WHAT ARE UAA DEPARTMENTS DOING TO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT?<\/p>\n Learn about what different UAA\u00a0Departments are doing to improve sustainability: http:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\/sustainability\/What-is-UAA-Doing\/index.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paula Williams, Director of the Office of Sustainability at the University of Alaska Anchorage, shared information about the history of environmental sustainability at UAA; efforts by UAA Facilitites, Planning and Construction in creating a Master Plan\u00a0that includes\u00a0sustainability; actions that UAA students, staff and faculty can take to help the environment; and\u00a0opportunities for students to get … Continue reading “Learn about UAA’s Office of Sustainability from Paula Williams, Director, on Informania, Monday, 9am and Thursday, 5pm on 88.1 KRUA, The Edge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informania-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}