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Stonehill Goes Green

Stonehill Goes Green is a campus-wide initiative to promote environmental sustainability within the Stonehill community through policies and practices including recycling, efficient energy use, and waste reduction.

This effort is being guided by the Environmental Stewardship Council, which functions in an advisory capacity to Stonehill's Associate Vice President for Operations, Roger Goode. The council is charged with developing, recommending, and maintaining a series of sustainability goals and improving the effort to reduce Stonehill's carbon footprint. The council's work takes the form of recommending policies and actions, increasing awareness of environmental issues, and disseminating information about ways the Stonehill community can contribute to these efforts.

Environmental Stewardship Council

Mission

The mission of the council is to foster proactive, environmentally sustainable policies, approaches, and practices by the campus community that are consistent with Stonehill's mission, guiding principles, and student learning goals and outcomes.

The Environmental Stewardship Council shall:

Develop and maintain a plan of environmentally sustainable goals, objectives, and action plans based on approved policies and practices and consistent with the College's mission, guiding principles, and policies.
Formulate, review, and recommend environmentally sustainable and fiscally sound policies and practices.
Define instructional space on campus that must remain in its natural state for teaching and research purposes.
Promote environmentally conscious activities on- and off-campus.

Membership

The council includes two faculty members, two students--including the president of Students for Environmental Action (SEA)--and at least one representative from each administrative division of the college. The council currently consists of:

Sue Mooney, Faculty (Chair)
Maura Tyrrell, Faculty
Christopher Ives, Faculty
Cassondra White, Class of '11 (SEA)
Lauren Tantillo, Class of '11(SEA)
Lucy Rose Moller, Class of '11 (SGA Eco-Rep)
Erin Ambrose, Advancement
Heather Cantwell Miller, Student Activities
Kathy Falcone, Human Resources
Lyn Feeney, Campus Ministry
Andrew Leahy, Admissions
Benjamin Van Gieson, IT
Greg Wolfe, Purchasing
TBA, Facilities Representative (interim, Bruce Boyer and/or Bob MacEachern)
Geoffrey Smith, Marketing

Green Announcements

Periodically, the Environmental Stewardship Council sends out "green announcements" to Stonehill students, faculty, and administrators via e-mail to highlight important sustainability efforts on and off campus and to suggest simple ways in which members of the Stonehill community can help reduce Stonehill's impact on the environment. The objective is to raise overall campus awareness of environmental issues and demonstrate how easy it is to make a difference.

All Green Announcements are archived here.