This year, Sustainability Council will complete most of its work in small subcommittees. At our first meeting this year, we agreed to focus on the efforts described below. If you're interested in joining these subcommittees or have ideas you'd like to share with them, you can find their names below and contact them using the Friendsbalt.org directory; general comments and inquiries can be sent to sustainability@friendsbalt.org.
- Aquaponics Feasibility
- Researching the possibility of installing a small system on campus to grow fish and leafy greens sustainably.
- Contact Katherine Jenkins
- Communication/Education:
- Improve communication with other campus committees, parents, students, faculty, staff, other area sustainability groups
- Create and mantain sustainability web page and blog
- Contact: Joshua Ratner and Jane Huth
- Maryland Green School Application Process
- Begin application
- Document completed steps and long-term plans
- Plot timeline, priorities, ways to involve community
- Contact Katherine Jenkins and Joshua Ratner
- Native Plant Teaching Gardens
- Document designs and intentions of each individual garden
- Continue education and publicity re: gardens
- Contact Kay McConnell
- Responsible energy use on campus, including:
- Building and campus infrastructure
- Waste reduction and composting
- energy use
- future furniture purchasing
- new architecture projects
- Food/drink offerings:
- Contact: Scott Harrington
- Responsible energy use to and from campus (transportation issues) including:
- athletic transport
- idling
- walk pool
- community web page for carpooling
- Contact: Andy Spawn
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