Develop environmental awareness & responsibility
- make institutional decisions that consider environmental impacts as well as educational and economic ones
- educate the college community (students, faculty, staff, administrators) and our broader community about environmental sustainability
- lead by example, and form partnerships in environmental stewardship with our local and global community
- communicate our successes
Reduce inputs of energy and materials
- conserve energy and consumable resources (e.g., paper, water)
- employ energy- and material-efficient buildings, appliances, tools, vehicles, etc.
Acquire energy and materials from sustainable sources
- acquire natural resources in ways that leave them available for future generations, in environmentally sound, socially just, ethically acceptable ways
Recycle
- adaptively re-use and recycle materials
Cultivate biological diversity
- share the campus landscape with a diversity of organisms appropriate to our location
