vanessa & jen ’ s service learning adventures
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Vanessa & Jen’sService Learning
Adventures
Sustainable World
Reports from the Field
OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY
• The mission of the sustainability office is to use the strengths of George Mason University - innovation, responsiveness, flexibility, and community strength - to provide leadership in environmental, social, and economic stewardship on our campuses and throughout the local and global communities of which we are a part.
MENTORS ECO SUPERHEROS
• LENNA STORM• Sustainability coordinator
• DANIELLE WYMAN• Sustainability projects specialist
SO WHAT DID WE DO?
• RECYCLING SURVEYS• 352 responses• Determine Mason community’s knowledge• Recycling audit
WORKS IN PROGRESS..
• Designing interior recycling centers• “One stop spot for everyone’s recycling needs!”
WORKS IN PROGRESS..
• Composting food waste on campus• UVA model• Outsourcing• Transportation• Involvement
COURSE RELATIONSHIP
• Christopher Uhl• Three-step process of developing sustainability
indicators• Edwards
• Ecology/environment• Economy/employment• Equity/equality
COURSE RELATIONSHIP
• Orr – “Four Challenges of Sustainability”• “2. The transition to sustainability will require a
marked improvement and creativity in the arts of citizenship and governance. There are some things that can be done only by an alert citizenry.”
• “3. The third challenge…is to inform the discretion of the public through greatly improved education. Students of all ages will need the kind of education and skills appropriate to building a society with fewer cars but more bicycles and trains; fewer power plants but more windmills and solar collectors; fewer supermarkets and more farmer’s markets…”
WHAT DID WE LEARN?
• Students need motivation and education!• Communication• Effective citizenship• Strategic problem-solving• Valuing