LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Sponsored by: Ashley
Nakagawa 65LCR#3
Authored by: Dave
Newport E-Center
Director
A Resolution
2006 Blueprint for a Green Campus:
A Sustainability Action Plan for the
Resolution History
The
The document enumerates goals, policies, and action steps that can be embraced by students, academic/administrative units, and community interests that would allow the campus to grow while controlling costs, enhancing environmental protection, and increasing social benefits to campus and community members.
Some elements of the plan can be implemented unilaterally by UCSU and CU Recycling, a partnership of UCSU and CU Facilities Management. However, significantly greater cost savings and related results can be achieved by broader acceptance and implementation of the Blueprint’s tenets by all campus administrative and academic units—and, potentially, across the CU system.
Accordingly, this resolution formally endorses the Blueprint and urges CU-Boulder and CU system leaders to review and adopt the concepts and appropriate practices detailed in the plan.
Resolution Summary
Whereas, the UCSU Environmental Center, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most accomplished student-led environmental center, has worked collaboratively with numerous students, community representatives, and campus experts from all divisions to research and publish the 2006 Blueprint for a Green Campus, and
Whereas, the Blueprint’s goals, if implemented across campus, would result in substantial cost savings for student and administrative units while contributing to local, state, and regional economic vitality, and
Whereas, UCSU has funded many of the University of Colorado-Boulder’s national leadership accomplishments such as the nation’s first campus recycling program, the nation’s first student bus pass program, and the nation’s first student-led renewable energy program, and
Whereas, these student-supported environmental programs have not only earned the University of Colorado national recognition, but also accrued considerable fiscal savings for the University Administration, and
Whereas, UCSU and the Administration partner on many programs and, were the plans detailed in the Blueprint fully implemented, both entities would yield increased cost savings, improve environmental efforts, enhance social benefits for diverse campus and community populations, and reaffirm CU as a global sustainability leader.
THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Council of the
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7/27/06 1st
8/10/06 2nd
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Joseph
UCSU Legislative
Council President UCSU
Tri-executive
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Andy Aitchison Charles
Johnson
UCSU Tri-executive UCSU
Tri-executive