UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDENT UNION

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 University of Colorado at Boulder

 

Resolution History

The UCSU Environmental Center has researched and published the 2006 Blueprint for a Green Campus, a policy and implementation guide to greater cost savings, environmental protection, and social benefits on the Boulder campus.

 

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 University of Colorado Student Union, THAT:

 

  1. The 2006 Blueprint for a Green Campus: A Sustainability Action Plan for the University of Colorado at Boulder, is hereby formally endorsed by this body, and
  2. The UCSU Environmental Center is directed to implement the goals, policies, and practices contained in the Blueprint wherever appropriate within the limits of its scope and authority, and
  3. The Administration of the University of Colorado is urged to review and adopt the concepts and appropriate practices detailed in the Blueprint, and
  4. The UCSU Environmental Center is directed to consult with and cooperatively assist the CU Administration in furtherance of the adoption and implementation of the goals, policies, and action items in the Blueprint, and
  5. The UCSU Environmental Center is directed to report back the Legislative Council and the Tri-executives no less than once per semester on the progress being made implementing the Blueprint.

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7/27/06                                                      1st Reading                              Acclamation

8/10/06                                                      2nd Reading                             Acclamation

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Joseph Martinez                                                        Ashley Nakagawa

UCSU Legislative Council President                        UCSU Tri-executive

 

 

 

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Andy Aitchison                                                           Charles Johnson

UCSU Tri-executive                                                  UCSU Tri-executive