Case Western Reserve University
PA-1: Sustainability Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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Reporter |
Stephanie
Corbett Director Energy & Sustainability |
Does the institution have at least one sustainability committee?:
The charter or mission statement of the committee(s) or a brief description of each committee's purview and activities:
The CWRU Climate Action Network serves as the advisory Committee to the sustainability office. There is also a Climate Action Plan committee, a bike committee, a tree committee, and a Farm committee. Additionally in late 2023 the University began to form a Sustainability Leadership Committee with senior staff.
Members of each committee, including affiliations and role:
Ina Martin, lab manager
Grant Goodrich, Great Lakes Energy Institute
Cyrus Taylor, Physics faculty
Stephanie Corbett, office energy, sustainability & farm
Matthew Hodgetts, Political Science Faculty
Julian Rogers and Kate Klownowski, External Community Relations
Paola Van Der Linden Costello, student rep
Does the institution have at least one sustainability office that includes more than 1 full-time equivalent employee?:
A brief description of each sustainability office:
The Office of Energy & Sustainability, created in 2011 works on the following:
Climate Action Plan management
Energy, Greenhouse Gas & Sustainability Data Collection and Reporting
Energy Efficiency Projects and Campus Energy Metering
Advise and do Education on:
Recycling, Waste and Compost
Sustainable Transportation
Green Buildings and Grounds
Campus Engagement in Energy & Sustainability
Student Sustainability Ambassadors
Green Bag Lunch Series
Committees we host: - Bike committee - Scooter Ad-hoc Committee - Recycling Committee - Climate Action Plan Committee - Tree & Bee Committee
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Does the institution have at least one sustainability officer?:
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Does the institution have a mechanism for broad sustainability coordination for the entire institution?:
A brief description of the activities and substantive accomplishments of the institution-wide coordinating body or officer during the previous three years:
The Sustainability Leadership Committee and CWRU Climate Action Network (CAN) as described above have held a Climate Action Week for the last 3 years, are conducting institutional research on how different stakeholders feel about the urgency of acting on climate change, and gather faculty and researchers together to evaluate opportunities for collaborative and community benefit sustainability and climate related research project. Additionally CWRU CAN asks the campus community to pitch sustainability and climate related projects and helps to facilitate getting solutions implemented, for example recycling pipette tip boxes began in 2023 becuase of 2022 student pitch on the topic.
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