| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 49.02 |
| Liaison | James Speer |
| Submission Date | June 30, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Indiana State University
EN-4: Outreach Materials and Publications
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
James
Speer Professor Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Does the institution produce the following outreach materials and/or publications that foster sustainability learning and knowledge? :
| Yes or No | |
| A central sustainability website that consolidates information about the institution’s sustainability efforts | Yes |
| A sustainability newsletter | Yes |
| Social media platforms that focus specifically on campus sustainability | Yes |
| A vehicle to publish and disseminate student research on sustainability | Yes |
| Building signage that highlights green building features | Yes |
| Food service area signage and/or brochures that include information about sustainable food systems | Yes |
| Signage on the grounds about sustainable groundskeeping and/or landscaping strategies employed | No |
| A sustainability walking map or tour | Yes |
| A guide for commuters about how to use alternative methods of transportation | Yes |
| Navigation and educational tools for bicyclists and pedestrians | Yes |
| A guide for green living and incorporating sustainability into the residential experience | No |
| Regular coverage of sustainability in the main student newspaper, either through a regular column or a reporter assigned to the sustainability beat | No |
| Other sustainability publications or outreach materials not covered above | Yes |
A brief description of the central sustainability website:
The Institute for Community Sustainability at Indiana State University has developed a webpage that consolidates sustainability efforts on campus and in the community. This webpage has sections for campus and community efforts and is our main portal for information about our programs. We also maintain a media page that links to all of the articles about sustainability programs that we work on and we have over 160 news articles on our efforts in the past two years.
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A brief description of the sustainability newsletter:
We have a sustainability e-newsletter with a listserv of 1500 people separated into multiple groups such as: ISU students, community members, and ISU faculty
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A brief description of the social media platforms that focus specifically on campus sustainability:
The primary social media platform used specifically for campus sustainability sharing is the Institute for Community Sustainability (ICS) Facebook page. News articles related to sustainability are shared. Information on campus involvements are shared. ICS events and activities are shared.
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A brief description of the vehicle to publish and disseminate student research on sustainability:
Sycamore Scholars is a tool that is managed by the ISU Cunningham Memorial Library that acts to publish, disseminate, and archive student research. We submit the data and final reports from our sustainability classes to this database and have students access that data to build on previous research.
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A brief description of building signage that highlights green building features :
Our building signage is somewhat limited, but we just recently had our first LEED Silver building certified on campus and that building has signage that educates about its green features.
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A brief description of food service area signage and/or brochures that include information about sustainable food systems:
Sodexo provides local and organic food in a limited number of its venues and is available for catering. They include signage at Generations restaurant that talks about the local and organic food with some good detailed information about the sourcing of those food options. This information is also available through Sodexo catering on campus for individual events.
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A brief description of signage on the grounds about sustainable groundskeeping and/or landscaping strategies:
We hope to expand all campus grounds signage in the near future. For the time being we have limited existing signage on campus for tree species on campus and for ash trees that are being affected by Emerald Ash Borer. Grounds maintenance conducted an awareness program by putting purple ribbons on all 400 ash trees on campus that included explanation about this invasive species and its effects on the trees. We plan to work on more signage for our green roof, organic treatment of grounds, and sustainable ice removal practices. We currently have all 3,500 trees on campus located with a GPS and entered into a database with species, diameter, and health indicators. This data is used on a regular basis in research projects on campus.
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A brief description of the sustainability walking map or tour:
We conduct multiple sustainability walking tours of campus each semester that take from 1-3 hours depending upon the time that each group has available. These tours are usually associated with Campus Sustainability Day, sustainability conferences that we hold on campus, and for community groups. We have held these tours for as many as 50 people at one time. We include stops on the tour that include the Recycling Center, our state-of-the-art national gas boiler facility, multiple LEED buildings, focus on our Tree Campus USA, highlights from our Indiana Wildlife Federation Gold Certification, Enterprise Car Share program, Green Roof, and Wind Turbine.
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A brief description of the guide for commuters about how to use alternative methods of transportation:
ISU has a multi-model parking garage located on campus that includes the city bus system. Information is provided online for alternative methods of transportation and all ISU faculty, staff, and students have fee access to the city bus system through their campus IDs.
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A brief description of the navigation and educational tools for bicyclists and pedestrians:
ISU offers a bicycle cooperative, repair and pump stations for bicyclists, as well as maps available listing available bike racks and repair stations.
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A brief description of regular coverage of sustainability in the main student newspaper, either through a regular column or a reporter assigned to the sustainability beat:
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A brief description of another sustainability publication or outreach material not covered above (1st material):
We have a 2 minute promotional video about sustainability on campus.
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