Overview
The WSU Sustainability Fair: Jumping on the Nationwide Sustainable ‘U’ Bandwagon
While universities nationwide rally around sustainability by staffing offices, creating investment funds for conservation projects, retrofitting old buildings and purchasing locally, the WSU Sustainability Fair will play a central role each year in assessing our progress, and keeping the vision of environmental, social and economic sustainability vigorous and effective at Washington State University.
The WSU Sustainability Fair is an annual, campus-wide event with the purpose of advancing sustainability in all aspects of life, work and education at WSU. The fair brings together students, staff and faculty in diverse departments and facilities to learn, share, strategize, listen and congregate. The 2007 WSU Sustainability Fair theme is: How to make WSU more sustainable.
Why a Sustainability Fair at WSU?
The Sustainability Fair seeks to satisfy a need at WSU for an annual sustainability event around which to gather, share ideas, coordinate and plan forward to a more sustainable university. WSU is pursuing initiatives on a wide range of fronts (see link below) in areas of dining services, purchasing and curriculum development; however, our efforts proceed without a funded and staffed office with sufficient coordinating capacity.
National rankings indicate potential for improvement as well. WSU scored a ‘C’ on our recent assessment by the Sustainable Endowments Initiative College Sustainable Report Card (see link below). Washington State environmental publications such as Grist ranked 15 colleges nationwide with good “Green” records, excluding the home-state land grant.
The Sustainability Fair stands on the shoulders of laudable past efforts at WSU. The 2007 Fair is the offspring of the Sustainability Forum, which in past years was run by staff and faculty, with funding through Facilities Operations. In 2007, the responsibilities of past organizers shifted, leaving the fate of the Forum in question. In August 2007 the Sustainability Club adopted the event, and has since invited other student clubs, faculty, departments and administrative officials on board.
Support and interest are overwhelming, and we look forward to a widely attended, fun and enriching event!
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