SAU的可持续发展
在圣. 可以买滚球的正规平台, we believe sustainability is more than a cause; it is an individual and collective responsibility.
我们对天主教知识传统和social正义的承诺要求我们每个人都要检查自然的使用, social, 经济资源, 同时寻求解决方案并采取管理实践，以维持我们今天的世界, and allow it to thrive for the generations of tomorrow. It is a commitment reflected in our actions, academics, and goals.
建立在我们已经开始的基础上
- 我们种植了传粉者花园, 安装了水瓶加气站, prioritized energy efficiency in campus construction, utilized fresh vegetables from our campus gardens to serve in our tray-less cafeteria, 改善回收教育, 并成立了一个可持续发展委员会，领导新的倡议，促进对自然环境的管理.
- 在学术课程，如生物学, 环境研究, 业务, 和公共卫生, we provide 学生 with the tools to become sustainability champions.
- 我们的环保学生社团, 绿色生活, strives to educate their peers and lead earth-friendly initiatives.
- 我们通过举办客座讲座和圆桌讨论来激发集体行动，学生和正规买球平台有哪些成员聚集在一起了解环境挑战并引发变革.
- 通过本科研究 and internships, 我们的学生在Nahant Marsh等合作组织动手解决环境问题, Niabi动物园, 生活, 土地和水域等等!
Our mission and shared values of academic excellence, social正义, and community service require Ambrosians do more than simply advocate for sustainability; we must also challenge ourselves to do more – on campus, 在这个世界上, 为了我们的未来.
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“绿色生活倡议让我在我的正规买球平台有哪些中有所作为，希望能鼓励其他人也这样做. 我特别有动力去帮助保护我们州所有美丽的物种多样性." ——green Life总裁格蕾塔·索尔布里格
“我们迫切需要可持续的气候变化解决方案，以保护最脆弱的人群. 在SAU参与绿色生活让我有机会学习可持续发展事业所需的领导技能, while also creating a positive impact on campus and in the surrounding community." ——前绿色生命组织主席艾玛·邓肯
“作为一名未来的医疗工作者, 我看到气候变化是如何改变人们的生活和生计的. It is impacting the environment and the health of others. I feel a calling to that, and I want to make it better for those people."——绿色生命前总裁安娜·施密特
作为一个校园正规买球平台有哪些，St. 可以买滚球的正规平台 intentionally nurtures our common home, 通过各种研究, 操作, 还有课外活动. We are committed to the research of 当地的 eco-systems, 雨水截留应用, 使用当地食物, 照顾好我们的花园和蜂巢.——艾米·C. 诺瓦克，埃德，圣. 可以买滚球的正规平台校长
我们的使命
Consistent with our Catholic heritage and Catholic Environmental Teaching, St. 可以买滚球的正规平台致力于管理我们的自然资源和保护其余的创造.
这些举措将在财政上保持谨慎, 批判性思考, 教育, 并且可能需要艰难的行为改变来减少我们对环境的影响.
We will collaborate with appropriate campus, 当地的, 状态, 和更广泛的支持者分享想法, 资源, 以及实现我们目标的解决方案.
我们的集体影响
“人们很容易认为我只是一个人, and this is only one plastic bottle – how will that make a difference? 但是，如果我们都开始做一些小的改变来变得更可持续，它会累积起来，导致更大的变化. 它从个人开始."
-Kristina Shelman, 20岁, former 绿色生活 student leader and current medical student at the University of Iowa
从今天开始. Choose from the list of tips below and collectively, 我们可以在校园里有所作为, 在我们的正规买球平台有哪些里, 在世界各地!
更多的信息
委员会主席
艾米·布莱尔博士，生物学教授
Dennis Tarasi，博士，生物学协会. 教授
教师, 工作人员, 学生, 大学管理人员领导SAU的可持续发展倡议，并促进对自然环境的管理.
可持续发展委员会的研究和建议——无论是关注太阳能还是减少食物浪费——旨在减少大学对环境的影响. The committee is igniting discussion and action by hosting projects and events, 它鼓励每位学生和员工通过签署可持续发展承诺来承诺减少对环境的影响.
欢迎可以买滚球的正规平台的学生和员工参与讨论和规划未来的可持续发展倡议，加入委员会. 联系Amy Blair教授，博士，或 Dennis Tarasi副教授, PhD, co-chairs of the 可持续性 Committee.
绿色生活，我们的学生环保俱乐部, 教育和鼓励校园采取的做法，将保护和支持一个繁荣的地球为子孙后代.
Here's a sampling of their contributions over the past couple of years:
- 成员们建造蜂房, 种植多种传粉植物的花园, and a vegetable garden used by campus food service.
- 他们组织清理垃圾, labeled recycling bins (to reduce waste contamination), 领导减少食物浪费的工作, and coordinated an end-of-semester food drive in each residence hall. 绿色生活已经收集了超过1,200磅的食物捐赠给当地的食物银行，比如河湾食物银行和Vine上的咖啡馆.
- “绿色生活”的成员可以带来改变. 三位前任校长获得了著名的“未来保护领袖”奥伯霍尔策奖的奖学金
- 2022年艾玛·邓肯
- 2020 20岁的克里斯蒂娜·谢尔曼和21岁的安娜·施密特
校园里有人吗?, 包括教职员工, is welcome to join and support 绿色生活 initiatives. 通过电子邮件正规买球平台有哪些 beegreen@mullenelderlaw.net
学术课程，如生物学, 环境研究, 业务, 公共卫生为我们的学生提供了成为可持续发展冠军的工具.
通过本科研究, our 学生 are hands-on in addressing environmental issues, 无论是研究附近的城市湿地，还是发现清洁河流和湖泊的方法. Learn about some of your opportunities below.
这门跨学科辅修课程鼓励学生从不同的角度探索自然环境, 包括文学, 神学, 生物学, 和艺术.
Students learn diverse approaches to understand, 涉及到, and responsibly manage the natural environment. 所有学生都要完成一个顶点项目，提供保护方面的实践经验, 保存, 和恢复.
节约资源和减少对环境的影响是圣. 可以买滚球的正规平台.
2021年春天, SAU became a certified Bee Campus USA® affiliate, 这使得它成为爱荷华州仅有的三所被无脊椎动物保护协会认可的大学之一，因为它采取了保护和保存本地传粉媒介的措施. Read this story about becoming a Bee Campus.
在过去的几年里, 我们创造了传粉者花园, 整修了刘易斯大厅温室, 安装了水瓶加气站, and renovated and constructed energy-efficient buildings, including the 健康与娱乐 Center and McMullen Hall. 我们的自助餐厅没有托盘, and 学生 take to-go meals in a returnable and reusable container.
There are recycling bins in every residence hall and building. 地毯拆下后，我们回收利用, 如果我们拆除或翻新一栋建筑, anything that can't be reused or repurposed is donated. For instance, before demolishing five nearby homes in 2017, we invited the nonprofit Gateway Redevelopment Group to salvage anything it wanted. 全部由志愿者组成的小组拆掉了装饰、窗户、橱柜、木地板、门把手等. 盖特威随后卖掉了它所打捞的东西, using the money to restore abandoned homes in the Hamburg Historic District, 就在校园南边.
我们找到了节约资源的新方法. Storm runoff is now stored within 19 underground retention tanks around campus that, at surface level, are masked as aesthetic rock gardens. 在夏天, 场地管理员拉的是1,500 gallons weekly from the tanks to water flower beds and plantings.
Other efforts on campus, while basic, have cumulative effects, saving St. 可以买滚球的正规平台 thousands of dollars annually: low-flow showerheads in residence halls, low-energy light bulbs replacing regular bulbs, and energy management systems on many facilities' heating and air-conditioning units.
Finding ways to conserve energy and shrink St. 可以买滚球的正规平台的碳足迹——即使随着校园的发展——每年都在增加.
你能做什么
签署可持续发展承诺 and commit to reducing your environmental impact as a member of the St. 可以买滚球的正规平台正规买球平台有哪些.
完成承诺表格的人将收到一张标书，表明他们对环境管理的承诺!
Do you have an idea to share or a topic or project you'd like explored further?
电子邮件 sustainability@mullenelderlaw.net to connect with the leaders of the 可持续性 Committee.
这里有一些开始的方法:
- 加入 绿色生活 或校园可持续发展委员会!
- Instead of throwing away clothes you no longer wear, donate them to the Davis Closet or the Career Center Closet.
- 参加Bee the Difference Day，和你的同伴一起，帮助校园解决正规买球平台有哪些项目.
- Or volunteer on a 校园部 spring break 服务访问. Past trips have included cleaning trash and debris from the Mississippi River, renovating and upgrading homes for people living in poverty, and helping build a school in Kentucky and more.
Learn about our student clubs and organizations
了解服务机会
了解即将到来的校园活动
Here are some of the small changes you can make, as recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that collectively can make a big difference:
- Nutritious, safe, and untouched food can be donated to help those in need. (考虑一下把它捐给“绿色生活”的期末食物募捐活动，或者直接捐给慈善机构 河湾食物银行)
- 买饭的时候，只买你需要的. Too often extra ketchup packets and napkins go to waste.
- Change your printer settings to make double-sided pages. 尽可能使用小点字体，尽可能使用“快速草稿”设置以节省墨水
- Turn off or unplug lights during the day to save energy and help lights last longer.
- Donate used (but still operating) electronics for reuse. 这延长了有价值产品的寿命，并使它们在更长的时间内远离废物流. 回收100万台笔记本电脑所节省的能量相当于3万多台电脑的用电量,一年500个美国家庭. (The Waste Commission of Scott County offers an Electronic Waste and Electronic Reuse Program.)
- 每回收100万部手机, 我们可以回收三万五千磅铜, 772磅的银子, 75磅黄金, 还有33磅的钯.
- 买旧的而不是新的. 在专门的再利用中心和寄售店找到你需要的一切，从衣服到建筑材料. Often, used items are less expensive and just as good as new.
- 寻找使用较少包装的产品. When manufacturers make their products with less packaging, they use less raw material
- 通过志愿参与正规买球平台有哪些的清洁工作来表明你对清洁环境的承诺. (加入 us each year for Bee the Difference day.)
- 分享旅程和道路. Public transportation and carpooling reduce pollution.
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