Campus Greens seeks to encourage responsibility for the environment on an individual and institutional level. In order to meet this mission statement Campus Greens commit to the goals listed below. Campus Greens intends to meet the compiled goals through concrete methods with evidence of our accomplishments.

Join us at our weekly meetings
Mondays, 8:00 pm, GAEA (Sill) House, 704 S Main St

and at this meeting we will begin signing up for committees to get a lot of different things done this semeester.

GOALS

Inform:
To inform and increase environmental literacy of the students, the broader academic, and the Geneva community on pressing issues such as:

• Wildlife conservation.
• Resource conservation.
• Local and global scale environmental issues.
• One's own impact on the environment.
  

Encourage and Promote:
To encourage the action of the campus community in different forms on many environmental issues.

• Promote conservation legislation of the local, state, and federal levels.
• Support actions that promote a healthy planet, while encouraging the Hobart and William Smith community to move away from actions that are harmful to the environment.
• Encourage a minimal use of resources and output of waste to lessen our community's environmental impact.
  

Campus Greens:
Form an environmental group on campus that is active, functional and committed to the environment for a prolonged period of time.

RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Initiated campus awareness to increase resource, energy, and water conservation.
• Initiated an ink cartridge recycling program in the computer centers.
• Organized and sent various petitions and letters to our representatives and senators including...

• Over 100 letters urging senators to cosponsor the Arctic National Wilderness Refuge.
• Over 100 letters supporting the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act.
• About 250 signatures encouraging the End Commercial Logging movement.
• Over 100 letters urging representatives to raise fuel economy standards.
• Almost 200 student and faculty signatures for a greener campus.
• About 300 signatures urging Cristine T. Whitman to act on the issue of sewage in our waters
• 150 students and faculty support less Styrofoam in our school cafe.

STUDENT AND FACULTY CONTACTS:

Student Rep(s): Maggi Sliwinski

Faculty: Anne Wibiralske, Tara Curtin, Tom Drennen, and/or John Halfman