Environmental Council Mission Statement

1. To promote environmental awareness on campus among faculty, staff, and students.

2. To make recommendations to the President of the College designed:
   1. to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all who live and work on the College campus.

   2. to maintain biodiversity and wildlife habitat, restore damaged ecosystems, prevent pollution, safely manage hazardous waste, and safeguard the beauty of the landscape in the outdoor environment directly under the care of the College.

   3. to promote throughout the College community conservation of resources, energy efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, pollution prevention, increased reliance on renewable resources, and other measures consistent with sustainable living.

   4. to further long-range environmental planning by the College.

   5. to assist the College in carrying out its civic responsibilities in the area of the environment.

3. To ensure that the College undertakes a College wide environmental audit on a regular periodic basis (every two, three, or four years) and that the audit is shared with appropriate College administrators.

4. To encourage faculty to provide students opportunities within the framework of academic courses to conduct research on campus and local environmental issues; and to ensure that such research is shared with the Environmental Council and appropriate officials within and outside the College so that it can be used to formulate improved policies and programs.

5. To design and coordinate environmental programs on campus as directed by the President.

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