Campus Sustainability Plan (2008)
On Earth Day, April 22, 2008, Chancellor Wells unveiled the comprehensive and ambitious UW Oshkosh Campus Sustainability Plan.
The 2008 Campus Sustainability Plan plan will guide the University in an effort to be a leader in responsible environmental stewardship, education, outreach and research.
The TOP PRIORITIES of the plan are:
1. Organization: Create an organizational structure that will lead campus greening.
2. Energy: Implement a policy that will lead toward indepenence from fossil fuels.
3. Education: Encourage the teaching of sustainability in classes.
4. Learning outside the classroom: Make sustainability part of the broader learning experience in residence halls, student union, orientation, and other areas.
5. Audit: Revive and expand the environmental audit of energy, water, and resource use.
6. Planning: Initiate planning in key operational areas, such as purchasing, transportation, and recycling.
7. Websites: Develop sustainability websites as a means of communicating about sustainability to the campus and to the broader community.
8. Community garden: Develop a community garden that will link the campus with the greater Oshkosh community, and begin a composting program.
9. Dining contract: Adopt a new dining services contract that includes sustainable eating: organic, local, humanely raised, and fair trade.
10. Fair Trade: Declare UW Oshkosh as a Fair Trade University.
11. Leed standards: Design and build new buildings according to LEED silver standards or higher, and use these buildings as an active resource in learning about sustainability.
12. Assessment: Create a system that provides information on the success of our campus greening initiatives.
To see the full plan, click here
