CCU Eco-Reps
The CCU Campus and Community Sustainability Initiative is involved in the following projects:
CCU Recycles Project
Trixie Harrington of the Operations and Planning Department and the CCU Sustainability Initiative recieved a $10,000 SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) grant to promote recycling on campus. CCU Sustainability Coordinator Elizabeth Moses is working with the CCU Eco-reps and Professor Craig Gilman's advanced environmental science class to conduct a pilot waste analysis, which we are calling the CCU Pile-It Waste Analysis. Professor Paul Olsen’s graphics class is designing a campaign to introduce the CCU community to the new recycling program, which will begin in Fall 2006.
Georgetown County Habitat for Humanity High Performance Green Building Project
The Sustainability Initiative spent the fall 2005 semester working with Georgetown County, SC Habitat for Humanity to develop a sustainable building and living program. Our specific goals were to be a resource to Habitat on sustainability issues, to help them incorporate sustainable practices and materials into their homes, and to develop a service learning ⁄ mentoring course that would connect CCU students with Habitat volunteers as well as the residents of Habitat homes. The Initiative will continue to work with Habitat for the long-term on this same program. In Fall 2006 we are instituting a service learning course, Honors 325, which will work with Habitat residents on energy and water conservation, recycling, and other sustainability issues.
