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Team # 1014 -- Penn State Altoona Sustainability Council
Penn State Altoona

September 2010

Objective

Goals:

• to investigate best practices that might enhance campus sustainability and minimize its impact in terms of
resource extraction and use

• to work with administrative offices when recommending sustainability practices that require funding

• to create and coordinate activities and events that advance sustainability efforts on campus

• to create a campus environment compatible with the College’s education mission

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Team Membership

• Lisa Emili, Chair
• Matthew Evans, Member
• Mary Kananen, Member
• Colin Lennox, Member
• Lisa Litz, Member
• Mike Long, Member
• Ian Marshall, Member
• Sherri McGregor, Member
• Erin Nachman, Member
• Douglas Orner, Member
• Joanne Peca, Member
• Katrina Pope, Member
• David Uhler, Member
• Rick Wareham, Member
• Ashley Wilmot, Member
• Jim Winsor, Member

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Results Achieved to Date

• Expected Results: Results Achieved:
  
  • First Commonwealth Campus to develop a charter for a Sustainability Council.
  
  • First Commonwealth Campus to receive funding for a sustainability project. We are exploring the use of planted
  riparian buffers to improve water quality in Spring Run. This work is funded by a Chancellor’s Development Fund
  grant.
  
  • We are currently developing an electronic newsletter and will be piloting a website with assistance from the
  University Park Office of Sustainability.

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