"It takes a village ... " Well, maybe not a whole village, but it sure does require the talents and energy of a bunch of people to put on a successful campus event. On Wednesday, October 24, the Emerson Suites in the Campus Center became "ground zero" for things sustainable at Ithaca College, as we again observed Campus Sustainability Day.
I am eternally grateful to two people who made this year's CSD -- by all accounts -- the best ever: senior Juliana Quant and sustainability intern Sarah Brylinsky. They deserve all the credit for organizing the flow of activities (including creating special music and video loops), selecting the food, arranging the space, contacting the exhibitors ... you name it, they took care of it. I know it was an unsustainable amount of work, on top of all their school work, to take on the planning and implementation of this large campus event as well. THANKS A GAZILLION!
A BIG shout-out goes to all the others that helped make Campus Sustainability Day happen this year:
• Jennifer Chen, Resource and Environmental Management Program (REMP) intern
• Mark Darling, supervisor of recycling and resource management
• REMP volunteers Jack Haurin, Gabi White, Liz Gwinn, Dan Carrion, Colin Howard, Rita Kerr-Vanderslice (and if I inadvertently left anyone of the list, I'm sorry!)
• Susan Allen-Gil, associate professor of biology and coordinator of environmental studies, and her student volunteers who ran the "Water Challenge"
• Nancy Pierce in the Department of Biology for the kind loan of two department laptops to support the SCUP webcast and midday café presentation
• Mark Warfle, Marina Marion, Toni Malone, Kim Wojtanik, Paul Galgoczy, AV techs extraordinaire Ben and Adrienne, our event manager Donna, and everybody else on the crew in Conference and Events Services who always make the lives of event planners SO much simpler!
• The good-natured staff in Catering Services who allowed us unfettered access to the Emerson Suites servers' area and their coolers to support the "Water Challenge," a new activity this year.
This year, there were displays and demonstrations from the following organizations and departments, and we're grateful to you all:
• Sustainability at Ithaca
• Resource and Environmental Management Program
• Earth Café 2050
• Ithaca Seminar: GreenGrrrls (Many thanks to Vera Whisman and her students for their provocative images)
• Office of International Programs
• Residence Hall Association (Go, Hall Wars!)
• Student Government Association
• Staples (Thanks, Maureen Vogt and Gordon Gathany, for all the free office product samples!
• Sustainably Conscious Learning Community
• Dining Services, especially marketing manager Julie Whitten and general manager Jeff Scott, who presented about dining services sustainability innovations during the special late-morning Sustainability Café
• Guayaki Yerba Mate (thanks, John Riva!)
• Sustainable Tompkins
• Ithaca College Environmental Society (ICES)
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