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St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont has taken the initiative to create a Sustainable Classrooms Contract for professors and students to follow. The idea is that by enforcing sustainable practices in the lecture hall, students will carry them into their lives full-time.
Items on the contract include a ban on disposable containers (coffee cups, plastic bottles and food containers), using both sides of notebook paper, limiting handouts and always turning the lights off when the room is empty. In addition students and professors are asked to use public transportation, use single spacing when writing papers or forgoing print altogether, and weave environmental themes into the courses.
This sounds like a great program and I’m sure that a lot of colleges are already implementing similar measures in the classroom. I’m guessing that this is more of a verbal contract rather than an actual signed document — that is unless it was printed on reused paper.
Vermont College Introduces Sustainable Classroom Contract originally appeared on Green Daily on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:50:00 EST 0. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
