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Environmental Studies Department
Olin Rice 249
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-696-6274
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esson@macalester.edu

Campus Environmental Issues Committee

Subcommittee on College Environmental Policy Statement

February 3, 2000

In Attendance:  Diane Licit, Andrea Tietmeyer, Brian Kramer, Lindsey Brandt, Sarah Ullmer, Brett Smith (Chair).

Committee discussion focused on three issues: implementation commitments by the college to go along with signing the Talloires Declaration; strategies for getting the word about the issue out to the broader campus; Diane's survey.

1.  What commitments should accompany the Talloires signing to assure that there will be implementation and follow through?  Some brainstorming ideas:

• Structures for accountability; the CEIC is probably not sufficient, or needs explicit authority. How will the College "enforce" the declaration?
• Training: what training opportunities should be made available to decision makers;
• Resources: what financial or staff resources will be made available to implement. Piling this on top of other work is not sufficient. Are some grants available?
• Reporting: baseline data on environmental impacts is important (the ES Senior Seminar is doing some work on this) and annual (?) reports should be made on progress.
• Points in Talloires should be divided into long and short run with different timelines for various parts.
• Results from Diane's survey might be used to assign priorities to implementation steps.

2.  Ways of getting the word out.  Fact sheets; e.g., what is the Talloires Declaration: use MacWeekly, other print sources; web site; meet face to face with campus groups; use "student voices" part of student government; need to recruit more folks to CEIC, especially non-seniors.

3.  Survey - Diane will do article on the results. Return rate by faculty was low, so she will readminister to get faculty perspective.

For next CEIC meeting we would suggest spending 20 minutes or so in small groups brainstorming on each of the Talloires principles to see what it means for Macalester and how it might be implemented.

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