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Campus Environmental Groups and Committees
Clean Energy Revolving Fund Board The Clean Energy Revolving Fund Board is the advisory committee for the Clean Energy Revolving Fund. The board includes the sustainability manager, a faculty member, an alumnus, the High Winds Director, a student government representative, and an at-large student representative. Click here for more information.
EcoHouse Advisory Committee The EcoHouse Advisory Committee oversees research, education, and outreach with the EcoHouse student residence. The committee includes a faculty member, the High Winds Director, students living in house, the sustainability manager, and a student affairs representative. Click here for more information.
Mac Bike Mac Bike focuses on teaching riders how to repair their bikes, planning rides through the greater Twin Cities, and working to increase bike advocacy. This organization maintains the bike workshop located next to the Mac Weekly office. Mac Bike feels bike use is important as a way to limit pollution while having fun and getting where you need to go. For more information, check out the web site http://mpkb.net/en/Macalester_Bike_Share. 
Macalester Conservation and Renewable Energy Society (MacCARES)
MacCARES is an organization dedicated to bringing the advances in conservation practices and renewable energy to Macalester. Focusing on student projects and practical implementation, they work to bring the way we live into alignment with the ideals we hold.
Macalester Energy Leadership Team (MELT)Macalester Energy Leadership Team (MELT) is a coalition of students, staff and faculty who are trying to reduce energy consumption on campus. If you would like to serve as an Energy Leader for MELT, please sign up by sending an email to Matt Kazinka at mkazinka@macalester.edu.
Macalester GreensThe Greens are a student-run, activist-political organization that works to forward the Green Party’s 10 key values: grassroots democracy, ecological wisdom, feminism, social justice, nonviolence, community-base economics, personal and global responsibility, respect for diversity, decentralization, and future focus. Macalester Greens work closely on projects with other student organizations of similar vision. Click here for more information.
Minnesota Public Interest Research GroupThe Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) is a grassroots, student directed, non-partisan organization that empowers and trains students and engages the community to take collective action in the public interest statewide. Click here for more information.
Macalester Urban Land and Community Health (MULCH)MULCH is the student organization that loves dirt and believes that getting dirty is healthy for the soil, healthy for us, and healthy for the campus community. They tend to the community garden by the field house and attempt to raise sustainable agricultural awareness as best we can. Click here for more information.
Mac WeeklyThe Mac Weekly serves as a source of information for the college, a forum for debate within the community, and a training ground for students who wish to gain experience in journalism. Environmental articles or writings from any student are welcome in the weekly column “The Avocado Pit.” Click here to see the most recent edition of Mac Weekly.
Outing ClubAdventure in the great outdoors. That’s what the Outing Club offers through inexpensive trips, reasonable gear rental and expedition planning assistance. Get in contact with the environment and learn to appreciate the earth. Click here for more information.
Sustainable Advisory Committee The Campus Environmental Issues Committee (CEIC) and the Presidents Climate Commitment Committee merged to become the new Sustainability Advisory Committee in spring 2008. The mission of the Sustainability Advisory Committee is to oversee the implementation of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment and the Talloires Declaration. The committee will also recommend policies and practices which best reflect College’s commitment to an environmentally sustainable world. In addition, the committee will function as a conduit for information exchange about campus sustainability initiatives. Click here for more information on the Sustainable Advisory Committee. Click here for archived information on the CEIC.
Zero Waste Committee To work towards the goal of Zero waste, the Zero Waste committee is an advisory group to provide leadership for the Macalester College Recycling Organization (MacRO) program. In addition, the Zero Waste Committee will advise the Facilities Management department, and MacRO, on strategies for successful campus recycling efforts. Contact Mark Dickinison, Facilities Services Director for more information. Click here for more information.
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