Jenny Kong Yug Ying

Lecturer’s name: Puan

Liong Lina
 Introduction:
• we will need to make efforts at every level, from the
individual to the household to the community to the
nation to the world.
• Governments, corporations and organizations must all
encourage and pursue sustainable practices.
• Among the institutions that can contribute to

are colleges and

sustainability efforts

universities.
Do university students need to do
so??
• We tend to think of colleges and universities as enlightened and
progressive institutions that generate benefits for society.
• However, colleges and universities are also centers of lavish
resource consumption.
• Institutions of higher education feature extensive
infrastructure, including classrooms, offices, research labs, and
residential housing. Most also have dining establishments,
sports arenas, vehicle fleets, and road networks.
“The ecological footprint of a typical college
or university is substantial.”
 Why we have to do this???
• The truth is, we enrolled at our college or
university to gain an education, not to
transform the institution.
• Why, then, are increasing numbers of
students promoting sustainable practices on
their campuses.
 1. Make a Difference!!!
• First, reducing the ecological footprint of a
campus really can make a difference. The
consumptive impact of educating, feeding,
and housing hundreds or thousands of
students is immense.
 Aware!!!!
• Second, campus sustainability efforts make
students aware of the need to address
environmental problems, and students who
act to promote campus sustainability serve as
models for their peers.
 3.Learn and grow!!!
• the student who engages in sustainability
efforts learns and grows as a result. The
challenges, successes and failures that we
encounter can serve as valuable preparation
for similar efforts in transforming ourselves in
the broader society.
 Waste reduction&recycling&composting

• For example, the students can organize a

competition among schools or universities to see
which can recycle the most.
• Students also can promote the reuse of the items.
For example, one university in US ran a “Take It or
Leave It Tour” that enabled over 600 students to
swap 50kg of unwanted notebooks, file folders,
posters, CDs, or donate to local charities of food,
clothing, and other item that might otherwise have
been thrown out.
 Energy conservation
• One of us here can lead the college to cut down
on electricity uses, require sleep-mode settings
for computers, and turned off unused lights.
• Campuses can harness large energy savings
simply by not powering unused buildings. Large
buildings are expensive to cool and light, so
powering them down when not in use saves a
great deal of energy, money, and greenhouse
gas emissions.
 Campus food service
• can promote sustainable practices by buying
organic product, composting food scraps and
purchasing food in bulk or with less packaging.
• Buying locally grown or produced food
supports local economics and cut down on
fuel use from long-distance transportation.
Some college campuses even have gardens
where students can grow food.
 Cars/Vehicles!!!!
• In addition, many campuses struggle with
traffic congestion, parking shortages,
commuting delays and pollution from vehicle
exhaust. Some are addressing these issues by
establishing or expanding bus and shuttle
systems; encouraging bicycling, walking, and
carpooling and introducing alternative
vehicles.
 Nature!!Nature!!!
• No campus sustainability program would be complete without
some effort to enhance the campus’s natural environment.
• Such efforts remove invasive species, restore native plants and
communities, improve habitat for wildlife, enhance soil and
water quality, and create healthier, more attractive
surroundings.
• Moreover, activities and teaching are linked. Spend time in
gardens or outdoors as part of credit hours on those topics are
encouraged as classroom learning and real-world learning go
hand in hand.
 Conclusion
• More people come to appreciate Earth’s
limited capacity to accommodate our rising
population and consumption, they are voicing
concern that we will need to modify our
behaviors, institutions and technologies.
• Indeed the efforts are so fundamental that we
have long taken them for granted.