Current Calvin College Environmental Initiatives

Campus Sustainability Guide
Calvin College's Office of Community Engagement and the Calvin Sustainability Community would like to welcome you to the new Campus Sustainability Guide online. This site has been created as a resource for all those concerned with sustainability at Calvin. This is only the beginning. We encourage you to join in the ongoing discussion at our Green Wiki (see below) on KnightVision. Feel free to also give us any feedback, ideas, or additions for this guide by emailing the Office of Community Engagement. (The guide is also available in hard copy. Email Dawn Crook, drc5@calvin.edu, for copies for classrooms, dorms, student activities, etc.)

Calvin Sustainability Community and the Green Wiki
After the Sustainability Summit, a group from Calvin Information Technology (CIT) has been meeting to identify and provide opportunities to share resources, encourage discussion, and facilitate sustainability practices at Calvin. In coordination with the Office of Community Engagement, the Green IT team has created an online interactive community which includes a Green Wiki page with information about Calvin, local, state, and national environmental activities, energy facts and tips, on and off-campus resources, product recommendations, discussion boards, and much more. The Green Wiki is available for all students, staff, and faculty who have access to KnightVision. 

Go to https://kv.calvin.edu/go/csc and join the discussion.
Features include:

• The Green Wiki, which provides a variety of information and links to internal resources at Calvin and to external resources on the web, everything from "green blogs" to quizzes.
• Discussion Boards, where everyone on campus can ask and answer questions about sustainability.
• Achievements, which is an open blog, available for everyone to post their department's or organization's goals and accomplishments in the area of sustainability.
• Campus Resources, which is a list of organizations that are already working on sustainability at Calvin and includes Green IT: Best Practices Recommendations.

Student Environmental Initiatives
Students are organizing many sustainability activities and contests, beginning with February's Kill-a-watt month sustainability competition. Go here for details and learn how you can get involved.