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Hodge creates 'green' task force
Initative hopes to make university more eco-friendly, cost effective
Annie Casciani
Issue date: 12/4/07 Section: Campus
By utilizing a new Presidential Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, President David Hodge hopes to create a greener Miami University.
According to Hodge, he appointed faculty, staff and students to the committee in order to create measurable goals to sustain the environment and to continue doing so on a regular basis.
According to Hodge, Miami has plenty of great events occurring on campus, but the university needed to set up an activity that would incorporate environmental goal setting.
"The No. 1 goal of the task force is to make sure to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts," Hodge said, referring to environmental action on all three of Miami's campuses.
Kate Waller, president of the Environmental Action Coalition, was the one to originally approach Hodge with several environmental initiatives. Due to Waller's enthusiasm, Hodge appointed members to the task force and has met with a steering committee.
The entire task force will hold its first meeting with Hodge at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Engineering Building.
"The chairs of the task force are taking leadership roles," Hodge said. "They have remarkable insight and vision."
According to Thomas Klak; a geography professor and co-chair of the task force, along with Waller and faculty member Tony Ferraro; the task force will first look at what is already happening on campus that has to do with sustainability initiatives and by the end of the school year will have a report for Hodge with several recommendations on how to institutionalize sustainability.
"The underlying goal of the task force is to make the university more eco-friendly and do it in a cost effective manner," Waller said.
Waller and the other co-chairs are already developing ideas to help Miami go green.
"We are coming up with goals that range from the lower fruit hanging in the tree, such as putting recycling bins everywhere, to more medium goals, such as making the Miami Metro run on biodiesel fuel," Waller said.
According to Hodge, he appointed faculty, staff and students to the committee in order to create measurable goals to sustain the environment and to continue doing so on a regular basis.
According to Hodge, Miami has plenty of great events occurring on campus, but the university needed to set up an activity that would incorporate environmental goal setting.
"The No. 1 goal of the task force is to make sure to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts," Hodge said, referring to environmental action on all three of Miami's campuses.
Kate Waller, president of the Environmental Action Coalition, was the one to originally approach Hodge with several environmental initiatives. Due to Waller's enthusiasm, Hodge appointed members to the task force and has met with a steering committee.
The entire task force will hold its first meeting with Hodge at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Engineering Building.
"The chairs of the task force are taking leadership roles," Hodge said. "They have remarkable insight and vision."
According to Thomas Klak; a geography professor and co-chair of the task force, along with Waller and faculty member Tony Ferraro; the task force will first look at what is already happening on campus that has to do with sustainability initiatives and by the end of the school year will have a report for Hodge with several recommendations on how to institutionalize sustainability.
"The underlying goal of the task force is to make the university more eco-friendly and do it in a cost effective manner," Waller said.
Waller and the other co-chairs are already developing ideas to help Miami go green.
"We are coming up with goals that range from the lower fruit hanging in the tree, such as putting recycling bins everywhere, to more medium goals, such as making the Miami Metro run on biodiesel fuel," Waller said.
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