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ISU Green Team relates environmentalism to business administration
Fitzgerald M. Doubet
Issue date: 2/12/06 Section: Features
Talk of environmentalism may evoke different feelings from person to person. For some, it may bring thoughts of nostalgia thinking of the mantra, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," taught in many grade schools today. Others may think environmentalism is only for extremists and hippies.
There is, however, a real-world aspect to environmentalism in the realm of business administration.
ISU's Green Team meets monthly to discuss campus conservation issues.
Chuck Scott, executive director of facilities management and chair of the Green Team, led a meeting Feb. 10 to discuss current environmental issues facing campus. As team chairman, Scott directs group meetings and keeps the team organized.
"I try to keep us on task as it relates to what our goals are and follow up to our discussions from previous meetings," Scott said. "And also, I guess it puts a little added responsibility on me to look at what our vision is for where we believe as a campus we should go and what role the Green Team would best serve the institution."
According to the team's Web site, greenteam.ilstu.edu, the Green Team was formed in 2001 by ISU President Victor Boschini to improve the university's environmental performance. The group provides an annual report to the president every April addressing team accomplishments and future priorities.
"Over the past couple of years, our emphasis has been on recycling and on energy conservation and consumption," Scott said.
Last year, according to the Green Team's annual report, the team completed a five-year update to a solid waste management plan and was influential in the campus vending and pouring rights contract which included $50,000 for marketing of recycling programs.
In March 2005, the Green Team sent students to rummage through the trash for valuable environmental data.
"We have been involved in several waste audits," Scott said. "Its basically, we would have students who are part of the environmental health program go out and do an analysis of the waste on campus where they pull material from dumpsters and weigh and categorize those materials."
There is, however, a real-world aspect to environmentalism in the realm of business administration.
ISU's Green Team meets monthly to discuss campus conservation issues.
Chuck Scott, executive director of facilities management and chair of the Green Team, led a meeting Feb. 10 to discuss current environmental issues facing campus. As team chairman, Scott directs group meetings and keeps the team organized.
"I try to keep us on task as it relates to what our goals are and follow up to our discussions from previous meetings," Scott said. "And also, I guess it puts a little added responsibility on me to look at what our vision is for where we believe as a campus we should go and what role the Green Team would best serve the institution."
According to the team's Web site, greenteam.ilstu.edu, the Green Team was formed in 2001 by ISU President Victor Boschini to improve the university's environmental performance. The group provides an annual report to the president every April addressing team accomplishments and future priorities.
"Over the past couple of years, our emphasis has been on recycling and on energy conservation and consumption," Scott said.
Last year, according to the Green Team's annual report, the team completed a five-year update to a solid waste management plan and was influential in the campus vending and pouring rights contract which included $50,000 for marketing of recycling programs.
In March 2005, the Green Team sent students to rummage through the trash for valuable environmental data.
"We have been involved in several waste audits," Scott said. "Its basically, we would have students who are part of the environmental health program go out and do an analysis of the waste on campus where they pull material from dumpsters and weigh and categorize those materials."