President Perfumo Will Sign Climate Commitment
Allan Santiago
Posted on: 12/4/08 Section: News
PCC President Paulette Perfumo will sign the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, which has become the threshold for over 600 colleges nationwide to take part in a growing movement toward sustainability, on Tuesday at noon at the Galloway Plaza.
In what professor Ling O'Connor has called the "conclusion of a year-long dialogue," PCC is nearing its first public display of committing to a greener future.
The decision to sign the commitment came directly after a meeting by the campus' Sustainability Task Force, a shared governance group, where it was voted unanimously to recommend it to Perfumo.
The Task Force had met before to address committing PCC toward a greener future but was met with resistance from within due to the lack of interest from students, faculty and staff, according to O'Connor, chair of the Task Force.
The most recent Sustainability Task Force meeting saw an increase in attendance and was what finally convinced Task Force officials to opt to recommend the Climate Commitment to the president, according to O'Connor.
O'Connor credits the "Leap Frog into a Sustainable Future" Green Summit held in Galloway Plaza on Nov. 2 for the spike in attendance in the meeting. "The majority [of attendants] were students, actually," she said.
Up until the Task Force's recommendation, one year and a day had passed since the campus club Seeds of Change and O'Connor convinced the Board of Trustees to make PCC a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, a consortium of schools and businesses looking to become sustainable.
The Presidents Climate Commitment seemed like a natural next step, but the idea sparked dialogue among officials.
"Initially there was a lot of debate about whether or not some of the employees here thought we could make that commitment," Perfumo said at Tuesday's AS-sponsored presidential forum.
In what professor Ling O'Connor has called the "conclusion of a year-long dialogue," PCC is nearing its first public display of committing to a greener future.
The decision to sign the commitment came directly after a meeting by the campus' Sustainability Task Force, a shared governance group, where it was voted unanimously to recommend it to Perfumo.
The Task Force had met before to address committing PCC toward a greener future but was met with resistance from within due to the lack of interest from students, faculty and staff, according to O'Connor, chair of the Task Force.
The most recent Sustainability Task Force meeting saw an increase in attendance and was what finally convinced Task Force officials to opt to recommend the Climate Commitment to the president, according to O'Connor.
O'Connor credits the "Leap Frog into a Sustainable Future" Green Summit held in Galloway Plaza on Nov. 2 for the spike in attendance in the meeting. "The majority [of attendants] were students, actually," she said.
Up until the Task Force's recommendation, one year and a day had passed since the campus club Seeds of Change and O'Connor convinced the Board of Trustees to make PCC a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, a consortium of schools and businesses looking to become sustainable.
The Presidents Climate Commitment seemed like a natural next step, but the idea sparked dialogue among officials.
"Initially there was a lot of debate about whether or not some of the employees here thought we could make that commitment," Perfumo said at Tuesday's AS-sponsored presidential forum.
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J
posted 12/04/08 @ 10:52 PM PST
Well done Allan
J
posted 12/04/08 @ 10:57 PM PST
&?
Bet Super Bowl
posted 12/09/08 @ 12:37 PM PST
Perfumo smells good.
Smoking Shelter UK
posted 5/10/09 @ 10:19 AM PST
Who cares about the environment lately? Until something awful will happen and lots of people will die, nobody will do anything. But as the rate of pollution increases dramatically, we are bound to have such an event in the upcoming years. (Continued…)
Graczyk Tout
posted 6/20/09 @ 9:41 AM PST
I have to agree with teh poster above... :/ looks like a lot of hot air to me.
Stan.Bally
Optics Assignment
posted 7/13/09 @ 7:18 AM PST
"Initially there was a lot of debate about whether or not some of the employees here thought we could make that commitment". I have to agree with these words. (Continued…)
alexhaffey
Writing Papers
posted 1/19/10 @ 6:17 AM PST
That is really great new, I think that it will some kind of changes in better way...
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