Research Guides: Sustainability: Make a Difference

Washtenaw Community College Faculty Committees

Sustainability Literacy in the Curriculum
Contact: Dale Petty
petty@wccnet.edu

Environmental Committee
Contact: Dale Petty
petty@wccnet.edu

Washtenaw Community College Student Groups

Students for Environmental Conservation & Sustainability (SECS)
Club Leader: Greg Webster, grwebster@wccnet.edu
Adviser: Susan Albach, salbach@wccnet.edu
Meeting: Wednesdays from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in LA 138

What Else? Attend an event

WCC Campus Events sponsored by Sustainability Literacy Task Force:

Aug. 28, 2012-May 2, 2013 College-wide book reads of The Windward Shore, by Jerry Dennis

Aug. 31, 2012 11:00-2:30 PM, Rolling Hills Water Park

October Water Book Display at the WCC Bailey Library

Oct. 12, 2012: Water Clean-up Day- Canoe Trip, Gallop Park

Oct 24, 2012: 2-3:30 PM Writing and Science Workshop with author Jerry Dennis

Oct. 24, 2012 6:00-7:00 PM Keynote Address by author Jerry Dennis Towsley Auditorium, WCC

Oct. 26, 2012 Dinner and a Movie (sustainably-focused dinner at WCC’s own Garrett’s Restaurant and movie at Towsley Auditorium at WCC)

Nov. 29, 2012 6:00-7:30PM Speaker Laura Rubin of the HRWC, title TBA (Huron Watershed Issues) GLC-202, WCC

Mid-Feb., 2013: Water Treatment Tour (possible mid Feb.)

Mar. 7, 2013: 6:00-7:30 Speaker - Marc Smith of the NWF, speaking about Michigan Water Issues) GLC-202, WCC

Apr. 4, 2013 Nature Walk by Fleming Creek in Parker Mills Park (1 mile away) with naturalist Shawn Severance (WCPARC) and water ecologist Jerry Frenzel (HRWC)

Apr. 5, 2013 Dinner and a Movie (sustainably-focused dinner at WCC’s own Garrett’s Restaurant and movie at Towsley Auditorium at WCC)

Apr. 12, Water Clean-up Day- Canoe Trip, Gallop Park

Apr. 18, 2013 Service Project pulling purple loosestrife near Fleming Creek at Parker Mills Park (1 mile away) with Shawn Severance (WCPARC)

Community action for sustainability

Grants for sustainability

Sustainable Housing
"The Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities administers three grant programs that help communities around the country achieve its mission of creating strong, sustainable communities by connecting housing to jobs, fostering local innovation, and helping to build a clean energy economy."

Make yourself sustainable

Recycling Reconsidered by Samantha MacBride
Call Number: TD794.5 .M285 2012
ISBN: 9780262016001
The Conscious Kitchen by Alexandra Zissu
Call Number: GE195 .Z58 2010
ISBN: 9780307461407
Shift Your Habit: easy ways to save your money, simplify your life, and save the planet by Elizabeth Rogers; Colleen Howell
Call Number: GE196 .R64 2010
ISBN: 9780307465306
New Sustainable Homes by James Grayson Trulove; James G. Trulove
Call Number: NA2542.36 .T78 2006
ISBN: 0061138916

10 things to make yourself sustainable

Smart Growth
From U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Local and state organizations

Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance
"Mission: To promote and sustain the integration of comm unity health workers into Michigan’s health and human service system s through coordinated changes in policy and workforce development."
Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College
"Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College (C4S) is a student-run and faculty-directed organization providing a web-based clearinghouse of information for consumers, business people, non-profit organizations, students, and governmental agencies interested in sustainable practices."
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
AASHE Mission: "AASHE’s mission is to empower higher education to lead the sustainability transformation. We do this by providing resources, professional development, and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research."