Sustainability Initiative

Workshop Series

Affirming & Envisioning Sustainable Practices at Edmonds Community College

This series of workshops are designed to create a forum for the entire community to come togther and dive into a specific topic more deeply and explore our practices at the college, both the successes and the challenges.

The Future of Food: Eating Sustainably with Limited Resources

June 3rd, 2009

Last summer, the Sustainability Council held the first in a series of workshops around the topic of food.  Holly Hughes, English faculty, joined Dan Mitchell from Food Services and Charles Drabkin from Culinary Arts to engage commmunity members in a conversation about food.  Twenty-two folks were in attendance at this workshop.  View the agenda and bibliography here.  View the mind map of ideas generated by participants here.

Energy Efficiency: Saving Energy, Saving Money, and Saving Our Environment

November 19th, 2009

Our 2nd workshop in our series Envisioning & Affirming Sustainable Practices at EdCC will be on Energy.  Alison Pugh, Energy Managment Coordinator, will join Laura McCrae from Snohomish County PUD, Kevin McKay, VP for Finance and Operations, and PS Reilly from NextGen Today Consulting to engage community members in a conversation about energy.  For more details on this upcoming event, see our events page.  View the agenda and bibliography here.

The Sustainability Initiative website is maintained by a staff member of the VP for Workforce Development's dept.  Please contact the webmaster if you see a problem with this particular website.