Category: Sustainability Action Plan

Dear Emerson community,  As the semester winds down, our Sustainability Action Planning is still going strong! Here is our progress report for the month of April. On April 11, all six working groups got together for a hybrid Sustainability Action Plan Summit. Each groups’ facilitator presented the goals and strategies generated by their group and…

Dear Emerson community,  As March comes to an end, I’m writing to you with our monthly Sustainability Action Plan update. Our six working groups continue to make progress developing action plans to achieve the ambitious goals they have set and we can’t wait to share more with everyone soon.  This month, the working groups each…

Dear Emerson community, Time flies! The cross-functional Sustainability Action Planning team is approaching the finish line. Over the next month, each of the six working groups will finalize their plans and bring them to the other groups for discussion. After that, we’ll provide a few opportunities for the rest of the community to weigh in.…

Dear Emerson community, We are approaching the halfway point of our community-driven effort to create a new Sustainability Action Plan. With new climate predictions resulting in the call for even more urgent action on climate across all sectors, we are zeroing in on the highest impact activities Emerson can pursue. Our six working groups are…

Dear community, The Sustainability Action Plan process is officially underway! Over the past two weeks, each of our six working groups met for the first time. In these 90-minute meetings, the teams got to know each other, reviewed baseline information about where we stand on various sustainability metrics, and began brainstorming ideas for how to…

Emerson has made two public commitments related to mitigating and adapting to climate change. Are you familiar with them? If not, here is a brief overview.  Carbon neutral by 2030 In 2007, then College President Lee Pelton signed what was then known as the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). In signing the…

Dear Emerson community, Jen (Campus Sustainability Manager) here! As promised, here is an update on the Sustainability Action Plan process so far. Over the past couple of months, about 40 members of the community have come together to form six working groups to develop plans for the future of sustainability at Emerson. Each working group…

As you may know, Emerson is developing a Sustainability Action Plan this year to help us set and achieve our 2030 goals as a community. (Hearing about this for the first time? Check out this blog post, consider applying to join a working group, and/or reach out to sustainability@emerson.edu with any questions). During the week…

Dear Emerson College community,  As you may know, Emerson joined the Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2007, thereby setting a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. In 2016, we added climate resilience to our list of commitments.  How are we going to achieve this lofty goal by 2030? That’s up to all of us to…