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Pomona Hires Alumna Bowen Patterson to Serve as First Sustainability Coordinator |
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Bowen Patterson ’06 is returning to her alma mater as Pomona’s first-ever Sustainability Coordinator. In this role, she will provide students with the resources they need to be effective in improving campus sustainability, including data, funding, and direction. The Coordinator will be able to connect students with these resources in a much more timely and effective way than has been previously feasible, and will maintain continuity in sustainable projects even as students come and go. “When I was a student at Pomona, one of the biggest problems was amismatch of students' willingness to work and easy opportunities forprojects - many students were interested and ready, but it wasdifficult to set up projects and opportunities that matched theirschedules and abilities,” Bowen recalls. “Hopefully I'll be able to fixthat by working with the Environmental Affairs Commissioner and othersto determine projects and tailor tasks to have ‘ready-to-go’ things forstudents to do if they're interested.” Click "read more" to learn more about this new position. |
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The President's Sustainability Fund |
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In Spring 2007, President Oxtoby endorsed the concept of a $15,000 President’s Sustainability Fund (PSF), a mechanism to promote and finance innovative student-led initiatives to make Pomona College more sustainable. Starting in the 2007-08 academic year, students were invited to submit proposals for projects that would “improve the operational sustainability of Pomona College.”
This fund is being used for a number of great projects that make Pomona a more sustainable campus, including:
- Campus Climate Challenge's Drying Rack Initiative
- Re-Coop Work Study & Infrastructure
- SCC Recycling Center
- Solar Rover for the Farm
- Folding-Bike Lending Program
To learn more about the initiatives enabled by this fund, click "Read More"
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4/10/2008 - No More Dirty Dining: Coop, Sodexho, Frank and Frary Going Green |
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Thanks to pressure of environmentally conscious students, food sectors on campus are increasing their efforts to become more sustainable- by reducing food wastes, introducing biodegradable utensils and to-go-boxes, and increasing composting.
No Tray Tuesday: Eliminating Food Waste
The CCC (Campus Climate Challenge) has been an active group in promoting sustainability around Pomona’s campus. Their newest campaign- reducing food waste generated at meals- will lead to several noticeable changes at Frank dining hall including a weekly ‘no-tray day.’ The idea behind the initiative, which has been put into practice at multiple schools including Colby College, is that abolishing trays will prevent students from piling food onto multiple plates only to find that their eyes were truly larger than their stomachs. Without trays, students can only take as much food as they can carry with their hands. If they’re still hungry after the first plate, they can go back for more.
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