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The \u201choop house\u201d near the 51ÁÔÆæ gardens holds campus food waste that becomes compost. (51ÁÔÆæ Photos by Derek Rickert<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 51ÁÔÆæ, the concept of sustainability reaches far beyond efforts to get students, staff, and faculty to recycle plastic and buy \u201cgreen goods.\u201d<\/p>\n

A host of programs across campus aim to reduce 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s environmental impact, use state resources efficiently and prepare students for careers in the sustainability professions.<\/p>\n

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Colleagues describe 51ÁÔÆæ Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Nelson as \u201ca tireless promoter and developer of ideas.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>The university\u2019s efforts are getting national attention. The Princeton Review has featured 51ÁÔÆæ in its annual guide to green colleges for seven consecutive years. In 2013, 51ÁÔÆæ earned a silver ranking from AASHE, a national organization that supports sustainable practices in higher education.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything I do at 51ÁÔÆæ is about transforming this campus into a learning laboratory that connects what students learn in classes to campus operations and potential career paths,\u201d says 51ÁÔÆæ sustainability chief Kate Nelson, who made the career leap from theater to sustainability with the aid of a 2007 bioscience degree from 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n

Campus gardens bloom brightly, edibly<\/strong>
\nOne of the best examples of that \u201cliving laboratory\u201d may be the campus gardens, established in 2011 next to the east tower of Sandburg Hall.<\/p>\n

For a small fee, anyone in the 51ÁÔÆæ community can rent a plot to grow vegetables. 51ÁÔÆæ Restaurant Operations grow herbs for campus meals in a roof-top garden on Sandburg. Other plots are reserved for the biosciences course, Practical Approaches to a Sustainable Future.<\/p>\n

\"Restaurant<\/a>
Restaurant Operations maintain gardens atop Sandburg Hall, which provide fresh herbs for the food that faculty, staff and students eat daily.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019d always wanted to teach a hands-on course that would allow students to work with the soil, and learn all about sustainable agriculture on an individual scale,\u201d explains instructor Mai Phillips, who coordinates the Conservation and Environmental Science (CES) program in the College of Letters & Science.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents tend to think of the problems of climate change as so huge, abstract. They say, \u2018What can I do? I\u2019m living in a dorm. I don\u2019t know how I can change anything.\u2019 I focus on the small ways that an individual can<\/em> make a difference,\u201d Phillips says.<\/p>\n

A portion of the course\u2019s vegetable harvest is donated to The Gathering, a kitchen for homeless people in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

A \u201choop house\u201d near the gardens holds campus food waste that becomes compost. A student monitors the compost\u2019s nutrient levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first year that we haven\u2019t had to buy compost for the gardens,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cWe\u2019ve been able to make all our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even better, the gardens are now watered exclusively with rain water, pumped out of a basin near Sandburg. This storm water management project was a collaboration of students in architecture, engineering and CES.<\/p>\n

Bike it, bus it, welcome Bublr!
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\"By<\/a>
By fall \u201915, six Bublr Bikes lending stations will be based at 51ÁÔÆæ. Students can access the bikes on campus, but return them at other Bublr Bikes stations in Milwaukee, like this one on Brady Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Geoff Hurtado received a bachelor\u2019s in architecture studies at 51ÁÔÆæ in \u201974. He believes one of the first key sustainability decisions was made when he was an undergraduate: the university introduced passes that encourage students to park their cars off campus and ride the bus, easing parking headaches in neighborhoods around the university.<\/p>\n

New transportation initiatives promote biking. The university recently entered a five-year agreement with Bublr, a local bike-share company, to open six bike-lending stations on campus. Bublr already operates bike-share stations in downtown Milwaukee, which will be compatible with 51ÁÔÆæ bikes so that students can pick up a bike Downtown, then leave it at campus when the commute is over.<\/p>\n

The 51ÁÔÆæ program is funded by a $300,000 grant from the Student Association Fund, and the stations are likely to open by summer\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Energy Matters<\/strong>
\nFar less visible that bikes or gardens, the Energy Matters program is a centerpiece of sustainable initiatives on campus. The $30 million state-funded project, designed to increase the energy efficiency of campus buildings, installed digital controls that vary building temperature based on the time of day and number of people in the building. \u201cWe have reduced energy consumption 28 percent across campus per gross square foot,\u201d Nelson says, and 51ÁÔÆæ has updated only a fraction of campus buildings so far.<\/p>\n

Online \u201cdashboards\u201d allow people to monitor the energy consumption of these updated buildings. Hurtado says this has inspired friendly competitions in dorms. \u201cThe students actually compete on a floor-by-floor basis to see who can outdo whom in conservation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Growing green careers
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\"Student<\/a>
Student compost and gardens supervisor and 51ÁÔÆæ senior Renee Frederick users a cargo bike, nicknamed \u201cBetty the Biocycle,\u201d to tote coffee grinds to the hoop house for composting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

51ÁÔÆæ faculty incorporate sustainability into curricula across the university. Phillips believes students in the conservation and environmental studies (CES) program are particularly well prepared after graduation because most complete service learning projects with community partners including the Urban Ecology Center, Wehr Nature Center, Walnut Way and Growing Power. These projects often lead to longer, more in-depth internships, and students graduate with hands-on knowledge of their field and specific career goals.<\/p>\n

For the second year in a row, Phillips traveled to Kenya in June with a small group of CES students. There, they completed a study of organic matter and moisture retention in the soil, working closely with a former student of Phillips.<\/p>\n

He has transformed dusty, arid village gardens by planting multiple plots using traditional methods, and his work has become a case study in many of Phillips\u2019 51ÁÔÆæ lectures. \u201cIt became really important for students to see and experience this work,\u201d says Phillips.<\/p>\n

Professor Timothy Ehlinger, director of 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Partnership for Sustainability and Peacebuilding, believes in the importance of teaching students to think about sustainability on a scale that starts local but evolves globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to recognize that a lot of the things that we do have unintended consequences in other domains,\u201d Ehlinger says. \u201cOur food decisions have tremendous impact on energy, which then has tremendous impacts on global prices, which has tremendous impacts on whether or not a farmer in Costa Rica cuts down forests to grow food to feed cattle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary collaboration can help us predict such consequences more clearly, he says.<\/p>\n

Hurtado adds that students benefit from even small-scale sustainability initiatives on campus: \u201cIt becomes part of who they are, something they take with them at graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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