Seeking Volunteers to Promote Transportation Alternatives!

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Are you a bus rider, avid carpooler, or alternative transportation user? Don’t know so much about transportation, but have great interpersonal skills and want to help move BC towards sustainability? Then we want YOU!


BC’s New Energy Dashboard

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Say Hello to our new Bellevue College SkySpark building dashboard for real-time electricity, gas consumption or weather information!


PSE Big Check to Trustees

PSE holding big check to Bellevue College for lighting retrofits

Puget Sound Energy presented Bellevue College’s board of trustees with an oversized check for participating in PSE’s “Enhanced Lighting” program and a campus-wide lighting retrofit to smarter and more efficient technology.


Faculty Resource Share – Win a Course Poster

Calling all faculty! Sustainability Resource Canvas Site is looking for YOU to enter our contest and win a poster advertising your course professionally designed by BC’s graphics team! Help share your sustainability and Earth Week 2014’s all over campus.


Commission Questions PSE Coal Plan

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On Thursday Feb. 6th, the Utilities and Transportation Commission requested that Puget Sound Energy reconsider keeping the Coalstrip Coal-fired power plant online, following comments by Bellevue College, the Sierra Club, and thousands of area residents.


WA Higher Ed Sustainability Conference: Catalyst For Collaboration

WAHESC Sustainability Conference at WWU

Last week The Office of Sustainability and students sponsored through the SESF fund attended the WAHESC conference at Western Washington University which highlighted “ways to advance campus sustainability through the sharing of best practices and the development of regional collaborative networks” from a variety of PNW institutions…


AASHE in Portland – Call for Proposals

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AASHE 2014 is taking place October 26-29 in Portland, Ore. and will draw together a diverse group of campus representatives including faculty, sustainability officers, presidents and students in one of the most innovative sustainable cities in North America…


Teach Earth Week Pledge!

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The Sustainability Curriculum Committee is asking all faculty to pledge to teach Earth Week in some way, big or small….


Urban Homesteader News February 2014

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Here is the Garden Newsletter for February 2014 and inside you’ll find a seasonal recipe, Garden Economics 101, and a sample Square Foot Garden plan for a small urban garden.


Strong Effort to Prevent Metro Re-Route

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To try and avoid the service reductions, specifically the reroute of the 245 and 271, there have been several steps taken and it is looking positive for BC due to the magnitude of response…