Interested in Sustainability but struggling with how it applies to your classroom and content? The following trainings can help get you started: Workshops & Seminars Integrate Sustainability in Your Course The Faculty Commons and The Office of Sustainability are offering a workshop to all faculty who are interested in transforming existing courses into sustainability-related courses. ...more about Sustainability Workshops for Faculty
Sustainability at Bellevue College demonstrated its commitment to student development at the “Sustainability and Service Learning” Faculty Institute on November 1st. Members of the faculty from diverse departments attended including Sustainable Business, Anthropology, Sustainability, and others. The interest of faculty and staff in service learning signals a desire on campus to invigorate student learning with ...more about Service Learning and Sustainability – Preparing students today for a better tomorrow
First charger of its kind at any college or university in the western U.S. Electric vehicle (EV) owners can breathe a little easier when they’re traveling on the Eastside now that Bellevue College has installed a rare DC fast charger on its campus. Conveniently located near the I-90/I-405 interchange, the fast charger, the Eastside’s first ...more about Super-fast electric car charger arrives on Bellevue College’s campus
Fall 2012 Transportation Indicators The numbers are coming in and Bellevue College is again making great strides toward sustainable transportation. Each fall Bellevue College conducts a transportation survey and parking counts to evaluate our programs and progress towards reducing drive alone trips. This compliments data like Commuter Check and ORCA purchases, BC RideMatch registrations and ...more about Almost 50% of Commute Days Not Driven Alone
We are about half-way through lighting retrofit that will reduce electricity consumption an impressive 17%. The lighting retrofit is funded in part by a Department of Commerce Grant and incentives from Puget Sound Energy and will save the college $136,000 per year. You may notice light sensors on the wall or ceiling with blinking red ...more about Lighting Retrofits Make Progress
Climate change is becoming a daily topic in the news and on campus. Bellevue College faculty, staff, and students are asking how they can engage the issue. A critical point of engagement is how the College invests. Members of the Bellevue College community joined their peers for a Seattle Town Hall event hosted by Bill ...more about Bill McKibben on Climate Change: 70 of Bellevue College Attend, Values Clear
David Hales, President of Second Nature (a main supporting organization of the AUCPCC*), recently emailed signatories of the AUCPCC with some thoughts on Hurricane Sandy. The bullet points, including the specifics on Sandy, put very bluntly the issues we face: Climate change is real; it has consequences, and those consequences are already occurring. Observed and documented ...more about Thoughts on Hurricane Sandy
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education hosted a conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. The conference fostered communication between college environmental representatives and teaches across the country. Bellevue College’s ASG (Associated Student Government) environmental representative, Mackenzie Williamson, was granted funds through the Student Environmental Sustainability Fund. Zack Boucher, the transportation ...more about AASHE Conference 2012 – What Did We Learn?
That’s right, real time bus arrivals are now displayed in the bus shelter in front of the parking garage. Be sure to stop by and check it out, possibly the first one of its kind installed at a college campus in Washington. Ever caught wondering when the next bus will arrive? Not anymore, these new ...more about BC Launches Real Time Bus Arrival Screen
