About the Green Initiative
Salve Regina strives to create an environmentally literate and responsible university community and to practice environmental stewardship.
About the Green Initiative
Green Initiative Overview
As a Catholic institution of higher education, Salve Regina has an opportunity and an obligation to exercise leadership in promoting and reinforcing good environmental stewardship by integrating the ethical, social, economic and ecological values of environmentally sustainable development into institutional policy and practice. To achieve a sustainable campus would mean that the current needs of Salve Regina are met today, without compromising the mission, longevity and prosperity of the institution or the ability of its students, faculty, and staff to meet their future needs. Such an achievement would be in accordance with the critical concerns identified by the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and the "Common Declaration of Environmental Ethics," signed on June 10, 2002 by Pope John Paul II as a "rejection of unsustainable patterns of consumption and production." Addressing sustainability across the campus and within the greater surrounding community would be a timely discussion during this United Nations decade of education for sustainable development.
Campus Environmental Sustainability Program
Salve Regina will strive to conduct its activities in an ecologically sound, socially just and economically viable manner, and will continue to do so for future generations. Salve Regina will support the concepts of sustainability in its curriculum, research and related activities, preparing all members of the community to contribute to an environmentally sound and socially just society. The institution will strive to function as a sustainable community, embodying responsible consumption, promoting ecological literacy and environmentally sound practices among its students, faculty, staff and graduates, and supporting these values in the local community.
Goal: Create an environmentally literate and responsible community.
- Integrate social and environmental responsibility into curricular development;
- Foster student and faculty research of environmentally sustainable development;
- Create and promote an informed network of people committed to the principles of environmental sustainability on campus.
Goal: Practice environmental stewardship.
- Promote water conservation, waste reduction, material reuse and recycle;
- Encourage awareness of food consumption and strive towards promoting the ecological sustainable and socially just production of food;
- Engage in energy conservation by promoting the use of renewable energy resources, purchasing Energy Star appliances and practicing energy conservation behaviors;
- Practice environmental stewardship of university property;
- Promote sustainable modes of campus transportation;
- Promote environmentally responsible building standards.
Environmental Advisory Group
The University Environmental Advisory Group was established in 2007 to create an environmentally literate and responsible university community and practice environmental stewardship. The group is comprised of nine faculty and staff members and is chaired by Sister Leona Misto, vice president for mission integration and planning.
- Dr. Jameson Chace, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biomedical Science
- Dennis DelGizzo, Director of Residential Life
- Kevin Guimond, Manager of Environmental Services
- William Hall, Vice President for Administration/Chief Financial Officer
- Sister Leona Misto, Vice President for Mission Integration and Planning
- Francine Monfette, Director of Purchasing
- Mark Rodrigues, Sodexo Account Operations Manager
- John Rok, Vice President for Student Life
- Robert Snell, Director of Facilities Management
