The Center for Sustainability Requests Your Proposals to Improve Campus by Friday

April 28, 2014

The Center for Sustainability has money to spend and needs your help by this Friday, May 2, to determine just how to do it. For the first time ever, as a result of the $10 per student Green Fee, the Center is requesting proposals to improve the environment on campus, making the University more water and energy efficient. Projects may range from $1,000 – $100,000 and can address any aspect of sustainability or ways to minimize our impact on the environment through water and energy conservation as well as waste, biodiversity, food, transportation or sustainability promotion.  Ideas for requests may include the following:

•          Increasing biodiversity
•          Improving energy efficiency
•          Implementing renewable energy solutions
•          Encouraging sustainability behaviors
•          Improved waste reduction
•   Increasing campus sustainability awareness with interpretive signage

Sustainability Fee projects may be proposed and conducted by any student, faculty or staff member at Georgia Southern University.  The Sustainability Fee Committee, made up of eight students representing all colleges at Georgia Southern as well as faculty and staff representatives, will be the decision making body. “The proposals represent an opportunity for sustainability to be spread across campus for people who are thinking beyond what the Center could accomplish on its own,” said Lissa Leege, director of the Center for Sustainability and professor of biology. “I’ve been really excited about the ideas I’ve heard on campus.” The grant cycle will be in place for one year. Approved projects will be implemented by “No Impact Week” 2015. For more information regarding proposal guidelines and how to submit, review the Request for Proposals. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, May 2 by emailing cfs@georgiasouthern.edu.