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The Environmental Concerns Committee (ECC) is a subcommittee of the Peace and Justice Education Program at Iona, in recognition of the fact that understanding of and respect for the environment has great relevance to issues of peace and justice around the world.
The mandate of the Environmental
Concerns Committee is to raise awareness of the Iona Community with respect to the state of the environment,
primarily through sponsorship of educational programs and activities, promotion of recycling and
conservation, and acquisition of educational resource materials. All members of the Iona community are
welcome to join ECC – faculty, staff, administration and students. Working with the Information Technology Department and Ryan Library, the Environmental Concerns Committee launched a campus-wide Paper Conservation Campaign, which earned national recognition from Campus Ecology in 2002 and 2003. During the 2003-04 academic year, the ECC created two Task Forces. The Conservation and Recycling subcommittee focused on extending and enhancing those efforts on campus. The Environmental Symposium subcommittee planned and hosted an event in April 2004 designed to bring students and faculty together to discuss environmental (specifically, energy) issues from the perspectives of their major fields. Still other members of ECC represented Iona in the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities, sponsored by the Pace Academy for the Environment. During 2004-05, ECC members participated in Environmental Consortium (ECHVCU) conferences and activities, while trying to extend a culture of conservation at Iona, from energy efficiency to ink cartridge and cell phone recycling. The ECC Student Task Force, led by junior Phil Burkart, initiated an e-newsletter aimed at dorm residents and organized an event to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. As part of its mission to raise environmental awareness on campus, ECC donated a tree for the new LaPenta Student Union building. The tree will be marked with a plaque and dedication. The 2005-06 academic year saw increased national and local interest in campus greening. In December, ECC Chair Fredrica Rudell was selected to serve a 3-year term on the Environmental Consortium Steering Committee, and in January, she and Jerry Levkov attended a Campus Greening Task Force meeting at EC headquarters. In February 2006, ECC hosted a "Greenforum" on Campus Energy Conservation with engineer James Call, who explained his plans to increase energy efficiency at Iona. Members of ECC participated, in the "Campus Climate Neutral" summit conference at Pace Law School on March 24, 2006 and are helping to plan an ECHVCU-sponsored conference on Campus Greening in fall 2006. On Thursday, May 4, the Environmental Concerns Committee joined the Office of Mission Integration and Campus Ministries to welcome John Seed (http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/jsbio.htm), an internationally renowned Australian rainforest activist, to Iona. His presentation, "Earth Spirit Action!" took place at noon in the Robert V. LaPenta Student Union. Click here for more information about the event and speaker. See our Environmental Concerns Committee tree and plaque!
2006-07 On Thursday, November 2, ECC sponsored a preview of a new documentary, "Swim for the River." Iona alumna Kathleen Savolt ('73), Executive Director of the Beczak Environmental Education Center in Yonkers, who is featured in the film, joined us for a screening of selected segments and discussion of the issues. Dr. Fredrica Rudell (Marketing) and Dr. Jerome Levkov (Chemistry)
participated in the 2006 conference of the Environmental Consortium of
Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities www.environmentalconsortium.org entitled "Greening the Campus: Exploring Practices, Curriculum, and
Management in Higher Education." The conference was held November
16-17, at SUNY/Purchase. In addition to their work on the conference
planning committee, each served as facilitator/moderator for a session
at the conference. On Thursday, February 1, 2007, ECC members met with the newly formed student club "I C Green" in Cornelia 108 at noon to discuss greening initiatives March 22, 2007 2007-08 Congratulations to ECC member Sr. Kathleen Deignan, who was selected to participate in the first GreenFaith Fellowship Program (www.greenfaith.org). In addition to that honor, Sr. Kathleen has lined up several events directly related to the environment for the Iona Spirituality Institute. The first one, DIALOGUE AND ECOLOGY with guest speaker Danny Martin, took place on Tuesday, October 16, in the End Zone, La Penta at 7:30 PM. You can see the entire ISI Fall schedule here: http://www.iona.edu/academic/artsscience/orgs/isi/events/
Iona also participated in the Focus the Nation webcast on Wednesday, January 30, in Ryan Library 308, from 8:00 - 9:00 pm: http://www.focusthenation.org/2percentsolution.php |
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