Environmental Concerns Committee
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.
2009-10
In addition to serving on the New Rochelle Sustainability Advisory Board, Fredrica Rudell taught a "Current Issues in Marketing" course on the topic of Green Marketing this fall. The entire Iona community was invited to join the class for two of their guest speakers.
On Wednesday evening, October 14, Tammy Petrucelli, Regional Recruiting Manager for Enterprise, presented "Keys to Green: The Enterprise Sustainability Story" in the End Zone, LaPenta. She outlined Enterprise's corporate history and strategy, and described their extensive environmental platform. www.keystogreen.com/
On Wednesday evening, November 4, Dan Bena, Director of Sustainability, Health, Safety and Environment at PepsiCo, gave a talk entitled "Helping People, Planet, and Economy...It Matters" in the Thomas Burke Lounge, Spellman Hall. Mr. Bena (www.danbena.com) is helping to lead PepsiCo's international Sustainability efforts across their beverage and foods operations, serving consumers in nearly 200 countries. His presentation addressed a variety of issues, including the role of business in ensuring environmental sustainability and water as a human right. This was also a preview event for the November 2009 Week of the Peacemaker, "Economic Nightmare or Wake-up Call? Re-Imagining the American Dream."
ECC members Fredrica Rudell (Marketing) and Meryl Nadel (Social Work) represented Iona at the 6th annual meeting of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities www.environmentalconsortium.org held at Vassar College on November 13-14, 2009. The theme of the conference was "Teaching and Learning the Hudson Valley: Building Capacity for Place-Based Education." They both participated in a Roundtable session on "Sustainability Across the Curriculum." Dr. Rudell described her experience teaching a Green Marketing course and offered tips and suggestions regarding course content, format, resources, and assignments. Dr. Nadel described a Social Work course module she has developed involving a walking tour of the downtown/riverfront area of Yonkers, which enables students to examine the relationship between people and their natural, built, and social environments.
Related:
Going Green
Paper Conservation Campaign
Iona's campus-wide Paper Conservation Campaign earned national recognition from Campus Ecology Program of the National Wildlife Federation, a network of colleges and universities striving to be more environmentally sustainable.
Did You Know?
Environmental Consortium
Iona College is a charter member of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities , an organization whose mission is to help shape the future of the regional and global environment through collaboration, education and research.