Mital is the Director of UO’s Office of Sustainability, and ran the famous 2013 Urban Farm survey – the last publicly released data about why students come to UO. He’s also the President of the Eugene Water and Electric Board. And he’s practicing transparency there too. Christian Wihtol has the story in the…
Posts tagged as “sustainability”
From Director Steve Mital, here. Apparently it’s not just about the Urban Farm, which is more popular with our students than Duck Athletics.
8/30/2011: Sustainability and Diversity are college administrators’s favorite buzzwords. Here’s UO doing something sensible on sustainability: spend $10 million on energy saving features for buildings that will save $500,000 a year in utility bills and reduce pollution. (But read the comments.) So, what would a sensible approach to increasing diversity…
7/15/2011: Here. It’s a mix of the usual complete bullshit and some hopeful signs that we might actually hire someone who will make some progress on these important issues. The best part is that when the administration decides we are still “under-administered” and need a VP for Sustainability, they can…
6/28/2011: From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian: The Oregon Legislature has dealt a serious blow to plans for building a world class “sustainability center” at Portland State University. … “There are a multitude of concerns,” said House co-Speaker Bruce Hanna, R-Roseburg. Top among them, he said, is that the building…
8/27/2010: How often does Lane Community College get featured in an NYT story? Interesting in many ways. “When we first started two decades ago we were focused on community and residential energy efficiency,” Mr. Ebbage said. “Now we are preparing people to go into the commercial sector anywhere in the…
8/19/2010: UO has failed to make the Sierra Clubs list of America’s 162 greenest campuses, a.k.a. “Cool Schools”. (The Dog comments that it’s likely no one at UO bothered to complete the survey). Obviously we will now need to further increase administrative spending on sustainability. Or not – Scott Carlson…