Sustainability  @ Siena

What does living sustainably mean?

Siena has a responsibility to live in a way that benefits not only our campus, but the greater community as a whole. Sustainability can be a broad topic, but is nicely summarized by the Brundtland Report (Our Common Future):

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

It contains within it two key concepts:

• • the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and 

  • the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs."

What makes Siena College sustainable?

• A $65,000 Siena Green Revolving Fund

• OZZI: A reusable container dispensing machine

• Big Belly Trash Compactors

• Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

• Honey Bee Apiary

• Campus Recycling and Water Bottle Fill-Up Stations

• Rain Gardens and Organic Garden

• Composting in Dining Halls

• Roots Cafe

• Rosetti Hall  and the Trustco Bank Center

• Storm-Water Management

• Other Facilities Projects

• Light Sign Education

• Member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

• Plus much, much more!

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