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Goals and Strategies

(Ratified on 7/1/08)

To meet its commitment to advance responsible environmental stewardship, the Western Michigan University community will:

• Recommend that the President sign the Talloires Declaration;

  (Signed on 1/1/08)

• Make environmentally sound practices a core value of our teaching, research, service, and operations;
• Create opportunities for all students, faculty, and staff to become environmentally literate;
• Prepare graduates to have the knowledge, skills, tools, and values to become leaders in the worldwide effort to promote just and ecologically sustainable communities;
• Conduct our business practices in accordance with this Environmental Mission Statement;
• Build on existing programs and initiatives in energy management, recycling, waste management, water conservation, transportation planning, ecological landscaping, and sustainable design as well as create and promote new programs to fully implement this Environmental Mission Statement throughout the University;
• Develop a plan for assessing the University’s current strengths and weaknesses.  Perform this assessment and prepare a WMU “Sustainability Strategic Plan.”  This plan will include recommendations, achievable goals and targets, and an ongoing monitoring and reporting strategy; and
• Allocate the fiscal and human resources necessary to implement this Environmental Mission Statement.