Regarding purchasing, Middlebury College has no policies, and staff are within a certain culture and have no downtime for research. Kevin Lyons at Rutgers broke through beauracracy and is a leader in environmental friendly purchasing. He has developed a computer program to help Rutgers make environmentally friendly choices. Perhaps we should bring Kevin up to Middlebury to give a seminar. Since Midd is a small college, it may involve getting several communities together to do joint purchasing for economic leveraging.
Environmental sustainability needs to be woven into all disciplines, make the invisible visible.
Several schools are developing indicators of what a sustainable campus might look like. Businesses are using the ISO1400.1 management system that enable them to ask certain things of their suppliers. Minutes respectively submitted by Amy Seif on January 11, 2001.