Environmental organization and strategy

Facilities and Campus Services manage and track energy, electricity, pesticide, and water use. Therefore, all environmental data in this report comes from that office.

Environmental management system

This report represents the first compilation of environmental and social data for the college. The Roberts Environmental Center is now writing an environmental management database to store resource use and social performance indicators in a single location. Staff members of many different departments, using the web, will enter relevant data every year. The database will then automatically generate an annual sustainability report. Please note that the data compiled below represents only the resource use of CMC’s campus; it does not include other parts of the consortium that CMC shares, like Joint Science (shared with Pitzer and Scripps colleges).

Voluntary environmental initiatives including donations and grants

The Roberts Environmental Center supported eight students during the summer of 2005 to conduct both national and international environmental work. Four students worked in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at the Burger Research Station. These students, in a Bureau of Land Management Study, investigated plant succession following fires. Four other students worked in the Wolong Valley of Eastern China. Students studied the ecology of local Panda habitat and interviewed local people about potential economic development.