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Students
Welcome new BERPs ! Check out this year's BERPs
BERPs
Bard Environmental Resource People are student volunteers who are charged with increasing sustainable behavior within the residence halls.
There are 2 BERP slots per floor available. If your floor is full email for other options.
- Sign up to be a BERP - Email reduce@bard.edu
- BERPs volunteer 1-2 hours each month
So you're the BERP...
- Read the BERP manual
- Learn more about the psychology of fostering sustainable behavior with Community Based Social Marketing CBSM - getting from information to action - get the pdf of the online book
- NEW!: Check out the December BERP Social Change Workshop powerpoint
- Make sure you have a non-Bard email account so you can update the Google Doc BERP document - see what all the other BERPs are doing, LIVE.
- Check out signs you can post (or design your own according to CBSM principals).
BERPs - Move In - Check your bins - do you have all you need to recycle and re-use: green, red, and "Barry"? Set up a cardboard "BERP Box" to recycle special streams like cell phones, ink jet cartridges and old batteries. You can pick up a real BERP Box at the first BERP meeting. Establish a way to collect plastic bags so they can be recycled at Hannaford. Make sure people understand to flatten their cardboard boxes so they can be recycled.
This Fall - BERPs led a political action campaign to raise awareness about "350" culminating in an Oct. 22 judging event and Teach-In- how can college students craft a climate change message that will reach our political leaders? The messages, be it a letter, piece of art, u-tube video, photograph or some combination, will be hand delivered to our Congressman and Senator's offices in Hudson and Albany.
Spring semester - Recyclemania begins February 1 - make a sign, knock on some doors, speak with your Ararmark worker...! We recycle 25% of our waste stream - leaders recycle nearly 50%. let's climb that ladder!
MoveOut -Feed BARRY the blue bin using blue bags (available from Aramark or BERD) and pack up unwanted items for FreeUse! P.S. Barry is allergic to undergarments.
Bulb Swap - Over the last two years BERPs and The Environmental Collective swapped out enough bulbs to save over $2,500 each year (2008: $1600 yearly !)
Working for BERD
BERD positions are filled for 2009. Check for updates:
http://www.bard.edu/admission/finances/financial_aid/employment/jobs.shtml
Student Clubs:
The Environmental Collective (EC)
Bike Coop - put in some labor on a broken bike, then you can keep it!
Bard Biodiesel Coop contact Dan ds964@bard.edu
Outdoors Club - discover the hikes and rock climbing of the Hudson Valley
and more - visit the club pages
Student Climate Commission
Bard's Climate Commission elected student representative, Hanna Mitchell is working on the Education section of the Climate Action Plan.
Last year rep. Spencer Lawrence created a Zero Waste subcommittee to help carry out Bard's promise to reach climate neutrality.
Student Papers
Bard students participated in campus energy audits through a Clearwater program.
2005 Clearwater Energy Audit
Select student papers from the Environmental Seminar are also available.
Hydroelectric report (2001)
- A 2006 Senior Project that reported on the feasibility of Hydroelectric on the Sawkill Creek is available in the BERD field office trailer.
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