Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.13
Liaison Keisha Payson
Submission Date July 11, 2013
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Bowdoin College
PAE-15: Employee Sustainability Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.29 / 5.00 Keisha Payson
Sustainability Director
Sustainable Bowdoin
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Total number of people employed by the institution:
1,015

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Program name (1st program) :
The Office EcoRep program

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Number of employees served by the program (1st program):
668

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A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (1st program):
The office for a Sustainable Bowdoin asks for volunteers to be part of Bowdoin's Office Eco-rep program.

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A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (1st program):
An hour long training is conducted at the beginning of each year. Additional meetings are held twice a semester to review topics such as waste reduction, green landscaping practices, and Bowdoin's climate action plan. In these meetings the coordinator facilitates a discussion on what Bowdoin is doing to become more sustainable and shares ideas on how the EcoReps can engage their offices in environmental behaviors.

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A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program (1st program):
The Coordinator for a Sustainable Bowdoin works with the approximately 40 office Eco-reps providing resources to help office Eco-reps encourage office participation in energy use reduction competitions, recycling, Commute Another Way week, and other sustainable practices.

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