North Seattle College
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

As part of our broader Earth Week celebrations this year, the Sustainability Office chose to highlight sustainable growing methods, and we had our Community Garden project manager give a lecture on permaculture growing techniques, and how they can be incorporated to your average at home garden. Additionally, we worked with different courses and instructors to spread that message, and bring Laura (project manager and authority on permaculture) to other courses and excite students about more sustainable growing methods. The following day, we also had a work part at the community garden site, with many campus community members and members of the greater Licton Springs community.

We directly spoke with over 80 students throughout the multiple talks on permaculture and sustainable agriculture, and logged well over 50 volunteer hours the following day at the work party. Summer 2014. Continual efforts include the Sustainability Office signing up staff and students for 6 plots in the P-Patch that can demonstrate "Building a Sustainable Community." Efforts include donating crops, providing education outreach events, and participating in group clean-ups and neighborhood gatherings.

NSC participates in the yearly Eco-Challenge every October. The Student Leadership Sustainability Board tables our welcome back to school event and signs up staff, faculty and students to reduce their global footprint by focusing categories that include energy, water, food and transportation. Included below are the stats for the 2016 effort: https://2016.ecochallenge.org/

up to 30 miles traveled by carpool up to 19 locally sourced meals consumed up to 20 light bulbs replaced up to 2,005 minutes spent outdoors up to 128 organic meals consumed up to 123 disposable cups not sent to the landfill up to 12 outdoor meals consumed up to 366 pounds of CO2 have been saved up to 9 pounds of paper have been saved up to 122 miles traveled by bike up to 110 miles traveled by foot up to 369 plastic bottles not sent to the landfill up to 1,710 minutes of additional sleep up to 23 pounds waste composted up to 2,666 gallons of water have been saved up to 1,430 minutes not spent in front of a screen up to 3 hours volunteered up to 120 meatless meals consumed up to 1,980 minutes spent exercising up to 67 zero-waste meals consumed up to 301 miles traveled by bus

Another campaign that the sustainability office led in Spring 2017 was integrating compost bins into staff break-rooms and campus events. Data was collected over the course of a month and almost a ton of organic waste was diverted from the landfill. This program is now ongoing and supported by the facilities staff and sustainability office.