"Promotion and Education"
Tuesday - January 15, 2008
12:00 pm Eastern/9:00 am Pacific
Approximate duration: 90 minutes
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A Presentation of the CURC Webinar Series
You can place recycling bins across campus, but how do you get your students and employees to use them? Any successful recycling program requires an effective promotion and education component to motivate and provide campus communities with the knowledge to participate. From public tabling and fairs to special events like RecycleMania and America Recycles Day, promotion and education efforts are key to increasing recycling volumes and decreasing overall waste generation. This webinar will feature three speakers from a diverse selection of schools highlighting their school’s experience with what works and what doesn’t when communicating the recycling and waste reduction message. The webinar will also include a resource list of sample education and promotion materials produced by different schools. This webinar will be an excellent resource for schools participating in the 2008 RecycleMania competition.
Series Moderator
Christine von Kolnitz Cooley
Sustainability Manager
Medical University of South Carolina
Christine Cooley is the Sustainability Manager for the Medical University of South Carolina. She has overseen recycling at MUSC since 1995 and took on the sustainability position in 2006. The MUSC Recycling Program has received numerous awards since her arrival. MUSC has received over $300,000 in grants for recycling and sustainability projects.
Upon graduating with a BA degree from the College of Charleston in 1992, Christine worked as the Recycling Coordinator for the College. While working at the College, she was instrumental in establishing the SC DHEC Collegiate Grant Program. In 2004, Ms Cooley and Karyn Kaplan of the University of Oregon co-wrote a recycling book titled Recycling and Beyond: A College Campus Primer. Ms. Cooley is a Clemson Extension Master Waste Educator and a member of the National Recycling Coalition's College and University Recycling Council (CURC) steering committee. Ms Cooley was appointed to the City of Charleston Green Committee in 2007.
Presenters
Kathy Boutin-Pasterz
Recycling Coordinator
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Join us for a brief program on UNC Charlotte's Office of Waste Reduction & Recycling's education campaign "Working Together to make UNC Charlotte GREENER". Kathy Boutin-Pasterz will present the basics of their conservation and recycling campaign for this commuter campus and show you some of the unique programs, posters, cheap promo give-aways that they have designed that we hope you will use at your campus.
Kathy Boutin-Pasterz is the Recycling Coordinator University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The UNC Charlotte program started in 1990 and has grown from a program collecting just aluminum cans to a comprehensive waste reduction program with 14 employees collecting over 40 items. UNC Charlotte also operates a composting program and an award winning construction and demolition recycling / re-use program.
Kathy is also the chair of the Carolina Recycling Association’s Collegiate Recyclers Council (founded in 1990 by a group of concerned collegiate recycling coordinators with the goal of sharing information to develop more comprehensive and supportive programs across North and South Carolina).
Kathy moved to Charlotte, NC in 2005 to work for the Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling at UNC Charlotte from Lansing, MI. She is a member of UNC Charlotte’s Environmental Academy and a Board member of Keep Mecklenburg Beautiful.
She received her degree in Environmental Education from the University of Michigan. In 1983, while working on her Master’s in Environmental Education at Michigan State University, she helped co-found a non-profit recycling program in Lansing. Kathy also served on the Board of the Michigan Recycling Coalition.
While she misses the glorious snowstorms and cross country skiing in Michigan she is enjoying NC and its abundant sunshine in her new home with her husband Pete (former CURC president).
Bill Rudy
Recycling Trainer
Brigham Young University
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Bill will discuss a wide variety of campus recycling promotion and education efforts, from cheap give aways to events to competitions, pointing out successes, failures and unexpected synergies.
Bill Rudy works as the recycling trainer at Brigham Young University encouraging faculty, staff and students to adopt an attitude of conservation and to recycle. Before coming to BYU in 1999 Bill worked as a park naturalist in Westchester County, New York; a seasonal park ranger at Great Basin National Park in Nevada; and a forest stewardship and endangered species specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Bill received at BS in Environmental Studies from the New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, an MA in Ecology from Indiana University and a MS in Environmental Science from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Erica Spiegel
Solid Waste and Recycling Manager
University of Vermont
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Erica will present on the highly successful Eco-Reps program. The UVM Eco-Reps are students who promote environmental stewardship among UVM's residential students by raising awareness about ecological issues and encouraging environmentally conscious behavior. Also find out about 30 other eco-rep programs through the results of a nationwide survey conducted by UVM Eco-Rep Coordinator Christina Erickson.
Erica Spiegel is the Manager of Recycling and Solid Waste Operations at the University of Vermont. She has worked in higher education facilities for over fifteen years. Before coming to UVM in 1997, she was the Recycling Coordinator for the University of Michigan. She was recently appointed to the Composting Association of Vermont board of directors. Erica received her BA in Geography from SUNY Albany and an MS in Natural Resources Management from the University of Michigan. Last year, she completed the Master of Public Administration program at UVM after taking part time coursework over a six year period. In her free time, she enjoys skiing and hiking in the beautiful Green Mountains.
Additional Education and Promotional Resources
The CURC Webinar series is made possible through a generous grant from the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation.
