Category: Sustainability

  • Gustieware!!…It’s EVERYWHERE!

    Yes, it’s everywhere all over campus, in residence halls and apartments and classrooms and offices…..just waiting for the kind soul who borrowed it to return it so it can take another tour of campus with another kind soul who will return it to go again and again and again and again….. It’s also been reported…

  • Video: A Day in the Life of GustieWare

    Sarah Lundquist, a current Gustavus student, recently created this great video titled, “A Day in the Life of GustieWare” for her Public Discourse class. I wonder how long it took to do all of that stop-motion animation…

  • Meeting Minutes – February 9, 2009

    Present: Jim Dontje, Deborah Downs-Miers, Lauren Fulner, Stacey Gerken, Kate Goodpaster, Ann Hakes, Lisa Heldke, Steve Kjellgren, Joe Lencioni, Rebecca Welp Reports Steve Kjellgren The student-created video about Gustieware is now available on youtube. Several individual students and/or groups are working with/through DS this semester: Some students of Bruce Johnson will be doing research for…

  • Why aren’t we “going trayless???”

    Recently, a student queried Dining Service Director Steve, about the possibility of eliminating trays as a way of saving energy and reducing food waste. Here’s what I had to say about that matter, back in September, when colleges across the country rolled out their new trayless programs. (The piece was published in the Free Press…

  • Meeting Minutes – January 14, 2009

    Present: (I forgot to note attendance.) To do list Big and small things that we’ve identified, along with people who promised to do them Check in with Lisa and/or Steve about your continued involvement with KC: everyone Check in with Barb Larson Taylor re: sustainability document: [unassigned] Develop a “purchasing priorities” document that defines, among…