Green Working
For more tips on how to be green in your office and on campus, see these guides:

  Green Office Program - things you can do, case studies, and more!
  Green Computing Guide

Past academic projects that have helped the College move forward have included:

• Capacity for photo-voltaic arrays on the roofs of College buildings (including a cost-benefit analysis)
• Opportunities for heating Haldeman pool using solar hot water heating
• Thermal imaging of buildings to determine inefficiencies in insulation
• Designing a "Sustainability Pledge" program for all incoming students
• Assessing opportunities for cost- and energy-savings through the use of more efficient lighting solutions

Email sustainability@pomona.edu for more information about possible topics for projects and papers and for questions about available data.

How to Get Involved
Sustainability Integration Office
Are you interested in being involved in a project? Have questions about sustainability or what you should be doing? Want to talk about sustainability in your class but want some help preparing information?

Here's what the Sustainability Integration Office can do to help

• Answer questions about sustainability - for instance, the Registrar's Office recently emailed to ask about what sort of envelopes they might want to be buying to mail out transcripts. A faculty member emailed to ask why the coffee cups with Catering orders are disposable - the Sustainability Integration Office can assist with these sorts of questions.
• Process sustainability complaints - see a broken sprinkler? Someone leaving their lights on all night? Let us know.
• Assist in preparing lecture materials or resources for sustainability-related projects.
• Help to develop project topics for theses, term papers, or other class projects, particularly those related to campus sustainability topics. Food, energy, water, landscaping - whether a general study or an analysis of a particular technology or effort, campus sustainability issues make for challenging and rewarding academic projects.
• Lecture about Pomona's environmental impact. Talking about stormwater and want to know about what Pomona's stormwater impacts are? The Sustainability Coordinator can prepare a lecture and presentation about sustainability topics at the College.
• Lecture about areas of expertise - Bowen Patterson Close, the current director of the Sustainability Integration Office, has experience in topics related to: urban planning, green building, land use, strategic planning and communications, food systems, and agriculture topics.

President's Advisory Committee on Sustainability
This committee was formed by President Oxtoby in 2006 and is the official College committee for advising on sustainability issues. This committee is responsible for an annual report about the progress of sustainability at the College.

PACS has approximately five staff and faculty members each year, but you are always welcome to stop by meetings to see what's happening and how the process works or to be an unofficial member of the committee.

For more information about attending a PACS meeting or being a part of PACS, contact the Sustainability Integration Office at bowen.patterson@pomona.edu or the Chair of the Committee (currently, Professor Charles Taylor, charles.taylor@pomona.edu).

You can see more about PACS, including membership and activities, here.

Other Committees and Task Forces
Committees and task forces are often created throughout the year to discuss specific issues, such as the design and programming of a specific construction project or building, or to accomplish a specific task. Examples of recent committees and task forces include:

• North Campus Residence Halls Advisory Committee
• Board of Trustees Sustainability Task Force
• Committee on Social Responsibility (proxy voting on investments)

Faculty and staff are chosen for these committees based on general interest and involvement in related campus activities.