Excerpted from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education website (http://www.aashe.org/resources/awards/2009/butte-college) which announced winners of the 2009 National Campus Sustainability Leadership Awards: 

"Modeling Sustainability is one of five initiatives in Butte College's Strategic Plan. Infusing sustainability into the curriculum is an objective under this initiative. Last year the college developed and implemented a 17 unit Sustainability Studies Certificate to enable students to partially meet their general education requirements by taking sustainability-related courses. This certificate includes a service learning requirement.

The college leveraged a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop and implement a Green Building Certificate program. It intends to expand this program, using follow-on grants, into career pathways in alternative energy and green construction. A grant to establish a linkage between these programs and K-12 was recently secured. A survey to assess the sustainability content of the current curriculum has been developed and will be implemented in fall 2009.

This spring the college offered community education sustainability workshops covering Green Facilities Improvements, Energy Savings, and Healthy Environments."

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