Innovation Award
Providing grants for innovation
Linfield College
Oregon Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
University of Portland
Linfield College Sarah Valentine
With Innovation Mini-Grant funding from Oregon Campus Compact, Valentine will expand the emerging Linfield Bike Shop. Services to be offered include repair, as well as daily and semester-long free bike rentals available to students.
By taking bikes that would otherwise be thrown away, the project will have an immediate effect on campus sustainability. In the long-term, this project will help contribute to bike commuting and transportation to and from campus, eventually helping McMinnville to become more bike-friendly as a community.
Linfield College Duncan Reid
Greenfield
Greenfield, Linfield College’s student environmental organization is working collaboratively with community partners to develop a sustainable living house that will serve as a model for sustainability in the community. Greenfield is working with community partners to remodel an existing house with sustainable features and a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) garden.
The Sustainable-Living House will also serve the community through hosting community events focusing on sustainable-living education. A portion of the CSA garden produce will be donated to the Yamhill County Food Bank. Oregon Campus Compact is funding a portion of the house remodel through the Innovation Mini-Grant.
Oregon Institute of Technology Michelle LaPierre
Oregon Renewable Energy Center
With the creation of the Geo-Heat Center in 1974 and the Oregon Renewable Energy Center (OREC) in 2001, Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Oregon has been a leading voice in the higher education sustainability movement.
Michelle LaPierre, an intern for the Oregon Renewable Energy Center and a student at OIT, wrote the proposal for the OIT Campus Sustainability Tours Pilot Program. With funding from the 2009 Campus Compact Innovation Award, OIT will educate the public and the OIT community on OIT’s sustainability efforts.
University of Oregon Jesse Hough
Northwest Institute for Community Energy
In the Summer of 2009, Jesse Hough will facilitate the ten-week Eugene Northwest Institute for Community Energy (NICE). The Eugene NICE will be a Think and Do Tank program focused on engaging community members and students in jumpstarting and/or catalyzing local community supported sustainability projects. These projects may involve energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transportation, local food, and/or responsible waste.
Oregon Campus Compact will fund a portion of the stipend that will staff Hough throughout the preparation and facilitation of the Eugene NICE.
University of Portland Laura Goble
Moreau Center for Service & Leadership
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Ingrid Hannan
College Ecology Club
University of Portland recently purchased an abandoned brownfield property along the Willamette River now called “River Campus.” As it is rehabilitated, it will provide a wide variety of opportunities for natural resource restoration, a new greenway and trail, increased opportunities for public use, stewardship of natural resources by the University’s environmental science program, and expansion of University facilities
An Oregon Campus Compact Innovation Mini-Grant helped to fund an event in April 2009, in which students from the College Ecology Club, Crew Team, Chemistry Club, and Biology Club as well as staff and faculty representing several University departments helped the University of Portland Community and adjacent neighborhood communities to better understand and appreciate the new campus. The event focused on the Willamette River specifically and water issues in general.
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