绿色指南

Learn how 可持续性 is woven into life at Skidmore, from the free campus bike 分享搬出去. Click through any topic below to find resources, tips, and context that characterize the culture of 可持续性 on campus. The information below is only a starting point for these topics, and coursework at Skidmore, books, and further study will help you dive even deeper.

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The 火博体育大学 community embraces both the concept and the holistic, lived practice of 可持续性. This recognizes environmental limits and shares the ethic that present actions should not "compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (Brundtland Commission). The United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015, illustrating the interconnected issues facing communities around the world and calling nations to action. These SDG's are referenced in this 绿色指南 and in the work of Skidmore 可持续性办公室.

Inherent in work towards building sustainable communities is recognizing and rectifying societal inequity and environmental injustice. Environmental injustice is “the disproportionate exposure of communities of color and the poor to pollution, 和它的... effects on health and environment, as well as the unequal environmental protection and environmental quality provided through laws, regulations, governmental programs, enforcement, and policies” (Maantay 2002).