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Community Outreach & Service

Wilson Community College Activities

• Exploration of College serving as a waste and recycling collection point for community - College agreed to serve as a collection point for used cooking oils for use by local Biofuels processor
• Development of a Sustainable Business Rapid Response Team to provide support and resources to businesses and industries
• Participation in Wilson’s Upper Coastal Plain Business Development Center & Business Incubator
• Advocacy/presentations on sustainability made to:
  • US Congressman, NC Lieut. Governor, Wilson City & County Officials & Councils, NC Community College System
  • Community Faith Based Groups
  • Economic Development Council
  • Civic and Professional groups
  • American Association of Community Colleges AACC National Convention, K-12 classes
• Live webcam – visibility of LEED Student Center construction project
• Website features Growing Green section dedicated to sustainability and sustainable activities - http://www.wilsoncc.edu/climate.cfm
• Working relationships with
  • US Congressman, Regional Community College Presidents, NC Community
    College System Administrators
  • NC State Energy Office
  • Upper Coastal Plain Council of Government
• Advocate for Higher Education Sustainability Act (HESA)

Your Dimensions Activity

We want to know what you are doing, planning, or even just thinking about when it comes to sustainability. Are you teaching the concept of sustainability in your class? Are you purchasing green products? Have you or your students thought about your recycling behaviors since we installed recycling centers across campus? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are thinking sustainably. Sustainability is about sharing and our sustainable efforts should be visible to others and serve as a model of what it means to be sustainable. We want to know what you are doing in sustainability and invite you to submit your sustainable activities.

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