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The Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership, (STEP)
is an educational outreach program
designed to educate Yale students about sustainability and to foster a
community ethic of environmental stewardship and sustainable behavior.
STEP activities link administrative support and policy making to student behavior.
The primary goal of STEP is to make the concept of sustainability an
integral part of a Yale education. STEP activities are organized around
energy efficiency and green house gas emission reduction, waste reduction
and closed-loop recycling, local and organic food and sustainable consumerism.
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STEP is currently funded by support from a Green Fund
[live link from our site to our site] grant administered by the
Advisory Committee on Environmental Management
[ACEM] [live link from our site to our site] and
by the Master’s of each of the twelve Residential Colleges.
STEP employs twenty-four student coordinators
(2 from each of the 12 Residential Colleges),
two student directors, and one part-time student program director.
STEP relies on the strength and organization of the
Residential College System and the non-formal communication
network of peer-to-peer interaction. STEP Coordinators serve
as the sustainability educators in their respective colleges
by disseminating information and advertising events
on a wide range of sustainability issues through newsletters,
bulletin boards, emails, posters, face-to-face interaction,
and college study. Weekly sustainability issues and campaign
themes provide a structure upon which the individual
college coordinators design events.
For more information and to contact members of STEP, go to
www.yale.edu/step.
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