Environmental Stewards

You have the ability to help your friends and coworkers be sustainable.

Be an Environmental Steward.

Environmental Stewards roles and responsibilities are to:

promote environmental changes among co-workers
points of contact for their department for questions and information on environmental stewardship
liaisons between the Be Spartan Green Team and buildings for suggestions, improvements and progress

Read the memo challenging MSU building occupants to reduce waste and energy issued by:

Fred L. Poston, Vice President for Finance & Operations

Kim A. Wilcox, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Become a steward by emailing begreen@msu.edu!

Environmental Steward Orientation

If you haven’t been orientated, or need a refresher, please come to an Environmental Steward Orientation. These presentations provide the background you need to become the point person within your department about waste and energy issues. Additionally, you’ll receive items to help you be a steward, including a compact fluorescent light bulb, reusable bag, reusable water bottle, logo pin, and more.

Upcoming orientations:

Thursday, November 19th at 8:30am-9:30am in 203 Olds
Tuesday, December 8th at 8:30am-9:30am in 203 Olds

Email Lauren Olson, olsonla3@msu.edu, to RSVP.

Meet Your Building's Stewards

Go to http://www.gis.msu.edu/begreen to access the Environmental Stewardship Building Reports. Select either the "Energy" or "Recycling" tabs, select a year, and click "Run". From there, you can click on any building on campus. Select "Generate Report" on the pop-up box. The last page of the building report has the listing of the Environmental Stewards for the building.

Being an Environmental Steward

Already an Environmental Steward? Looking for things to do? Well, look no further!

Meet with your building team
Call together the stewards, what do each of you see as the issues? What is going well? What can be improved? What do the building reports say about the progress? Take a team photo and we’ll add it to the GIS website, email it to Lauren Olson at olsonla3@msu.edu.

Know an issue that’s solvable?
Most likely the issue your office area, department, or building has can be solved, check this webpage for more information. Bring the issue (and its solution) up at meetings, via email, or talk with your coworkers about it. Most likely people want to do the right thing, but don’t know how or need assistance. Need more help or want to share a success? Email Lauren Olson, Project Coordinator in the Office of Campus Sustainability at olsonla3@msu.edu.

Become a resource
Let people know they can come to you for answers about how they can Be Spartan Green. If you ever get a question you can’t answer, feel free to email Lauren Olson, Project Coordinator in the Office of Campus Sustainability at olsonla3@msu.edu. This website is here to help but it’s not perfect; let me know how it can better suit your needs.

Contacts and Resources

Custodial

Select your building from the pull down menu to contact your custodial crew

Physical Plant

Energy and Environmental Engineer, Lynda Boomer
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) extended time scheduling, 353-4669
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) issues, Maintenance Services 353-1760

Recycling

Recycling Hotline; call 355-1723 or email
View Container request forms

Surplus Store

Call at 355-0364 or request a pick-up online

University Stores

Green product list: go to catalog, then search using the keywords “be green”