Sustainability at Albion College
Environment, Economy, Equity
Sustainability: the practice of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs
Welcome to Albion College’s Sustainability Pages. Albion College is currently making bold leaps to guarantee a green future for our campus and community. To show the College’s dedication, Albion has included sustainability as a principal theme of its strategic plan, “Albion 2015,” and will showcase that theme during the 2010-11 academic year. In 2007 Albion College joined hundreds of other universities across the country in advancing sustainability by signing the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. Explore these pages and learn more about Albion’s campus and student Initiatives, and what you can do to make a difference.
Got questions about recycling in Albion? Bill Thomas, the resource recovery manager at Northwest Refuse, will discuss Albion’s curbside and drop-off recycling programs on Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church Wesley Lounge. Bill has been in this position for five years and is ready for a lot of Q&A about recycling in Albion. This is the Albion branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) March meeting, and it's free and open to the public. For more information, contact AAUW member Jake Weber at 517/629-4340 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Cliff Harris Works With Colleagues On Soil Remediation Research: A March 2 article on page A3 of the USA Today detailed how a herbicide that contaminates the tap water consumed by millions of Americans has been found to produce gender-bending effects in male frogs. Albion College associate professor of chemistry Cliff Harris worked with faculty from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kasetsart University in Thailand on research published last year that shows a mixture of soybean oil and iron can remediate the soil and prevent contamination of drinking water.
"Albion College has been contributing to solutions to the problem," Harris said. "My colleagues took soil that had been heavily contaminated with atrazine and treated it with a mixture of soybean oil and iron - two pretty cheap materials - and cut the atrazine by 80 to 90 percent with a single treatment. My contribution was to help explain the science behind the process."
