Humber has achieved a Silver rating in STARS from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) STARS program (Sustainability, Tracking and Assessment Rating System).

This is a great accomplishment; please take a moment to read more about our accomplishment in this Humber news article.  The full assessment is public, and can be found here.

There is a long list of people at Humber that helped us gather a significant amount of information required for the program, virtually every department was involved! We are incredibly grateful, and couldn’t have done it without each and every one’s assistance.

A special Thank you for the support and assistance of Rani Dhaliwal, Chris Whitaker, Spencer Wood, Amelia Velasco (sustainability workstudy student – SEBT program), and a group of SEBT student volunteers.

With this as a baseline, over the next six months we will engage the Humber community for feedback about where we should go in the future in terms of Humber’s sustainability. There will be a survey this fall, and some engagement events that we hope everyone will participate in! Together as a college we will decide where we want to go in sustainability, while aligning with the college’s overall strategy. It is an exciting time!!

Save the date! On November 5, 2013 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. there will be a (free) lunch and speaker to celebrate this accomplishment, we hope you will join us.

Once again, Thank you to everyone that helped with STARS, CONGRATULATIONS!

Lindsay Walker, Sustainability Manager and the Humber Sustainability Coordinating Committee