Sustainability Planning Studio
The Sustainability Planning Studio (SPS) is student research aimed at the transition to sustainability, providing hands-on, problem-based learning where student research teams help WWU and the broader community achieve sustainability in energy conservation, waste reduction, transportation, local foods, green purchasing, green building, sustainability media, and more!
All Western students are welcome to take the planning studio. Override must be provided for certain disciplines.
Past Projects
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Sustainable Career Fairs
Fall 2023
Sustainable Career Fairs
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Know Your Worth: How to Make Informed, Sustainable Purchases
Fall 2023
Know Your Worth: How to Make Informed, Sustainable Purchases
(518.85 KB)
Creating Sustainable Labs at Western Washington University
Fall 2023
Sustainable Labs CSPS.pdf
(1.48 MB)
Seeding Up Winthrop: Sowing community resilience and food security
Summer 2023
Seed Library Final Report Summer 2023
(1.13 MB)
Green Purchasing at Family Health Centers
Summer 2023
Family Health Centers Emissions Reduction Report
Summer 2023
FHC Emissions Report
(3.31 MB)
Cultural Lands Case Studies: models of land back, co-stewardship, and cultural easements
Summer 2023
Cultural Lands
(3.63 MB)
Community Forest Case Studies: Models for co-stewardship and intergenerational learning
Summer 2023
Community Forest Case Studies
(4.13 MB)
Zero Waste Events Planning
Fall 2022
Zero Waste Events Planning
(1.96 MB)
ZERO WASTE EVENT CHECKLIST
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Streamlining Western’s Solid Waste
Fall 2022
Streamlining Western’s Solid Waste
(7.84 MB)
SReps: The Future of the Sustainability Ambassadors Program
Fall 2022
Program Recommendations for Fall, 2022 (PDF)
Sreps Inventory (PDF)
Report of Anaerobic Digestion at Western Washington University
Fall 2022
Can WWU Support a Homestay Program?
Fall 2022
Home Sweet Homestay
(3.48 MB)
Campus Drinking Water
Fall 2022
Where is the Water?
(456.95 KB)
Sustainable Office Certification (SOC)
Spring 2022
Streamlining Western’s Solid Waste
Spring 2022
Digesting Food Waste on Western’s Campus (PDF)
Final Report WWU Waste stream (PDF)
COVID Response Team: Working from Home
Spring 2022
Blueprint for Sustainability: A Framework for Facilitating Community Cooperation and Engagement in Response to Climate Change Focused Projects
Spring 2022
Twisp Valley Grange #482: More Than a Building
Summer 2022
Grange Final Report
(1.52 MB)
Sustainable Food Hub Development Strategies
Summer 2022
Sustainable FoodHub Development Strategies
(10.84 MB)