GCI Eco-Consulting Division

Hey everybody,

I'm excited to announce a GCI Eco-Consulting Division. It will be headed by Mira, whom you can contact at mira.scarvalone@gmail.com for more information. What follows is a brief description and outline of the structure, function, and purpose of an eco-consulting aspect of GCI. From Mira herself:

The goal of the eco-consulting division is to provide specific advice and
strategies to different RSO's on how they can green their practices and events.
While GCI already provides guidance to RSO's in general on how to make their
events more sustainable (and hands-on help in certain cases, such as with
composting at cultural shows), the goal of this project will be to research and
report on how particular RSO's can green their own events, rather than providing
advice for all RSO's at once. By tailoring these suggestions to one particular
RSO at a time, the hope is that these strategies will be made crystal clear and
be easy to implement. In addition, the research will entail some sort of
quantitative or qualitative measure of the benefits of implementing certain
green strategies, such as waste saved, % recycled materials used in an event,
etc. While many RSO's may not have environmental sustainability as one of their
chief objectives, the hope is that by researching green practices, they can be
presented in a way that seems easy to implement (and may improve a club's public
image).

The division will be open to all students with an interest in these kinds
of projects, which can range from those interested in consulting to
environmentally knowledgeable people. The hope is that the eco-consulting
projects will help the RSO's and the student body at large, and in general raise
awareness on campus of environmental issues.

On another note, pod members are free to work in this division in addition to their work as pod members. No group of GCI is exclusive. We hope that with an eco-consulting division going on, we can merge two important fields that UChicago students have generally been interested in: consulting and sustainability.

E-mail Mira if you're interested! Work starts ASAP.

Willy