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projects: course projects, student group projects, and efforts by the campus
food service and Buildings & Grounds are focused on making this subset of
projects work. As the Sustainability Task Force awaits official adoption of the
Sustainability Plan (Fig. 29.2), positive outcomes are emerging from the
slightly coordinated yet distributed and grassroots approach to sustainability at
OWU.

“SCRAPPY SUSTAINABILITY” OUTCOMES
In 2012, OWU Environmental Studies student Sarah D’Alexander organized
(as part of a class project) the first “May Move Out” at OWU. The goal was
simple: to collect, rather than discard, usable materials left behind by students
as they moved off campus at the end of the spring semester. The effort was
successful in collecting tons of clothing, furniture, appliances, bikes, etc

FIGURE 29.2 The Ohio Wesleyan University Proposed Sustainability Plan, page 1 (of 4). Pages
2 and 3 detail the four areas of focus outlined on page 1.