Vol 87 Issue 12
March 10, 2014
The Definitive Source for Osgoode News
R O B Y N B L U M B E R G A N D D A R I E L L E T E I T E L B A U M AT T H E L U G - A - M U g O S C I N I T I AT I V E .
2013-2014 Initiatives of the Osgoode
Sustainability Committee
ROBYN BLUMBERG & OSGOODE
SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE
What a year it has been for the Sustainability Committee of the Environmental Law
Society! Celebrating our annual green Obiter
Dicta issue, we thought we would update you on
our initiatives over the 2013-2014 school year.
In September, the Sustainability Committee
established our foundation: five sub-groups that
would direct our goals for the year. We created a
Campus Connections group, Osgoode Bistro group,
Osgoode Campus group, Events group, and the
Sustainable Awareness group.
Campus Connections Group
As students, we seem to operate in an isolated
Osgoode bubble from time to time. Though
we clearly care about the larger environmental impact of our school on the community, we
often forget that we are part of York University
– an institution with thousands of other students
who care about the environment. Many of these
individuals are part of other clubs on our Keele
campus with greater resources and manpower to
effect change. It was our goal at the start of the
school year to learn about the other groups on
our campus and see how we could partner with
them to achieve common goals.
The group evolved over the year to focus
on an initiative supervised by Liane Langstaff
and the Osgoode Society for Corporate Governance (1L Student - Thomas Felix) regarding
sustainable and responsible investing. Please see
her article entitled, “CSR Research Pilot Program: Fostering Sustainability through Collaboration,” included in this Obiter Dicta green issue.
We are excited that the Campus Connections
group has taken such focused direction with the
eventual desire that York University will be held
increasingly accountable for the investment decisions they choose to make.
Osgoode Bistro Group
Our student group is very lucky that Aramark
(the food services company) has been so willing
to work with us to make appropriate changes to
dining at Osgoode. Our relationship with Aramark began in Winter 2013 and has continued
to grow from there. Initially, the Bistro, along
with Peter Lee (of Campus Operations) agreed
to implement composting. The 2013-2014 school
year promised an even stronger partnership. An
initial meeting with Lisa Xie (led by Katie Brack
of the Committee), provided us with important
information about the sourcing and pricing of
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IN THIS IS SUE ...
OSC Initiatives
C OV E R , PAG E 17
Environmental Marketing
PAG E 4
Olympic Postmortem
PAG E 8
Jurisfoodence
PAG E 12