Introduction to Urban Biking with an emphasis on bicycle safety checks, bicycle handling skills, safer practices for riding in traffic and critical thinking for safe cycling. Class meets for a combination of classroom and riding practice sessions with an optional San Juan Bike Tour after completion of the course.

Course Objectives:

• Identify basic skills needed to safely bike in an urban setting.
• Demonstrate ability to conduct the ABC quick check
• Introduce and practice bicycle handling maneuvers
• Demonstrate an ability to plan and prepare a bike trip or touring excursion.
• Identify lifetime health benefits of aerobic conditioning and cycling as a healthy lifestyle activity.

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• Section: LSA
• Instructors: Peter Prescott
• Class starts 7/3. Class ends 7/24.
• Meets: T at 12:30PM-3:30PM in

Their findings indicated that there’s a lot more work to do to educate campus on what items need to be recycled, composted or trashed. The biggest concern observed was garbage in recycle bins and recyclable material in trash cans.  They did find that bins with round holes or slits like paper were being used more appropriately.

Bellevue College has embarked on a campus-wide review and standardization of exterior garbage and recycling this quarter after student Shirin Lofti’s presentation to the Student Environmental Sustainability Fund (SESF) Committee.

Garbage bins that were serving little purpose were pulled closer to campus and recycling bins were stationed next to all exterior garbage bins just days after the archeology students completed their report, supported by an SESF grant and undertaken by BC Facility Operations.  Also with part of the grant, new signage will be piloted in all over the student union area of the C building. These signage will have images that illustrate which items go in each bin.

Bellevue College now has standards for garbage, recycling and compost as illustrated below.With these improvements, we hope that recycling around campus will increase and become second nature to Bellevue College’s community.

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• Increase enrollment in your section and course

• Meet students’ increasing needs and interests for sustainability education

• Change the world, “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito”  African Proverb

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Sustainability courses and sections include one or more of the following learning objectives overall or in a module, lesson or assignment:

• Synthesize and communicate an understanding of social, economic, and environmental systems in the context of sustainability
• Apply an ethical perspective in which one views oneself as embedded in the fabric of an interconnected world.
• Demonstrate connections between a student’s chosen course of study and sustainability.
• Demonstrate technical skills and expertise necessary to implement sustainable solutions in solving problems related to the course.
• Explain how sustainable thinking and decision-making contribute to solutions for current and emerging social, environmental and economic crises.
• Apply practical solutions to real-world sustainability challenges.

The plan outlines a bold vision for Bellevue College’s neighborhood including a Transit Oriented Development between our southern border and I-90 as depicted below (click to enlarge):

Improvements called for in the plan include:

• New bus stops and a wider, covered sidewalk leading from the I-90 flyover stops to Main Campus going east and west (depicted below)
• Completion of the missing link in the Mountains to Sound Greenway and connection to Main Campus (map below)
• Bus route revisions

The Eastgate/I-90 Land Use and Transportation Project is a long-range vision that may take many years to realize and may change over time.  Major steps include revisions to the City of Bellevue land-use and transportation plans and codes and identifying private investors and public resources for projects.

Proposed Route for Mountains to Sound Greenway Trail

The Faculty Commons provides support for faculty-guided innovation, adaptation of curriculum and pedagogy, and other forms of faculty professional development that contribute to student success and to the educational mission and goals of the College.

Marika is program chair, faculty and co-founder of the Sustainable Business Practices program.  Marika is actively engaged in campus sustainability efforts and chairs the Sustainability Curriculum Subcommittee as well as co-chairing the Environmental Advisory Committee.

In her presentation to the Bellevue College community she outlined a Pedagogy for a Sustainable Future.  You can view the full presentation here:

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• They no longer use of the gas powered tractor for preparing field on daily basis; instead they use of manual labor/hand rakes.
• They hand pick weeds and do not use  chemicals
• They have decreased mowing time in half
• Biodegradable plates are used in concession stand and for lunches
• They recycle rainwater for reuse
• Finally, they have been vanpooling players to off-campus practice facility

Mark Yoshino, the team’s coach has begun to notice a sense of unity developing between team members during the vanpool trips to off-campus facilities. “Although the tight spacing can make it quite crowded at times!” said Yoshino. The biggest differences that they have noticed since implementing these measures are that it is much more financially efficient!  “This has been where we’ve actually seen a difference. mainly in the gas cost by vanpooling and in not running the tractor as much” states Yoshino.

We want acknowledge and applaud the baseball’s team effort in attempting to be more sustainable!

We managed to get over 200 members of the campus community to pledge an act of green. Pledges ranged from using campus recycling bins to having a five minutes shower. Personally, I think the latter pledge is admirable. The fashion show was fun and the models were quite energetic!

It was even featured on Bellevue Komo News- click here to read the article and to catch a glimpse of the show.

Finally, I would like to give a big thank you to, John Buckingham  for developping the Fashion Show idea; Salvador Castro and Corey Robertshaw who helped with the pledge tree; Megan Phan and Elham Zaeri for the help with manning the pledge table and Deric Gruen for his coordination and all his support. Many thanks go out to Robert Viens, Marika Reinke, Nora Lance and Faisal Jaswal; without them Earth Week would not have have been a success!