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The E-House The The Albion College Environmental House (E-House) is a sustainable living - learning center with undergraduate student residents who collaborate closely with faculty and staff. The primary mission of the E-House is to assist participating students, the College as a whole, and the larger City community to learn to live more sustainably by minimizing the environmental impacts of their daily lives.
The
E-House fosters the students’ investigation of, and ability to
manage, systems such as physical (e.g., heating, cooling,
lighting), biological (e.g., foods, grounds, gardening), and
cultural (e.g., consumerism, entertainment) systems.
E-House participation
enables students to develop (a) a holistic view of their own
impact on the environment and (b) responsibility for their own
actions, while allowing them as a mater of conviction to
practice sustainability in their daily lives.
Participation
encourages students to investigate the applicability of
sustainable living practices to typical Michigan housing.
The E-House
demonstrates best practices to the College and City communities
by providing a venue for College experiential
Programs
The E-House operates under a system
of shared governance among the residents.
This includes an
ability to demonstrate a collaborative approach to making
decisions about all aspects of living and learning in a
community.
Student participants in the program
commit to live in the E-House for a full academic year (fall
plus spring semesters).
All residents in
E-House simultaneously enroll in a course in Environmental
Sustainability which encompasses many of the learning
objectives and program of the program.
For more information, contact Dr. Tim Lincoln, Institute for the Study of the Environment, Albion College, Albion MI 49224. Phone (517) 629-0486 – e-mail tlincoln@albion.edu |
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