Sourced from Lehigh News
Part of Lehigh’s vision in creating its Sustainability Strategic Plan 2030 and in developing a Climate Action Strategy — a detailed framework serving as a comprehensive roadmap for measuring, planning and reducing greenhouse gas emissions — is to use the South Bethlehem campus as a living laboratory to advance campus sustainability.
The Office of Creative Inquiry and the Office of Sustainability have begun to make that a reality. The two offices teamed up in February to launch the Campus Sustainable Impact Fellowship, which provides students with hands-on experiential learning through campus sustainability projects.
“Following on the success of the Global Social Impact Fellowship and the Lehigh Valley Social Impact Fellowship programs, the Campus Sustainable Impact Fellowship will give students the opportunity to research, design, field-test and integrate social and technological innovations that further transform our campus into a low-carbon circular economy,” Khanjan Mehta, vice provost for Creative Inquiry and director of the Mountaintop Initiative, said.
Campus Sustainable Impact Fellows are undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines across the university who address goals tied to Lehigh’s Sustainability Strategic Plan 2030 and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals on campus. There are 113 goals in the 2030 plan that align with one or more of the 17 UN goals, which serve as a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all." They include quality education, no poverty, renewable energy and gender equality.
