ENVS101 Working Group Survey Form

Before you fill out this survey you should review the Group Project Ideas and write down the numbers of the ideas your are most interested in working on. The purpose of this survey is to provide us with info necessary to assign working groups. Working groups will work collectively on case studies and projects. Our goal here is to construct groups with a diversity of skills and with common project interests. When you have entered the information be certain to click on the "submit" command at the bottom of the form. None of this information will be shared with your classmates.

Information for constructing groups:

Enter your LAST name only: Your class

Your ENVS101 instructor (very important)

Relative to other Oberlin students, rank your knowledge of the following general subject areas: 1 = know quite a bit less than most, 3 = average, 5 = very knowledgeable.

Natural and physical science

Government/politics

Environmental issues

Economics

Social science


Rank yourself by the following criteria: 1 = not the case, 5 = very much so.

You are politically active

You are involved in coops

You have generally had good experiences working in groups

You tend to remain fairly quiet when working with others
You would call yourself an "environmentalist"
Friends think of you as having leadership skills
You make sacrifices to minimize your impact on the planet
You probably ask questions and make comments in class more than most

Read through Project Ideas and then rank the following specific projects in terms of your interest:

1. Environmental Film Series (JF)
2. Bike Parking Inventory
3. Designing a Campus Garden
4. Reviving Defunct Student Environmental Groups
5. Make RPC (recyclde products co-op) more accessible
6. Make the OC clothing Fair rade organic cotton
7. Feasibility assessment of composting in student residence halls
8. Assessing and improving the success of Bon Appetite's "Low Carbon Diet"
9. Green cleaning products for dining service
10. Finding ways to reduce automobile use by students (RS)
11. Increasing campus lighting efficiency (RS)
12. Campus kitchen efficiency in CDS and OSCA
13. Fair trade/Sustainable foods in DeCafe (RS)
14. Green purchasing resource for college students (RS)
15. EnviroAlums Reunion
16. Greening the conservatory
17. Energy Bike

18. ENVS lessons in High Schools (RS)

19. Local food in local schools
20. Gardening at the elementary/middle/high school

21. George Jones Farm Day of Service (JF)

22. Video of Home Heat Loss Inspection for Oberlin Homeowner Education (RS)
23. Feasibility of a Pool Cover at Kendal at Oberlin (RS)
24. City of Oberlin Unwanted Goods Exchange Program

25. Oberlin Farmer's Market and Oberlin Food Blog (RS) (JF)

26. Tree Planting and Carbon Sequestering (RS)
27. Designing and Building a Greenhouse using Recycled Materials
28. Acting Locally: Reducing our own carbon footprint while preserving land
29. Recycling Rates in Oberlin
30. Local Food Availability at Oberlin Community Services (JF)

Your new idea (if you have one):


Briefly describe any special talents that you possess that you believe would contribute to your group project (e.g. web design, graphic design, spreadsheets, special computer skills, mechanical skills, photography, silk screening, etc.).

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