Education for Environment and Sustainable Development

Purpose:
Royal Cambridge College will maintain a sustainability management system to ensure that College operations, activities, programs and facilities are sustainable.

Scope:
This Policy applies to the facilities, activities and educational practices of the school

Definitions:
Sustainability means the capacity of a thing, action, activity or process to be maintained indefinitely and meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The field of sustainable development can be conceptually broken into three constituent parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability.

Responsibilities:

1. The College will comply with applicable legislative requirements, including federal/provincial statutes, regulations, standards and guidelines, and applicable standards established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), as amended from time to time.
2. The President is responsible for the maintenance, administration of this Policy, and the communication and promotion of the Policy, both within and outside the College.

Accountability:
The College will set and review sustainability objectives from time to time, and audit progress against these objectives.

Goals:
In order to achieve the sustainability management system, the College seeks to meet the following -

1. To fulfill its mission and goals as an English language education institution without compromising the ability of present and future generations to fulfill their own goals.
2. To equip students with the skills and knowledge that will enable people to actively contribute to a more sustainable world.
3. To develop academic programs, offer services and carry on its activities in such a way as to:
   • reduce consumption of non-renewable resources and the wastes generated from them,
   • use all renewable materials and energy resources at rates equal to, or lower than, their natural rates of deposition, reformation or reproduction in the ecosphere and,
   • reduce and eventually eliminate the toxicity of these operations to the productivity and diversity of the ecosphere.
4. To encourage the development and adoption by students, administration and teachers, of modes of transportation that progressively reduce consumption of nonrenewable resources, renewable resources, and energy resources, and that eliminate discharges of toxic substances and wastes to the ecosphere.
5. To integrate environmental, social and economic considerations in all aspects of management decision-making.
6. To further develop its sustainability management system, to address and include the social and economic dimensions of sustainability and to educate and encourage each student to adapt and contribute to a sustainable world.
7. To establish decision-making processes, policies and procedures for sustainability which encourage participation by all those affected by the decisions made.
8. Reduce, Re-use and Recycle – Royal Cambridge College is committed to recycling all waste; including paper, cardboard, metal, plastics, glass, food compost and will not use any product that is not considered sustainable.