Synergy
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[edit] Synergy Wiki Project
cross pollinating ideas for a sustainable future
7 years ago at Evergreen's first Synergy: Sustainable Living Conference there was a great need to spread the word about the green movement. Now that it has become mainstream in the campus community, it is important to continue to spread the message of Synergy and “cross pollinate” it’s values in the most effective ways in order to achieve social change.
Using Evergreen.edu/Synergy as a host, we will install the wikimedia application to act as a database management tool for articles related to sustainability. The website will feature an event program for the Synergy conference based in Wiki form with pages about the speakers and projects happening during the week. This online comprehensive and searchable event program will help reduce the amount of printed materials and handbills associated with the event. Created for the site will be a series of informational pages using video and text highlighting the work of local governments and NGO’s that are making efforts to make the community more sustainable. Additionally we will attempt to work with academic program faculty as well as campus groups focused on sustainability in an effort to provide a database where user generated information on the history of student sustainability projects can be shared and digitally preserved by the campus community. The ease of use of the wikimedia application opens up web publishing to people who otherwise don’t know html or css, giving them an accessible outlet to share valuable information on the web.
The ultimate goal is to create what can evolve into a digital destination portal of community generated information related to sustainability that will act as another steppingstone in the college’s quest for carbon neutrality by 2020.
