Affiliated Organizations

Colby is a member of or has signed agreements with the following organizations working on sustainability issues.

NWF Campus Ecology Program

Since its founding in 1989, Campus Ecology has become a leading conservation program in higher education. The program is helping to:
• transform the nation's college campuses into living models of an ecologically sustainable society;
• train a new generation of environmental leaders; and
• ensure a strong future for America's environmental movement. (NWF ©2003)

The Maine Green Power Connection (MeGPC) is bringing education and market outreach to Maine on behalf of environmentally beneficial electricity products. Formation of MeGPC was spearheaded by Maine Interfaith Power & Light, a non-profit electricity aggregator formed in January 2000 to bring information and action about "green power" or environmentally preferable electricity to Maine consumers.
The Maine Green Power Connection exists to provide a single-focus entity for the promotion of cleaner electricity products and for the creation of an electricity marketplace that supports and includes those products and their providers. (MeGPC ©2003)

The Network is a cooperative institution-led initiative that offers its members favorable recycled commodity marketing and purchasing opportunities through its collective strength. The Institution Recycling Network was established in 1999, and is made up of institutional recyclables generators from New England, including colleges and universities, hospitals, nursing facilities, and others. The Network was founded upon the recognition that most institutions can improve their recycling performance — operationally and financially — by taking advantage of cooperative marketing and purchasing opportunities. Individually, institutions don't have the clout to gain the best prices and services in the marketplace.  Collectively, they do. (IRN ©2003)

Clean Air-Cool Planet creates partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions.
CA-CP is the region's leading organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming:
• We partner with campuses, communities, and companies throughout the Northeast to help reduce their carbon emissions.
• We help our partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action.
• We showcase practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change.
• We advocate the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state and regional levels.
• We work to build support for the implementation and strengthening of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers’ regional Climate Change Action Plan.

CA-CP is a science-based, non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit. (CA-CP ©2003)

Colby has completed the requirements for and now participates in the EPA New England College and University Integrated Strategy. This program is aimed at educating colleges and universities on sustainability practices and includes a Self-Audit compliance measure. Through this voluntary inspection, Colby removes itself from the EPA's scheduled compliance inspection list. In addition to reducing the amount of time and energy the EPA expends in compliance investigations, Colby demonstrates its committment to environmental protection by taking the role of assurance on itself.

The purpose of GCC is to work with institutions of higher learning in Maine to find environmentally sustainable means of development and management, which will also be based on principles of economic sustainability. To achieve these goals the GCC works to inform itself and interested others by providing educational forums - workshops, conferences, and special programs. The GCC provides a continuing forum to explore new ideas, share practical experiences, and promote environmentally effective practices.