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February 9, 2013

Community Semester focuses on a Wabash Valley Sustainability Plan for Feb. 12

TERRE HAUTE — Indiana State University’s Community Semester will focus on sustainability next week.

The Community Semester, which focuses on the theme “Our Town,” is a way for the College of Arts and Sciences to showcase what it does best and to encourage faculty and students to share what they are learning to the community. It is also a way to bring innovative ideas in the science, humanities, liberal and creative arts to the area.

The Indiana State Institute for Community Sustainability and its partner Our Green Valley Alliance for Sustainability invites the Terre Haute community to attend a discussion about the Sustainability Plan for the Wabash Valley on Feb. 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Landsbuam Center Classroom at 1422 N. 6 1/2 St., just south of the Union Hospital Family Practice Center. This event seeks to help improve the quality of life in the Terre Haute community by focusing on livable communities, energy consumption and waste stream management.

The sustainability plan looks at what people think of the quality of life here in the Wabash Valley, said Jim Speer, associate professor of earth and environmental systems and executive director of the Institute for Community Sustainability. The institute and alliance sent out surveys requesting information about what people think of the quality of life in the Wabash Valley. The survey focuses on areas such as bikable, walkable and livable communities, stewardship of the local environment, energy consumption, waste stream management, local foods and social justice. So far they have received more than 480 responses.

“People should attend this event so we can get more feedback from the community,” Speer said.

During the three-year planning process, the group plans to submit a report to the city government to try to obtain funding.

“We would like to get a grant to study the water here,” said Speer.

 A complete list and description of the Community Semester’s activities may be found at indstate.edu/cas/communitysemester.

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