Sustainability Living

Learning Community

Kait Sullivan ● David Graves-Pomeraz ● Claire Wilson

Justin McMillon

Living Learning Community

• A Living Learning Community (LLC) is a themed community in which the

residents of that community share common values and interests

• Sustainability LLC

• 20th Floor of the Wabash Building

• Up to 40 residents

• Students become environmental leaders on campus by participating in outings,

activities, and volunteer experiences that contribute to the University's sustainability

goals and stay true to its social justice mission.

Outreach

• Partnering with RU Green

• Programming

• Ongoing cooperation with the SUST250

• Sustainability Programs near Roosevelt

• Loyola University

• Northwestern University

• Northern Illinois University

Outreach

• Loyola University

• GreenHouse Living Community

• Building features a greenhouse

• Clean energy laboratory

• Green cafeteria with sustainable local

produce

• Programming possibility

Outreach

• Northwestern University

• Green House

• Promotes environmental engagement

• Green Cup

• Departments compete to see who

can conserve the most energy and

water for a month long competition

• Wanted to see what a working LLC looks like

in hopes to model ours after theirs.

Northern Illinois University

• Green Living Community

• Events

• Green Career Events

• Field Trips

• Green Game Nights

• Volunteer Opportunity

• Requirements:

• ACT score 20 or higher

• Maintain 2.25 GPA

Programming Overview• 2-3 Programs centered around monthly theme

• Students develop a stronger sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and a love of learning

• Stretch: Students who live on LLCs report increased knowledge, skills, and awareness of diverse

people and ideas.

• Engage: Students will identify and actively participate in opportunities that align with personal or

academic interests.

• Excel: Students living on campus will report stronger academic engagement in May than upon their

arrival in August.

In Building

• Programs

• Gardening in the Greenhouse

• Dryer balls

• Biodegradable newspaper pots

• Rooftop gardening

• Guest speaker: Karen Hudson

Take-To

• Programs

• The Plant

• Eden Place

• Cleaning up local parks

• Angelic Organics

Budgeting

Program Cost

Dryer balls $32.94

Biodegradable pots $11.88

$44.82

• DIY laundry balls

• Felt ($12.99)

• Essential oils ($19.95)

• Biodegradable newspaper pots

• Various seeds ($3.89)

• Soil ($7.99)

Vision and DesignMission Statement: “The Wabash Sustainability Living Learning Community

promises to promote awareness of human, social, economic, and environmental

sustainability in the Roosevelt University community in order to create a sustainable

future.”

“Eat, Sleep, Recycle”

“Lead the Scene to Keep Green”

“Green Living is Healthy Living”

Themes• Transportation

• Water

• Advocacy

• Food/Agriculture

• Pollution

• Soil

Welcome Wagon

• Students receive a letter from

their Resident Advisor

welcoming them to the LLC

• A T-Shirt with the LLC logo

• Personal plant

• Fair Trade chocolate

Greenery Initiative

• Why: Stress of Wabash

Benefits

• Improve air quality

• Lowers city noise

• Increases humidity

• Reduces carbon dioxide

Purpose: Implement greenery on the LLC floor in hopes to improve

student well-being and campus atmosphere

Challenges & Accomplishments

• Wall planter: changing

infrastructure

• Leaking and hydration

system

• Budgeting

• Mobile Planter

• Water by hand

• Budget meeting &

approval

Planter • Watex Metal Mobile Green Wall

(Amazon)

• $53 (X2 = $106)

• 9 Small planter containers

• 2 Large planter containers

• Mobile & Easily Assembled

• Approved Claire Wilson

•Approval Jamar Orr, Assistant Dean of

Housing and Community Services

References

• CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2025. (2014). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/sustainability-new/pdfs/CAP%20SummaryHandout.pdf

• GreenHouse LC: Residence Life. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from http://www.luc.edu/learningcommunity/currentlcs/greenhouselc/

• Northern Illinois University Housing and Residential Services Division of Student Affairs. (2017). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from http://www.niu.edu/housing/halls/llc/green/index.shtml

• Sustainability Initiatives. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from https://www.roosevelt.edu/campuses/sustainability/sustainability-initiatives

• SustainNU. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from http://www.northwestern.edu/sustainability/strategic-initiatives/buildings/index.html