Topics for Survey items

Dr. Denny suggested that our survey be designed to measure students behaviors towards sustainability in four areas:

• Transportation
• Recycling/Reusing/Reducing
• Energy/water/Resource use
• Food and Diet

Other ideas were to measure perceptions of University support for sustainability, reasons for non-green behavior, attitudes and beliefs about the importance of sustainability, and knowledge about sustainability.

For those who are designing questions on Food and Diet they may want to look at the energy cost of our current food distribution system.  What is the energy cost of grapes imported from Chile, raspberries from Costa Rica....etc?  Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable & Miracle can provide some ideas on this topic.