University of Montana
EN-4: Outreach Materials and Publications

The Environmental Studies Program currently oversees and shares an open newsletter available to anyone on campus or in the community. It includes job announcements, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and a classifieds section. Any campus or community member is invited to submit content for the newsletter, which is published in an online version as well as sent via email. 

 mailto:EVST-NEWS-L-subscribe-request@LISTS.UMT.EDU

The ASUM Sustainability Center also manages a Facebook page and an Instagram account that focus on sustainability at UM. The accounts primarily promote events on campus and in the community, share resources, and highlight campus community members engaging in sustainability.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asumsustain 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umt.sustainability/?hl=en 

The Payne Family Native American Center was constructed from 2009-2010 and is the first LEED certified building on the University of Montana campus as well as the first off-reservation building in the state of Montana designed to symbolically represent Native American culture and Montana’s twelve tribes. In order to raise awareness of LEED credits and certification, the building provides informational brochures that explain nearly all of the steps taken to reach Platinum status, as well as a blueprint of the building that shows where these steps were taken. The point system is also broken down to explain where we received points for different categories, such as water efficiency, energy & atmosphere, and innovation & design. This brochure is a great way to succinctly explain the hard work and dedication needed to receive a LEED Platinum rating. In addition to the brochure, signage in the building points out sustainability features.

In addition to the NAC, the Fitness & Recreation Center (campus gym) contains a number of signs calling attention to resource conservation projects that have been implemented over the last few years including: daylighting in the basketball courts, solar panels on the roof, and 3 water bottle refilling stations.

There are also signs highlighting projects that are funded by the Kless Sustainability Fund in various buildings across campus, including signs above many of our water bottle filling stations, bear-safe garbage cans, and covered bike parking.

In the Eck Building there is a sign explaining the solar array on the building's roof.

In 2024, we became part of Bee Campus USA. We now have Bee Campus USA signs in multiple garden beds throughout campus. 

We often give sustainability tours on campus to students, employees, and the community, but we now have a digital version on our website for a self-guided tour. 

This tour highlights features on campus applicable to sustainability on campus. 

https://www.umt.edu/sustainability/campus-initiatives/buildings/campus-tour.php

We provide recycling guides for students living on campus to learn what they can and can't recycle. Although we print out some guides to hand out at tabling events or to share upon request, we have tried to reduce our footprint by sending students instead to our website where they can learn more. https://www.umt.edu/sustainability/campus-initiatives/waste/recyclingguide.php 

The Sustainability and Healthy Living Committee of RAs also put together multiple newsletters, brochures, and social media communications on specific sustainability topics applicable to the resident experience. For example, this committee printed flyers about using the bus to get to campus and how to use the Transit App. They have also shared door-to-door flyers about bike rental options. Additionally, this committee and UM Housing have shared sustainability-focused social media posts and repost our social media applicable to campus residents. For example, they shared this post about packing essentials and mentioned to leave the car at home. 

Camas magazine aims to cultivate novel ideas and perspectives while remaining rooted in the inherited traditions of art and literature of the American West. Founded by Environmental Studies graduate students at the University of Montana in 1992, Camas is a biannual environmental literary magazine that continues to be produced by students in the Environmental Studies program. The goals of the publication are to encourage a dialogue on environmental and cultural issues in the West; celebrate the people who work, study, write, and live here; and provide an opportunity for students and emerging writers to publish their work alongside established environmental authors. http://www.camasmagazine.org/

The Confluence is a podcast that celebrates the people whose hard work, talent, and intellectual firepower drive the research and teaching mission of UM: our excellent faculty and our talented graduate students. It also aims to capture the bristling energy of the intellectual life of the university. An essential aspect of a great graduate experience is finding a community driven by curiosity and a willingness to dive deep into ideas. This podcast aims to celebrate that rich culture of exchange and creativity through conversations with faculty and their graduate students about the ideas that move them and motivate their work. They delve into the theories and practices of graduate education, explore the cutting-edge ideas in research and creativity that underpin their work. Multiple podcast episodes have featured sustainability and climate-focused research at UM. https://www.umt.edu/grad/our-story/confluence-podcast/ 

UM Sustainability releases an annual Sustainability Report Card that highlights notable accomplishments in sustainability broken down by category. This is shared via social media, on TV screens running slides across campus, displayed printed posters, and highlighted as part of any tabling and outreach. A link to the most recent report can be found here: https://www.umt.edu/sustainability/blog/sustainability-report-2024.php