Environmental Service Committee

The Environmental Service Committee at Texas State also plays a big part in helping to keep things green. “The Environmental Service Committee (ESC) strives to make positive changes to the physical environment at Texas State University and in the greater San Marcos area.
The ESC distributes funds collected from the Environmental Service Fee to start or continue environmental improvement projects,” according to the Environmental Service Committee website. Having only been around since 2004, the Environmental Service Committee has made incredible steps toward the goal of making Texas State University sustainable. The ESC has supported many green projects that help Texas State. “The ESC is making Texas State greener by sponsoring annual river clean ups and bike to school days. We have also sponsored an E-Waste event where students brought in their old computers, TV's, cell phones, etc. The money generated by this project was given to the Bike Cave program. Another one of our projects was the installation of a 10,000 gallon rain water collection tank on campus,” said Environmental Service Committee Chair John Montoya.
Currently the big ESC project is Bobcat Blend and that project is really what the environmental service fee is going to this year but there will be more on that later in this blog. Though, the ESC is always looking for new environmental projects to undertake. One such new project the ESC is going ahead with would make the energy used while exercising actually applicable. “We are currently reviewing an application to install devices in the cardio machines at the Student Recreation center so that the energy produced by an individual while working out is stored and used instead of wasted,” said Environmental Service Committee Chair John Montoya. These special machines will be found in the Student Recreation Center starting December 2009.