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Campus Landscape Vision

EWU is working on a new campus landscape vision that champions sustainability, climate resiliency, and environmental responsibility. The landscape master plan will reflect a safe, resilient, historic, cultural, and attractive esthetic that will serve as an educational resource while demonstrating the values of EWU. View Proposed Landscape Vision Boards

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Landscape Vision

Improve Sustainability

  • Create an environment supportive of Green Technologies across campus
  • Develop and strengthen sustainable practices on campus
  • Support and enhance Palouse Prairie habitat
  • Provide a hierarchy of campus complexity

Commuter Safety

  • Improve infrastructure for increased accessibility, safety, and reduced impact on the environment
  • Improve bicycle-pedestrian circulation and crossings
  • Define and highlight building entrances and outdoor rooms
  • Provide an accessible, safe, and welcoming campus

Strengthen Cultural Heritage

  • To uphold good stewardship of historic, natural and cultural resources
  • To enhance existing sites that are historically significant through association with significant individuals, student groups, or programs with rejuvenated landscapes for current and future use
  • Integrate natural areas into the campus core with naturalistic connections to promote a greater appreciation of natural areas

Enhance Stormwater Management

  • To protect water quality and aquatic habitats by reducing water pollution, preventing flooding, and treating storm-water as a resource
  • Promote storm-water harvesting practices to reduce the demands on water systems for irrigation
  • Re-establish connections between fragmented natural habitat
  • Improve infrastructure in facilities

Support Academics and Involvement

  • To strengthen campus identity and values by creating areas for meaningful learning environments
  • Foster an understanding of sustainability through education, communication, and research
  • Enhance prairie access for learning, research, and recreation

Sustainable Maintenance Practices

  • Collaborate with maintenance staff to develop innovative maintenance and operations best practices
  • Develop and implement campus wide standards for landscape construction, irrigation and planting
  • Increase irrigation efficiency

Enhance Climate Resiliency

  • Reduce high maintenance landscapes to decrease irrigation efforts
  • Minimize heat island effect
  • Increase biodiversity on campus

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Demonstrating a Sustainability Future

An opportunity to highlight EWU’s sustainable and climate resiliency strategies

Improve pedestrian/ bicycle crossings

Shade paved areas and walkways

Informational Signage

Reduce Non-Essential Lawn

Pollinator-Supporting plants

Stormwater Management

EWU Office of Sustainability
117 Showalter Hall,
Cheney, WA 99004
Contact
Erik Budsberg, Director of Sustainability
ebudsberg@ewu.edu
509.359.6476

The Office of Sustainability seeks to serve as a source of sustainability-focused initiatives, a central hub of information for sustainable practices at EWU, and to engage with community members to promote sustainability in the Inland Northwest.

Eastern Washington University resides within the traditional homelands of the Spokane People and other tribes who are connected through their shared history of this region.

This land holds their cultural DNA and it is their Ancestors who are here and bring forth the knowledge of this place—the knowledge that comes from the land.