• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley

Most museums have already been forced into doing this by the pandemic, but continuing to allow/encourage working from home for those personnel when possible is taking a lot of cars out of the daily commute.  Not every museum job can be done off-site, but a number of them can, at least partially. 

          - Michael

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Michael Holland
Principal/Owner
Michael Holland Productions

Redmond, WA USA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-01-2021 03:34 PM
From: Joseph O'Neill
Subject: What's one thing museums can do to embrace environmental sustainability?

Hello Museum Junction!

If you subscribe to Field Notes, AAM's weekly newsletter of articles published on our website, you may know that we pose a big question about a topic of conversation in the field to readers at the beginning of every month. Since we get so many thoughtful responses, we thought we would start sharing them here, where it's possible to build a dialogue.

February's question was: What's one thing museums can do to embrace environmental sustainability? And here are the responses we published in this morning's newsletter:

• "Provide opportunities for community members to get involved in environmental research and monitoring efforts through community science projects" – Liese Murphree
• "Make a concerted effort of clearly pointing out when items within the museum (furniture, displays, etc) have been reused from one area/exhibit to another…it provides children & adults with a clear model to emulate in their own home." – Jennifer Gray
• "Change lightbulbs and use compost-friendly dining ware in their cafés." – @kiraewebb
• "Start by having conversations about environmental racism and inequality." – @cris_scorza
• "If your museum is in a drought-prone region, like much of the West, initiate a grey-water/rain-water capture project in partnership with city/county authorities. An email gets it going!" – Edward R. Bosley