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1996 Campus Recycling Starts 1998 Energy Management Effort Launched 2009 RecycleMania , Green Teams electric vehicles, LEED Celebration 2005 Campus AI Summit, EAC formed & sustainability coordinator 2006 Campus-wide energy audit, sustainability strategic planning & SUSTAIN-A-PALOOZA 2007 Adopt a Building, waste audits, Great Lakes Inst Energy & Innovation 2008 GHG Inventory, strategic planning, Low Carbon Diet, UPCC! Our Sustainability Time Line 2000 CWRU joins Energy Star

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1996 Campus Recycling Starts

1998 Energy Management Effort Launched

2009 RecycleMania , Green Teams electric vehicles, LEED Celebration

2005 Campus AI Summit, EAC formed & sustainability coordinator

2006 Campus-wide energy audit, sustainability strategic planning &SUSTAIN-A-PALOOZA

2007 Adopt a Building, waste audits, Great Lakes Inst Energy & Innovation

2008 GHG Inventory, strategic planning, Low Carbon Diet, UPCC!

Our SustainabilityTime Line

2000 CWRU joins Energy Star

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SUSTAINABILITY 101Linda RobsonSustainability Coordinator

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Definitions & Key Issues• Sustainability: The ability to

meet today’s needs without sacrificing the ability to meet the needs of tomorrow.

• Triple Bottom Line: Creating value in the interdependent areas of people, planet, and profit.

• Greening: describes practices that are environmentally benign. Can be applied to your commute, office, home, eating habits, cleaning products, or your campus!

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• Renewable or Advanced Energy: Energy sources that are not dependant on fossil fuels, such as wind, solar, hydro, or geothermal.

• Carbon Footprint: a measurement of your impact on the environment, particularly the atmosphere.

• Global warming: trapping of solar radiation by GHGs in the atmosphere.

• Green house gases: Carbon dioxide (fossil fuels), methane (landfill & animal waste), nitrous oxide (agriculture), and CFCs (refrigerants) .

Definitions & Key Issues

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The Green Office

• Reducing paper• Energy• E-waste• Deliveries

• Purchasing• Recycling• Energy Star• Office Clean Out Days

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OFFICE CLEAN OUT DAYSWHAT IS AN

OFFICE CLEAN OUT DAY?

WHAT TO RECYCLE?

Office Clean Out Days are an opportunity to decide which records should be retained, retired, or recycled. Retention and Retiring period rules http://www.case.edu/its/archives/Records/transfers.htm

RECYCLE: all records that have exceeded the retention period according to the applicable records schedule. Recycle your personal papers, reference materials, or other non-record items. RETAIN: only those records necessary for conducting current department functions.RETIRE: all inactive records no longer necessary for conducting current department functions (archive).

WHAT DO YOU DO?

CARDBOARD: corrugated (wavy inner layer, shipping boxes) chip board (cereal boxes, paper towel rolls) file folders (any color) heavy mailing envelopes copy paper wrappers

MIXED FIBER PAPER: journals, magazines & brochures newspaper cardstock, colored paper, envelopes posters & glossy paper phone books Junk mail post it notes

PURE WHITE PAPER: ONLY copier & printer paper NO envelopes

WHAT’S THE BENEFIT?

Coordinate your Office Clean Out Day with the Recycling Team. We’ll bring additional bins and schedule prompt bin pick up based on YOUR needs. Contact Tangela Scott-Jones at 368-2931 or

[email protected]

An Office Clean Out Day is any day that your office designates to clean up individual offices, labs spaces, storage areas, or common areas. Use this opportunity to discard broken or excess furniture, equipment and computers, recycle materials like phone books, files, journals, empty folders, and return library materials. Office Clean Out Days free up your valuable office space!

PLASTIC, GLASS, ALUMINUM: beverage containers plastics # 1,2, 3, or 5 lab plastics (but no pipette boxes) tins & cans

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The Green Home• Heating & cooling• Washing & drying• Cleaning• Do it in the dark

• Lighting• Food• Recycling• Energy Star appliances

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The Green Commute• Junk in the trunk • Tires• Windows or AC?

• Oil changes

• Hybrid or tofu?

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Did You Know…?• 70% of admin and academic

garbage is paper and bottles• 9 programs & centers are

researching and addressing sustainability and energy issues

• Pervious pavement has been installed as part of the Quad fountain improvements.

• A wind test tower is being erected this summer on campus

• Residence halls only use green cleaning products

• The Village @ E 115th is LEED certified as a green and high performance residential complex

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Did You Know…?• We monitor each building’s

energy consumption• Tune in to you watch your

building’s energy consumption in real time

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Did You Know…?• Staff & faculty collectively

drive 50,000 miles to and from campus each week . That’s equal to driving around the world 1881 times!

• Electric cars and trucks are being integrated into campus fleets, including Res Life, Grounds, and Facilities Services.

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your questions

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[email protected]

www.case.edu/sustainability