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Carleton College: Environmental Audit. Miller Cochran Jamie Long Lauren Miller Stephanie Pimm Damian Winters. 2004 ENTS Capstone Presentation. Authors :. Introduction. Environment and Health. Energy and Water Materials and Waste - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Carleton College: Environmental Audit
Miller Cochran Jamie Long Lauren Miller Stephanie Pimm Damian Winters
Authors:
2004 ENTS Capstone Presentation
Introduction
Environment and Health
Energy and Water
Materials and Waste
Environment, Health, and Safety
Energy and Water
Carleton is well within the Good Company’s BenchmarkProblems with monitoring of individual buildings and off-campus housingUse of MN Sustainable Design Guide
Energy Use
Performance:
Recommendations:Better monitoring
Provide feedback and information to campus users
Look towards meeting Kyoto standards
Carleton does not currently purchase renewable energy
Wind turbine project
Renewable Energy
Performance:
Recommendations:
Use any profit from wind turbine to buy green energy
Offer students/faculty/staff option for “taxing” themselves in order to purchase green energy.
Air emission estimates
Global Change Biology project
Carleton has never completed a full report on GHG inventory that includes travel, transportation, etc.
Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Performance:
Recommendations:Encourage student project on environmental footprint for Carleton College
Current changes in parking regulations recommend that no new parking lots should be built
Yellow Bike Club
Carleton meets suggested benchmark for car/bike spaces
Transportation
Performance:
Recommendations:Dead storage for cars should be reviewed and enforced
Coordination of Yellow Bike Club should be compensated as a student job
Make commitment for hybrid vehicles in the future
Within or below the 90-120 gallons/SCU/day benchmarkSome water-saving devices implemented
Toilets, urinals, showerheads
Buildings monitored separately, but residential and most irrigation combinedLittle or no feedback to campus users
Water Use
Performance:
Recommendations:
Establish system for better monitoring and reporting
Provide feedback to campus users
Materials and Waste
Offer wide range of services: commingled, paper, batteries, cardboard, ink cartridgesGood campus infrastructure – bins in key locationsAbout 65 tons of waste per week, 30% recycling rate
Recycling Systems
Performance:
Recommendations:To reach the goal of a 50% recycling rate, which some institutions have achieved, Carleton should compost food waste and be more vigorous about our recycling education.
Paper purchased through Printing and Mailing Eucalyptus or 30% recycled options
Efforts in past to increase recycled content – discontinued due to concerns about printing, brightness
No fee for printing on campus, creates wasted paper
Paper Use and Printing
Performance:
Recommendations:Carleton should offer higher recycled-content paper options in the future as product quality increases
Carleton should strongly consider adopting a fee system for printing, which could significantly decrease paper use on campus
Largely switched from large CRT monitors to LCD (flat-panel) displays in an effort to comply with Kyoto protocol – high initial cost but high energy savings
All used electronic parts sent to Materials Processing Corporation for break down into reusable/recyclable parts
NEO – formed to distribute old/used computers to students
Computer Hardware Purchasing and Disposal
Performance:
Recommendations:Communicate with Dell and other hardware suppliers to find out what materials they can take back themselves
Recycle CDs
Redirect NEO’s efforts at more practical computer distribution
Consolidate “machine rooms” for better energy efficiency
Some produce from Midwest Food AllianceEarth Day organic meal, fair trade coffeeLittle pre-consumer food waste, no food recovery programApprox. 500-600 lbs/day post-consumer food waste, currently no composting of cafeteria food waste
Food procurement/disposal
Performance:
Recommendations:Continue efforts to compost cafeteria food waste
Increase labeling and self-serve where possible
Consider expanding organic and local food options
Consider donating pre-consumer waste to food bank
Environment, Health, and Safety
Unusual size & scope: Arb 880 acres, McKnight 35 acres Habitat for threatened species, buffer zone for CannonActive restoration program, but work is slow-goingChemical use for invasive removal is low and decliningLimited interpretive program
Conservation & Restoration
Performance:
Recommendations:Continue expanding interpretive program to better educate students about Minnesota’s natural history and Carleton’s role in preserving biodiversity and natural areas
No data available on irrigation water useTwo rain sensors and minimalist philosophy
Broadleaf herbicide use fairly low, increasing corn gluten useCampus master plan promotes native, low-maintenance landscapingNo construction policies regarding minimizing storm water runoff
Grounds maintenance
Performance:
Recommendations:Better monitoring system for irrigation water use
Continue to reduce chemical herbicide use
Explicit policies regarding minimizing runoff with new construction
All chemicals used come from one company, Ecolab
All the impacts of a product are considered
The college stays up to date with current product developments and innovations
The safety of staff and others is considered
Chemical Use: Custodial and Maintenance
Performance:
Recommendations:The college should continue to stay current with products that minimize environmental impacts.
Carleton could consider a more formalized process of product selection and evaluation.
The college does a good job of handling hazardous materials.Only very small amounts of hazardous materials escape down drains or are otherwise not properly disposed of.Facilities and the college work through the chemistry department for disposal.
Chemical Use: Hazardous Materials
Performance:
Recommendations:The college should consider using micro-sizing in labs and using a more “green curriculum.”
The college has recently begun an aggressive program to assess and combat indoor air quality issues.
The college has in place policies to prevent indoor air quality issues before they arise.
Indoor Air Quality
Performance:
Recommendations:The college could speed up the IAQ assessment program with additional funding and attention.
Once the IAQ program has been completed, the college should continue to focus on prevention.
Governance, Learning and Policy
Planning and Purchasing
Learning and Governance
Planning and Purchasing
Recent completion of 100-year plan
Integration of Arboretum with campus, Northfield
Green space
Campus planning
Performance:
Recommendations:Work out specific plans for deconstruction – materials, etc.
Develop specific College goals/guidelines for sustainable design, working from MN Sustainable Design Guide and/or LEED evaluation points
Purchasing is very decentralized – departments and offices exercise most of control
Little effort for sustainable purchasing campus wide
Facilities department has purchased sustainable wood, recycled paint
Purchasing Tools and Strategies Performance:
Recommendations:Carleton should work towards implementing a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of its purchasing decisions, and adopt the proposed Environmentally Responsible Purchasing Policy.
Learning and Governance
Environmental Advisory CommitteeActive in making recommendations, reviewing campus issues, budget to make campus improvements
Environmental Statement of PrinciplesLargely unknown, non-binding
Governance and Leadership
Performance:
Recommendations:• Continue to support the work of the EAC and ensure that its
recommendations are considered carefully and in a timely manner through the appropriate chain of command.
• Consider adopting more specific goals in its pursuit of sustainability.
Currently no formal process for considering the social and environmental consequences of its investment
practices
Investment Policy
Performance:
Recommendations:Carleton should create a formal structure, such as a committee, to engage in an ongoing discussion of investment responsibility
ENTS exists as program (not dept.), concentration2004 ENTS program review document just completedHigh enthusiasm from faculty, studentsRecent loss of facultyRequires more organization
Environmental Studies Curriculum
Performance:
Recommendations:2004 review document as starting point
Maintenance as viable concentration requires input
Increase in staffing should be seriously considered
Clearly delineate organizational structure in writing
Strong support from students and faculty
Many groups with environmental affiliation: SOPE, MPIRG, Green House, Farmhouse, ENTS Program, EAC
Requires greater organization
Campus Culture and Environmental Awareness
Performance:
Recommendations:Reestablish Green Network
Encourage dialogue and cooperative projects among student groups, faculty and administration
Greater integration with campus as a whole
Energy and water monitoring and information dissemination are similar problems across campuses
Many colleges are now at least looking further into food procurement and composting
Larger universities have more concrete sustainability and environmental plans
Chemical awareness seems higher at Carleton than at other schools
Many schools are now looking at using 100% post consumer recycled paper
Reasonable number of car/bike spaces
Renewable energy use/interest high at Carleton
Green chemistry more widely used in larger universities
Overall Performance
The College should: improve its monitoring and reporting of water and energy usage and provide better feedback and information to campus users.continue working towards composting the post-consumer food waste generated by the dining halls. consider expanding local and organic food options in the dining halls.adopt the proposed Environmentally Responsible Purchasing Policy, and work towards creating and implementing a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of its purchasing decisions. create a formal structure, such as a committee, to engage in an ongoing discussion of investment responsibilityadopt specific goals and targets in its pursuit of sustainability.
Overall Recommendations
High Priority Tasks
The Good Company Myles Bakke Phil Camill Kirk Campbell Chuck Carlin
Joel Cooper Dennis Easley Diane Fredrickson Ari Guha
Fred Hagstrom Randie Johnson Issa Kawas Robert Lampa Brian Mars
Jim Pence Mary Savina Joshua Skov Loretta Springer Richard Strong Alison
Unger Joseph Winegardner Global Change Biology students
Thank you…