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SUSTAINABILITY
2020
Brewster AcademyBy: Kyzer Gardiola, Jerry Zhu,and Domingo DIaz
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Introduction
As we look ahead into the future generations, it
worries us. With the growing populations and a
declining amount of resources, let alone theamount of toxic waste that we produce, we must
act now to ensure that the future generations
here at Brewster will be able to enjoy many of the
things we learned to enjoy today. We pay the bill
at the end of the month but the people that are
really going to pay the bill are future students
here in Brewster. We have to teach the
community that the world is not indestructible.
With the rising prices of energy as well as the growing amount of pollution, we must give back to thecommunity and work towards the goal of a sustainable tomorrow. It is the right time to reshape the
image of Brewster Academy to become a leader in environmental sustainability.
This proposal will go over a detailed seven-year strategic plan that we have developed for Brewster
Academy to undertake in order to progress towards a sustainable tomorrow.
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What is GREEN?In today’s world, the term green has been often used since
the world began to grow a concern on the environment. It’s
a concept of improving the human activity to generate a
positive impact on our environment and resources. Green is
not a label or a certification. It’s a state of mind that ensures
us that products and actions are sustainably produced by
using environmentally and socially conscious means. Green is
being able to meet the needs of the present without undermining the needs of future generations. One
of our hopes for Brewster is to have to word GREEN part of our daily lives.
Goals of Sustainability 2020• Minimize consumption and waste production
o Cut down utility use by 20%
Save $60,000 on electric bills
Save $4,000 on water/sewage bills
• Develop aggressive education and outreach programs to raise environmental awareness and
increase personal responsibility for sustainable living among students, faculty, and staff. Provide
administrative and financial resources to support sustainability programs.
• Build Infrastructures in Brewster that promote sustainability in the future
o Geothermal Systems, Solar Panels, Recycling Bins, Biomass heating/power generation
• Provide for 50% of our consumption, if not more
o Grow own food
o Produce our own electricity
o Use filtered rain water
o Provide for our heating
• Pave a path for a sustainable future for Brewster Academy
o Future generations continue to live and act with environmental responsibility
o Systems continue to grow towards a goal of %100 sustainable
• Maintain and enhance operations at Brewster while reducing environmental impact
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Our Current Ecological FootprintLiving in the fast paced life in the Brewster community, many of us are negligent about our ecological
footprint. We have grown to enjoy consuming the common commodities of life such as electricity,
water, heat, and food, but we constantly fail to conserve. Even though we do not make up a significant
part of the world’s population, our actions most certainly have an impact on this planet. After an
analysis of our energy consumption, it is obvious that action towards sustainability is imperative.
Brewster Academy’s population: 450
Average electric use per year: 1,560,000 kWhElectric costs per kWh: 16¢usdAverage electric costs per year: $300,000 usd
Average heating use per year: 155,000 gallonsHeating Oil Cost per gallon: $3.55 usdAverage heating yearly costs: $519,000 usd
Average water use per year: 4,734,680 gallonsWater cost per gallon: 3¢usdAverage water yearly costs: $142,040 usd
Average waste consumption: 1120 tonsWaste management yearly costs: $84,000 usdRecycling waste cost: $0,00 usd
Green Policies and Strategies
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Green policies and practices set standards and establish guidelines by which all
members of the campus community, faculty, staff, and students, should
operate. Green policies raise consciousness about energy and resource
conservation, help streamline decision-making about purchasing and daily
operations, and hopefully influence individual lifestyle choices with the ultimate
goal of evolving into a sustainable campus so that we can maintain our
beautiful natural environment here at Brewster Academy.
Pt. 1 Challenging the Brewster Culture
A Greener Bobcat
While infrastructure projects, facility renovations, and equipment upgrades are essential in a movement
towards sustainability, these things alone are not the only ones we should undertake to reduce our
ecological footprint. It is vitally important that everyone on campus becomes actively involved in
efforts to reduce the about of consumption and waste that we produce. Getting students, faculty, and
staff, individually and collectively, to conserve resources and embrace the goal of a sustainable campus
is fundamental to our goal of campus wide environmental sustainability. A greener bobcat must -
1. Incorporate the ideology of environmental
sustainability into their lifestyle
2. Conserve Energy
3. Become environmentally Aware and Educated4. Promote an environmentally friendly lifestyle
5. Participate in school wide activities towards
sustainability
This will not only make an impact on our Brewster campus but also an impact on the future lives of our
Brewster students. If they begin living a green life in Brewster, chances are they will also demand the
same thing the rest of their lives. A greener bobcat can also stand as a role model for other
communities to take charge and change to be more environmentally sustainable.
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Adding onto the Brewster Principle
In addition to what is written in the current Brewster principle, we should add items that emphasize the
community’s responsibility to sustain their natural. We must add the idea of “Environmental
Responsibility” as part of the Brewster Mission. We want this idea to shape Brewster’s vision of the
future. We must seek to lead by example to foster morally responsible environmental stewardship
through education, conservation, and conscientious policies and procedures. It is necessary for
Brewster to push its students and faculty to also think and live green.
A possible Environmental Mission for the school to take: Teach and P ra c t i ce s us ta i nab i l i t y.
Educate the Brewster Faculty
One of the biggest driving forces needed to accomplish our goal
of sustainability for the year 2020 would come from the
Brewster Academy Faculty members. They are ones who nurture
us with knowledge and the students look up to them as
mentors. Much like the movement with the Emotional Literacy
Programs, the Brewster Faculty must be taught how to be
environmentally literate in order to lead this movement towards
sustainability. We must get the teachers excited to do things
like recycling and conserving energy.
A Greener Orientation
At the beginning of each year, Brewster holds a day dedicated to orienting the new kids about the new
environment that they are in. We could take this as an opportunity for us to stir the new students as
well as the student leaders to viewing Brewster as a school that has a sense of environmental
responsibility. This is an opportunity for Brewster to stir passion towards conserving energy and
sustaining the environment.
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Along with the usual fun games that we play during orientation, it wouldn’t be hard to have a
presentation about Brewster’s environmental concerns. We could also do tours that provide an extra
emphasis towards our goal of sustainability by 2020. Another idea would be to play a game that
teaches kids more about environmental sustainability, or maybe even do a game that teaches kids how
to recycle properly. Even by replacing each student’s
non-efficient light bulb that they brought with more
efficient ones will get across the idea that Brewster
cares about the environment.
It’s this whole idea of changing the atmosphere early
on in the year that would make the big changes in
behavior towards environmental sustainability possible.
The Freshman Guinea Pig The new upcoming freshman classes will spend the longest
time in Brewster Academy. It only makes sense to focus
our attentions towards them when it comes to making
cultural changes. It is the freshman class that stands as
the “future” generations of Brewster Academy. They will
be the new faces of Sustainability 2020. We must
encourage the freshman class to be the advocates for
environmental responsibility. It is up to use to immediately
infuse in them the values we need to achieve a sustainable
campus. We must set up incentives for them that would
motivate them to care about the environment and the
community.
The Environmental Club
We must support the environmental club in their attempts to raise environmental awareness. The
administration must work with the environmental club to analyze the progress in our environmental
missions. Continued coordination and support of the environmental club will speed up the process of a
sustainable campus. Along with the environmental club, Brewster Academy could also incorporate an
Environmental Studies program into the curriculum, which would spark a greater education towards
environmental issues and solutions to them.
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Systems that provide incentive
People are driven by incentives. Manipulating human incentive in a proper way is able to immensely
improve the efficiency of our campaign. We are going to come up with ideas and install facilities that
will remind people of their responsibility and, at the same time, make it fun to conserve energy.
1. Food waste meters
• Measure the amount of food that every table wastes after every meal
• Update the numbers on every table daily to show students how much food they waste
• Give prices to tables that waste the least amount of food
2. Water Meters
• Should be installed in every dorm
• Measure the amount of water used everyday and show the numbers on an electronic board
• Launch a school wide campaign in which dorms compete for the least amount of water usage to
earn donuts and food from DD
3. Electricity Meters
• Same as water meters
• Measure the amount of electricity used everyday
• A school wide competition
4. Energy efficient light bulbs
• Replacing the regular bulbs from new boarding students with energy efficient ones for free
• Save tons of electricity
• A movement that will take years to eventually eliminate all the non-energy efficient bulbs from
the school
5. Recycling bins
• There should be recycling bins in every major facility and every team area
Payback
If we ever get to a point where we are able to consume less than 20% of our current energy
consumption, we are able to save 312,000 kWh of electricity, 31,000 gallons of heating oil, and
234,195 gallons of water, which is nearly $200,000 usd of savings. This money could be then used for
infrastructure improvement that would make our campus more sustainable.
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Pt. 2 Installations of Green Machines
Rebuilding of The Older and Inefficient Buildings
Its obvious that many of the buildings that stand within Brewster Academy are old in age and no longer
meet the standards of efficiency needed for a sustainable tomorrow. Luckily, there are new ways and
technologies that can be used to make a home nearly 95% efficient with its electric, heating, and water
use.
Passive Solar Design: A way of designing a home so that its
orientation captures the sun’s heat during the winter times and
deflects it at the summer times. If designed properly, it is in tune
with the nuances of climate and temperature, resulting with fewer
fluctuations in temperature. This would reduce heating costs and
incorporate more natural light into homes.
Cost: $0
Straw bale structure and insulation: Straw is a renewable resource
that could be used to build and
insulate homes. It is a dense material that is able to help maintain the
indoor temperature constant. Not only is it reliable and renewable, but
also cheap in comparison to synthetic foam insulations.
Cost: $2,000 for a home
Natural Clay Interior Walls: The use of plaster made with ingredients that are less highly processedand less synthetic than conventional wall coverings. Clay and Lime are the typical mixture used. It is
non-toxic, low-impact, vapor-permeable, and can be quite beautiful. It also helps insulate the home.
Cost: $2000
Rainwater Collecting Systems: NH has an average 40
inches of waterfall each year. By installing a low-cost
Rainwater collection system, we are able to help reduce our
dependency on the local water distributor and take
advantage of this free resource. This also promotes self-sufficiency and helps conserve water.
Cost: $900
Centralized Waste Collection Systems: By having our waste sorted out and centralized, we are
able to collect waste efficiently so that they can be transported to a biomass waste site rather than
ending up to the landfills. Right now, Brewster spends $7,000 usd for waste management. A biomass
site asks for a $50 fee for every ton of waste.
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Cost: $2,300 initially and $500 to transport monthly Return of Investment: 19 months 1
A rough estimate of the cost of building a more sustainable dormitory to replace the old buildings to be
built by a company called Build It Green NE 2would cost roughly $130,000 usd. This particular number
is how much this school could save if it cuts its energy consumption by 20%. Then, by the
implementation of these new efficient buildings, we would be able to further reduce our energy
consumption, leaving room for more improvements within the Brewster community.
Installation of Geothermal Wells for Heating and Cooling
One of the biggest expenditures for Brewster Academy is our energy
consumption for heating. Today, we are using an out of date boiler
system that is probably less than 65% efficient. To make things
worse, these boilers run on oil, which is a very costly non-renewable
resource. One way to save this problem is to install a Geothermal
heating and cooling system in the Brewster Community. A
Geothermal heating and cooling system uses the renewable heat
resource inside the Earth to heat or cool our buildings. These systems
have a lower operating cost than conventional heating systems, lower
air emissions, and it has higher energy efficiency.
How It Works:
Water or a refrigerant moves through a loop of pipes buried within the Earth’s crust When the weather
is cold, the water or refrigerant heats up as it travels through the buried pipes. Once it gets back above
the ground, the warmed water or refrigerant transfers heat into the building. The water or refrigerant
cools down after the heat is transferred. It is pumped back underground where it heats up once more,
starting the process again.
This is a very popular alternative to heating and cooling systems to most homes and buildings. Our
next-door neighbor, Kingswood Regional High School uses Geothermal-heating systems and has over
300 underground wells, generating enough heat to keep their students warm within their newly
expanded buildings. Not only would we be able to reduce our carbon footprint but we’d also be able to
save money as it has a relatively fast and reasonable return of investment rate.
1 This rough estimate was given by Wheelabrator Concord Inc, a company involved in Biomass Energy
Production - http://www.wheelabratortechnologies.com/ 2 A company in New England built by Scott Morgan, a Brewster Academy Alumni -
http://builditgreenne.com/index.html
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Cost Analysis3:
1 Geothermal Well: $8,000 usd
Number of Geothermal Wells needed for Brewster Academy: 300
Heat Pump System: $3,000 usd
Number of Heat Pumps needed for Brewster: 34
Rough Estimate: $2,500,000 usd
Current Heating Costs for Brewster: $519,000 usd
Geothermal System average yearly operating costs and maintenance: $60,000 usd
Return of Investment: 6 years
Installation of Wind Turbines
If Brewster Academy truly wanted to go above and beyond
the road towards sustainability, the installation of a few
windmills on our campus could relieve some of our reliance
from the energy grid. The electricity that Brewster currently
uses comes from non-renewable resources 94% of the time.
Wind in NH is often found 27% of the time and is blowing atan average speed of 25.4 miles per hour. Although this may
seem like a relatively small number, it is enough for Wind
power to be beneficial for Brewster Academy and our
environment in the long run. For Brewster Academy, most
dorms
are used within the nighttime as students settle in and
study throughout the night. Simultaneously, the wind picks
up at night, which causes the windmill to generate more
electricity to power our electric needs.
The Aeoronautica Norwin 29-225 turbine can generate up to 550,000 kWh of electricity every year.
However, due to limited wind availability in NE, this number drops to 143,000 kWh as its rated wind
speed is 34 mi/h and NE on aveage only has 25.4 mi/h winds which only available 27% of the time.
3 This estimate was given by Yeaton Associates Company- http://www.yeatonassociates.com/
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Brewster’s current electric use is about 1,560,000 kWh yearly, however, if we cut our consumption by
20%, our electric use would only be 1,248,000 kWh yearly. Now, by implementing 4 wind turbines
within our campus, each generating an average of 143,000 kWh, we are able to cut our energy reliance
on the national grid to 819,000 kWh yearly.
Cost Analysis:
225 kW wind turbine: $425,000 incl. installation
Number of turbines needed: 4
Total Cost: $1,700,000 usd
Brewster’s current yearly electric usage: 1,560,000 kWh
Yearly Costs: $300,000 usd
Remaining electric needs on National Grid after installation of Turbine: 819,000 kWh
Speculated Costs: $131,000 usd (60% less)
Return of Investment: 10-11 years
A COOL IDEA:
With the new momentum going towards the renovations of the Art Department’s
Rogers Building, we can take this as an opportunity to take a monumental step
towards an environmentally responsible campus by designing the Rogers Building to be
self-sustaining. This could be the driving factor for the students and the rest of the
community to move towards the goal of sustainability. It could represent the new era
of Brewster Academy; the one that has a passion to care for the environment to helpprolong the existence of this institution.