Green Teams @ Carnegie Mellon
A Green Team is a voluntary group of faculty, students, and staff, usually within one department, that team together to work on becoming more sustainable. To do this each team does an environmental sustainability assessment to identify areas that need improvement. This check list includes an assessment of office energy, lights, indoor air quality, waste management (reduce, reuse, recycle), green purchasing, transportation, commuting & travel and general workplace practices.
Green Leaders
Green Leaders are the departments or schools that have started a Green Team and are working to accomplish at least 5 of the following criteria:
- Participate in a campus recycling program
- Create a Green Team and meet routinely
- Conduct a department assessment
- Develop strategies and actions for change
- Share actions and successes with the campus community on website
- 'Green Page' on departmental website linked to the Green Practices website
Create a Green Team
Current Areas with Green Teams
University Library System
Tepper School of Business/Net Impact
Office of the Dean of Student Affairs
Green Events
Green Teams have held three official Zero Waste, (or darn near), special events on campus.
The generation of waste was minimized during the planning of the event and all food and paper waste was taken to the compost bin at the University Center dock.
Fall 2008 - College & University Recycling Council NRC Workshop (85 people)
Spring 2009 - Sustainable Earth Cook-Out (200 people)
Spring 2009 - Tepper Net Impact Special Event (400 people)
For more information as to how you can plan a Zero Waste event; contact Barb Kviz; bk11@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-7858.
