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Green Practices Committee Key Recommendations
- Dining Services:
Through product substitutions and exploitation of composting alternatives,
reduce the solid waste volume. Take advantage of opportunities
for environmental education in the dining halls.
- Recycling:
Expand the recycling program to include kitchens, resident halls,
and other un-served areas.
- Procurement:
Develop environmental criteria and guidelines for campus purchasers
and vendors.
- Communication:
Initiate a vigorous, multi-pronged effort at communication of campus
environmental activities. Develop a physical “Environmental Center”
on campus.
- Environmental Awards:
Initiate a new campus award focused on sustainable practices.
- Energy Management:
Develop a long-term energy management and implementation plan.
Exploit federal and state funding for energy management innovations.
- Building Renovation and Construction:
Commit to use of green technologies and materials in the renovation
of classrooms, so that these functional spaces enhance environmental
awareness on campus. Make available competitive seed funding for
research projects focused on campus green building practices. Follow
LEED guidelines in construction projects on campus.
- Landscaping:
Initiate an environmentally sensitive, low maintenance campus greening
effort. Include environmentally progressive landscaping designs
in the campus master planning project.
- Transportation:
Partner with the University of Pittsburgh in their anole. Establish
more flexible parking permits that will encourage increased bus
use. Initiate a Transportation Management office to replace the
Parking Office.
- Environmental Coordinator:
Establish a full-time Environmental Coordinator position in Facilities
Management, with responsibility for campus resource conservation
and recovery programs (recycling, solid waste disposal, water conservation),
and for encouraging and assisting students, staff, and faculty in
identifying and implementing conservation opportunities on campus.
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