The Hamerschlag Hall Living Roof is featured in the New York Times 'Greening of America's Campuses' article.
The Hamerschlag Hall Living Roof is awarded the National Roofing Contractors Association Roof of the Year award! It is also nominated for the Healthy cities Award and PA Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence.
Green Practices Program awarded the 2006 Campus Outreach Opportunity League (C.O.O.L.) Idealist 'Idealism in Action Award' for being a leading 'green campus' in the U.S.
Contract negotiated to supply the entire university with 'green gas' from a local landfill at no additional cost.
2005
Hamerschlag Hall Green Roof is completed! The roof is instrumented for green roof research and the project gets underway.
Solar panels are plugged in and Solar Powered Computing begins! Located on the Computer Science Building at 407 S. Craig Street, this 12 kW DC grid-tied array produces 10% of the building energy.
The Posner Center receives notification from USGBC that it has achieved LEED Certification and becomes the third building on campus to be built the LEED guidelines.
2004
Sleep is Good campaign started for computers across campus.
RecycleMania recycling contest with 17 other schools is held across the U.S. CMU finishes in 6th place and beats Harvard, Yale and Brown!
New Green Practices Website designed and developed.
The first LEED Accredited building on campus, the New House (Stever House), opens. It becomes the first LEED rated Silver University Residence Hall in the nation.
CMU extends its wind energy purchase contract for five years and increases the percentage to 6% of total campus electricity use.
CMU was the first of 25 Pennsylvania colleges and universities now purchasing wind power.
A team of Carnegie Mellon students designs and constructs a solar-powered house to compete in the first Solar Decathlon National Competition on the Mall in Washington D.C.
2001
Facilities Management purchases two natural gas (CNG) vehicles. Campus Security also purchases a natural gas car. Carnegie Mellon adopts a policy that all new vehicle purchases for campus organizations will be alternative fuel vehicles.
Carnegie Mellon makes groundbreaking purchase of wind power from the Sumerset, PA wind farm. The campus purchases 5% of its total electricity from clean wind power.
Carnegie Mellon becomes the nation's largest single retail purchase of wind-generated electricity, and is awarded one of the 1st Annual Green Power Leadership Awards from the EPA, DOE and CRS.
The 'Green Scene' Environmental Newsletter is created to communicate and publicize the efforts of the EPC.
The Environmental Practices Committee changes its name to Carnegie Mellon Green Practices and adopts an official University logo.
The 2001 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence recognizes the University's commitment to purchasing green power.
Carnegie Mellon makes a commitment to pursue Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification for all new buildings and major renovations on campus and becomes a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Carnegie Mellon holds its first annual Energy Fest to promote awareness about energy conservation and alternative energy resources.
2000
Ten years after the creation of a campus-wide recycling program, the percentage of non-hazardous waste being recycled has increased from 5% to 13% by weight.
A full-time position is created at the University for an Environmental Coordinator
The University Center Schatz Dining Room bans the use of polystyrene in the dining room and switches to washable dinnerware.
1998
The Environmental Practices Committee (EPC) is established to develop a more comprehensive waste reduction and energy conservation program. The committee comprised of staff, faculty and students establishes priorities, goals and mechanisms for implementing environmental practices.
1997
CMU joins Three Rivers University Consortium for the Environment (3RUCE), an academic partnership to advance environmental education, research and technological development.
1996
Carnegie Mellon receives a $10,000 grant from the Heinz Endowments for waste reduction initiatives.
Carnegie Mellon Environmental Practices launches their first website.
1994
Carnegie Mellon wins the Three Rivers Environmental Award for the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Program.
1990
Carnegie Mellon creates a position for and hires a Recycling/Waste Coordinator
Carnegie Mellon adopts a formal recycling policy an adopts the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" theme.
