Transcript KSU SUSTAINABILITY • From 2012 - 2014 Kennesaw State University was among seven Georgia Colleges & Universities named in the “Green Colleges.

KSU SUSTAINABILITY
2015
• From 2012 - 2014 Kennesaw State University
was among seven Georgia Colleges &
Universities named in the “Green Colleges List”
issued by the Princeton Review in partnership
with the U. S. Green Building Council.
Facilities
• Prillaman Hall received the Green Building Council’s LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification, at
the Gold level,
• KSU’s Social Sciences Building is Silver LEED certified and the
Commons is Gold certified.
• The Science Laboratory Building is currently being reviewed for
LEED certification as well.
Prillaman Hall
Science Lab Addition
Social Sciences & the “Spaceship Earth” Sculpture
The Commons Dining Hall
What is LEED?
• LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
is a third party certification program developed by the
U.S. Green Building Council in 2000.
• The nationally accepted benchmark for the design,
construction and operation of high performance green
buildings.
• LEED certification offers third party validation of a
project’s green features and verifies that the building is
operating exactly the way it was designed to.
LEED Certification
• Building projects earn LEED certification and points for
satisfying prerequisites within each of the LEED
categories:
• Sustainable Sites (SS), Water Efficiency (WE), Energy
and Atmosphere (EA), Materials and Resources (MR)
and Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
• The number of points the project earns determines the
level of LEED Certification the project receives:
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Certified: 40–49 points
Silver:
50–59 points
Gold:
60–79 points
Platinum: 80 points and above
• The KSU Commons Dining Hall is a nationally acclaimed
model of sustainability
• It has energy and water-conserving features, all food
wastes are composted, and oil waste is sold as a
biodiesel source
KSU’s Farm-to-Campus
(-to-Farm)
Program
KSU’s Farm-to-Campus Program
Acres of organic farmland
AWARDS
Hydroponics (inside the Commons as well)
Sheepdogs to discourage coyotes (& herd goats)
1,000’s of truckloads of topsoil were needed
Farm-to-Campus Practices
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Composting
Vermiculture/Vermicomposting
Rainwater reclamation
Recycling program for glass, plastic, cardboard, metal
and aluminum cans, even used cooking oil for
biodiesel conversion
• Aerobic Digester (that reduced the annual costs of
composting by $29,000 and created a nutrient-rich
water effluent to support the campus farms)
• Resulting in: Diversion of more than 43,800lbs of
waste from landfill each month
KSU Farmers’ Market
KSU’s Farmers’ Market on the Campus Green
American College & University
Presidents’ Climate Commitment
KSU has carried out 4 greenhouse gas (GHG)
inventories – for fiscal years 2008, 2010, 2012, & 2014:
http://www.kennesaw.edu/sustainability
The FY 2014 inventory included data from the Marietta campus.
Scope 1 = on-campus emissions (mainly natural gas)
Scope 2 = electricity
Scope 3 = travel & (mainly) commuting
Energy-Saving Measures
• Combining Christmas & New Years campus shut-downs
• Adding Energy-efficient LEED buildings
• Setting thermostats @ 680 (winter) & 780 (summer)
• Motion-detector light controls
• Federal Stimulus
funding awarded in
2010 have been used
to increase energy
efficiency in older
buildings & to provide
metering for most
buildings.
“BOB” Shuttle Routes began in Spring,
2011
• routes to remote parking lots & campus
buildings
• routes connecting nearby apartments
Zimride carpool system
• Select potential carpool participants using the socialnetwork Zimride system:
https://web.kennesaw.edu/auxiliaryservices/content/student
-carpooling
• Shuttles reduce traffic
congestion & pollution caused
by prolonged vehicle idling
times
• KSU instituted a “No Idle”
Policy in 2010
The Kennesaw campus is rapidly
losing its natural areas, including
a small forest that houses pink
ladyslippers, a rare native orchid.
The Marietta Campus has natural
areas that should be preserved.
Outdoor Gathering Places
Students have identified an area for creating a
Bioswale to capture pollutants in campus storm
water runoff
Recycling
• KSU uses a “single source” (materials can be mixed)
recycling system
• KSU accepts paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, glass
drink bottles, batteries, and plastics #s 1 - 7
Residence Halls
• The newer buildings on the North side of campus have energy and
water conserving features
• Resident Assistants plan Sustainability Events (such as an “Earth
Hour” celebration) on a regular basis