Transcript SUSTAINABILITY ADVOCATE PROGRAM Training and Orientation What is Sustainability? • Meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. • Having.

SUSTAINABILITY
ADVOCATE PROGRAM
Training and Orientation
What is Sustainability?
• Meeting present needs
without compromising the
ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.
• Having the ability to recognize
and respect nature's limits.
• Striving for social, economic
and ecological solutions.
What does sustainability mean at NYU?
Making our offices and classrooms more pleasant for the
people who work and study here…
…while lessening our impact on the ecological
systems that support us
Sustainability at NYU: Goals
• Create a comfortable environment for staff and
students
• Improve NYU’s operational performance
• Mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions (PlaNYC/2017)
• Continue positioning NYU as a leader and model for
urban sustainability
• Bolster an economy of green jobs and growth
• Educate colleagues and students, whose behaviors
and life decisions will define the future
Advocate Program: Goals
Local
• Build a sense of community
• Enable staff, and faculty to play a direct
role in the campus’ sustainability efforts
• Generate new ideas
Global
• Develop research and hone best
practices that can be shared globally
• Scale up our institutional decisions to
solve complex global environmental
problems
Advocate Program: Responsiblities
• Implement ways to green departments
• Coordinate with colleagues to continually improve
sustainable operations
• Serve as a conduit of information and teach others to
improve sustainability at every opportunity
ACT TRACK EDUCATE
Act: Maximize Recycling
• Make sure recycling bins are always paired with trash
bins and labeled correctly
• Ensure all staff have a purple desk side recycling bin.
Note: staff members are responsible for emptying
their own bins into larger blue bins
• Check if technoscrap bin is available and if not place
order with FCM x81001 [email protected]
• Ensure that your office purchases recycled paper (at
least 30% recycled content)
Act: Optimize Environmental Purchasing
• Refer to Environmental Purchasing Guide
(www.nyu.edu/sustainability/purchasingguide) when
purchasing office supplies
• Refer to Asset Management (www.nyu.edu/asset)
when your office is moving or upgrading furniture and
supplies
• Before you purchase office furniture, such as file
cabinets, desks, etc., check to see if Asset
management have any similar surplus items in stock
Act: Conserve Energy + Resources
• Ensure that your colleagues all have their computers
correctly set up to auto hibernate and print doublesided (check shared computers too)
• Remind your colleagues to shut down their computers
at the end of each work day
• Ensure your colleagues are using power strips for
computers, speakers, telephone chargers, etc., and
encourage them to shutdown strips at the end of each
day
• Optimize lighting with CFL bulbs, occupancy sensors
in common areas, and turn off lights not in use
Act: Reduce Water Use and Packaging
• Organize your office to stop purchasing bottled water
or to switch from five gallon jugs to filtered water
• If your office has regular events, talk to the organizing
staff and request alternatives to bottled water like ice
tea and water served in pitchers
• Report leaky faucets and fixtures to the appropriate
facilities staff
Act: Improve Air Quality and Comfort
• Ensure your office is not overheated or overcooled
• Set manual thermostats to 74°F for cooling and
68°F for heating
• If your office is overheated/overcooled, put in a work
order request; CC [email protected]
Act: Innovate
• Wherever possible ensure that your office is using
green cleaning supplies www.goodguide.com is a
good resource (Method and Seventh Generation
products consistently get high ratings)
• If you have an idea about how to make NYU greener,
apply for a Green Grant
• Encourage use of stairs and alternate transport
Track: Let us know how you are doing
• Log onto the SAP’s interactive website and input
details about your implementation
• Give us feedback and stay in touch about what is
working for you and what resources you would like us
to investigate
• Identify new and innovative ways to green your
department; share these ideas with us
Educate: Engage your Colleagues
• Email colleagues with info about sustainable office
procedures and offer to answer any questions; ask
them to share green ideas
• Raise environmental issues at a staff meeting
• Implement university-wide policies that apply to office
operations
• Implement changes based on new ideas and new
information
Educate: Grow the Sustainability Culture
• Throw an environmentally friendly party!
• Ensure new employees receive training about the
recycling system, energy efficiency and other
sustainability initiatives.
• Make sure that every office area in your department
or division has an Advocate
• Identify even more ways to green your department
Responsibilities: Where to Focus
Easy
40%
30%
2 – 4 hours per
month
20%
Training and educating colleagues about
achievable improvements: ie recycled
paper, lights off, recycling, double-sided
printing, etc
Prioritizing mid-level projects: ie water
filter coolers, adjusting temperature setpoints, composting
Learning about environmental problems and
solutions in and outside of NYU
Raising awareness for long-term projects
10%
Hard
For more information…
http://www.nyu.edu/sustainability/advocates/