Case Western Reserve University

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Case Western Reserve University

• Making Sustainability A Priority

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Facts and Numbers

• Case Westerns roots can be traced back to 1826.
• 9,927 Students
• 2,521 Faculty
• 2,980 Staff

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• Located in University Circle
• 550 acre
• 94 buildings

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Gold Stars For Being Green

• Bon-Appétit
• -food service for a sustainable future.
• Nature walk

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Making Up For A Slow Start

• Case as an institution committed to developing a
  sustainable and environmentally responsible
  campus
• Goals
• -Reduce energy consumption
• -Conserve resources
• -Contain costs.

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Awesome Things That They Are Doing

• Energy Conservation
• -Lighting retrofits, reduction of lighting
  systems, adjustment to building temperature
  settings, reevaluation of operating hours of
  building mechanical systems, energy audit

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Village at 115

• -Reduces energy and water consumption
• -Environmentally-friendly construction

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• Biodiesel and Composting
• Energy Advisory Committee
• -Co-chaired by Eugene Mathews, Director of
  Facilities Services, and Linda Robson, Finance
  and Administration Fellow in Energy Studies
• Education
• Sustain-a-palooza
• Reforming the recycling program

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Trash Audit Summer 06
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• STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
• -Recycling Representatives
• -Sierra Club
• -Energy Ambassadors Club
• -Recycling Race Battle of the Dorms
• -Adopt a Building

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Work Cited

• www.case.edu/news/sustain. Case Western Reserve
  University. February 19.
• Robson, Linda. Building a Tradition of
  Sustainability at CASE. Microsoft PowerPoint.
  February 19.