Green OWU

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Green OWU
OWU Sustainability
Jann M. Ichida Environmental Health and Safety
Ohio Wesleyan University
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OWU Eco-friendly Efforts

• Sagan National Colloquium
• Sustainability Task Force
• LEEDs buildings
• Nature Preserves
• Academic class projects
• Student programs
• Tree House
• Transportation
• Campus arboretum
• Energy Competition OWU vs. COW vs. Denison

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Task Force Charge
OWU President, Rock Jones

• The Presidents Task Force on Campus
  Sustainability is charged with developing
  recommendations that will lead to a culture of
  sustainability on the Ohio Wesleyan University
  campus. Specifically, the task force will examine
  the Presidents Climate Initiative and develop a
  roadmap for fulfilling commitments made in the
  initiative and recommend a timeline for specific
  actions Ohio Wesleyan University can take to
  become more environmentally friendly.  The task
  force will present its recommendations to the
  president prior to the end of the spring
  semester, 2009.
• Known enthusiastic constituencies Students, as
  evidenced by Fall 2008 petition drive, President
  Jones, as evidenced by task force creation, and
  at least some members of other groups, as
  evidenced by large task force membership, Sagan
  National Colloquium, etc.
• Suggested approach Ask not Can it be done?,
  rather How will we do this?
  

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Welcome to the Presidents Campus Sustainability
Task Force Thank you for your participation!
Dr. Laurie Anderson chair Meeting Agenda
January 19, 2009, 410PM Introductions and your
ideas Our charge from President Jones Working
group charges and assignments task force
input Time line for the Spring Semester,
2009 Working groups assemble - Brainstorm your
approach to your charge - Set your next meeting
date, time and location
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Working Groups

• Institutional Structure (Chair Karen Crosman)
• Emissions and Action Plan (Chair Amy Downing)
• Immediate Actions (Chair John Krygier)
• Curriculum and Visibility (Chair Shari
  Stone-Mediatore)

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Institutional Structure

• Members Julia Brooker, Karen Crosman, Bart
  Martin, David Robbins
• Charge The group will consider the need for a
  sustainability administrator, composition and
  size of a permanent committee, how that committee
  will be created (by election or appointment), how
  to make it inclusive (administrators, faculty,
  staff, trustees, students), and how the current
  Task Force could evolve into a permanent
  committee/working group/entity for 2009-2010.
  The group may also wish to determine which
  members of the current Task Force are interested
  in long-term service on this topic.

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Emissions and Action Plan

• Members Eric Algoe, Amy Downing, Jim Peoples,
  Carol Poling, Chris Setzer, Barb Wiehe, Tom
  Wolber, (Laurie Anderson)
• Charge This group will take a first pass at
  generating an estimate of OWU emissions using an
  online carbon footprint calculator, identify
  major strategies for emissions reduction,
  determine how climate neutrality can be achieved,
  on what time scale, and at what cost.

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Graphical output of OWUs preliminary carbon
emissions inventory, February 09
Total OWU carbon footprint (Scope 12)
17,000,000
Note Scope 12 for Middlebury 27,000,000,
Oberlin 44,500.000, Macalaster 21,000,000.
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Immediate Actions

• Members Gene Castelli, Jann Ichida, Steve
  Ishmael, Jim Krehbiel, John Krygier, Jack
  Stenger, Paula Travis
• Charge This group will discuss which two of the
  seven required actions are most feasible and
  appropriate for our campus. In addition, this
  group will discuss actions we can take to "green"
  the campus regardless of whether we sign the
  President's Climate Commitment, assign priorities
  to those actions for 2009-2010, and estimate
  costs and time lines for implementation.

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The CAN DO list
40 more efficient
Students want to do this!
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Curriculum and Visibility
Members Kim Lance, Sara Nienaber, Chuck
Stinemetz, Shari Stone-Mediatore, (Laurie
Anderson) Charge This group will discuss how to
integrate sustainability into the curriculum
meaningfully and appropriately, how this effort
will intersect with other curriculum revisions on
campus, and how existing programs, such as the
Environmental Studies Program, will evolve in
response to this effort. This group will also
discuss how to make the sustainability curriculum
visible and attractive to prospective students.
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Time Line for Spring 2009

• January to Spring Break
• 1. Working Groups meet at least 2x and develop
  initial recommendations on the Presidents
  Climate Commitment. Meeting minutes are posted
  on Blackboard.
• 2. Working Group chairs meet with the Task
  Force chair the week before Spring Break to
  report progress within the groups.
• By Friday, March 27 (within two weeks after
  Spring Break)
• Full Task Force meets to share Working Group
  recommendations, give input across Working
  Groups, and identify green campus priorities and
  institutional structures for 2009-2010.
• By Friday, April 10
• Task Force chair writes recommendations
  regarding Presidents Climate Commitment, green
  campus priorities, and institutional structure
  for 2009-2010 academic year, and circulates these
  items among task force members for comment.
• By Thursday, April 30
• 1. Official written recommendations of the Task
  Force are submitted to President Jones.
• 2. The Task Force chair will provide verbal
  reports of Task Force activities and preliminary
  recommendations in forums such as the OWU monthly
  faculty meeting, if requested to do so.

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Ross Art Museum Features Eco-Friendly
Exhibit Display Part of Ohio Wesleyans Sagan
National Colloquium
Aurora Robsons What Goes Around Comes Around
is made of 9,000 recycled plastic bottles, along
with rivets, tinted polycrylic, hardware, and
aircraft cable.
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You cant manage what you dont measure.
OWU Student Projects on Recycling and Composting
Food Waste
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OWU and LEEDs
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OWU LEEDsGeothermal Heating for Building and
Pools
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Recommendations Spring 2009

• Generally supportive for signing the commitment
• Add Sustainability Coordinator
• Reduce energy use, education, updating, purchase
  offsets (expensive)
• Expand Environmental Studies academic program,
  e.g. Green Institute
• LEED Silver standard, Waste Minimization

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• EHS campus collaboration over the years

20 years ago Facilities Public safety State
agency Laboratories Buildings and grounds
10 years ago Facilities Public safety State
agency Laboratories Buildings and grounds EPA
Legal/Risk management Administration Hazardous
waste vendors Local fire department Human
resources
TODAY Facilities Public safety State
agency Laboratories Buildings and grounds EPA
Legal/Risk management Administration Hazardous
waste vendors Local fire department Human
resources Many consultants Public
relations Trustees Student groups First
responders Non-Governmental organizations Provost/
Chancellor Faculty chairs Sustainability
offices Business officer Procurement Residential
life Energy manager Capital planning
Cross-function teams Municipal
officials Research compliance Community advocates
Jann M. Ichida Environmental Health and Safety
Ohio Wesleyan University
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Clean Air
Ohio 5
Clean Water
49,800.00
OWU Environmental Health and Safety CWSC 199
Mercury
Not into the air!
Not down the drains!