Greening Your Business and Climate Wise

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Greening Your Business and Climate Wise

• CREW Northern Colorado Chapter
• Kathy Collier, LEED AP
• Climate Wise City of Fort Collins Natural
  Resources Dept
• 3 June 2009

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Why Green?

• Reduce environmental impact
• Business efficiency
• Cost aving
• PR
• Tenants/employees Greater productivity,
  recruitment, retention, healthy employees,
  employee morale, energy savings, water savings
• Owners Greater value, greater marketability,
  higher rents, higher occupancy, risk of
  obsolescence, energy savings, water savings,
  lower insurance costs
• Community Peak demand, water treatment, storm
  water, landfill, energy dependence

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Greening Business

• Energy
• Water
• Materials and Resources
• Transportation

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The Balanced Low-carb Diet
Offsets
Green Power
On-Site Renewables
Energy Efficiency Waste reduction, etc.
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Energy Top 10

• Conservation
• Lighting retrofits
• Thermostats
• Retro-commissioning
• HVAC equipment
• Economizers
• Building envelope
• Appliances and office equipment
• Green IT
• People

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Energy Conservation

• Conservation behavior based savings
• Turn it off, turn it down, tighten the schedule,
  etc.
• Applies to everything
• Culture based is most successful
• Competition seems to help

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Lighting Retrofits

• Lighting retrofits replacing old fluorescent,
  incandescent and metal halide with more efficient
  technology
• Most common opportunity in business
• Typical payback, 2-4 years
• Clear and obvious quality improvements
• Opportunity to re-design for current needs
• Technology types
• T-12 ? T-8 fluorescent
• Incandescent ? CFL (compact fluorescent)
• Exit lights ? LED
• Metal halide ? high-bay fluorescent

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Appliances and Equipment

• Appliances and office equipment dont forget the
  refrigerator, television, dishwasher and copy
  machine
• Buy a new refrigerator and recycle the old one
• Look for ENERGY STAR label on everything

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Green IT

• Green IT reducing energy use and environmental
  impact of IT equipment with hardware, software
  and operational solutions
• Largely untapped opportunity
• Specify high efficiency desktops and servers
• Start server consolidation and virtualization
• Optimize setpoints, airflow and cooling for data
  centers
• Network based power management
• Equipment made with less toxic materials
• Easy to dismantle or recycle at end of life

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Water Top 10

• Baseline, benchmark, assess!
• Behavior
• Upgrade end-use fixtures
• Irrigation improvements
• Once-through water use
• Heating/cooling equipment blowdown controls
• Dishwasher upgrades

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Upgrade End-Use Fixtures

• Aerators 2.0-3.0 gpm ?1.5 gpm
• Pre-rinse spray valves 2.5 gpm ? 1.6 gpm
• Showerheads 2.5-3.5 gpm ? 2.0 gpm
• Paybacks lt 1 year
• Toilets 3.5 - 5 gpf ? 1.6 gpf or lower
• Options ultra-low, dual flush
• Urinals 3.0 gpm ? 1.6 gpf or lower
• Options waterless, ultra-low
• Paybacks 3 -10 years

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Irrigation Improvements

• Sprinkler Audit Program FREE sprinkler system
  assessment for homes homeowner associations

Sign Up fcgov.com/sprinkler-audit Email
utilities_at_fcgov.com Call 416-2666
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Materials and Resources Top 10

• Green purchasing
• Source reduction
• Material reuse
• Recycle
• Optimize trash service
• Green meetings and events
• Green cleaning program

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Source Reduction

• Reduce junk mail write DMA, join Green Dimes,
  etc.
• Reduce use of consumables (e.g., paper)
• Use PDF writer as default printer
• Use backsides of paper before recycling
• Duplex (double sided) printing
• Reusable cups and plates preferable
• Choose minimally packaged items or buy in bulk
• Eliminate use of polystyrene foam cups, plates
  (compostable or recyclable alternatives also
  exist)
• Choose products with recyclable packaging
• Eliminate use of bottled water opt for water
  pitchers and glasses

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Recycle

• Develop recycling program
• Self-haul
• Rivendell Recycling Center or Larimer County
  Recycling Center
• Add recycling pick-up to trash service
• Broker large volumes directly
• Larimer County Recycling Center, paper mills,
  etc.
• Hire recycling company
• Accepts more materials, rebates possible for high
  value materials
• Reporting options?

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Recyclables

• Standard recyclables (variable, based on business
  type)
• Mixed paper
• Glass containers
• Plastic containers (including plastic
  containers, 1 - 7)
• Metal containers
• Corrugated cardboard
• Paperboard
• Organics (or compostable / degradable materials)

Materials included in single-stream
recycling rebate possible depending on
vendor / volumes generated
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Optimize Trash Service

• Frequency of trash pick up function of capacity
  and volume
• Ensure container appropriately sized and full
  when emptied
• Ask hauler about on demand collection
• Optimization cost savings

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Recycling on a Different Scale at Intel
November 11, 2009
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Transportation Top 10

• Telecommute
• Carpool / vanpool
• Bike
• Walk
• Bus
• Drive efficiently, vehicle maintenance
• Alternative fuels, hybrids electric vehicles

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Drive Efficiently

• Trip chain
• Reduce or avoid idling (diesels too)
• EPA 1 fuel efficiency loss for every 2 PSI
  under maximum tire pressure level
• Slow down each 5 mph over 60 mph paying
  additional 0.20 / gal for fuel
• Car maintenance 4 increase in fuel efficiency
  or 0.12/gal

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Climate Wise Business Outreach Program
Fort Collins folk can just call Climate Wise
Aaaaah! What do I do?
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Climate Wise Business Outreach Program

• Promotes voluntary GHG reduction through
• Energy efficiency
• Pollution prevention
• Waste reduction
• Water conservation
• Transportation reduction
• Climate Wise provides
• Technical assistance
• Public recognition
• Peer networking opportunities
• Carbon quantification
• Cost savings
• and much more!

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The Climate Wise Team!
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Climate Wise Business Outreach Program

• A business plan with new tiered partner levels
  of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum

• Partner Advisory Committee provides input into
  the business plan and Climate Wise operations
• Last year, committee members asked staff to
  build in strict requirements for Platinum
  partners to continually raise the bar.

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Examples of what Partners are doing
Some of the 650 projects or measures of 2008
partners

• Recycling/Waste Reduction
• Start solid waste/recycling program
• Internal materials reuse program
• Purchase in bulk
• Use Silverware instead of plastic
• Construction and demolition recycling
• Hold Zero Waste meetings and events

• Transportation
• Alternative Transportation
• Hybrid vehicle use
• Trip optimization
• Biofuel use

• Water Conservation
• Xeriscaping
• Aerator replacement
• Sprinkler audit/optimization
• Indoor fixture replacement

• Energy Conservation
• Upgrade to ENERGY STAR appliances
• Lighting projects
• Utilities LightenUP!
• Cooling Tower
• Turn off computers/lights
• Efficient HVAC upgrade

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The effects of reducing 100,511 tons CO2e are
similar to

planting 8 million trees reducing 1,260,000
car trips from Fort Collins to Denver and
back saving 108,000 round-trip flights
from Denver to NYC
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Cumulative savings through 2008 Climate Wise
Partners saved

• nearly 4 billion gallons of water
• more than 280 million kWh of electricity
• more than 6.5 million therms of natural gas
• 83,200 tons diverted from the landfill
• total cost savings among partners are nearly
  24.4 million

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Climate Wise Provides Support

Climate Wise technical assessment at The Vineyard
Church
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Climate Wise provides Support

Tools and resources to help partners Data
Collection Tool Greenhouse Gas Baseline Tool Self
Assessment Checklist
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Climate Wise Provides Public Recognition

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Climate Wise Provides Peer Networking

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Climate Wise Provides Carbon Quantification and
Cost savings

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What Businesses are Saying About Climate Wise
Climate Wise helps us with structuring and
maximizing our solid waste recycling and natural
resource use reduction programs. This results in
a feeling of positive contribution by Odell
Brewing employees, as well as measurable cost
savings. Doug Odell, Owner Odell Brewing
Company
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What Businesses are Saying About Climate Wise
Through owning shopping centers in other
municipalities, we have never come across a
program that has been so forward thinking and
forthright in helping to identify ways to not
only be green, but help businesses to see the
bottom line benefit of being green. Luke
McFetridge, NewMark Merrill Mountain States
Fort Collins Marketplace
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Web Information
Climate Wise www.fcgov.com/climatewise
Contact Information
Kathy Collier 221.6312 kcollier_at_fcgov.com John
Armstrong 416.2230 jarmstrong_at_fcgov.com
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Fort Collins Resources 1

• Energy and water programs
• Fort Collins Utilities 221.6700
• fcgov.com/utilities
• Recycling and waste reduction
• Fort Collins Natural Resources Dept 221.6600
• fcgov.com/recycling

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Fort Collins Resources 2

• Bike and transit programs
• Fort Collins Transportation Dept 224.6058
• fcgov.com/transportation
• Technical assistance for all areas for businesses
  
• (including property owners / managers/tenants)
• Climate Wise 221.6312
• fcgov.com/climatewise

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Resources outside of Fort Collins

• Greeleys Environmental Awards Program
• Ruth Quade, Ruth.Quade_at_Greeleygov.com
• (awards, free indoor/outdoor water audits)
• Regional carpool/vanpool programs
• Metropolitan Planning Organization
• [phone]

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Questions?

• Thank you!