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Sustainable School Operations
Deborah Moore
Green Schools Initiative
December 2008
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The Context
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The Hope
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Green Schools Report Card:Pollution & Environmental Quality
50% of schools in U.S. have problems linked to poor indoor air quality; asthma is the leading cause of school absences from a chronic illness
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• Education buildings use 13% of total energy used in US
• Typical school emits nearly 2,000 tons/yr of carbon from transportation, energy & water use
Green Schools Report Card:
Energy & Climate
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Green Schools Report Card: Garbage
• Waste from schools is ~ 4% of municipal waste
• Food waste and paper comprise majority of garbage;
• Few schools practice the 4R’s or buy recycled
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Children are most susceptible
• Developing body & lungs• Greater exposures from higher
metabolism, breathing rates• Bodies cannot detoxify as
adults• More active, hand-to-mouth• Exposures affect development,
learning, and lifetime health
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Schools’ environmental education message to kids:
“Do as I say, not as I do”
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Rotor near pollution
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Why Do We Need Green and Healthy Schools?
• Save money! Especially energy, hazardous waste handling, absenteeism, workman’s compensation – savings can be used to fund other programs
• Improve children’s health, especially asthma
• Increase academic achievement and student performance
• Benefit larger community and global health and environment
• Empowering kids to make a difference
• Teaching kids environmental and health values that will stay with them for life
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How to Create Green Schools1. Green School
Committee
2. Environmental Vision Statement
3. Environmental Assessment
4. Action Plan
5. Curriculum
6. Monitoring & Evaluation
7. Informing, Involving & Celebrating!
Adapted from: Eco-Schools International
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Step 3: Garbage Audit
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Results of Garbage Audit
Recyclables currently
Garbage Recycling thrown out
TABLE 3: Estimates of Total Waste Generated Pounds Tons Pounds Tons Pounds Tons
Estimate of 1 day of waste at Tapscott 86 48 8
Estimate of weight of 1 week of waste (5 days) 430 241 40
Estimate of 1 month of waste (20 days) 1,720 966 160
Estimate of 1 school-year of waste (180 days) 15,484 7.74 8,690 4.35 1,440 0.72
Estimate of 1 school-year of waste on both campuses 30,967 15.48 17,381 8.69 2,880 1.44
(Note: these estimates assume that all days would be like the day we audited)
Three years later, the school has reduced its daily garbage to about 2 pounds
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Students analyze and communicate results
to the whole school
The Power of Information
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Paper Audit• Estimate school paper use by:
– Weighing paper recycled– Interviewing office staff about paper
purchased
• Analyze costs and benefits of different strategies for reducing paper waste, increasing recycling, and buying recycled paper
• Implement solutions• Monitor ongoing paper use and estimate
costs and benefits of savings
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Results of Paper Cost-Benefit Analysis
Current – 0% recycled paper
30% recycled paper
100% recycled paper
Cartons per year 124 124 124
Price per carton $34.99 $35.99 $45.99
Price per year + tax
$4,339 $4,463 $5,703
Difference $124 $1,240
Trees used
Energy used
GHG emitted
74
119 mil BTUs
17.6K lbs CO2 eq
52
103 mil BTUs
15.6K lbs CO2 eq
0
67 mil BTUs
11.1K lbs CO2 eq
Sources: prices from Staples; resource uses from www.papercalculator.org by Environmental Defense.
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Using results to test ideas, influence decisions
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Create Action PlanGreening Buildings & Operations• New Buildings: CHPS
• Green Cleaning
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• Energy & Water Conservation, Renewable Energy, Transport
• Waste reduction
• Food Service
• Green Schoolyards
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Those who say it can’t be done
Should not interrupt those already doing it
-- Chinese proverb
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You have to be the change
You want to see in the world
-- Ghandi