Green Association Meetings

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Green Association Meetings
Thursday, May 22, 2008 1030 - 1130
AM Panelists
Facilitator Kent J. Blumenthal Executive
Director, NIRSA
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Greening Your Meetings

• First Things First
• It Can Be Easy To Be Green
• Not an Exact Science
• Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing
• Do You Feel Lucky?

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Session Talking Points

• Mini-Lesson Climate Change for Dummies
• Carbon Footprints Why are they Important?
• You Can Make a Difference!
• Greening Association Meetings
• Carbon Footprint Calculation of CHEMA Meeting
• Presidents Climate Commitment
• ASUs Experience
• WE Can Make a Difference!
• -- success stories lessons learned
• HEASC
• Resources Websites
• QA

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Why is Climate Change Such a Big Deal?
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Effects of Climate Change Are Visible

• Extreme weather
• Floods, catastrophic storms, heat waves
  droughts
• Estimated to cost economy over 80b per year
• Melting of the Polar Ice Caps
• Specie extinction due to lack of habitat
• Rise in sea level

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How Does Climate Change Relate to Me?

• Average person creates 7.5 metric tons of carbon
  dioxide per year.
• My estimated carbon footprint is 19.65 30.35
  metric tons per year
• Whats yours?

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YOU Can Make a Difference

• Unplug extra appliances
• Turn off lights, TVs, radios etc when leaving a
  room
• Plant a tree
• Recycle
• Take an alternative form of transportation
• -- carpool, bike, walk
• Use fuel efficient cars
• Use Energy Star products
• Use renewable electricity

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Green Association Meetings - Doing Good
All the Way Around!

• Provide leadership within higher education
• Enhance competitive advantage reputation
• Demonstrate commitment to corporate
  responsibility
• Save money by conserving resources
• Present positive opportunities for marketing
  public relations
• Open up new or niche markets

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WE Can Make a Difference! Green Association
Meetings

• Recycle
• Use locally grown food
• Reduce water consumption waste
• Laundry
• Make handouts available digitally via the web
• Plan events with public transportation or
  alternative use vehicles
• Use post consumer recycled paper vegetable ink
• Serve condiments in bulk (e.g., cream sugar)
• Participate in an Offset Program

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What is a Carbon Offset Program?

• An economic way to balance or neutralize carbon
  dioxide emissions of your event by funding
  projects that remove or do not add carbon dioxide
  to the atmosphere

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How?

• Increase energy efficiency of buildings,
  factories transportation
• Generate electricity from wind, solar or
  geothermal
• Put waste energy to work via co-generation

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Carbon Offset Program Benefits

• Easy affordable
• Helps fighting climate change
• Reduce air and other forms of pollution
• Improve animal habitats
• Improve watersheds and water quality
• Reduce soil erosion
• Preserve biodiversity
• Protect endangered species
• Create jobs
• Stimulate demand for clean energy products
• Stimulate investment into clean technologies
• Save money
• Improve energy security by reducing oil imports

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Carbon Footprint of this CHEMA Meeting
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What To Do With The Money?

• 118 MWh _at_ 12.00/MWh 1416
• 1416 / 60 attendees 23.60 per person
  contribution
• Where does our contribution go?
• Purchase of a Renewable Energy Certificate
• Choices are abundant!
• Wind, solar or hydro energy investments
• Tree planting / sequestration investments
• Alternative vehicle investments
• Local global

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• At the end of the day, you have
• to ask yourself
• Why wouldnt you do something good for the
  environment?

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Carbon Footprint Calculators

• www.carboncounter.org
• www.conservation.org
• www.climatetrust.org
• www.carbonfund.org
• www.climateincrisis.net
• www.nature.org

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http//www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/
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Committing the President

• Arizona State University

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Global View

• Research
• Sustainability education in all disciplines
• Outreach network
• Campus operations
• http//sustainable.asu.edu/gios/index.html

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Presidents Commitment

• Plan to achieve carbon neutrality
• Do something now
• Tell AASHE what you are doing

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Carbon Neutrality

• Initial carbon inventory done for Tempe
• Three other inventories in progress
• Carbon Neutral Strategic Plan in development

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Do Something

• Two energy performance contracts complete
• Investment audit for a third
• Solar powered parking structure
• First solar energy purchase agreement
• Three solar energy performance contractors

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Do Something

• Low flow fixtures
• Automated irrigation based on weather
• Developing a grey water system
• LEED Silver since 2005
• Nine certified, including 1 platinum and 3 gold
• Composting grounds waste

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Do Something

• Campus-grown food program
• Eco-café
• Serving Sustainability to ASU Awards for local
  restaurants
• Free bus passes
• Shuttle Service Scheduler
• ZipCar

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Do Something

• Ecological Mail program
• 20 trash compactors, half are solar powered
• 5 preference for recycled products
• Energy Star products preferred
• 30 post consumer waste paper
• Supplier Green Survey

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Help Others

• Clinton Climate Initiative and NAEP initiatives
  to provide tools and processes
• John.Riley_at_asu,edu

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Success Stories Lessons Learned
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The NAEP Story Lessons Learned
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Resources References
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www.HEASC.NET
AACC ? ACE ? ACPA ? AASCU ? APPA ? AASHE ACUHO-I
? ACUI ? AGB NACA ?NACUBO ? NAEP ? NIRSA ? SCUP
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Statement of Shared Principles Activities

• Aligning HEASC member association Annual
  Conferences professional development
  activities with sustainable practices
• Connecting HEASC member associations to the best
  expertise, resources and information in
  sustainability for higher education
• Communicating trends in sustainability in higher
  education to constituents of HEASC member
  associations
• Cooperating in joint projects with other
  associations and organizations that advance
  sustainability, where feasible
• Encouraging college and university leaders to
  embrace sustainability as a core campus value.

AACC ? ACE ? ACPA ? AASCU ? APPA ? AASHE ?
ACUHO-I ? ACUI ? AGB NACA ? NACUBO ? NAEP ? NIRSA
? SCUP
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Key ReferenceHEASC Sustainable Meetings
Conferences

• Table of Contents
• Organizations Involved in Sustainable Meetings
• Standards and Certifications for Green Meetings
• Social Sustainability
• Using Offsets
• Recommendations
• Additional Resources Guides, Surveys,
  Checklists,

http//www.heasc.net/documents/HEASCSustainableMee
tingsConferencesReport_Oct-2007.doc
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NAEP Key Resources

• HEASC (Higher Education Associations
  Sustainability Consortium)
• AASHE (Association for the Advancement of
  Sustainability in Higher Education
• LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
  Design
• U.S. Green Building Council
• School Facilities
• iGreenBuild - The Voice of Sustainable Design
  Construction
• Source
• http//www.naepnet.org/Microsites/sustainability/r
  esources.htm

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NAEPKey Resources Reading List

• http//www.naepnet.org/Microsites/sustainability/r
  eading.htm
• Highlights

http//www.amazon.com
http//www.amazon.com
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More Key Resources
http//www.amazon.com
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SustainableMaterials and Products
http//www.fsc.org/en/about
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Q Awww.cupahr.org/chema