Putting the GREEN into YOUR Student Center Program

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Putting the GREEN into YOUR Student Center Program
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How do I get started???
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Get the Facts!

• Watch an inconvenient truth A Global Warning
• Surf the web! 77,800,000 Google results for
  Global Warming!
• NJHEPS.org NJ Higher Education Partnership for
  Sustainability
• FocustheNation.com January 30 31 Event!
• Architecture2030.org
• nwf.org National Wildlife Foundation CHILL
  OUT Campus Solutions to Global Warming
• EnvironmentNewJersey.com
• EnvironmentalDefense.org email your
  Congressmen!

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And Talk the Talk!

• Global Warming - refers to the increase in the
  average temperature of the Earth's near-surface
  air and oceans in recent decades and its
  projected continuation.
• Greenhouse Gases - the process by which
  absorption and emission of infrared radiation by
  atmospheric gases warms a planet's atmosphere and
  surface
• Climate Change - often refers to changes in
  modern climate which according to the IPCC are
  90-95 likely to have been in part caused by
  human action.
• CO2 Emissions - Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse
  gas. It is observed that due to human activities
  such as the combustion of fossil fuels and
  deforestation, the concentration of atmospheric
  carbon dioxide has increased by about 20 since
  1958
• Sustainability - the potential longevity of vital
  human ecological support systems, such as the
  planet's climatic system, systems of agriculture,
  industry, forestry, and fisheries, and human
  communities in general and the various systems on
  which they depend.
• Carbon Footprint - the total amount of carbon
  dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted
  over the full life cycle of a product or service.
  
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - The waste hierarchy
  refers to the "3 Rs" which classify waste
  management strategies according to their
  desirability. The 3 Rs are meant to be a
  hierarchy, in order of importance.
• From Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia,
  http//en.wikipedia.org

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• If you can think it
• YOU CAN GREEN IT!

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Think about ALL of the THINGS that go into
PLANNING a PROGRAM.

• The IDEA!
• Will it be a program that PROMOTES GREEN or a
  PROGRAM THAT IS GREEN, or both?
• RECYCLING PROGRAMS electronics, batteries,
  cellphones, printer cartidges, paper,
  bottles/cans, Recyclemania
• REUSE PROGRAMS clothing drives, flea market,
  textbook swap, coffee mugs water bottles
• REDUCE PROGRAMS fluorescent light bulb swap,
  reduce energy use and waste campaigns
• AWARENESS PROGRAMS carbon footprint calculator,
  email your State Representatives, webinars,
  speakers, films, ad campaigns, competitions

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JUNK CAN BE FUN!
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Promote Learning

• Search the web for FREE or low cost webinars and
  use them for a program!
• Contact NJHEPS or other local groups for
  speakers.

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Create a GREEN Campus Campaign!
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EnvironmentalDefense.org Host an e-letter
writing campaign!
Be CIVIC Minded Write your State Representatives
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They might write back!

• From frank_lautenberg_at_lautenberg.senate.gov
  mailtofrank_lautenberg_at_lautenberg.senate.gov
  Sent Wednesday, October 17, 2007 507 PMTo
  minnich_at_njit.eduSubject Responding to your
  message
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• Dear Ms. Minnich
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• Thank you for contacting me to express your
  concerns about global warming. Preserving and
  protecting our environment for future generations
  has always been one of my foremost concerns in
  the Senate, and I strongly believe that global
  warming is the most critical environmental issue
  of our time.
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• We must develop domestic and international
  initiatives to cut the emission of greenhouse
  gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide,
  methane, and hydroflourocarbons . In order to cut
  down on these dangerous emissions, we need to
  reduce our use of fossil fuels, improve energy
  efficiency standards, and develop cleaner, more
  environmentally responsible sources of energy.
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• Although the United States is the primary
  producer of greenhouse gases, global warming is a
  world-wide problem as well . Therefore, i t is
  essential that the international community
  collaborate in efforts to re duce greenhouse gas
  emissions efforts by the Intergovernmental Panel
  on Climate Change and other organizations are
  beginning to help this cause, and none too soon
  t he projected warming trend of 3.0 to 10.7
  degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years could
  cause changes in temperature zones, rainfall, and
  sea levels. For example, hurricanes, which gain
  strength from warm ocean waters, and other deadly
  storms are expected to increase in intensity as a
  result of global warming . The negative impacts
  of these changes could include severe damage to
  agriculture, natural resources, animal habitats,
  water supply, land use, and human health.
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• You may be interested to know that I am an
  original co-sponsor of t he Global Warming
  Pollution Reduction Act , introduced by Senator
  Bernie Sanders (I-VT). This is an extremely
  important bill , which sets emission reduction
  targets and establishes mandates to make
  meaningful changes to improve our environment.
  These include setting a goal to achieve a
  reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions
  establishing energy efficiency standards for U.S.
  utilities requiring the U.S. to derive 20
  percent of its electricity from renewable sources
  by 2020 and setting a standard for renewable
  fuels, mandating that five billion gallons of low
  carbon renewable fuel be produced annually
  beginning in 2015. This bill sets a responsible
  course of action for the United States to become
  a leader in environmental sustainability, and I
  am proud to give it my full support.
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• Thank you again for writing to me with your
  concerns about global warming. Please be assured
  that I will continue to support legislation to
  reduce the production of greenhouse gases and
  protect our environment . If I can be of further
  assistance on this or any other issue, please do
  not hesitate to contact me again.

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Think about ALL of the THINGS that go into
PLANNING a PROGRAM.

• What do you REALLY NEED?
• Food - reduce waste, recycle, buy local, use
  cloth instead of paper, go vegetarian
• Supplies buy recycled or organic products,
  reuse when you can, buy local
• Entertainment local performers save CO2 ,
  flying buy carbon credits or plant a tree,
  energy efficient equipment, repair instead of
  replace

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GREEN EGGS HAM?

• Work with your Food Service to implement
  biodegradable disposable products made of paper,
  corn, etc.
• Better yet, work to reduce the use of disposable
  products! Give-away coffee mugs, water bottles,
  and more!
• Use large containers for serving beverages,
  condiments and food. Avoid individual packaged
  servings i.e. water bottles, soda cans, sugar
  ketchup packets, bags of chips. This also saves
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• Buy Local! Reduces transportation costs and
  CO2.
• REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!

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This is Corny!!!

• Ethanol fuels
• Plastic Substitutes pens, mugs, biodegradable
  containers
• Fabrics
• Bamboo is good too!

Almost Everything can be made from RECYCLED or
BIODEGRADABLE materials!
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Think about ALL of the THINGS that go into
PLANNING a PROGRAM.

• ADVERTISING
• REDUCE use of paper, use RECYCLED paper or REUSE
  paper. Recycle after the event!
• Get the most BANG for your BUCK a few large
  posters vs many small flyers. Print on both
  sides, decrease margins and recycle print
  cartridges.
• Existing Media - newspaper, newsletters
• Electronic Media Facebook, websites and emails

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Use Your Advertisements to INFORM and PROMOTE!
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Give Your Campaign Ads a FACE!
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Turn me OFF!

• Other things you can do to help reduce your
  events Carbon Footprint
• Turn off your computer, lights and other
  electronics when youre done.
• Encourage guests to use Public Transportation,
  Carpool or Walk to your event.
• Encourage Guests to take the stairs save energy
  and burn calories!
• Almost EVERYTHING CAN BE RECYCLED! Denim, phone
  books, money, electronics, and much more!
  Recycle dont throw it away!

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Did you know that
PLASTIC / STYROFOAM Americans use 2,500,000
plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are
thrown away! Plastic bags and other plastic
garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as
1,000,000 sea creatures every year! Americans
throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles
every hour! Recycling plastic saves twice as
much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
American throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam
coffee cups every year.
GLASS Every month, we throw out enough glass
bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.
All of these jars are recyclable! The energy
saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a
100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also
causes 20 less air pollution and 50 less water
pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw
materials. A modern glass bottle would take
4000 years or more to decompose -- and even
longer if it's in the landfill. Mining and
transporting raw materials for glass produces
about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass
that is made. If recycled glass is substituted
for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut
by more than 80.
MISCELLANEOUS More than 20,000,000 Hershey's
Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square
miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable,
but not many people realize it. Every week
about 20 species of plants and animals become
extinct! McDonald's saves 68,000,000 pounds of
packaging per year just by pumping soft drink
syrup directly from the delivery truck into tanks
in the restaurant, instead of shipping the syrup
in cardboard boxes! The largest environmental
organization in the world is the National
Wildlife Federation. It has 5,600,000 members!
Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100
acres per minute! One-third of the water used
in most homes is flushed down the toilet. A
single quart of motor oil, if disposed of
improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000
gallons of fresh water. You can walk 1 mile
along an average highway in the United States and
see about 1,457 pieces of litter. The
Washington, DC-based Institute For Local
Self-Reliance calculates that recycling creates
36 jobs per 10,000 tons of material recycled
compared to 6 jobs for every 10,000 of tons
brought to traditional disposal facilities. A
typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop, 29
gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26
gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of
containers -- make sure they're recycled!
                                                
                          Return to Recycling
Rules!!
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Did you know that

• TRASH / LANDFILLS
• Although 75 of our trash can be recycled, the
  EPA set a national goal of 25 for 1992. The
  first real recycling program was introduced in
  New York City in the 1890s. The city's first
  recycling plant was built in 1898. By 1924,
  83 of American cities were separating some trash
  items to be reused. About one-third of an
  average dump is made up of packaging material!
  Every year, each American throws out about 1,200
  pounds of organic garbage that can be
  composted. New Jersey has the highest
  recycling rate of all the states--56! The
  U.S. is the 1 trash-producing country in the
  world at 1,609 pounds per person per year.
• This means that 5 of the world's people generate
  40 of the world's waste.                        
                                          The
  highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is
  actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke
  sanitary landfill! The US population discards
  each year 16,000,000,000 diapers, 1,600,000,000
  pens, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000 car
  tires, and enough aluminum to rebuild the US
  commercial air fleet four times over. Speaking
  of diapers, a cloth diaper washed at home costs
  3 per use. A disposable diaper costs 22 per
  use. The difference can add up a typical baby
  will use about 10,000 diapers! Between 5 and
  15 of what we throw away contains hazardous
  substances. Out of every 10 spent buying
  things, 1 (10) goes for packaging that is
  thrown away. Packaging represents about 65 of
  household trash. On average, it costs 30 per
  ton to recycle trash, 50 to send it to the
  landfill, and 65 to 75 to incinerate it.
  Americans generate and throw away 9 times as much
  waste as does a person in Africa or Central
  America, but we also generate two to three times
  the amount of waste as people living in
  industrial countries with a comparable or better
  standard of living as us.

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Did you know that

• METALS
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to
  run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of
  a half a gallon of gasoline. 350,000 aluminum
  cans are produced every minute! More aluminum
  goes into beverage cans than any other product
  Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part
  of a new can within six weeks. Because so many
  of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for
  less than 1 of the total U.S. waste stream,
  according to EPA estimates. During the time it
  takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce
  aluminum cans are made. An aluminum can that
  is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from
  now! There is no limit to the amount of times
  an aluminum can be recycled. Aluminum can
  manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in
  1972 each pound of aluminum
• produced 22 cans today it yields 29 cans. We
  use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every
  year. At one time, aluminum was more valuable
  than gold! A 60-watt light bulb can be run for
  over a day on the amount of energy saved by
  recycling
• 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United
  States, the recycling of steel saves enough
  energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!
  Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of
  iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of
  limestone.

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Did you know that

• PAPER
• To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000
  trees must be cut down.Recycling a single run
  of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000
  trees. If all our newspaper was recycled, we
  could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
  If every American recycled just one-tenth of
  their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000
  trees a year. During World War II when raw
  materials were scarce, 33 of all paper was
  recycled. After the war, this number decreased
  sharply. If you had a 15-year-old tree and
  made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about
  700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them
  in under an hour! This means in one year, one
  supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags!
  Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the
  U.S.!!! The average American uses seven trees
  a year in paper, wood, and other products made
  from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000
  trees per year! The amount of wood and paper
  we throw away each year is enough to heat
  50,000,000 homes for 20 years. When you smell
  a dump, what you're actually smelling is the
  paper in the dump! Approximately 1 billion
  trees worth of paper are thrown away every year
  in the U.S.

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• PAPER
• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year
  about 680 pounds per person. The average
  household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of
  paper each year. Most is packaging and junk
  mail. In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more
  than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
  In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper were
  recovered in the U.S.--twice as much in 1980.
  27 of the newspapers produced in America are
  recycled.
• Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save
  17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards
  of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and
  7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64
  energy savings, a 58 water savings, and 60
  pounds less of air pollution! The 17 trees
  saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of
  carbon
• dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same
  ton of paper would
• create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide. The
  construction costs of a paper mill designed to
  use waste paper
• is 50 to 80 less than the cost of a mill using
  new pulp.

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This chart shows the composition of an average
garbage dump. Notice how much of it is
recyclable!!
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Its YOUR World
Its YOUR Choice