Tips to Green Your Event

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Tips to Green Your Event
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Reasons for Going Green

• Environmental Degradation
• Global climate change, deforestation, ozone
  depletion, desertification, biodiversity loss,
  rising sea levels, oceanic acidification, etc. 1

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Reasons for Going Green

• Improves the economic bottom line
• Smart companies can use environmental strategy
  to innovate, create value, and build competitive
  advantage. 2
• Being green makes green. 3

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Reasons for Going Green

• Spiritual Stewardship
• Jewish
• Let man have dominion over the fish of the sea,
  and over the fowl of the air, and over the
  cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
  creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 4
• If you have a sapling in your hand, and someone
  should say to you that the Messiah has come, stay
  and complete the planting, and then go to greet
  the Messiah. 5
• Christian
• There is no greater love than to lay down ones
  life for a friend. 6
• Man must see himself as the very same as the
  environment and thus treat it accordingly as
  loving oneself. 7

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Reasons for Going Green

• Concern for Future Generations
• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 8
• Will those who come after us in a hundred or two
  hundred years, those for whom we are blazing a
  trail, will they remember and have a kind word
  for us? 9

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Reasons for Going Green

• Sustainability

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Sustainable Strategies

• Events
• Trips
• Service Activities
• Programs
• Dining
• Issues
• Transportation
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Food
• Energy and Resources

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Trips

• Across country, like Kansas City
• Mass transportation
• Vehicle with optimal gas mileage
• Use cruise control 10
• Drive at most efficient
• gas mileage speeds 11
• Check tire pressure 12
• No aggressive driving
• Avoid excessive air conditioning
• Keep windows closed 13

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Trips

• Overnight Trips 14
• Water
• Turn off faucet when brushing teeth or washing
  hands
• Do not pre-rinse dishes and then put in dish
  washer (one or the other)
• Cooking
• Do not preheat the oven
• Choose matches over lighters

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Trips

• Within Nashville, like Eakin Elementary
• Mass transportation
• Carpool
• Borrow a car from CPH
• Bus routes and schedules 15
• Avoid idling
• Drive less, bike/walk more

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Trips

• Alternative, Renewable Fuel
• Purchase more ethanol
• Avoid corn-based ethanol 16
• Use vehicles that can run diesel
• Ask for biodiesel from the Vanderbilt Biodiesel
  Initiative 17
• Contact Derek Riley derek.riley_at_isis.vanderbilt.e
  du
• If unavailable, request it anyway

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Service Activities

• Suggestions 18
• Science Projects Composting
• Art Contest Recycling Bin Decoration
• Reading books about nature or the environment
• Recommended reading 19
• Outdoor activities (hiking, canoeing, trail
  building) through the Outdoor Recreation Center
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• Contact Linda Rosenkranz linda.rosenkranz_at_vanderbi
  lt.edu

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Service Activities

• Set events outside
• On campus
• Office of Schedule and Reservation 21
• 208 Sarratt Student Center 615-322-2448
• Online application 22
• This is where to indicate recycling for special
  events
• Off campus
• Metro parks 23
• For large events, permits are needed so call
  615-862-8400 for more information and an
  application

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Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

• (EPP)
• Products or services that have a lesser or
  reduced effect on human health and the
  environment when compared with competing products
  or services that serve the same purpose. 24

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Reduce 25, Reuse, Recycle 26
Two Examples Paper and Water Containers
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Recycle 27

• Unacceptable
• Paper
• paper towels or tissue cardboard tubes from
  bathroom tissue/paper towels padded envelopes
  wax-coated paper or Styrofoam cups phone books
• Cardboard
• food contaminated cardboard, like used pizza
  boxes
• Aluminum/Tin
• other metal items
• Plastic
• plastic with a number 3 through 7 packaging that
  has numbers 1 or 2 carry-out food containers
  (6) plastic straws plastic bags from grocery
  stores plastic wrappers Styrofoam colored Solo
  plastic cups

• Acceptable
• Paper
• officer paper (staples and paper clips are OK)
  colored paper newspaper, magazines, journals
  envelopes (window envelopes OK) one-ply
  cardboard (paperboard), like cereal boxes, 6-,
  12-, or 24-pack beverage boxes or tissue boxes
• Cardboard
• corrugated cardboard
• Aluminum/Tin
• soda cans (empty) Food cans (clean) Pie Tins
  (clean) Aluminum Foil (clean)
• Plastic
• bottles/items with recycling number 1 (PET) or 2
  (HDPE), like milk jugs, shampoo bottles, or
  soda/water bottles

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Recycle

• How to Recycle at Special Events
• Office of Schedule and Reservation 22
• 208 Sarratt Student Center 615-322-2448
• Online application 23
• In additional comments, indicate recycling
  facilities
• Attend OSR Event Planning Meeting on Wednesday
  afternoons, and request recycling facilities (for
  free)
• Where to Recycle
• Academic and administrative buildings
• Residence areas (see map)

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Programs

• Location, like a room in the Commons Center
• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
  (LEED) Gold Certification by the U.S. Green
  Building Council 28
• Sustainable design features of the building 29
• Other buildings with sustainable design aspects

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Meetings 30
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Programs

• Lighting
• Use natural lighting whenever possible
• Use localized light
• Turn off lights when not in use
• Leave some lights off if room is in use
• Use compact fluorescent light bulbs (or rooms
  with them)
• Temperature 31
• Keep thermostats at reasonable levels (78F in
  summer and 68F in winter)
• Clothes layeringregulate your own body heat

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Programs

• EPP attributes for Paper 32
• Post-consumer recycled content
• Processed chlorine-free
• Recyclable
• soy-based inks

• EPP attributes for Office Supplies 33
• Non-toxic
• Recyclable
• Recycled-content
• Remanufactured
• Reusable
• Separable

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Programs

• EPP attributes for Electronics 34
• reduced or no toxic constituents
• recycled content
• reduced packaging
• designed for recycling or upgrades
• energy efficient ? Energy Star label 35

• Energy Conservation for Computers and Other
  Electronics
• turn off appliances when not in use 36
• unplug appliances when not in use 37
• lower light/tint settings
• sleep and hibernate mode 38

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Programs

• Printing, for publicity or handouts
• Double-sided
• Capture excess paper and use it for scraps or
  notes
• Reduced margins
• Soy-based inks 39
• Vanderbilt Printing Services' green initiatives
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• Contact Kristin Yancey 615-936-4690
  kristin.yancey_at_vanderbilt.edu

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Dining

• Varieties of Sustainable Food (and to Clothing)
• Local
• Organic (also natural)
• Vegetarian
• Vegan
• Fair Trade
• Insecticides are not selective poisons. 41

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Dining

• Where to Shop
• On Campus 42
• NectarNatural Food Store
• Common Grounds
• Off Campus
• Whole Foods, 4021 Hillsboro Pike 43
• Any grocery store, look for appropriate labels
• Farmers Market 44
• On campus VUMC at Light Hall, Thu 3pm to 7pm
• Off campus
• 900 Rosa L. Parks Blvd, Mon to Sun 8am to 6pm
• Edgehill Village, Thu 4pm to 7pm

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Dining

• Local, Eco-Friendly Catering
• On Campus 45
• Vanderbilt Catering
• SaRand Catering
• Commons Catering
• Off Campus
• 12th South Tap Room, 615-463-7522
• The Acorn, 615-320-4399
• City House, 615-736-5838
• Corrieris Formaggeria, 615-385-9272
• F. Scotts, 615-269-5861
• Bread Company, 615-329-1400
• Provence Breads Café, 615-368-0363
• The Yellow Porch, 615-386-0260
• Whole Foods, 615-440-5100
• Plumgood Food, 615-248-4448

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Dining

• Small lunch or Gala Dinner
• Recycling bins alongside trash cans
• Eat less meat 46
• Purchase in bulk, with less packaging
• Plates and silverware
• EPP hierarchy reusable, biodegradable, paper,
  coated in wax, Styrofoam/plastic
• Water
• EPP hierarchy reusable canteens, reusable
  glasses, reusable plastic cups, cups coated in
  wax, plastic water bottles, plastic cups,
  non-recyclable cups, Styrofoam cups

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Conclusion

• Commitment
• If product or service unavailable, let it be
  known there is a demand
• Finances
• Franklin idiom 1768 A penny saved is a penny
  earned. 47
• Can save money in short and long terms 48
• Determine own degree and frequency

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Conclusion

• Top Ten Essentials
• Walk more, drive less
• If driving, go at optimal gas mileage speed
• Turn off faucet when brushing teeth or washing
  hands
• Consider EPP
• Recycle paper and cardboard
• Turn off electronics when unused
• Keep thermostat at reasonable levels
• Select an energy and environment efficiently
  designed location
• Purchase in bulk
• Use reusable water containers

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Conclusion

• Man is endowed with reason and creative powers
  so that he may increase what has been given to
  him, but up to now he has not created but only
  destroyed. There are fewer forests, rivers are
  drying up, wild life is becoming extinct, the
  climate is ruined, and every day the earth gets
  poorer and uglier. 49

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Conclusion

• The movement for the conservation of wild life
  and the larger movement for the conservation of
  all our natural resources are essentially
  democratic in spirit, purpose, and method. 50

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Conclusion

• Sustainability
• Equity
• Environment
• Economy
• Ethics

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List of Resources

• Students Promoting Environmental Awareness
  Responsibility
• http//studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/spear/
• Sustainability Environment Management Office
• www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/
• Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative
• http//www.vanderbilt.edu/biodiesel/

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List of Sources

1. 2007 Synthesis of IPCC Report on Climate Change
2. 2006, Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston, Green to
   Gold, p. 17
3. 2006, Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston, Green to
   Gold, p. 19
4. Genesis 126, The Bible
5. Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai , Avot de Rabbi Nathan,
   31b
6. John 1513, The Bible
7. Father Thomas Berry , http//www.natcath.com/NCR_O
   nline/archives/081001/081001a.htm
8. 1776, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of
   Independence, http//americanrevwar.homestead.com
   /files/DECLARA.HTM

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List of Sources

1. 1899, Anton Chekov, Uncle Vanya, Act 1
2. http//www.50waystohelp.com/
3. http//www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/driveHabits.shtml
4. http//www.mahalo.com/How_to_Get_Better_Gas_Mileag
   e
5. http//www.mahalo.com/How_to_Get_Better_Gas_Mileag
   e
6. http//www.50waystohelp.com/
7. http//www.nashvillemta.org/setpage.asp?pageallro
   utes.html
8. http//blogs.wsj.com/energy/2008/01/23/more-bad-ne
   ws-for-ethanol/

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List of Sources

1. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/biodiesel/
2. http//www.nashville.gov/beautification/education_
   programs.htm
3. http//hookedonnature.org/childrennature/reading.h
   tml
4. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/outrec/
5. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/reservations/
6. https//sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/form/dLFtDO
7. http//www.nashville.gov/parks/
8. http//www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/pubs/about/about.h
   tm

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List of Sources

1. http//www.ceeonline.org/greenGuide/greenGuide/rwm
   anagement/rwmanagement.aspx
2. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/recycling_vu.p
   hp
3. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/recycling_vu.p
   hp
4. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/leeds.php
5. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/pdf/green_buil
   ding_at_vanderbilt.pdf
6. http//www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID17
   20
7. http//powerscorecard.org/reduce_energy.cfm
8. http//www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/pubs/products/pape
   r.htm

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List of Sources

• http//www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/pubs/products/offi
  ces.htm
• http//www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/pubs/products/elec
  tronic.htm
• http//www.energystar.gov/
• http//www.ceeonline.org/greenGuide/greenGuide/ene
  rgy/take/Tips.aspx
• http//www.lbl.gov/
• http//www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/appl
  iances/index.cfm/mytopic10070
• www.printgreener.com
• http//www.vanderbilt.edu/myvu/news/2008/07/23/nee
  d-some-environmentally-friendly-printing-done.6181
  1

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List of Sources

1. 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, p. 91
2. www.vanderbilt.edu/dining/etwste.php
3. ww.wholefoodsmarket.com
4. http//www.nashvillefarmersmarket.org/
5. http//www.vanderbilt.edu/dining/catering.php
6. www.goveg.com
7. 1760s, Benjamin Franklin
8. http//www.ceeonline.org/greenGuide/greenGuide/ene
   rgy/take/Tips.aspx
9. 1899, Anton Chekov, Uncle Vanya, Act 1
10. 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, http//www.edf.org/artic
    le.cfm?contentid2759