Emory University

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Emory University

• Presented by Stephanie Squibb

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Facts

• Located in Atlanta, Georgia in a Forested Area
• Founded in the year 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by
  the Methodist Church
• Includes 12, 134 students
• 3,100 faculty members
• 8,707 staff

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Commitment Statement

• Seek alternative practices and procedures to
  minimize negative impacts on the environment.
• Conserve natural resources and restore
  environmental quality.
• Protect the biodiversity of the region and serve
  as a living library and habitat for local
  species.
• Consider the social and economic impacts of
  Emorys environmental policies and foster a
  participatory process in developing these
  policies.
• Maintain Forest natural environment and
  encourages community interaction

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Environmental Groups on Campus Good Neighbor
Policy

• Volunteer Emory (one quarter of students)
• Friends of Emory Forest
• Emory Garden Club
• Emorys Chapter of the Student Environmental
  Action Coalition
• As Hoc Committee on Environmental Stewardship
• Environmental Field Study Program

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Nationally Recognized Recycling Program

• Launched in the year 1990
• guidelines on their recycling website that
  include instructions for materials such as
  aluminum cans, corrugated cardboard, glass,
  newspaper, magazines, ink-jet cartridges, cell
  phones, pagers, plastics, tin cans, paper, and
  the list goes on!
• Opened its own recycling center in 1998 as a
  service to the community

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Environmental Faculty and Staff

• COE (Committee on the Environment) includes 16
  members involved in campus planning
• Included sustainable officer John Wegner
  appointed in 2001.
• The COE is responsible for
• research opportunities and
• received recognition as a Platinum
• Partner of the Clean Air Campaign
• Monitor ozone/smog levels

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Alternative Transportation Program

• Created in 1999 Objective is to create a
  pedestrian walking campus and values green space
• Takes further action to improve air quality and
  traffic congestion
• Uses electric and natural gas vehicles,
  vanpooling, and a program that allows employees
  to check out Ford Think electric cars
• Campus plan has parking on perimeter

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Green Practices

• Plans to maintain 385 of Emorys 703 acres of
  land as protected forests and green space
• Practice xeriscaping
• Compost excess foliage
• Promote green chemistry within laboratory
  buildings through safe fume hoods, lab counters
  without epoxy, and are cleaned of contaminants by
  using 100 one-pass air that uses outside air
  to flush the rooms

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LEED Buildings

• What the university is most known for
• Green Building Policy endorsed by the board of
  trustees in 2002 where LEED is the guiding
  principle
• Considers site and natural lighting
• Considers water efficiency- saves 2-4 million
  gallons of water per year
• Considers materials ex) low VOC recyclable
  materials
• Considers construction and recycles debris saving
  20 thousand dollars
• Considers energy efficiency HVAC 4 enthalpy
  wheels
• Show evidence that green buildings increase
  productivity
• Buildings will make up initial costs within
  merely a decade and therefore makes economical
  sense

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LEED Buildings

• Currently has 5 LEED certified buildings
• Goizueta Business School (Gold)
• Emorys Winship Cancer Center
• Mathematics and Science Center
• Chandler Library
• Whitehead Biomedical Research Building
• Emory has 3 other projects currently under LEED
  review and 4 others in designing process
  including a green dorm under the Energy Star
  Program

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Grade Received

• A!!!
• (Much Rice and other Universities can learn from)

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• Any Questions?