Improve waste reduction programs

• Save paper by thinking thru how we format and distribute documents
• Improve construction waste management
• Reduce/reuse food waste
  • Use food more efficiently in kitchen
  • Increase composting
  • Provide kitchen grease to biodiesel manufacturer
  • Improve portion control
  • Improve food bank use of preconsumer waste
• Consider reducing electronic waste by thinking thru the automatic replacement cycle on CPUs

Improve recycling programs

• Provide a higher level of recycling service
• Increase ratio of recycling receptacles to waste receptacles
• Expand the number of recyclable items on campus
• Improve “technology” recycling

Increase purchasing of products made in a sustainable way

• Reduced, returnable, or recyclable packaging
• Educating ourselves on how to select “green” products
• Coordinate with other college’s on green purchasing efforts

Determine best strategies for record keeping

• Paper vs. electronic media
• Educate ourselves on most sustainable record keeping practices

Educate staff, students, and the community on why sustainability is important

• Include sustainability as an in-service topic
• Make sustainability the theme for the “Reading Together” program
• Use survey

Improve storm water management

• Improve use of permeable surfaces (replace asphalt parking lots with permeable surfaces)
• Use green roofs to clean and filter storm water
• Harvest rainwater for irrigation and other possible uses
  • Toilets, boiler water
• Include storm water detention basins in building projects
• Divert any storm water that is currently routed to the sewage lagoons

Decrease our dependence on fossil fuels

• Use biodiesel in fleet vehicles
• Continue replacing motor pool vehicles with gas/electric hybrids
• Move towards the use of renewable power sources including solar and wind