KSU SUSTAINABILITY 2015

1. KSU SUSTAINABILITY2015

2. From 2012 - 2015 Kennesaw State University has been among seven Georgia Colleges & Universities named in the “Green Colleges List” issued by the Princeton Review in partnership with the U. S. Green Building Council.

3. Facilities • Prillaman Hall received the Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification, at the Gold level, • KSU’s Social Sciences Building is Silver LEED certified; the Commons Dining Hall is Gold LEED certified. • The Science Laboratory Building is currently being reviewed for LEED certification as well.

4. Prillaman Hall

5. Science Lab Addition

6. Social Sciences & the “Spaceship Earth” Sculpture

7. The Commons Dining Hall

8. What is LEED? • LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a third party certification program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in 2000. • The nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. • LEED certification offers third party validation of a project’s green features and verifies that the building is operating exactly the way it was designed to.

9. LEED Certification • Building projects earn LEED certification and points for satisfying prerequisites within each of the LEED categories: • Sustainable Sites (SS), Water Efficiency (WE), Energy and Atmosphere (EA), Materials and Resources (MR) and Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) • The number of points the project earns determines the level of LEED Certification the project receives: • Certified: 40–49 points • Silver: 50–59 points • Gold: 60–79 points • Platinum: 80 points and above

10. The KSU Commons Dining Hall is a nationally acclaimed model of sustainability • It has energy and water-conserving features, all food wastes are composted, and oil waste is sold as a biodiesel source

11. KSU’s Farm-to-Campus(-to-Farm)Program

12. KSU’s Farm-to-Campus ProgramAcres of organic farmland

14. AWARDS

16. Hydroponics (inside the Commons as well)

17. Sheepdogs to discourage coyotes (& herd goats)

20. 1,000’s of truckloads of topsoil were needed

22. Farm-to-Campus Practices • Composting • Vermiculture/Vermicomposting • Rainwater reclamation • Recycling program for glass, plastic, cardboard, metal and aluminum cans, even used cooking oil for biodiesel conversion • Aerobic Digester (that reduced the annual costs of composting by $29,000 and created a nutrient-rich water effluent to support the campus farms) • Resulting in: Diversion of more than 43,800lbs of waste from landfill each month

23. KSU Farmers’ Market

24. KSU’s Farmers’ Market on the Campus Green

25. American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment KSU has carried out 4 greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories – for fiscal years 2008, 2010, 2012, & 2014: http://sustainability.kennesaw.edu The FY 2014 inventory included data from the Marietta campus.

26. Scope 1 = on-campus emissions (mainly natural gas) Scope 2 = electricity Scope 3 = travel & (mainly) commuting

27. Energy-Saving Measures • Combining Christmas & New Years campus shut-downs • Adding Energy-efficient LEED buildings • Setting thermostats @ 680 (winter) & 780 (summer) • Motion-detector light controls

28. Federal Stimulus funding awarded in 2010 have been used to increase energy efficiency in older buildings & to provide metering for most buildings.

29. “BOB” Shuttle Routes began in Spring, 2011 • routes to remote parking lots & campus buildings • routes connecting nearby apartments

30. Zimride carpool system • Select potential carpool participants using the social-network Zimride system: https://web.kennesaw.edu/auxiliaryservices/content/student-carpooling

31. Shuttles reduce traffic congestion & pollution caused by prolonged vehicle idling times • KSU instituted a “No Idle” Policy in 2010

32. The Kennesaw campus is rapidly losing its natural areas, including a small forest that houses pink ladyslippers, a rare native orchid. The Marietta Campus has natural areas that should be preserved.

33. Outdoor Gathering Places

34. Students have identified an area for creating a Bioswale to capture pollutants in campus storm water runoff

35. Recycling • KSU uses a “single source” (materials can be mixed) recycling system • KSU accepts paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, glass drink bottles, batteries, and plastics #s 1 - 7

36. Residence Halls • The newer buildings on the North side of campus have energy and water conserving features • Resident Assistants plan Sustainability Events (such as an “Earth Hour” celebration) on a regular basis

37. KSU’s Marietta Campus

38. Bicycle repair stations

39. Electric vehicle charging stations

40. Solar recharge station

41. Renewable energy

42. Green Engineering Research Solar Oven Green Roof Study