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A Strategic Community Based Approach to Implementing Campus Sustainability

A Strategic Community Based Approach to Implementing Campus Sustainability. www.sustainable.uOttawa.ca. University of Ottawa. north america’s largest bilingual institution. CAMPUS GROWTH. in 1974 there were 17,244 students on campus in 1974 the campus was 210,000 m 2.

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A Strategic Community Based Approach to Implementing Campus Sustainability

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  1. A Strategic Community Based Approach to Implementing Campus Sustainability www.sustainable.uOttawa.ca

  2. University of Ottawa north america’s largest bilingual institution

  3. CAMPUS GROWTH in 1974 there were 17,244 students on campus in 1974 the campus was 210,000 m2 in 2010 there are almost 40,000students on campus in 2010 the campus has grown to 550,000 m2 in 1993 there were 25,106 students on campus • in 1993 the campus was 360,000 m2

  4. SPEAKING A COMMON LANGUAGE CAMPUS CULTURE COMMUNITY CURRICULUM & RESEARCH

  5. LEVERAGING SUCCESS the office aggregated all the like minded actors and units on campus the operations staff on campus have always been very progressive drawing on their credibility the office was able to broaden its scope

  6. ENERGY despite a tripling in the floor space and population of the campus, we only use 5% more energy this news was exciting enough to rally more support on other fronts

  7. CULTURE the Sustainable Development Committee was created in 2007 the SUDCOM reports directly to the President and all the VPs it is composed of faculty, staff, student, and external representatives

  8. REACHING OUT TO STUDENTS recognizing the impact the SUDCOM was having the students hired a sustainability coordinator they have since gone on to open a sustainability and hire two more coordinators students voted on the creation of a green fund

  9. CREATIVE FINANCING various forms of free financing were exploited partnerships were established to co-finance new positions through operational savings outreach opportunities were merged with one-time capital costs

  10. MORE SUCCESSES aggressive emissions goals were met waste diversion numbers began to climb sustainable transportation proliferated on campus

  11. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT during Earth Hour the university reduced its energy consumption by 12% uOttawa took top spot for 2 years running as the Canadian RecycleMania champions the campus “Car Free Day” grew to be the largest CFD celebration in the city

  12. COMMUNITY INFILTRATION physical resources service has a representative designated for every building on campus a Green Reps program was created in residences to solicit community buy-in an Eco-Champions program was launched to create further employee partnerships

  13. FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES developed connections with keystone individuals worked on the “pet projects” of individuals with influence created high profile opportunities for media coverage

  14. VISIONING PROCESS sustainability was officially adopted as one of the strategic paths for the university the Vision 2020 process now includes an environmental sustainability component new audacious goals were suggested to inspire the community

  15. VISION 2020 GOALS to become a carbon neutral campus and reduce emissions by 34% of 2005 levels to effectively eliminate cars from the University of Ottawa campus to become a zero waste campus

  16. BREAK DOWN THE SILOS moving to create partnerships with the faculties on curriculum and research by implementing a living laboratory on campus we are bridging operations and academics

  17. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EVS 3101 students are studying the effects of plants on indoor air quality ENV 3301 students created sustainability plans for the campus • ENV 1101 • students helped redesign the campus recycling system

  18. sustainaibilitree.blogspot.com sustainaibilitre sustainable campus uOttawa university of ottawa campus green map sustainableuottawa jrausseo@uottawa.ca www.sustainable.uottawa.ca

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