Green Teams Kick-off

1. Green Teams Kick-off December 3, 2008 Clark Center

2. Speakers • Julia Tussing • Managing Director for Finance and Administration, Dean’s Office, Stanford School of Medicine • Fahmida Ahmed • Manager of Sustainability Programs, Sustainability & Energy Management • Joyce Dickerson • Director, Sustainable IT, Sustainability & Energy Management • Frank Topper • Facilitator

3. Agenda What’s a Green Team?? Current Status of University Programs Green Teams Resources: How to get started Zero Waste: The Recycling Challenge Saving Energy in your Office with IT Equipment Success indicators and motivational ideas

4. What is a Green Team? A Green Team is a dedicated group of employees, regardless of discipline or organizational level, which facilitates the pragmatic implementation of sustainable operations principles in their local work area.

5. Why Green Teams? Green Teams are a call to action at a grass roots level Changing the culture can only be done at the individual level Individuals and small groups can have a huge cumulative impact on sustainability Stanford has goals for sustainability; silicon valley is very active; what are we going to do about it? Time to take personal responsibility!

6. Fahmida Ahmed • Manager of Sustainability Programs, Stanford University

7. Why Green Teams at SOM? Setting the standard for the University; creating a model “Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us!” (Jerry Garcia) Sheer volume—we are bigger than any other single unit in the University. What we do will have a great impact on Stanford Green teams are congruent with the mission of the SOM: Education, research, health!

8. Starting your own Green Team We have created resources to make it easy for you to start your own team. Website Sample email to generate interest in your unit Sample agenda for your first meeting Survey for your department to determine interest (in process) Ideas for where to start; simple actions that can have a big impact How-to documents Quarterly meetings of Green team leaders

9. Green Team Leader Job Description Be passionate Get others interested and involved Schedule regular meetings Prioritize and act on ideas Report back to “Green Team Central” (SSC) Celebrate your successes! Share best practices via the Sustainability website Meet quarterly with other Green Team Leaders

10. SOM Sustainability Website

11. Zero Waste Recycling Julie Muir, PSSI

12. The 5R’s of Resource Management • Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Rot (Compost) • Buy Recycled

13. Why Is It Important • Making new products is energy, water, and resource intensive and emits greenhouse gas emissions. • Upstream, 71 tons are generated for every ton buried in a municipal landfill, from mining, manufacturing and distribution • Recycling is not just about landfill diversion, it is about replacing virgin material production which will significantly reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

14. Reduce It costs to create waste and it costs to manage waste. If you don’t create waste, we don’t have to pay to manage it! • Learn more at our web site • http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/reduce.html

15. Reduce Tips • Reuse waste and change your daily habits to reduce waste. • Print double-sided whenever possible. • Dedicate one tray in your printer for reused paper. • Send/receive documents electronically instead of mailing or faxing them. • Reassess the need to print meeting agendas, regular reports, time sheets, and other documents. • Preview and reformat documents to use fewer pages; reduce margins. • Decline promotional materials from sales reps and ask about digital catalogues or website URLs instead. • Circulate or centrally store reports, memos, periodicals, and catalogs rather than making/receiving individual copies • Reuse envelopes for non-important mail. • Switch to reusable dishware and utensils – keep them in your desk • Avoid single portion packages like condiments packs

16. Reuse • Switch to reusable dishware and utensils – keep them in your desk • Bring a reusable mug and water bottle to work and take to meetings • Use a water filter in place of bottled water or a water cooler • Keep a set of reusable bags handy • Use a mesh filter instead of paper for coffee • Buy reusable office supplies instead of disposable ones. • Reuse packaging (e.g. bubble wrap, cardboard boxes, Styrofoam blocks) or find someone who can.

17. Reuse Be aware of and participate in Reuse Programs on Campus: • Property ReUse Website: https://orasecurestanford.stanford.edu/ora/pmo/reuse/default.asp or contact your Department Property Administrator. • Surplus Property Sales: http://ora.stanford.edu/ora/pmo/surplus_sales/ SPS Store Hours : Wednesday 8-11 am and 11:30- 3 pm. Subject to change. Open to the public. • EH&S's Surplus Chemical Program http://freechemicals.stanford.edu • Learn more at our web site: • http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/reuse.html • http://recycling.stanford.edu/recycling/caq_reuse.html

18. Recycling - 30 Years at Stanford! Recycling saves energy, reduces pollution, helps prevent global warming, creates jobs, spurs investment from the private sector, promotes economic growth, and supports innovation. What’s Recyclable? Bottles and Cans Mixed Paper & Plastic Bags Corrugated Cardboard E- Waste, Batteries…

19. http://recycling.stanford.edu/recycling/acceptable.html

20. Recycling There are 4000 recycling bins on campus. Each of them are emptied once a week. Recycle batteries in the battery bin. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/enviro/battery_recycling.html Recycle printer cartridges, toners, cell phones, CDs, and Consumer Electronic Devices in electronic waste bin. Recycle large electronic items with Environmental Health and Safety. Don’t forget that fluorescent bulbs, batteries, toner, computers, televisions, and cell phones are all considered Universal Waste in California and must be recycled through EH&S.) http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/enviro/Electronic_Waste.html Recycle and Compost at Special Events http://recycling.stanford.edu/specialevent/specialevents.html Other items recycled on campus: construction/demolition debris, pallets and scrap wood, and scrap metal. For more information: http://recycling.stanford.edu

21. Rot - Composting Organics are one of the biggest components of the waste stream, and keeping them out of the landfill reduces methane emissions that have 23 times the global warming potential of CO2. • Compost yard waste from the Grounds Department and Faculty Staff Housing • Collect food and compostable material from dining halls, row houses, 8 cafes and special events. • Next up: all cafes and office composting Learn more at the web site: • http://recycling.stanford.edu/food/foodindex.html • http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/rot_stanford.html • http://recycling.stanford.edu/food/FW%20Yes%20and%20No.pdf

22. Buy Recycled Environmentally Preferable Purchasing - Purchase sustainable goods that can either be taken back by the company or fit into one of our recycling or composting programs once it has served it’s purpose. • Buy minimum 30% post-consumer content paper • Buy recycled content products including promotional items that are made out of Recycled material. Give away items that are useful. • Price and quality is comparable and even better than virgin paper and products. Learn more at our web site • http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/recycledpaper.html • http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/recycledproducts.html

23. Summary – 60% Diversion!

24. Top Ten Reasons To Recycle Good For Our Economy Creates Jobs Reduces Waste Good For The Environment Saves Energy Preserves Landfill Space Prevents Global Warming Reduces Water Pollution Protects Wildlife Creates New Demand

25. Julie MuirPeninsula Sanitary ServiceStanford Recycling Center339 Bonair SidingStanford, CA 94305(650) 321-4236juliem@pssi.stanford.eduhttp://recycling.stanford.eduIf it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold or recycled then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

26. Holidays are coming! We generate an extra million tons of trash each week from Thanksgiving to New Year's Lots of products are made with Recycled Materials: http://greengiftguide.com/ Buy and use recycled/recyclable wrapping paper (LOTS of websites for this!) Send an electronic greeting card, or cards or postcards made from recycled paper. Creative wrapping paper substitutes include scarves, tins, baskets, and old maps or used blueprint paper, the Sunday comics, or even the sports section If you want a tree, consider a live or reusable tree.

27. Office Equipment Tips Joyce Dickerson

28. What does a sustainable future look like? (Brainstorming) What does success look like in 20 years? What will people be doing and saying? What do you want to be able to say? For the School? For my department? For me personally or professionally? Complete the sentence: I wish we could.....

29. How to get people motivated? (brainstorming) What makes people care? Small budget or resources available Competitions with other green teams Food What would be fun? What would offer a sense of belonging or community? What would make people feel that they had influence and could make a difference? What would make people feel like they had freedom to choose, recommend and implement ideas?

30. Wrap Up Please consider starting a Green Team in your area! Contact me to let us know what you are doing, and if you need any help Review the website and use the resources there to get started