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Georgia College Green Initiative: Making a Sustainable Impact

Join the GC Sustainability Council in their major campaign to make Georgia College the greenest campus in GA! The Green Initiative aims to integrate sustainability principles into all university activities and promote environmental responsibility. Explore tips for faculty to save energy, water, and paper, and teach sustainability to students. Critical areas of activity include building design, energy conservation, recycling, and more. Let's work together to recycle, reduce waste, and make a positive impact on our environment! Visit http://gcsu.edu/green for more information.

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Georgia College Green Initiative: Making a Sustainable Impact

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  1. Georgia College Green InitiativeA Major Campaign of the GC Sustainability CouncilTips for Faculty Georgia College is one of the Greenest campuses in Georgia for utility usage! Help make us the GREENEST!!

  2. Green Initiative Mission The Green Initiative is an effort to incorporate the principles of sustainability and environmental planning into the short-term and long-term activities of our university, and to share our knowledge with the surrounding community in an effort to make our world more ecologically responsible.

  3. Critical Areas of Activity • Building Design & Landscaping • Energy Conservation and Efficiency • Environmental Awareness & Education • Materials Management & Recycling • Transportation and Parking Options • Water Conservation & Wastewater Recovery

  4. You can … Save Paper! • Use electronic resources, such as web pages, myCATS, DegreeWorks, and GeorgiaVIEW for teaching and advising whenever possible. • Reflect when you print copies. Will a soft copy be sufficient? If you must print, double side your copies, use narrow margins, single space, smaller or Sprang Ecofont.

  5. You can … Save Energy! • Plug all electronics into a power strip; turn it off when not in use. Even standby mode wastes energy and money. • Turn out lights and projectors when you leave a room: the restroom, your office and the classroom. • Adjust your body temperature with your clothing choices instead of the thermostat.

  6. You can … Save Energy and Water! • Adjust thermostats appropriately - 70° in winter and 75° in summer. Report temperature problems to physical plant workorders@gcsu.edu, x4279. • Keep windows closed; avoid space heaters as they affect all rooms in your building zone. • Report running faucets and toilets to physical plant. workorders@gcsu.edu, x4279

  7. You can … Save, Save, Save!!! • Consider ride sharing/commuting – post at sale@list.gcsu.edu or Bobcat RideShare; check out the CarShare instead: • Hertz On Demand • Use a refillable/reusable water bottle and coffee cup. • Recycle metal cans (aluminum/tin/steel), plastics (#1 & #2), mixed paper, newspaper, paperboard and cardboard.

  8. You can … Teach Sustainability! • Incorporate sustainability into your course materials and lectures • Recommend courses to students/advisees • Relate our institution as a model of society; if we can teach sustainability here, students will take their knowledge, habits, and attitudes with them into the ‘real’ world

  9. Together, we can… • Recycle when possible, • Reduce our use of valuable resources, • Reuse things before we create waste, and • Make Georgia College the Greenest Campus in GA! http://gcsu.edu/green

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