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EMS | Policy (PDF,2 pp., 314.17 KB, about PDF) | SEAs | EMPs | Program Successes |
How to Reduce our Footprint and Support EMS
Ways We Are Reducing Our Foot Print:
Energy Use
- Re-Commissioning lab fume hoods and air handling units on the main campus
- Annual reduction of 120,000 CFM and 20% energy savings
- Re-Commissioning chilled water systems and air handling units at the Human Studies Building
- Re-Commissioning the air handling units at Reproductive Toxicology Facility
- Buying Green Power
- 100% of RTP electricity use is offset with renewable energy
- Stocking paper with 100% recycled content
- Major ORD effort underway to identify sources of Mercury and eliminate them
- Paying bus and van pool fares for employees
- Providing preferential parking for car pools
- Greening our motor pool
- Subsidize employees for bus and van pool fares
- Using the "Green" Blanket Purchase Agreement
You Can Help Reduce Our Foot Print by:
Energy Use
- Use fume hood "unoccupied mode" set backs
- Turn off task and conference room lights when they aren't in use
- Turn off computer and peripherals over night and during weekends
- Increase double sided printing/copying
- Use e-mail as much as possible for incidental posting
- Help identify substitute for products (e.g., detergents, bleaches, lab processes) that have even trace amounts of mercury
- Increase car and van pools
- Reduce unneeded travel
- Use the telephone more
- Use Flexiplace/compressed schedules
- Think product environmental "Life Cycle"
- Pick the "greenest" product
- Purchase duplex printers
- Purchase Energy Star compliant products
- Purchase recycled products
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