In our meeting today we discussed:
-the incandescent/CFL lightbulb exchange that the Office of Sustainability is coordinating. We sent out an announcement about it out to the watercooler list. Jack, Beth, and Bonnie will be contacts. We’ll collect incandescent bulbs or $1 bills until this Thursday, Dec. 4th and then Beth will let Jason Fults konw how many to reserve. We’ll pick up the CFLs on Tues., Dec. 9th sometime between 11am-2pm. Those that reserved the CFLs will pick them up from our offices on Wed., Dec. 10th.
-Green Team t-shirt: Alicia is going to look into some companies that can print organic cotton shirts.
-Take the stairs sign: Bonnie (I believe) came up with the clever phrase :Burn calories, save watts.” Alicia is going to get in touch with Barbara H. to have the sign changed.
-Saving energy: Laurie will inquire about making the computers more energy efficient. Robena will check on the status of having the monitors use sleep mode in the next branch meeting (? or some other meeting)
-Mr. Beale, the retired environmental engineer: Alicia will get in touch with him to see when he may be available to either come to one of our Green Team meetings or to present some ideas at a staff/town meeting
-Green Team captain meeting that was on Nov. 20:
- One Less Car update- will have the challenge every fall semester. The winning team will be a combination of the most active team and the number of participants. There will be an honorable mention for the team that saved the most CO2.
- Change the Margins campaign- The default margins in Word are 1.25″ on the left/right and 1″ on the top/bottom. If we change all sides to 0.75″ we will have 19% more typing space. If everyone did this on campus we could save 22 million sheets of paper, 72 acres of forest, $120,000/year. The Office of Sustainability is going to ask that the margins be changed in all computer labs.
- Sustainability Recognition Awards- 2 tracks: student track and faculty/staff track. Each track will have awards for water saving, energy/waste reduction, and a Bright Idea award. The Bright Idea award will recognize the best idea for advancing sustainability. The faculty/staff track will include an award for the most active Green Team. The awards will be presented on Earth Day (April 22, 2009) by Dr. Machen. Green Team volunteers are wanted to help design the rewards. If you want to help, please contact Jason Fults in the Office of Sustainability, jason@ufl.edu
Please comment if I left anything out.