Published
June 4th, 2009
in
Uncategorized |
No Comments »
- Barbara reported on the green team captain’s meeting:
- the office of sustainability is taking requests for Green Team polo shirts. They’ll be $15. If you’re interested, please let Beth know.
- The One Less Car campaign will happen again this October. It will encourage all participants to recruit a friend to take part. If you recruit a friend, your team will gain extra points.
- PPD is visiting various buildings on campus to retro-commission air conditioners. The goal is to save energy
- Environmental Health and Safety is working on a task lighting project. The light clips on to your desk and it uses less energy than an LED light.
- Barbara was given 2 switch plate stickers to remind folks to turn off the lights when they leave a room. We would like to get more of these for common areas.
- Sustainability tip sheet.
- Please think of additional tips to include and try to keep it brief and specific to library employees and the things that they can do at work to use less energy, paper, etc.
- Eventually, we’ll put this on a Green Team folder that everyone in the library can access. We’re also thinking of including a separate document for sustainable tips to use at home.
- We also talked about making a quarterly or monthly (?) poster that would highlight a couple of sustainability tips that could be viewed by both library employees and patrons.
- Used supplies exchange:
- Laurie is working on making a shared folder (the same one mentioned above) that will hold the supplies exchange spreadsheet. Everyone will be able to access this in the libraries. The spreadsheet will include items that library departments/individuals have, but are not using.
- Biodegradable supplies for library events:
- Beth researched the best company to buy these supplies from. She looked at World Centric, Eco Products (both online), and went to Target and Publix to see what they have in stock and she called Indigo. The best “bang for the buck” is World Centric. Target and Publix carry one brand of plates, but they would cost around $100 for 500 and then we’d still have to buy cups and utensils. We can get 500 plates, cups, forks, knives, spoons, and napkins for approximately $200 from World Centric, which is the price that has been allocated for supplies by the Employee Recognition Committee. Beth emailed Ben Walker (chair of the ERC committee) a spreadsheet of World Centric prices and item numbers.
- Library West stairwells:
- Rob Roberts asked our Green Team to make a sign for the 2 east facing stairwells in Library West. They have noise detection lights and he wants us to come up with a sign that will warn people that the lights will come on when they enter the stairwell. There is some concern that individuals may get startled if they see a dark stairwell and that may cause them to use the elevator instead. Christine and Beth visited one of the stairwells and the lights came on right when we opened the door.
- Cycling for solar energy (http://www.thesolarcyclediaries.com):
- There are 3 individuals cycling around the world for solar energy awareness. Bonnie has emailed the media people that work with the cyclists to see if they can stop in Gainesville when they cycle through Dunnellon this January. We hope they can give a presentation to the UF Green Team network.