Office for Sustainability November Newsletter - Case

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Energy Competition Wraps UpCongratulations to The Village & STJ!Unplugged party Friday Nov 18The Office for Sustainability, SSC and RHA hosted atwo week res hall energy reduction competition fromHalloween through November 14. Residence hallson Northside, Southside and The Village @ 115th(including the new Stephanie Tubbs Jones Hall)competed to reduce their energy consumption. TheVillage & STJ won and reduced their energy usage7% from baseline. Northside reduced consumption4% and Southside saw a 3.5% reduction.

An outdoor, unplugged party will be held for thewinning cluster this coming Friday, Nov. 18from 6:00 - 8:00 pm in the courtyard betweenHouse 2 & 3 at the Village to honor and celebrate

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The Office forSustainability is

dedicated to creating

sustainable change on

campus by reducing

greenhouse gas emissions,

improving energy

efficiency, promoting local

food, recycling, and

sustainable purchasing, as

well as advocating for

individual and institutional

behavior change.

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their winnings! The party will include a camp fire& cookout, complete with s’mores and hotdogs (andveggie dogs). Free, awesomely soft, CWRUUnplugged long-sleeved tees will be given out to thefirst 250 energy champions from the winning reshalls.

We encourage you to keep reducing your energyusage to practice for next time!

We Need Your Input - NewTransportation SurveyThe Office for Sustainability and UCI need yourinput! Please take a short survey on how staff andfaculty get to work and how students move aroundcampus and Cleveland. The survey will help bettermeasure our commuter carbon footprint and setgoals to reduce it.

Take the faculty/staff survey here, participants canenter to win the following (all surveys areanonymous!):

One of three $10 gift certificates to BlazingSaddle CycleOne of five single class passes to ClevelandYoga + reusable bag + water bottleOne of seven 5-day unlimited RTA passes foruse on RTA buses, trains and the HealthLinePLUS All faculty/staff survey participants canbring the survey confirmation page to BlazingSaddle Cycle to receive $25 off a bike tune-up

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Upcoming Events

Annual meeting of the DoanBrook WatershedPartnershipWednesday, November 166:30pm - 8:30pm

Cuyahoga River firediscussion at City ClubFriday, November 18Noon - 1:30pmThe City Club

Health Disparities Dinner:Lead PoisoningSaturday, November 196:00pmCWRU Thwing Ballroom

Green Bag Lunch: Greeningthe Holiday Season withUpcycled GiftsTuesday, November 29Noon - 2:00pm



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regularly priced at $65.

Take the student survey here, students can win:

Gift cards to Barnes & NobleSolar cell phone chargersKlean Kanteen water bottlesA long sleeve Patagonia fleece

Green Bag LunchesGreening the Holiday Season with UpcycledGifts with The Upcycle Parts ShopNov. 29 | Noon to 1:00pm Tink Senior Classroom |1:00pm to 2:00pm Tink Atrium Tables | RSVP here

Save the DateNatural Capital with The Nature ConservancyJan. 17| Noon to 1:00pm | Tink Senior Classroom

Climate Action Plan UpdateFeb. 15 | Noon to 1:00pm | Tink Senior Classroom

Rain Gardens & Rain BarrelsFeb. 22 | Noon to 1:00pm | Tink Senior Classroom

UHBikes 101Mar. 22 | Noon to 1:00pm | Tink Senior Classroom Note that our past Green Bag Lunch presentationscan be found on our website.

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CWRU FreeCycleFriday, December 2Noon - 5:00pmTink Senior Classroom

Retrofitting Suburbia for21st Century ChallengesFriday, December 95:30pmCleveland Museum ofNatural History

Of the MomentThe BBC shares some hopefor the future for ourwarming planet. Britain, theUnited States and many othercountries made pledges towork toward reducinggreenhouse gas emissionsduring the Paris ClimateAgreement. It is expected thatworld will continue with thesecommitments and the US willmaintain theirs even withoutstrong backing fromWashington DC in the nearfuture. The majority ofAmericans support the UShonoring its commitments.



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Student FreeCycle EventThe Office for Sustainability Student Ambassadorswill be hosting a FREEcycle event on December 2from noon - 5:00pm in the Tink Senior Classroom. Used clothes, books, home items, school supplies,and unopened nonperishable foods will be availableto "shoppers" at no cost! Items can be dropped off atthe event or during the preceding week in collectionboxes in area offices (Wade/Fribley) andresidence halls around campus. Donation and tradeare encouraged but are not required to participate. The collection of unwanted items is being donewith the assistance of the Residence Life Staff in thestyle of our Spring REScycle. All items that remainafter the event will be donated directly to the TheaBowman Center and other local charities.Photo credit: Lauren Jong

Health Disparities Dinner: Lead



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PoisoningAdvocates for Cleveland Health is hosting a dinnerevent this Saturday, November 19 at 6:00pm in theThwing Ballroom. It is a hackathon format toincrease awareness on campus and actionsurrounding lead paint poisoning in Cleveland. Thegoal of the event is to have every table worktogether as a team with the help of student andfaculty/staff facilitators to come up with an actionplan to solve the lead problem. Dr. Dorr DearbornPhD, MD, will be the keynote speaker of the night.The free event includes a three course dinnercatered by Mia Bella. RSVP online. Interact on theFacebook event page.

Sustainability Ambassadors HaveBeen Busy!Our student ambassadors have been busy workingon many sustainability initiatives this semesterincluding working on drafting a campus tree plan andTree Campus USA application, helping create andmarket above mentioned transportation survey,connecting all food related campus groups, runningthe res hall energy contest, organizing the upcomingfreeCycle event, investigating ways to improverecycling in greek housing, working on creating agreen building occupant guides and more. TheOffice for Sustainability is really grateful for theirwork!



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Microbead WeekMicrobeads are tiny pieces of scrubbing plasticfound in beauty products such as facial scrub andtoothpaste. The beads are so small that they do notget filtered out sewage systems. They wash up onshores and are eaten by fish and those who eatthem (read: people!). Pollution of any form easilybonds to plastics. DDT, an infamously stronginsecticide, although no longer allowed in manycountries still exists in our environment and hasbeen found “glommed” to microbeads inside thebodies of fish. Most fish cannot digest plastic –which looks a lot like food to them – and so theirbellies fill with pollutants while their internal organsabsorb the toxins.Join Professor Odenbrett's Restoring the GreatLakes: Opportunities and Challenges class fromMonday November 21 through WednesdayNovember 23 daily 10:00am - 2:00pm at the TinkAtrium Tables. The class along with SSC andSustainability Ambassadors will be giving awayeco-friendly exfoliates to those who turn in usedfacial scrub or toothpaste with microbeads (look forpolypropylene, polyethylene, or butylene glycol iningredient list). Collected products will be given to 5Gyres, a research group working against oceanplastic pollution. Learn more on the Facebook event.



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CWRU Listed in Princeton Review'sGuide to Green CollegesThe Princeton Review recently published their Guideto Green Colleges which included a total of 361schools. CWRU earned a score of 94 out of apossible 99. The company chose institutes of highereducation to be included on the list based on "GreenRating" score. Only schools with a score of 80 orhigher were included. Ratings were compiled usinginformation given directly from institutions onsustainability-related policies, practices, andprograms. The Office for Sustainability compiledCWRU's information.

Download the entire Guide to Green Colleges fromthe Review and find CWRU on page 53. Also checkout CWRU’s full school listing on the company'swebsite - sustainability information and green ratingscore are listed under “campus life.”

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