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GUIDE photo credit:& Dining Enterprises photo Residential If we are to leave our children a better world, we must take steps now to create a sustainable environment. So it is critical that we model sustainable citizenship on our own campus.

Persis Drell Provost,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Action Guide 2 Welcome to Stanford! I’ll be your guide. In Your Room 4 Follow me to learn how In the Laundry Room & Bathroom 6 to live Cardinal Green. Managing Your Waste 8 Where You Eat 10 On the Street 12 In the Classroom 14 In White Plaza 16 On Stanford’s Campus 18 Increase Your Stanford IQ 19 Sites to Visit 20 Stanford is incorporating sustainability practices into every aspect of campus life.

LETTER FROM SHIRLEY J. EVERETT AND FAHMIDA AHMED

Welcome to Stanford, where a sustainable campus reflects the university’s core values, values first articulated by Jane and more than a century ago. On behalf of Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) and the campus Office of Sustainability, we invite you to explore how to be Cardinal Green in your daily life as a Stanford student.

We firmly believe that sustainability means responsibly meeting the needs of today so as to not compromise the ability to meet the needs of . Stanford incorporates sustainability practices into every aspect of campus life. In addition to having dramatically reduced its , the campus is working toward becoming 80% carbon neutral by 2025 and achieving by 2030, “defined as 90% diversion from the landfill or higher.” As we continue to seek innovative and lasting solutions, we need you, the most important campus stakeholder, to be an active part of that journey.

This guide provides and simple tips for leading an eco-friendly on campus. Whether in your new room, at the dining hall, or out and around campus, there are multitudes of opportunities to take simple actions that can add up to a significant reduction in our collective footprint. Your choices and actions do matter. With your enthusiasm, support, and creativity, we look forward to progressing toward a shared vision — a truly sustainable Stanford University, your home for the next four momentous years.

Sustainably Yours,

Shirley J. Everett, Ed.D. Fahmida Ahmed Senior Associate Vice Provost Director

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1 3 ACTION GUIDE In Your Room Laundry & Bathroom Managing Your Waste Where You Eat

RR Manage your plug load RR Only wash full loads of RR Minimize your “stuff” on RR Vote with your fork! with efficient laundry to save time, campus. Choose seasonal, local, lights, smart power strips energy, and , organic, -free, and using shared printers and use only ¼ cup of RR Sort your waste for and unprocessed food and appliances instead of detergent. and composting. whenever possible. having your own. RR Wash your clothes in RR Share, donate, or sell RR Eat lower on the food RR Install “Big Fix” on your cold water instead of hot what you no longer need. chain...healthier for you computer. water. and the planet! RR When attending events on RR Use natural light during RR Air-dry or combine loads campus or getting food to RR Follow R&DE Stanford the day. in the dryer, and don’t go, try to bring your own Dining’s motto of “Love overdry. mug and utensils. Food, Hate Waste” by only RR Know how the heating taking what you’ll eat and system works in your RR Report leaks and composting the rest. room. maintenance problems. RR Grow your food in an RR Have sustainable parties. RR Use your own hand towel on-campus organic in the bathroom. or the RR Use your multi-recycler educational farm. in your room to sort your RR Take shorter waste before you get to and don’t let the sink run the waste enclosure. while you brush or shave.

CHALLENGE CHALLENGE CHALLENGE CHALLENGE Be plug load free by Time your showers to Try not having a trash For the academic year, not having a personal less than five minutes. (landfill) bin in your room. choose to eat no refrigerator, TV, space Set yourself up with a on Mondays. heater or other major recycling and composting appliance or electronics bin system that follows in your room. Stanford’s Zero Waste SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE Guidelines on page 8. 2 On the Street In the Classroom In White Plaza On Stanford’s Campus

RR Ride your bike or walk. RR Consider taking one RR Join the Campus RR Increase your Stanford of the many great Sustainability Community Campus Sustainability IQ: RR Take public transit, such sustainability related through the My Cardinal as buses or trains. courses on campus. Green portal. • Where does Stanford’s water come from? RR Share a ride when RR Check out the available RR Get real-world working traveling locally and academic majors on experience by interning • What is SESI? beyond. campus that emphasize with sustainability • What are two federally sustainability. professional staff on protected on R R Get a car or ride when campus. Stanford’s land? you need it through RR Take advantage of Stanford’s car share, Stanford’s passionate RR Get involved with a carpool and rent-a-car faculty by getting sustainability student programs. involved with meaningful group and become a research opportunities student leader. RR Be rewarded for a on campus. sustainable commute and for wearing a bike Follow me to learn how to live more sustainably, and earn helmet for every ride, rewards for completing these actions and others customized to even short trips. YOUR lifestyle through

Sign in now to begin at http://sustainable.stanford.edu/ my-cardinal-green

CHALLENGE CHALLENGE CHALLENGE CHALLENGE Don’t pay to bring your Take one of the many Get involved in one of Visit all of the own car to campus. introductory courses offered over 10 sustainability- sustainable sites You’ll find you won’t on sustainability and learn related student groups around the need it! how you can apply its on campus! Stanford campus principles to your academic on pages 20-21. major and lifestyle. LIVE CARDINAL GREEN LIVE CARDINAL

3 in your ROOM

Your home, whether a dorm room, apartment, or house, is the easiest place to begin making a positive impact. Make it convenient to lead a sustainable lifestyle by setting your room up for success.

CHALLENGE Be plug load free FACT: by not having a Stanford’s “Big Fix” is a software tool that personal refrigerator, manages the power usage of your computer. TV, space heater, Installing it on 24,000 campus computers SAV Es or other major will save an estimated $400,000 per year, as $400,000/year appliance or electronics in well as reduce campus carbon emissions by your room. 28,000 tons.

reduces Install “Big Fix” at 28,000 tons

SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE https://uit.stanford.edu/software/bigfix CARBON EMISSIONS

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Manage Your Plug Load. Sort your waste.

■■ At least 22% of campus electricity use is associated with things you ■■ Use the multi-recyclers in your plug in. Try to use items available in common areas, such as TVs, room to sort your landfill, fridges, and printers, before purchasing individual ones for your paper, and plastics, metals room. If after you arrive you find you need an appliance, consider and glass separately. renting one so that it can easily have a new life after you leave, or if you must buy, purchase one with an logo and share it with your roommates. ■■ Buy a smart power strip for the electronics you do plug in to manage them more efficiently. ■■ Use natural light during the day. If you find you need extra lighting in your room, make sure to use LED bulbs. They last 20 times longer and save 90% of the energy compared to incandescent. Know how the heating system works in your room.

■■ Heating and cooling account for more than half of the energy usage in the average U.S. home, so turn off your thermostat when you leave and consider turning it down when you’re there. If you are Did you know the typical having trouble controlling your heat, contact your Housing Building red plastic party cup is 450 Manager. not recyclable and takes YEARS TO ■■ Clothing is the easiest way to moderate your thermal comfort. Dress DECOMPOSE! appropriately for the season. ■■ If your room has a thermostat, set it to 68° during cold months. ■■ Close doors and windows when systems are running, regardless of whether you control them. If you are uncomfortable, report the need Have sustainable parties. for repairs instead of opening doors or windows, or purchasing a portable electric space heater. ■■ If you are serving snacks, try finger food to avoid the need for ■■ During winter months, open window coverings during the day, and plates. Minimize use of disposables with reusable, recyclable, or close them at night to absorb and retain the natural heat from the compostable serviceware, available for purchase in the Green Store. sun. On warmer days, keep them closed to keep your room cooler The typical red plastic party cup is not recyclable and takes 450 years during the day. to decompose! Make sure to have recycling, and landfill bins available for guests to use – and use good signage so they know TO LEARN MORE what goes in which bin. Learn more about green events on campus at Visit Stanford’s R&DE Student Housing Sustainable Living site

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5 in the LAUNDRY ROOM and BATHROOM

Less than 0.01% of the Earth’s water is available for human use. Changing just a few little things in your daily routine can make a big difference in how we use this invaluable during California’s drought.

CHALLENGE FACT: Time your The ENERGY STAR front-loading washers used throughout showers to less You can save up to than five minutes. R&DE Student Housing are among the most energy efficient machines available on the market, saving up to 2 GALLONS 50% or more on energy, water, and sewer costs. OF WATER WE REDUCE CHALLENGE YOUR with YOU TO EACH MINUTE TIME! you take off your shower! SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE

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laundry Bathroom

Only wash full loads of laundry to save time, If you see a leaky energy, and water, and use only ¼ cup of detergent. faucet, , shower, landscape sprinklers, or any ■■ Laundry habits have a huge potential for energy and water savings, appliance or fixture that especially considering the over 800 washers and dryers available isn’t functioning, let R&DE across R&DE Student Housing. Student Housing know ASAP ■■ Our High Efficiency (HE) front-loading washers only require ¼ cup of by filing a Fix-It request at HE detergents for a full load – if you use more, your clothing may not A small faucet drip fixit.stanford.edu come out as clean. can easily waste or by contacing your GALLONS Housing Front Desk. 20 of water a day.

Wash your clothes in cold water instead of Use your own hand towel in the bathroom. 90% hot water – it works just as well and will help of energy If all Americans used one less paper towel a day, over 570 pounds of your clothes last longer. ■■ used to wash paper would be spared over the course of the year. clothes goes into heating the water Take shorter showers and don’t let the sink run while you brush or shave.

■■ You can save up to two gallons of water with each minute you take Air-dry or combine loads in the dryer, and don’t overdry. off your shower. ■■ Turn off the water in the shower while shampooing or shaving. ■■ Running the dryer for an extra 15 minutes for a larger load still uses less energy and time than running a separate load. Make sure not to overdry clothing or air-dry clothes instead, to make them last longer TO LEARN MORE and save 100% of the energy. Visit Stanford’s R&DE Student Housing Sustainable Living Site

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7 managing your WASTE

Stanford makes it easy to recycle or donate everything that you no longer need. But the idea of zero waste starts with reducing your own .

CHALLENGE FACT: Try not having a trash In 2017, we Of the 37% of waste (landfill) bin in your recycled thrown in the trash, room. Set yourself 65% could have been up with a recycling 63% reused, recycled or and composting bin of our waste, system that follows composted. Be sure to put your stuff in Stanford’s Zero only sent Waste Guidelines the right bin! above. 37% 65% to the landfill. SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE

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Minimize your “stuff” on campus. Share, donate, or sell what you no longer need.

■■ Producing new products is energy, water, and resource intensive. ■■ Stanford students discard tons of valuable goods at the end of each When moving in each year on campus, think carefully about what academic year. Set aside your clothes, books, kitchen goods, and you need to bring. miscellaneous room items to be donated through the R&DE Student ■■ When you do buy something, buy items with minimal packaging, and Housing Give & Go program that provides collection barrels near packaging that is recyclable or compostable. Set yourself up with a every residence. Throughout the year you can also donate at the Palo reusable water bottle, coffee cup and utensils so that you don’t have Alto Goodwill store, and the Stanford Recycling Center. to use disposables on campus. ■■ Sell your unwanted items on SUpost.com, or Craigslist. ■■ Buy products with sustainable certifications and environmentally ■■ Small e-waste, such as printer cartridges or dead cell phones, can be friendly attributes, that are durable enough to have a second life after dropped off at most R&DE Student Housing front desks for recycling. the academic year, and that can be recycled after their useful life. Larger items, such as computers, TVs, and printers, can be brought to PSSI (Peninsula Sanitary) on campus at 339 Bonair for recycling. ■■ Over 2,000 students participated in R&DE Student Housing and Sustainable Stanford’s Give & Go campaign, which has diverted over 50 tons of clothes, Sort your waste for recycling and composting. books, appliances, bikes, and furniture from the landfill to those in need during June ■■ Check out the zero waste guidelines to see how to sort your plastics, move out for the last three years. metal, glass, paper and cardboard into the appropriate bins. lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/guides-labels-and-signage ■■ Stanford’s composting program accepts ALL food, including meat, dairy, and plant-based products, as well as soiled paper and plastics labeled “compostable.” Compost bins are located in all dining halls and nearly all waste corrals in R&DE Student Housing.

com•posting A process which turns organic waste back /’kämpōst/ into rich, biodiverse soil which is then reused for fertilizing and conditioning land.

TO LEARN MORE Visit Stanford’s Waste Reduction & Recycling Program

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9 where you EAT

Whether you are on a meal plan or cooking for yourself, being aware of the impact of your food choices is an important part of living more sustainably.

CHALLENGE FACTS: lbs For the academic 27,250 year, choose to 31% eat no meat on of food served of wild Alaskan salmon get purchased each Mondays. in R&DE comes from local, organic, year, direct from Taku River Reds, a small fair, humane, and family-owned business in Alaska. sustainable sources.

Apples are #1 on the Dirty Dozen list of produce 100% of Stanford Dining’s with the most pesticides, but apples are organic and pesticide-free SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE

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Vote with your fork! Choose seasonal, local, organic, Reduce your impact when visiting an R&DE Stanford and unprocessed food whenever possible. Hospitality & Auxiliaries restaurant or concession stand.

■■ If you are on a meal plan, choose the sustainable options in the ■■ R&DE Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries provides compostable and dining hall that R&DE Stanford Dining has committed to buying, reusable dishware in all its fast casual restaurants and concession such as wild Alaskan salmon, grass-fed beef, antibiotic-free chicken, stands. Please compost in the correct bins. You can help by placing cage-free eggs, organic local milk, organic apples, organic local salad compostable materials in the bins provided. For a list of restaurants: greens, and Fair Trade coffee. hospitality.stanford.edu ■■ If you are buying your own food, choose similar sustainable options. The Sunday farmers’ market on California Ave. (within biking Bring your own mug to distance from campus) is a great place to get fresh local fruit and a Stanford Hospitality veggies. restaurant on campus and get a discount! Eat lower on the food chain...healthier for you and the planet!

■■ Approximately 14% of our personal contribution to is attributed to food and beverage. Prioritizing your plate with Grow your food. delicious vegetarian and vegan Performance Dining options is the most effective way to lower the carbon footprint of your food choices. ■■ Learn to grow food from seed to plate in organic located at ■■ Love meat too much? Don’t worry, you can still have an impact. all major dining halls and several student residences. You can also Choose chicken over beef! The production of beef uses more than 13 grow produce on your own with a barrel or pot and access to sun, times as much energy and almost 30 times as much water than are water and soil. needed to generate an equivalent amount of chicken. ■■ Participate in R&DE Stanford Dining’s Farm to Fork Cooking Series at ■■ Follow R&DE Stanford Dining’s motto of “Love Food, Hate Waste” by The Teaching Kitchen @ Stanford. only taking what you’ll eat and composting the rest. ■■ Visit the Stanford Community Farm on the west side of campus ■■ Go trayless. Studies have found that trayless dining reduces food and consider reserving a plot to grow your own food at the BeWell waste and water use. Take only what you can eat; you can always Community Gardens: community-gardens.stanford.edu. come back for more. If you do take more than you can finish, put it in ■■ Volunteer to garden at any one of Stanford Dining Hall’s edible the compost bin. gardens or at many of the Row Houses, such as Columbae and Synergy.

TO LEARN MORE Visit Stanford’s R&DE Dining Sustainable Food Program

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11 on the STREET

The Stanford campus and the Bay Area are home to many sustainable transportation options, and our very own Parking & Transportation Services provides some amazing opportunities to get around while minimizing your costs and environmental footprint.

CHALLENGE Don’t pay to bring your own car to E FACT: L campus. You’ll find E Approximately 40% of Stanford’s 1,084 fleet vehicles C

you won’t need it! T are electric, and the number of hybrid vehicles

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I C is increasing each year. The fleet also includes one experimental solar vehicle. Stanford’s 78-bus Marguerite shuttle fleet includes 41 battery-electric buses and 5 diesel-electric hybrid buses. SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE

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Ride your bike or walk! Get a car or ride when you need it.

■■ Biking is the fastest and most common method of getting around ■■ Car share: Zipcar is a car sharing service with over 60 cars on campus. Zipcars campus. Since 96% of undergraduates live on campus, a trusty bike are available 24/7 and can be reserved online. Stanford faculty, staff, and might be all you need to own during your four years on the Farm. students (18 and older) receive discounted Zipcar membership rates, which Even 37% of students living off-campus commute by bike. include the cost of gas and insurance. transportation.stanford.edu/zipcar ■■ Look out for Stanford’s bike repair stands to keep your bike in ■■ Carpool: Share the ride with Stanford affiliates with Stanford’s free ride- optimum condition. Also, the Campus Bike Shop at Tresidder is a matching services. Register with Zimride zimride.stanford.edu for one-time full-service shop that sells , locks, accessories, discounted trips, such as the store, airport, or movies, or sign up with Scoop https:// bike helmets and tools, and offers tune-ups and rentals. transportation.stanford.edu/rideshare/find-a-rideshare/sign-ridematching- ■■ Bikes can be taken on regional buses, Caltrain, and almost all services/ridematching-scoop to share the ride on your commute to and from Marguerite shuttles. Stanford. ■■ Rent a car: The on-campus location of Enterprise Rent-A-Car offers discounted rates for Stanford affiliates and $10 weeknight rentals for residents (18 and Make use of public transportation. older) who register and reserve in advance.

■■ The Marguerite is FREE to everyone. It provides service to locations throughout campus and to off-campus destinations, such as Stanford Be rewarded. Shopping Center, San Antonio Shopping Center (Target, Safeway, Trader Joe’s, etc.), and the Caltrain station. ■■ If you live off campus and do not purchase a long-term Stanfordparking ■■ Caltrain is the most popular way for students to get to San Francisco. permit, you may be eligible to join the Stanford Commute Club and receive The Palo Alto Caltrain station is near the edge of campus off of Palm hundreds of dollars a year in Clean Air Cash! Drive. To learn more about Caltrain, BART, SamTrans, VTA, and other systems, visit transportation.stanford.edu/transit or just go to google. To see how much you could save on your commute com/transit to have your Bay Area trip easily planned for you! (financially and environmentally), check out P&TS’s Commute Cost & Carbon Emissions Calculator. transportation.stanford.edu/cost Travel home smarter and share the ride.

■■ As you make your way to and from campus and home on breaks, consider getting carbon offsets if you are flying. If you drive, share the ride and adopt fuel-efficient driving practices. TO LEARN MORE Visit Stanford’s Parking & Transportation Services

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13 in the CLASSROOM

As our generation makes the shift towards more

sustainable practices, awareness of the interaction

between our environment, health, , and the economy is becoming ‘‘ relevant in every career field. From large systems to daily behavior, and Stanford students should learn about the world around them and gain the from global to local issues, knowledge necessary today to help build tomorrow’s solutions for a healthier Stanford academics address planet and communities that thrive. sustainability on many scales through coursework ‘‘ and research. No matter Julie Kennedy what you are interested Advisor, Earth Systems Program CHALLENGE in, or what your academic Take one of the Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute many introductory major is, a little perspective courses offered on sustainability will be sure on sustainability FACT: to come in handy! and learn how Stanford has over 1000 courses addressing you can apply its principles to your some component of sustainability, which academic major is embedded across the curriculum from and lifestyle. medicine to mathematics, to engineering and law to life sciences. SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE

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Consider taking one of the many great sustainability Check out the available academic majors on campus and research related courses on campus. institutes that emphasize sustainability.

While there are many options, some recommended introductory Earth Systems courses for all majors include: earthsystems.stanford.edu

■■ EARTHSYS 10 Civil and Environmental Engineering Introduction to Earth Systems cee.stanford.edu

CEE 176A ■■ Energy Resources Engineering Energy Efficient Buildings pangea.stanford.edu/departments/ere ■■ EARTH SYSTEMS 131/EARTH 131 Pathways in Sustainability Careers Management Science and Engineering: Energy and Environment Track msande.stanford.edu ■■ ENGR 90 Environmental Science and Technology Anthropology: Evolution, and Environment stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/EEsites ■■ HUMBIO 166 Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Environmental, and Policy Context woods.stanford.edu

■■ BIO/EARTHSYS 105A/B Precourt Institute for Energy Ecology and Natural History of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve energy.stanford.edu ■■ EARTHSYS 180B Principles and Practices of Take advantage of Stanford’s passionate ■■ ENERGY 102 faculty by getting involved with meaningful Sources and Greener Energy Processes research opportunities on campus.

■■ GES 7A An Introduction to Wilderness Skills TO LEARN MORE ■■ THINK 40 Visit Stanford Woods Institute for the Meeting the Global Sustainability Challenge Environment and Earth Systems Program woods.stanford.edu/get-involved/students

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15 in WHITE PLAZA

Students, staff, and faculty at Stanford are passionate about sustainability. From active student groups to internships, there are countless opportunities to get involved and make real change on campus. Several departments offer training, campaigns, and incentives for students to get engaged.

CHALLENGE Get involved in one of over 10 FACT: sustainability- There are over 650 student organizations, over 10 related student groups on campus! of which are sustainability-related, here at Stanford. Every fall and spring, they gather in White Plaza for the Activities Fair to recruit new members. SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE

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Join the campus sustainability community. Get involved with one of the many student groups on campus and become a student leader. ■■ My Cardinal Green Collectively our individual behaviors make a big difference. Earn Some of these student groups include: incentives by participating in My Cardinal Green, offering small actions with a big impact to help you reduce your environmental footprint: Students for a Sustainable Stanford studentsforasustainablestanford.weebly.com sustainable.stanford.edu/my-cardinal-green. Seasonal conservation campaigns include: Stanford Energy Cub ■■ Winter Closure - Don’t forget to unplug your appliances, turn https://energyclub.stanford.edu off your lights and turn down your heater before you leave for winter break. These simple actions reduce your carbon footprint Stanford Student http://stanford.edu/group/ssecg/cgi-bin/drupal/ and contribute to an energy curtailment program that has saved Stanford over $4 million in energy costs since 2001. Stanford Solar Decathlon ■■ RecycleMania - Help Stanford beat more than 450 universities in solardecathlon.stanford.edu this national competition to reduce waste and increase recycling Stanford Food Project and composting on campus every February and March. https://stanfordfoodproject.wordpress.com/ ■■ Water Wise - Every Drop Counts! Support Stanford’s long-standing efforts by taking shorter showers and washing Stanford Engineers for a Sustainable World full loads of laundry. esw.stanford.edu

SPOON -The Stanford Project on Hunger Get real world working experience by interning with web.stanford.edu/group/spoon/about-overview.html professional sustainability staff on campus. Fossil Free Stanford www.fossilfreestanford.org ■■ Sustainable Stanford Internship Program This program provides a paid opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience implementing programs that influence on-campus sustainability. Internship projects range from zero waste and to sustainability and communication. sustainablestanford.stanford.edu/internships

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17 on STANFORD’S CAMPUS

Stanford University has a longstanding record of

incorporating sustainability into all levels of its

operations. Increase your Stanford sustainability IQ by reading up on these cool ‘‘ facts about campus.

Sustainability is a core value at Stanford, embedded into every aspect of campus life. With a commitment to lead by example, Stanford strives for innovating sustainability practices and technologies, providing the ultimate “living laboratory” for students to experience and learn from: our campus. Let’s continue being ‘‘ Photo credit: Doug Plummer one of the greenest Fahmida Ahmed schools in the nation! CHALLENGE Director Visit all of the Sustainability and SEM Business Services sustainable sites around the FACT: Stanford campus Stanford placed number five in Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools” on pages 20-21. sustainability ranking, out of more than 200 institutions evaluated in 2016. In 2013 through 2017, Stanford was named to the Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll,” achieving the highest score possible. Stanford regularly performs well in third-party rankings and evaluations, and has recently earned a Platinum designation by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainability Tracking, SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE SUSTAINABLE Assessment, and Rating System. 18 increase your STANFORD SUSTAINABILITY IQ

Campus Water Campus Land

■■ Stanford receives clean, Sierra Nevada Mountain sourced tap water. ■■ Stanford maintains policies designed to conserve undeveloped lands In recognition of the value of this precious resource, our water and natural resources; maintaining the campus’s character, heritage conservation, , and recycling program is one of the most and quality of life. About 60% (nearly 5000 acres) of Stanford’s land aggressive in the Bay Area. There is never a need to use bottled water remains undeveloped, despite campus growth. on campus with the high quality of our tap water. ■■ Stanford land provides to several federally-protected species, ■■ Campus efforts have reduced our domestic water use by 48% since including the red-legged frog, the steelhead trout, the California tiger the year 2000, through a transformation of the university’s energy salamander, and the San Francisco garter snake. system, water-efficient plumbing fixtures, weather-based ■■ The 1,200-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve provides fertile controllers and recycling water for non-potable use, despite adding ground for field studies by researchers from Stanford and other more than two million gross square feet to the building portfolio. universities. ■■ 75% of campus land is native or drought resistant plantings. Campus Energy Campus Buildings ■■ The Stanford Energy System (SESI) project, completed in 2015, represents a transformation of our university’s ■■ The university replaced the energy efficiency goal of 30% beyond from a 100 percent -based combined heat and power plant code with whole-building energy performance targets derived to grid-sourced electricity and a more efficient heat recovery system. specifically for each new building coming online. In this way, each This new system went online in April 2015 and, along with Stanford’s building is evaluated based on its own best possible performance. renewable energy portfolio of 65%, reduces campus emissions to ■■ Building retrofits have saved over $4 million a year in energy costs, 67,000 metric tons or approximately 68% below 2015 levels, and 9.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricy, and 5 million ton-hours of saves 18% of campus potable water. Learn more about SESI by chilled water. visiting sustainable.stanford.edu/sesi to access videos about the SESI project and innovations employed.

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