Denison University Campus Sustainability Newsletter THE GREENSHEET

Volume 2, Issue 9 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator Summer, 2011 Important Dates Operation Move-Out A Success Once Again

SUMMER 2011 Earlier this summer, while most students were either packing or graduating, a small group of students that took part in Operation Granville Farmers July Move-Out were hard at work. This program, a facet of Center for Markets & Service Learning takes place starting at finals week and running Tuesdays @ 3:30pm Aug through graduation, collects gently used items that students no Saturdays @ 8:30am longer need, or do not have room for on the trip home. Items include Campus Garden everything from clothes, school supplies, and unopened food, to Potluck & Discussion decorations and large furniture. Once students leave, these items are July 6 GardenȄ 5:30pm collected from designated tables set up in each residence hall and Guest: Dr. Tom Evans sorted to eventually be given to local service groups and families in A mountain of items collected during need. If you would like to get involved with operation move-out Operation Move - Out. Arts and Crafts at the July next year, contact Barb Burgess in Facilities Services. Campus Common 6 8:00pm Even though it is not the end of the academic year, gently used items are appreciated at the following agencies: Campus Garden Licking County United Way: http://www.lcuw.net/LiveUnited/home/ Potluck & Discussion July GardenȄ5:30pm Goodwill- Newark: http://www.goodwillnewark.com/ 20 —‡•–ǣ‹”†ǯ• ƒ˜‡ Farm These Stairs Were Made For Walking End of Summer BBQ July for studentsȄLamson When walking through campus buildings, you may have noticed a small sign 27 LodgeȄTime TBD located just outside and/or inside some of the elevators. These signs are the start of a mini-campaign to encourage students, faculty, and staff to take the stairs. August Orientations Aug Š‡•‹‰••ƒ›–Š‹‰•Ž‹‡Dz—” ƒŽ‘”‹‡•ǡƒ‡–Š‡–ƒ‹”•ǡdzƒ†DzƒŽ‹‰—’•–ƒ‹”• BeginȄVarious 20 „—”•ƒŽ‘•–ˆ‹˜‡–‹‡•‘”‡ ƒŽ‘”‹‡•–Šƒ”‹†‹‰ƒ‡Ž‡˜ƒ–‘”ǤdzŠ‡›ƒ”‡ƒ‡ˆˆ‘”– Locations to reduce the amount of times people take the elevators. Taking the elevator First Year Students Aug uses energy (albeit, not a lot) so there is a green aspect to this, however, the real Move-In 25 „‡‡ˆ‹–‘ˆ™ƒŽ‹‰—’ƒˆŽ‹‰Š–‘”–™‘‘ˆ•–ƒ‹”•‹•‡š‡” ‹•‡ƒ†„‡––‡”Š‡ƒŽ–ŠǤŠ‡”‡ǯ• also the issue of timeȄtaking the stairs usually is a faster process than taking the First Day of ClassesȄ Aug elevator, especially when you have to wait for the elevator to come to you. Fall Semester 2011 29

They Said it First... Office Supply Exchange a Hit

In May, Denison faculty and staff came to see what freebies "It's a job that's never started were available at the Office Supply Exchange. Located in that takes the longest to finish." Higley Auditorium, the exchange was a chance for faculty

and staff to swap unused and gently-used office supplies. -J.R.R. Tolkien Items donated included folders, binders, organizers, ink

and toner cartridges, bulletin boards, and even a few ̺  ƒǯ–—†‡”•–ƒ†™Š›’‡‘’Ž‡ coffeemakers. The swap allowed for departments to save a ƒ”‡ˆ”‹‰Š–‡‡†‘ˆ‡™‹†‡ƒ•Ǥ ǯ little coin by taking unused items instead of buying new. It frightened of the old ones". also came, strategically of course, at a time when many departments were trying to clean out unwanted clutter ȄJohn Cage from the past few semesters. At the end of the swap, remaining items were donated to local charities. Next year This edition of the GreenSheet is we hope to double the size and offerings. co-ƒ—–Š‘”‡†„››‹ŽŽ‹ƒ•‘Ǯ͙͛ A few of the offerings at the Office Supply Exchange PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 9 10 Ways to be GREEN & Save GREEN at the Office As summer is coming into full swing and the utility of that paper before it is recycled. summer, there is an office supply exchange. most students are off campus either at home ‘”™‘”‹‰–Š”‘—‰Š‹–‡”•Š‹’•ǡ‡‹•‘ǯ• 7. Turn your computer off when it is not being 3. Recycle. If it cannot be reused, administration and staff are still working used. Computers that are sitting in stand-by it may be possible to recycle it. hard through the summer. With all the time mode still use a lot of energy, especially if Almost all paper that is used in an spent in the office, there are a few easy they use a screen saver. While it may have office can be recycled: memos, things that you can do to reduce your energy been harmful to cycle old computers on and envelopes, junk mail, etc. In consumption and be more eco-friendly: off, that is not the case anymore. Now it addition, there are several boxes around makes more sense to simply turn unused campus that take items like rechargeable 10. Set the thermostat a few degrees higher computers off. batteries and old cell phones. In the library during the summer, and if it is pleasant out, you can even recycle cds and dvds. If your open the windows. 6. Turn off lights when daylight will suffice office has an item they are not sure can be and when the office is unoccupied. This recycled on campus contact the Sustainability 9. Scan documents to PDF includes conference and break rooms. It is Office or reference the campus recycling instead of printing. always better to take advantage of natural guide found here: Creating e-documents can light over light bulbs. http://www.denison.edu/about/campus% be more helpful than paper, because 20recycling%20guide%20final%20(2).pdf departments can create a document archive 5. Use smart power strips. Even when your on computers accessible to staff, instead of computer, printer, or other electronics and 2. Use reusable coffee mugs and water trying to keep track of numerous hard copies appliances are off, they can still use small bottles- this cuts back on plastic bottles and that can easily get lost. E-documents are also amounts of electricity. Styrofoam cups ending up in the trash. easier to update without wasting a lot of Smart power strips work to paper through reprinting. stop all electricity from 1. Use alternate means of going to turned off transportation to get to 8.When you do have to print, try printing on electronics, saving energy. work, such as walking, both sides. Be sure to reuse the backside of biking, or carpooling. If old paper as scrap for notes or in the place 4. Reuse. A lot of office supplies can be reused you live in the Granville area, it only takes a of post-its. This not only saves having to buy or recycled. In the basement of Doane, there few minutes walking or biking to get to notepads or sticky notes, but it also extends is an ongoing freecycle station and every campus, and it is good exercise.

Q & A: Purchasing Cards Šƒ–ǯ•‡™ƒ––Š‡ ƒ”†‡ǫ

The big unseen benefit is the reduction in The Campus Community Garden is thriving in paperwork and processing that occurs in the its second season of growing. Over 100 DU accounting office when you as the employee community members are participating this use a P-Card. year. The addition of a new fence has

certainly encouraged the plants to grow Some complain that the reconciliation without fear of attack from rabbits, process at the end of each month is groundhogs and deer.

cumbersome. Yes, you do need to make sure Question: that you can account for your purchases, but Also new this year are some community- Ž‡–ǯ•„‡Š‘‡•–Ȅyou have to do that anyway if building events related to the garden. Every Why should I bother to get a Denison you purchase items with your own funds and other Wednesday the garden plays host a Purchasing Card (P-Card)? seek reimbursement. In fact, you probably potluck and discussion. These events start at 5:30pm and are open to anyone. Just Response: spend more time and process much more paper submitting reimbursement forms that remember to bring something to share and A better question to ask is why not get a you would tidying up your P-Card account your own table settings. purchasing card? A P-Card gives you an each month. July 6ȄDr. Tom Evans will be the guest and incredible amount of flexibility when will talk about local food initiatives in Licking making purchases for things related to your To learn more about getting and using a County. work at Denison. You have the tax ID P-Card you can visit the Accounting website: —„‡”‘–Š‡ ƒ”†ƒ†•‹ ‡‹–ǯ•ƒ July 20Ȅ‹”†ǯ• ƒ˜‡ ƒ”•™‹ŽŽ ‘‡–‘–ƒŽ Mastercard, its accepted nearly anywhere. http://www.denison.edu/offices/controller/ about their pick-your-own farm and a CSA accounting/purchasing_card_home.html option for Denison. Šƒ–‘”‡ǫ‘—†‘ǯ–Šƒ˜‡–‘ˆ‹ŽŽ‘—– reimbursement forms and wait days for ˆ›‘—Šƒ˜‡ǯ–•‡‡–Š‡‰ƒ”†‡›‡–Ȅshame on approval and payment. you! Come join us for conversation and food.

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 9 Sustainability Star Profile: Dr. Warren HaukȄBiology I was amazed at the enthusiasm the alumni this campus distinctive and compelling. Our had for our campus trees. Through the help campus has so much potential that it would be of Heather Lyle in the Archives, I was able to a shame not to develop it fully. Second, I would locate individual trees in aerial photos of like to increase the diversity of native tree campus dating back into the 1950s, and the species on campus. In an age of climate alumni were particularly interested in which change, invasive species, and exotic pests, trees had been part of the campus landscape increasing the diversity of native species on when they were students here. In some cases campus will provide a buffer against I think the alumni were more impressed by unanticipated blights on our campus trees. the old trees than the new buildings! And finally, I would like our treescape to be a Who knew Denison had such a budding tree source of campus pride, a tool for learning, and expert on campus? Dr. Warren Hauk, Denison is planning to develop an a public sign of our commitment to Professor of Biology, has developed a new arboretum using existing trees - what value sustainability. passion for trees. Some of you may have will this serve to the campus community? Anything else you might want to add? seen him on the A-Quad scoping out some of An arboretum is a living archive of our our gentle giants. campus tree history. Obviously it would have If it has been a while since you have really What got you interested in our campus great appeal for our alumni, but importantly looked at a tree, stop for minute. Look up. And trees and trees in general? an arboretum would showcase our campus marvel at the giants that surround us! trees and provide an opportunity to teach our As a child my father taught me how to students and community about the native recognize common trees. I remember him species that shaped the history of Ohio. teaching me about the two enormous ginkgo Learning about our native trees will enable trees that grew in front of our city library and people to connect in tangible ways to the about the hickory and oak trees in our yard incredible diversity of nature that surrounds and neighborhood. Because I went to college us. Certainly an arboretum would be an in Texas and grad school in Kansas, prairie incredible teaching tool for the Biology plants were the center of my collegiate Department, but I can envision other education. I had always intended to learn departments like Studio Art or History or more about the rich diversity of trees in Anthropology using the arboretum in Ohio, so last summer I took a field workshop creative ways in their teaching. in tree identification at the Appalachian Forest School in southern Ohio. It was a What is your vision for Denison's terrific experience and helped expand greatly treescape? my knowledge of Ohio's native trees. First, I would like to restore Denison's You recently led a group of alumni on a treescape to reflect how it was 30 years, 50 campus tree tour - how was this received by years, or even longer ago. Buildings are an alumni? essential part of a campus, but trees can provide a framework of beauty that makes

Š‡ ”ƒ˜‹ŽŽ‡ ƒ”‡”ǯ•ƒ”‡– ‹–•‹–•–”‹†‡ Have you taken the time to explore Fresh brewed coffee from the local coffee- ”ƒ˜‹ŽŽ‡ǯ• ƒ”‡”ǯ•ƒ”‡–ǫ ˆ›‘—Šƒ˜‡ǯ–ǡ house is available, musicians entertain, and you are missing out on a wonderful food and folks greet one another with "see you at the ‘—‹–›‡š’‡”‹‡ ‡Ǥ˜‡‹ˆ›‘—†‘ǯ– market!" live near Granville, you can still stop by the Tuesday market on your way home from Location work. SaturdayȄ N. Main Street & Broadway Our market has been called "the best in TuesdayȄ484 S. Main St. Central Ohio" by vendors and shoppers alike. It is full of beautiful flowering plants and cut When flowers, locally grown vegetables and fruit, One of the many vendors at the Saturday Market. and organic produce, meats and cheeses. Saturdays, May 21 to Oct. 22; 8:30 to noon. There are delicious cottage industry foods Tuesdays, June 14 to Sept. 27; 4 to 7pm. Information for this article is taken from: such as home-baked breads, assorted baked www.localharvest.org goods, candies, salsa, mustards, and more!

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Volume 2, Issue 8 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator April, 2011 Important Dates Denison finishes 28th in the Nation

MAYȄJUNE By Ginny Sharkey Bottle and can recycling: reduce our overall consumption Denison finished 12th out of ˆ‘”‡š–›‡ƒ”̹• ‘’‡–‹–‹‘Ǥdz End of Classes for Denison recently completed its May 219 with 6.23 pounds per Spring Semester participation in RecycleMania, a Over the course of the 2 person. 9:00pm friendly competition between competition Denison collected a college campuses across the total of 81,328 pounds of Campus Forum on Paper recycling: Denison nation to encourage recycling th recyclables on campus. Sustainability finished 49 out of 226 with May 4 among students, faculty and 6.70 pounds per person. Burton Morgan Lecture staff. The overall results place HallȄ12:00pm th Denison 28 among 363 Food waste recycling: nd Operation Move-Out participating institutions. This Denison finished 92 out of All Residence Halls year Denison competed in 131 with 1.20 pounds per May during the month of multiple contests with the person. May following results: Sustainability coordinator Jeremy Residence Halls Close Recycled material per ‹‰ ‘‡–‡†‘‡‹•‘ǯ• May th for all Undergraduates capita: Denison placed 28 ’ƒ”–‹ ‹’ƒ–‹‘ǤDzŠ‹•›‡ƒ”ǡ™‡ 11 5:00pm out of 363 with a rate of improved our recycling rate, 28.25 pounds per person. recycling nearly five pounds more Even though RecycleMania Commencement May per person than last year. This is ‹•‘˜‡”ǡ‹–†‘‡•ǯ–‡ƒ™‡ Green Graduation 15 Waste Minimization largely attributed to the great should stop recycling. Pledge (competition to produce the work that Scott Barrett, our trash Everyone on our campus least amount of municipal Reunion Weekend June and recycling operator, has done has a responsibility to solid waste including both Events Across Campus 2-5 over the course of the year. Scott recyclables and trash per reduce, reuse, and recycle. has worked hard to improve the Our next opportunity to person): Denison finished collection and processing of They Said it First... have a big impact is 161 out of 181 with 81.91 ”‡ › Žƒ„Ž‡•‘ ƒ’—•Ǥdz‹‰ Dz˜‹”‘‡–ƒŽ†‡‰”ƒ†ƒ–‹‘ǡ pounds per person. ‘–‹—‡†ǡDzŠ‹•™ƒ•‡‹•‘̹• Operation Move-Out. As overpopulation, refugees, second year in the competition students prepare to leave narcotics, terrorism, world crime Cardboard recycling: and first year competing in the for the summer they can movements, and organized th Denison finished 9 out of waste minimization category. donate all of their crime are worldwide problems 231 with 15.32 pounds per Now that we have our feet wet, unwanted items. that don't stop at a nation's person. we can begin to work on ways to „‘”†‡”•Ǥdz

- Warren Christopher Bike Share Program a Hit and a Wreck Dz‡‡’ Ž‘•‡–‘ƒ–—”‡̹•Š‡ƒ”–ǤǤǤ Many of you have taken advantage of the new Bike Share and break clear away, once in program at Denison. In fact, few days go by when the bikes are awhile, and climb a mountain or not checked outȄƒƒœ‹‰ ‘•‹†‡”‹‰–Š‡Ž‘—•›™‡ƒ–Š‡”™‡ǯ˜‡ spend a week in the woods. had this April. The response has been overwhelmingly positive ƒ•Š›‘—”•’‹”‹– Ž‡ƒǤdz from Denison students, however, the program is not without its -John Muir problems. Some students have had trouble adjusting to the single-speed bikes and the pedal breaks. This has resulted in a few wipeouts on campus. The bikes also need regular adjusting –‘‡‡’–Š‡™‘”‹‰’”‘’‡”Ž›ǤŠ‡Š‘’‡‹•–Šƒ–‡š–›‡ƒ”™‡ǯŽŽ be able to grow the fleet of bikes to include a wider selection so that every student can find a bike that meets his or her abilities Denison students enjoying a ride on the TJ and comfort level. Evans Bike Path. PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 8 Letter to Class of 2011: Take the Graduation Pledge Video Contest

Dear Class of 2011: While we hope that everyone signs the The results are in for the First Annual pledge, we encourage only those who are Sustainability Video Contest. As commencement truly committed to do so. Pledge signatories approaches, each of us is trying will have the opportunity to display their 1st Place: A Sustainable Relationship to determine our future paths commitment by wearing a green ribbon to Dan Crawford and Lauren Sabo and the kind of lives that we want to lead. graduation. 2nd Place: —†”‘’‡‹•‘‘‡ǯ• We have lived together for the past four Basketball Recycling Video years in a community that has emphasized You are encouraged to invite faculty and Paige Robnett the social and environmental implications of staff to sign the pledge as well committing our actions. Though we will no longer live them to help make Denison a more 3rd Place: Wheels in Motion together, we will always be part of the socially-responsible and environmentally Ori Segev Denison community. As Fellows of the aware campus. Environmental Studies Program, we 4th Place: ENVS Rap encourage you to extend these There will be several opportunities between Steve Cabral environmental and social values that you now and graduation for you to sign. You can have learned at Denison into your contact Jeremy King in the Office of A big thanks to those who submitted videos post-Denison lives. Sustainability should you have any questions and to the nearly 300 people that voted. You or concerns regarding the Pledge. can still see the videos on YouTube. Graduating seniors will have the opportunity to take a pledge demonstrating our We look forward to you joining us in this continued commitment to living commitment. environmentally and socially responsible lives. The pledge is as follows: Sincerely,

I pledge to explore and take into account the The Environmental Studies Fellows social and environmental consequences of any job that I consider and will try to improve these Ellen Fugate, Lauren Weidner, Rachel aspects of any organization for which I work. Mattingly, Luis Lv

Q & A: Operation Move-Out Šƒ–ǯ•‡™ƒ––Š‡ ƒ”†‡ǫ

Question: Student help is needed during finals and The Denison Campus Community Garden is senior week. If you would like to volunteer to set to start its second growing season. A What is Operation Move-Out and how do I help collect materials during this time contact couple of weeks ago Dr. Erin Henshaw and participate? Nicki Jimenez PEAS, a Denison student group focused on promoting sustainable agriculture, hosted a Response: Question: garden orientation workshop. This year nearly one hundred students, faculty, and Operation Move Out is the yearly project What types of items can you leave for staff are signed up to participate in the that collects, organizes, and distributes all donation? garden. of the items Denison students no longer Response: want when they move out of their rooms at Last year, a temporary fence was installed the end of the school year. Tables are set that kept the deer at bay until late August, up in each dorm for donations. Students In general you can leave, unopened non-perishable food items, clothing, shoes, however, a more permanent solution was can donate unwanted but still usable items needed. Thanks to Dale Knobel and Seth by placing them on the tables. lamps, dishes and silverware, appliances, fans, sheets and comforters, shelves, Patton, the garden will receive a new furniture, school supplies, and backpacks. deer-proof fence. Student volunteers and workers collect and You can even leave your gaming systems and sort donated materials. Once collection is computers. Unfortunately, April showers have been complete, local social service agencies keeping our avid gardeners away and have come and pick up items that they need. In delayed installation of the fence until early previous years, huge amounts of stuff have ITS is also requesting that you place your May. been collected and donated. It's a great network cable (if you have one in your room) way to help out in the community and in a designated box by the donation tables. A very special thanks is also in order for the prevent all these items from being thrown grounds crew who have worked tirelessly to away. Before you pitch it³donate it!!! generate the compost used at the garden.

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 8 —•–ƒ‹ƒ„‹Ž‹–›–ƒ””‘ˆ‹Ž‡ǣŽŽ‡ —‰ƒ–‡ǯ͙͙ ENVS Senior Beyond personal habits, I have had the to try to do my part to try to remedy these Fellow Ellen opportunity to work in the Sustainability problems, and to inform others of injustices. Fugate has Office, and make environmentally-friendly certainly done a practices not only more visible, but also at What role do you think sustainability should lot for this the forefront of student awareness at play at Denison? campus in terms Denison. In particular, I think it is really More than a point of emphasis, sustainability of promoting important to educate the student body about should be integrated into all Denison practices campus environmentally friendly practices and and policies. Environmentalism has the sustainability. opportunities at Denison. So much is going potential to be the foundation of campus The sustainability on in terms of sustainability, but often identity, and become a distinguishing feature website is entirely •–—†‡–•ƒ”‡•‹’Ž›–‘‘„—•›–‘”‡ƒŽ‹œ‡‹–Ǥ ǯ˜‡ for the university. While the sustainability of her design and had the chance to develop different ways to office can help to facilitate this, ultimately it is the countless hours she has spent serving as disseminate information about the responsibility of the students to bring an intern for the Office of Sustainability have environmentalism to the Denison environmentalism to the forefront at Denison. left a positive mark on our campus. She is community, and hopefully increase their ƒ™ƒ”‡‡••Ǥ –ǯ•„‡‡‡š ‹–‹‰–‘•‡‡–Š‡ well deserving of a Sustainability Star ‘’Ž‡–‡–Š‹••‡–‡ ‡ǣŠƒ– ǯ†”‡ƒŽŽ›Ž‹‡ creation and infancy of the sustainability featureȄŽ‡–ǯ•Š‡ƒ”™Šƒ–•Š‡Šƒ•–‘•ƒ›Ǥ –‘•‡‡‡‹•‘†‘‹‰‹•ǥ office during my four years, and I anticipate it Explain what you are doing in your will have an even larger influence on life at Educating students to be socially and personal life to be more sustainable: Denison in the future. environmentally conscious, and to translate this awareness to living and promoting a more As an environmental studies major, I try to Why do you do this? sustainable lifestyle. live what I have learned at Denison. Mainly, I I try to live an environmentally conscious life do my best to live simply Ȃ buy less, drive Ellen will be working for Teach for America in because the way I live my life impacts other less, use less water. I am a big fan of using Colorado after graduation. drying racks for laundry, and have become ’‡‘’Ž‡Ǥ ǯ˜‡”‡ƒŽ‹œ‡†–Šƒ–‡˜‡”›†‡ ‹•‹‘  much better this year about remembering make has some sort of consequence, and my reusable bags for the grocery store. Now that it is my responsibility to reduce my im- that the weather is warming up, I am looking pact on the environment. Simply because we Thank You forward to getting my bike out for the are often detached from the repercussions of summer. our choices, or ignorant of the potential det- & ”‹‡–ǡ†‘‡•ǯ–‡ƒ–Šƒ–™‡•Š‘—Ž†ǯ– ƒ”‡Ǥ How do you promote sustainability at There are so many social and environmental Denison? issues our society currently faces, and I want Good Luck!

Looking for a few Good Denisonians step. In the Fall, CSC will be working on Co-Curricular & Community †”ƒˆ–‹‰‡‹•‘ǯ•ƒ’—•—•–ƒ‹ƒ„‹Ž‹–› Plan. The plan will serve as the guiding Purchasing, Dining, & Transportation †‘ —‡–ˆ‘”‡‹•‘ǯ•ˆ—–—”‡•—•–ƒ‹ƒ„‹Ž‹–› initiatives. Each advisory group will be working with members from the CSC on one of the four Knowing that sustainability reaches all focus areas listed above. The hope is that corners of the college, the CSC is looking for these groups need only meet once every faculty, staff, and students from our diverse three-four weeks for the Fall semester. campus to serve on one of four advisory groups that will help to develop the goals If you have questions or are interested in and benchmarks for the college as they serving on one of these advisory groups, relate to campus sustainability. please contact either Dr. Annabel Edwards or

The sustainability plan will focus on four primary areas:

Operations - Built Environment, Energy, After a full year of data collection and Land Use, Water, & Waste analysis regarding the state of sustainability at Denison, the Campus Sustainability Education & Research Committee (CSC) is ready to take the next Image modified from: www.springsgov.com

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Volume 2, Issue 7 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator March, 2011 Important Dates Home Renovation with an Eye Towards Green

MARCHȄAPRIL In June 2010, my wife and I The bathroom was probably purchased a home in Granville. worse. In many cases, you can Off Campus Study The house was a fixer-upper in resurface an old bathtub/shower PresentationȄSchool Mar the truest sense and we knew stall to give it a clean and fresh for Field Studies 23 that it was going to require major look. However, in our case, Talbot Hall Room 229 renovation to both make it given the small size of the 4:30pm livable and to give it a sense of bathroom and a small septic character. In keeping with our Global Studies tank Ȃ we felt that keeping a environmental ideals, we also Seminar: Zaid Abbas Mar bathtub was neither prudent nor wanted to make sure that our The kitchen went from this (above) Burton Morgan Lecture 24 desirable; not to mention that it renovation project was as green to this (below). Hall 6:30pmȄ7:30pm was ugly and the wall behind the as our budget and time allowed. tub was damaged. Lugar Symposium: Madeleine Albright Apr –‘†ƒ›ǯ•Š‘‡‹’”‘˜‡‡– It is about this time that friends, Swasey Chapel 14 world you would think that being family, and you the reader start 8:00pmȄ9:00pm green would be easy Ȃ and to a to ask Ȃ why on earth did they large degree it is, except when it buy this dump? Why? Because Earthweek at Denison comes to the big projects like Apr the house has a huge lot Ȃ we Various Campuswide kitchens and baths. In those 18-22 love to garden and entertain Events cases, the greenest option would outdoors, it is the right size for be to keep your current cabinets, 2 Film Screening and our family of two (1200 ft ), it appliances, and flooring and Discussion: Gasland had so much potential (which we April simply opt to repaint or resurface Burton Morgan Lecture have realized), the price was TBD the cabinet doors, add a little HallȄTBD right, and older homes tend hardware, and perhaps install a have more character than newer contemplation we decided that EarthdayȄBe Green! new countertop (more on this homes (more headaches too). Apr they really were not salvageable. Do Green! Live Green! later). In our case, the kitchen 22 What about the countertops you So what did we do to make this a Celebrate Earth! †‹†ǯ–Šƒ˜‡ƒ’’Ž‹ƒ ‡•ǡ–Š‡ˆŽ‘‘” was white tile and cracked in a ƒ•ǫŽ‡••›‘—ƒ”‡‹–‘͙͘͟͡ǯ• greener renovation? few places, the cabinets were faded royal blue laminate with water damage Ȃ there was not Continued on page 4 They Said it First... handmade by the previous owner and after a couple of days of much else one could do but Dz ˆƒƒ™ƒŽ•‹–Š‡™‘‘†•ˆ‘” replace them. love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his DU Bike Share Program Begins days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the Now that Spring has sprung you are probably itching to get out earth bald before her time, he is and get some exercise. Why not grab a bike an enjoy a ride deemed an industrious and around campus or along the TJ Evans bike path that passes right ‡–‡”’”‹•‹‰ ‹–‹œ‡Ǥdz –Š”‘—‰Š ”ƒ˜‹ŽŽ‡ǫ‹†ǯ–„”‹‰ƒ„‹‡–‘ ƒ’—•ǫ‘’”‘„Ž‡Ǥ Thanks to a Hunting Environmental Venture Fund Grant, you - Henry David ThoreauȄPoet can now check out a free bike from the Curtis West Service

Center. There are six bikes available for use by the whole Dz•™‡‰”‘™‘Ž†‡”™‡•Š‘—Ž† Denison community and they can be checked out for an couple become not less radical but of hours or the whole day if you want. To learn more, get on ‘”‡•‘Ǥdz Org Synch and sign up to be part of the DU Bike Share group. If The Bike Share includes used bikes and -Margaret LaurenceȄAuthor you have a bike to donate let us know. some new ones like those pictured above. PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7 ƒ”–Š‡‡‹•‘‹‰ǥ RecycleMania Update

programming for the entire weekȄwhich The competition has they conveniently dub Earth Week. reached the halfway point. Denison finds During this week the whole campus itself ranked 45th community has opportunities to be engaged nationally and 3rd in in activities that increase awareness, bring Ohio in the Per Capita about community action, and reduce our Classic Competition. campus environmental footprint. Over the first four weeks of the competition we have recycled 12.09 lbs per person on What do Green Team and the Office of campus. Sustainability have in store for you this year? A clothing exchange, petitions, Take the Marietta College, a newcomer to the Stairs Day, Walk to Work Day, a video competition, leads in Ohio with 13.97 lbs contest, film screenings, educational recycled per person. There is little doubt that outreach, and a whole lot more. Denison can step up in the second half to take Its getting close to that time of year when we the lead in Ohio. take a reflective look at Mother Earth and ˜‡ˆƒ —Ž–›‰‡–‹˜‘Ž˜‡†Ǥ”ǤŽ‹˜‹ƒ‰—‹Žƒ”ǯ• In the Waste Minimization Competition which our impact on her. Each year, Earth DayȄ Environmental Studies classes will be looks at overall campus waste, Denison is April 22Ȅmarks the anniversary of what engaged in a No Impact Week where they struggling. Out of 194 schools participating in many consider the birth of the modern attempt to reduce their net impact on the this challenging competition, Denison ranks environment to zero. environmental movement in 1970. This year 164th with an alarming 36.57lbs per person. the theme of Earth Day is A Billion Acts of Its our first year in this competition and we are Green. Certainly we should all think about just getting our feet ways to reduce our environmental impact on ™‡–Ǥ‡–ǯ•–”›–‘ that day. However, why just one day? improve over the next four weeks so Š‡ ”‡‡‡ƒǡ‡‹•‘ǯ••–—†‡– we can crack the environmental group, has developed top 100. Q & A: Real Energy Savings

Question: year if he switched his 100 watt incandescent mercury and should be disposed of properly by bulb with a 23 watt CFL. So, I did what taking them to one of the big box stores Does switching to compact fluorescent anyone would do; I got out my cell phone and (Lowes, Home Depot, Target, Walmart) that (CFL) and LED light bulbs really save energy used the calculator function to figure it all out. collect and recycle old CFLs. and money? Here is what I found out: What about LEDs? They use about half the Response: ‡‡”‰›‘ˆƒ ƒ††‘ǯ–Šƒ˜‡ƒ›‡” —”›Ǥ Neighbor A uses the light for 10 hours/day 365 days/ However, they cost about 10 times more than a YES!!! ‡ǯ˜‡ƒŽŽ„‡‡–‘–Š‡•–‘”‡ƒ†•‡‡ year. 10 x 365 = 3650 hours/year. typical CFL. This means that the payback the energy efficient LED and CFL bulbs for period takes a little longer. sale. They are often quite pricey and have The bulb uses 100 watts/hour or 0.1 kilowatts/hour. 3650 x 0.1 = 365 kilowatt hours/year. some lofty claims printed on the package The energy and dollar savings are there for about energy savings and bulb life. Electricity costs for a typical homeowner are about sureȄthe hesitation people have about $0.10/kilowatt hour. 365 x $0.10 = $36.50/year. switching is lifespan of the bulb and spectrum Regardless of how accurate the claims are of light produced. Just in the last two years (most are legit), it is true that making the The incandescent costs $36.50 per year. significant advancements in technology have switch away from incandescent bulbs will created CFLs and LEDs that mimic the light save energy and ultimately money. Substitute the CFL that uses 23 watts (one produced by an incandescent bulb. These quarter the energy) and you get a dollar same technologies have also increased the The other day while walking to work I no- savings of around $28.10 year and an energy lifespanȄso the bulbs do last about as long as ticed that my neighbor has an incandescent •ƒ˜‹‰•‘ˆ͚͙͠‹Ž‘™ƒ––Š‘—”•ǤŠƒ–ǯ•ƒŽ‘–ƒ† claimed on the package. bulb on a light post at the end of his well worth the extra cost (about $2.00) for the driveway. This light stays on from dusk to bulb. One caveat: you get what you pay for. If you dawnȄan average of 1o hours or so. I buy the cheapest CFL that is what you are wondered how much he would save per CFLs do contain some minimal amounts of gettingȄthe most cheaply made product.

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7 Sustainability Star Profile: Cindy Evans There is a farmer in our midst. When we chickens. We started out with about 15 turkeys last year and intend to raise some this think of Denison University and the chickens and have grown to a little over 100 in ›‡ƒ”Ǥdz incredible people who work here, a farmer is order to keep up with our customers. They live probably not something that first comes to in a 16x60 coop and have the run of the entire Š‹•‹•ǯ–Œ—•–ƒŠ‘„„›ˆƒ”ǡ”ƒ‹•‹‰ƒŽŽ‘ˆ mind. Even more unlikely, a woman farmer. coop; they are cage-free but not free-range in these animals has to be a lot of work. When order to protect them from predators. do you find time to go to your farm? Cindy Evans, the Administrative Assistant in the Investment Office, is also a full-time The coop has nesting boxes and plenty of roost Dz—””‡–Ž›ǡ™‡Ž‹˜‡‹ ‡ƒ–Šƒ††”‹˜‡–‘–Š‡ livestock farmer with her husband, J.B. rails. We use hay that is baled on our own farm every day to take care of our animals. This farm for their bedding. We also use their is so that our daughter can graduate from her They started out farming by helping their manure to fertilize our hay fields in the fall current school district. We have plans to build daughter raise Market Steers and Market when hay season is finished for the year. ‘‘—”ˆƒ”Žƒ†‹–Š‡ˆ—–—”‡Ǥdz Hogs for 4- ’”‘Œ‡ –•‘ ǤǤǯ•’ƒ”‡–•ǯ farm. From there, they decided they wanted We have two kinds of egg-laying chickens. The There is a growing movement around the to raise their own beef and pork. So they majority of them are Leghorns, which lay large country to buy local foods. What do you made a decision to buy some farm acreage white eggs. The other type of egg-layer think about farmers markets and supporting with barns just outside of Granville on Milner chickens we have are Black Stars, which lay those who raise food locally? RoadȄBlue Rooster Farm was born. large brown eggs. We have 14 Black Star Dz –Š‹‹–‹•ƒ„•‘Ž—–‡Ž›™‘†‡”ˆ—Ž–‘•—’’‘”–›‘—” So what do you raise on the farm now? Chickens, which are a first-generation hybrid breed (cross between Rhode Island Red and a local farmer! Typically the foods from local Dz‡”ƒ‹•‡ƒ‹‡-Anjou cattle (an Angus-cross Barred Rock). All together on a typical day, we farmers are fed and taken care of better than breed) and they are grain-fed for a more will get around six dozen eggs. I am careful to those in mass production and this produces a tender meat. This breed has a great wash them in nothing that I believe will healthier quality food. ˆ›‘—–Š‹ǡǮ ƒ”ƒ‹•‹‰ disposition. This is a good trait in raising beef compromise the integrity of their shell, along –Š‹•ˆ‘”‡–‘‡ƒ–ǡǯ–Š‡›‘—™‹ŽŽ’—––Š‡„‡•– as they are less likely to turnout a stressed ™‹–ŠǮ•‹-–‡•–‹‰ǯ‡ƒ Š‡‰‰Ǥ Sink-testing things possible into it, right? Local farmers dark-colored meat. Our butcher always means putting the egg into a bowl of shallow usually spend more time with their animals than remarks how wonderful our beef turns out and water to make sure it does not float; if the egg those in mass production too. These are reasons with beautiful marbling. He also tells us not to floats, this indicates that there is something that local farmers tend to cost a little more than change anything we are doing with our beef. wrong with it and it gets removed. We recycle mass production as well. In addition when you Ǯ‰‡–Ž›-—•‡†ǯ‡‰‰ ƒ”–‘•‹‘”†‡”–‘Š‡Ž’‡‡’ buy from the local farmer, you can ask questions Our hogs are usually Hampshires, commonly ‘•–•Ž‘™‡”Ǥdz like, what was it fed? How was it raised? etc. I identified as having a black body with a white want to know what I am eatingȄ†‘̹–›‘—ǫdz belt, also known as a belted pig; or Where can I get my hands on some of these Yorkshires that are commonly identified as eggs? ‘—’—–ƒŽ‘–‘ˆ–Š‘—‰Š–‹–‘›‘—”ƒ‹ƒŽ•ǯ being white or pink pigs. We have found that well-being. pigs are really fun to interact and play Dz‰‰•ƒ”‡ƒ˜ƒ‹Žƒ„Ž‡ƒ–‘—”ˆƒ”Ǥ There is a with. They especially like when we give them self-serve refrigerator inside the barn at 4249 DzŽŽƒ‹ƒŽ•–ƒ‡ƒŽ‘–‘ˆ™‘”ǡƒ––‡–‹‘ǡƒ† special treats like fruits, vegetables, cereals, Milner Road (honor system). Š‡”‡‹•ƒǮ ”‡•Š knowledge; we put all of our dedication into and marshmallows. ‰‰•ǯ•‹‰ƒ––Š‡‡†‘ˆ–Š‡†”‹˜‡™ƒ›ƒ†ƒ every one of them. With love, all things grow Ǯ‰‰•ǯ•‹‰‘–Š‡•‹†‡‘ˆ–Š‡„ƒ”Ǥ Current ƒ†™‡Ž‘˜‡ƒŽŽ‘ˆ‘—”ƒ‹ƒŽ•Ǩdz We also have Myotonic goats or "fainting" price is $1.50 per dozenȄposted on the How do I buy some of the meat you produce? goats. Currently, we have one Miniature Silky refrigerator (subject to change due to feed Fainting Goat and four Tennessee Fainting prices). If you have gently used egg cartons, Dz ˆƒ›‘‡‹•‹–‡”‡•–‡†‹„‡‡ˆǡ’‘”ǡ Š‹ ‡•ǡ‘” Goats. These are novelty goats and are a lot you may leave them in the barn near the turkeys they are welcome to call for more ‘ˆˆ—Ǥ‡”ƒ‹•‡–Š‡ƒ•’‡–•Ǥdz refrigerator. Dz informationȄ740-522-͙͙͠͝Ǥdz

ǯ˜‡•‡‡›‘—”’‘•–‘–Š‡Žƒ••‹ˆ‹‡†• Any other animals? about eggs you have chickens as well? The chickens raised for meat are called Dzˆ–‡””ƒ‹•‹‰„‡‡ˆƒ†’‘”ˆ‘”ƒ ‘—’Ž‡‘ˆ broilers. They grow much faster and larger years, I decided I wanted to try chickens and than the egg layers. These are typically the ran the idea by my husband. He was excited same type of birds that are raised about the idea, and started talking about how commercially. Our girls are not given any great fresh eggs would be when I had to back growth hormones, meat by-products, or him up and tell him I actually meant meat anything unnatural. chickens. After some discussion, we decided it was a great idea to try both, so we made In 2009, we raised turkeys, which turned out modifications to our barn to house the wonderfully. We were sorry we did not raise

Suggestions for future featured individuals, groups, and/or departments can be sent to Jeremy King - [email protected] PAGE 4 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7 Continued from page 1 Another before (below left) and after (below) windows and good storms Ȃ it is best to leave the old ones in place since replacement windows have a long payback period (you can shorten that by installing them yourself which is quite easy). When searching for windows we chose some that were very efficient and were tax credit eligible. As an added bonus, our windows were made in Marion, Ohio.

Where we really struggled with our green renovation was electrical and plumbing fixtures. It is nearly impossible to find ones that are manufactured locally or even in the As we tore out walls and fixtures, we saved This outlet is open every other Saturday and USA for that matter. This was very anything that could be reused or recycled. it generally is stocked with cabinets that are frustrating to say the least. The fixtures we Susan went as far as pulling out nails and misordered or not what the homeowner did buy we made sure were water-saving and screws from boards and saving them for the wanted. On our first trip to the warehouse energy-efficient. In one instance, I even recycler. I even saved most of that kitchen (we made three) we actually were fortunate made my own light fixture reusing part of an cabinetry. The old sink base is now my enough to find a kitchen set that had nearly old outdoor barn light. We also installed CFL workbench and the old drawers are going to all the cabinets we needed. By buying these bulbs wherever possible and even have a be used for a built-in dresser that I plan to we saved about 80% of the cost and we were couple of LED lights. Being honest, we still make this summer. still getting new cabinets. It is sort of like have a couple of lights with incandescent going to the land of misfit toys Ȃ except in bulbs Ȃ sometimes these just look better and Whenever possible we purchased low VOC –Š‹• ƒ•‡‹–™ƒ• ƒ„‹‡–•Ǥ †‘ǯ–™ƒ––‘ give off better light Ȃ not green but sensible. (volatile organic compounds) paint; make it sound so simple. We were armed especially the paint used inside the house. We recently took advantage of Columbia with measuring tapes and kitchen layouts We also combined leftover paint to create ƒ•ǯ ‘‡‡”‰›‡”ˆ‘”ƒ ‡’”‘‰”ƒǤ and ultimately had to make our kitchen new colors to use in other rooms of the We had an energy audit done on the home design fit the cabinets that we purchased. house Ȃ I give credit to Susan on this one. and installed insulation (made from recycled Again kudos to Susan for making it all work. cellulose fibers) in the attic and walls.

The limited amount of carpeting we installed Because of the program we saved over 60% Back to the countertop. We debated almost in the bedrooms is made from recycled on the installation costs and it has a payback daily about what type of countertop we content and is recyclable if and when it period of about three years. needs to be replaced. wanted. We nearly settled on making our own with concrete; however, it would be our –ǯ•„‡‡Œ—•–‘˜‡”͡‘–Š•‘™ƒ†–Š‡ The new flooring for the kitchen is tongue first go at this and time was an issue. The house is nearly finished. The other day I and groove bamboo. It looks great and process was going to take two days to build loaded up the back of my station wagon with „ƒ„‘‘‹•‘‡‘ˆ–Š‘•‡Dz”‡‡™ƒ„Ž‡dz the forms, another day to pour the concrete, all of the metal scraps we saved during the products that most consider to be a green at least a week to let the concrete cure, renovation, including the nails and screws we alternative to using wood. I tend to agree another day to finish the concrete, and a removed during demolition, and I took them with that assessment except that this kind of final day to install it. Two weeks of work for to the recycler Ȃ to my delight I made $54. bamboo is grown overseas in tropical areas Ȃ something that might work. I was scared Ȃ I The old bathroom sink, kitchen sink, light •‘ †‘ǯ–‘™Š‘™•—•–ƒ‹ƒ„Ž›-produced it †‘ǯ–•ƒ›–Šƒ–‘ˆ–‡ǤŠ‡‹– ‘‡•–‘Š‘‡ fixtures, ceiling fans, and other salvageable is or whether the people growing it are paid a improvement projects there are few that ‹–‡•™‡”‡–ƒ‡–‘ ƒ„‹–ƒ–ˆ‘” —ƒ‹–›ǯ• decent wage. According to the box it came make me question my abilities (this Re-Store in Columbus. in Ȃ it appears to be good. sometimes gets me into trouble). As luck would have it, right when it was decision We are happy with the house and our best Š‡”‡ƒ”‡ ‘’ƒ‹‡•–Šƒ–ƒ‡Dz‡ ‘ time, one of the home improvement stores attempt at being green. In all reality, the ƒ„‹‡–•dzƒ†‘‡ ƒ ‡”–ƒ‹Ž› Š‘‘•‡–‘ we frequented was having a sale on choices we made to make this as green as buy and install these cabinets. We did a CORIAN® countertops. The deal was too possible probably saved us money Ȃ though cursory look at these and decided that the good to pass up, plus, CORIAN® is partially it also cost us more of our timeȄtime that styles did not match the style of our cottage made from recycled content. It probably we often spent together or with friends and house and since the majority of these cost us 10 times as much as the concrete family who helped us along the way Ȃ time cabinets are manufactured in California, that would have, but it required only a few hours well spent. –Š‡›†‹†ǯ–•‡‡ƒŽŽ–Šƒ–‰”‡‡‘ ‡›‘— at the store to make the purchase thus factored in the shipping. Plus, they were a saving days of work (installation was budget-buster costing nearly three times as included). much as other cabinets. We chose instead to buy Kraftmaid cabinets Ȃ which are made We chose to replace some of the older ”‹‰Š–Š‡”‡‹Š‹‘Ǥ‡†‹†ǯ–Œ—•–„—›ƒ›‘Ž† windows in the house mostly because they Kraftmaid cabinets, we actually went to the were damaged and the storm windows were Kraftmaid outlet store near Youngstown. missing. Usually if you have working Denison University Campus Sustainability Newsletter THE GREENSHEET

Volume 2, Issue 6 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator February, 2011 Important Dates Too Hot...Too Cold...Just Right

FEBRUARYȄMARCH ›ŽŽ‡ —‰ƒ–‡Ǯ͙͙ and are latched to ensure no number and dorm name. cold air is coming through. While stuck Global Studies Seminar Please DO NOT use an indoors during this Tourism Discourse on Remove any clothes, desks, or electric heater Ȃ they are a particularly frigid other furniture that may be potential fire hazard. Okinawan Battle Ruins Feb winter, a major blocking the heater. Slayter Hall 21 concern for If your room is too hot: Shepardson Room students is the If you still have an AC unit in 7:30pmȄ8:30pm temperature of your room, cold air is entering The best solution is to call Facilities Services and let Zero Waste Day: A day their dorm rooms. However, through the unit. Either Feb them know about the to promote recycling heating rooms to satisfy remove the unit or cover the 24 problem. It is in their interest and reuse on campus ‡˜‡”›‘‡ǯ• ‘ˆ‘”–Ž‡˜‡Ž‹•ƒ grilles with plastic or some difficult task, especially in older other material to prevent air to save energy, so they will do Beck Lecture Series: dorm rooms. While some dorms flow. their best to reduce the heat Aleksandar Hemon Mar tend to be too cool, other in your room. Also realize that Barney-Davis Board 2 students report that the heating Although you may be used to in a few cases, due to the RoomȄ8:00pm is turned up too highȄmaking warmer climates or homes, installed systems, some rooms uncomfortably warm. realize that when it is rooms may be overheated so Goodspeed Lecture Facilities Services (Phys. Plant) is especially cold outside it is that the building as a whole Series: Zuhdi Jasser Mar working to address all these difficult to keep the buildings can be comfortable. Burton-Morgan 4 issues and appreciates your warm. It is winter time, so Dorm rooms are heated by Lecture HallȄ7:30pm feedback about your room make sure you are dressed either a furnace (air) or vents. temperature. Here are some appropriately inside and out! Global Studies Seminar If your room has a vent, Caroline Keller Smith additional actions you can take to If you have considered all these Facilities can provide you a Slayter Hall Mar either cool or warm your room options, and your room is magnetic strip to help block Shepardson Room 7 (these apply to offices and intolerably cold, call (6265) or the heat. Placing a towel or 7:30pmȄ8:30pm classrooms as well): e-mail Facilities Services to other items on the vents can If your room is too cold: check the temperature in your also help reduce the amount Goodspeed Lecture room in case there is a of heat flowing into the room. Series: Ulrich Duchrow Mar Make sure all your windows legitimate heating problem. If Slayter Auditorium 22 (both the bottom and top you file a report, please 7:30pmȄ8:30pm panels) are closed completely provide both your room

They Said it First... Dz —ƒ•ƒ”‡–Š‡‘Ž›•’‡ ‹‡•‘ Trash Tower a Disappointing Success the planet that don't live by zero ™ƒ•–‡’”‹ ‹’Ž‡•Ǥdz The day after a tremendously exciting Super Bowl game I came to find out that the real score was 468 to zero. 468 represents the number of pounds -Michael Jessen of recyclables that students and staff pulled out of the trash on Monday

–Š‡͟–Š‘ˆ ‡„”—ƒ”›ǤŠƒ–†‘‡•ǯ–•‡‡–‘‘„ƒ†—–‹Ž›‘—’—–‹–‹–‘ "In the long term, economic perspectiveȄwe only sorted about 10% of the campus trash that day. sustainability depends on eco- Zero is the collective score we must give ourselves for not making the logical sustainability." better choice to actually recycle all of our post Super Bowl party waste. Ȅ Dz‡”‹ ƒǯ•‹˜‹‰  ‡ƒ•dz [Pew Oceans Report, It was good to see that the Tower we created outside of Slayter that day 2003] drew the attention of many students, faculty, and staff. I hope it serves as a reminder that we all need to do our part by reducing waste and recycling more. PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 Students to Participate in Power Shift Tree Campus USA about leading environmental change, come Congratulations to Denison for achieving Tree to Power Shift! Campus USA for 2010! The Tree Campus program is an initiative that sprang from a If you would like to sign up, please contact partnership between the Arbor Day Nicki Jimenez ([email protected]) by Foundation and Toyota to foster the 8am on February 25th. For more development of the next generation of tree information, contact Nicki or visit stewards. The program is designed to award powershift2011.org. national recognition to college campuses for promoting healthy urban forest management Cost: Transportation provided, registration and engaging the campus community in subsidized, students are responsible for environmental stewardship. housing and food. Estimated cost: $100-120 Have you ever wanted to hear Al Gore or Van or less pending fundraising. Jones speak? At the Power Shift 2011 Denison began this endeavor two years ago conference, students have the opportunity to and has been rewarded for its efforts. The hear these green activists talk, attend award would not have been possible without workshops on a multitude of environmental the hard work of the Denison Tree Committee issues, lobby Congress, and interact with and its dedicated members: some of the 10,000 other youth who will be Mark Comisford, Jamie Hale, Warren Hauk, –Š‡”‡ǤŠ‹•›‡ƒ”ǯ•‘™‡”Š‹ˆ–™‹ŽŽ–”ƒ‹ Gill Miller, Andy McCall, Jeremy King, Laurie students from all walks of life how to be Mackenzie-Crane, Lauren Sabo, Lizzie leaders in the fight for a clean energy future. Omeara, Aaron Fuleki, Jim Siegel, Mike Ecker, and Lisa Bowers. In 2009, twenty-six Denisonians attended th Power Shift and came back with new April 15-18 2011 CONGRATS!!! connections to colleges around the country and reenergized about sustainability on Washington, D.C. If you would like to be part of the Committee ‡‹•‘ǯ• ƒ’—•Ǥ ˆ›‘—ƒ”‡’ƒ••‹‘ƒ–‡ contact Jeremy King Ȅ [email protected] Q & A: Zero Waste RecycleMania Update

Question: The competition has officially started. As expected, Denison showed its stuff during the What does Zero Waste mean? prelims. As a campus we ranked 22nd nationally in the amount of recyclables Response: collected per capita. We lagged a bit behind in the Waste Minimization category at 142nd Dz‡”‘™ƒ•–‡‹•ƒ’Š‹Ž‘•‘’Š›–Šƒ– nationally with an average weekly waste encourages the redesign of resource life produced at 11lbs per person. cycles so that all products are reused. Any No worries though, the official competition is trash sent to landfills is minimal. The underway and with our Zero Waste Day process recommended is one similar to the planned Denison is sure to stifle the ™ƒ›–Šƒ–”‡•‘—” ‡•ƒ”‡”‡—•‡†‹ƒ–—”‡Ǥdz competition. This is how Wikipedia defines zero waste. in to store items in your house or dormȄor as All of us on campus need to pitch-in by In practical terms for us here at Denison, a cheap set of Tupperware. choosing to use less and recycle more. There is however, zero waste means reducing our no reason why any of the trashcans on campus consumption and choosing products wisely Many experts estimate that 90-95% of our should have recyclable materials in them. so that what we are left with are items that daily trash can be eliminated by making can be reused, composted, and/or recycled. simple choices to reduce, reuse, recycle, and compost. Think about the trash you produce in a given day. How much of it could have been To get you all to think about this a little more, eliminated to begin with by simple choices Denison will be holding a ZERO WASTE day such as using a reusable coffee mug instead on February 24th to raise awareness about of a paper one; drinking out of the drinking our trash and our impact on the environment. fountain instead of buying bottled water; See if you can avoid generating trash for one reusing those plastic containers food comes day. Stay tuned for more details.

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 Sustainability Geothermal Star Profiles Geothermal heating and cooling systems are summer when the ambient temperature of while. When we bought our house, it had very slowly becoming more popular here in Ohio the building exceeds that of the ground heat old baseboard electric heat. Both for safety and even here among our Denison pumps are used to pump heat from the and environmental impact reasons, we wanted community. Several faculty and staff have building in to the transfer medium (typically to get away from that as quickly as systems in their homes including: Dr. Peter water with small amounts of ethanol or possible. We're in a forested valley, so our Kuhlman , Dr. Michael Fuson, and Cathy glycol) and is subsequently pumped through solar day length is short, and we wanted to Romei all from the Chemistry Department, narrow pipes into the ground so that the heat restore our house to its 19th-century ƒ•™‡ŽŽƒ•ǡƒ‹”‘™‡ŽŽ‹–Š‡‘–”‘ŽŽ‡”ǯ• can be dissipated in the earth. When the appearance rather than renovate it, which Office. ambient temperature falls below the ground made passive solar problematic. On the other temperature the process works in reverse. hand, we have a large (functionally infinite) Heat pumps extract heat from the ground supply of firewood. And the previous owners and use it to heat the building. of the house had put in a well for drinking Source: Wikipedia water that was never hooked up (our water comes from a spring), so we already had a Why is geothermal all the rage? source of water. Putting those pieces to- gether, it seemed natural to go with a wood- Dz‡•ƒ˜‡†‘˜‡”͆͛͘͘͘‹‘‡›‡ƒ”ǯ•Š‡ƒ–‹‰ stove coupled with a water-based geothermal „‹ŽŽ•ǡdz•ƒ‹†ƒ–Š›‘‡‹ǡ–Š‡†‹‹•–”ƒ–‹˜‡ •›•–‡Ǥdz Assistant for the Chemistry Department. So what are the drawbacks to going with With savings like that its a wonder that more geothermal? ‘ˆ—•ƒ”‡ǯ–•™‹– Š‹‰–‘‰‡‘–Š‡”ƒŽǤ The initial expense of installing the system is When asked why she made the switch Romei typically referenced when talking about ”‡’Ž‹‡†ǡDz‡™‡”‡•’‡†‹‰ƒ”‹†‹ —Ž‘—• drawbacks to geothermal as it can cost as amount of money on propane. We also liked much as $15,000Ȅ$20,000 for a typical home. –Š‡‹†‡ƒ–Šƒ–‹–™ƒ•ƒ‰”‡‡ƒŽ–‡”ƒ–‹˜‡Ǥdz Geothermal heating relies on an energy —ŠŽƒƒ††•ǡDz‹™‹–‡”ǡ–Š‡ƒ‹” ‘‹‰‘—– Dr. Kuhlman decided on geothermal for a exchange between the air within the building of the furnace is not hot; it feels cool in fact, ‘„‹ƒ–‹‘‘ˆ”‡ƒ•‘•ǤDzMy wife and I have being heated and the ground. Below ten feet because it's just a few degrees above the been interested in more sustainable/lower the earth's temperature is fairly constant –‡’‡”ƒ–—”‡‘ˆ–Š‡”‘‘Ǥdz (generally between 50º-56°F). During the impact HVAC options for quite a DU Classifieds and Ride Board Re-launched Many of you have indicated an interest in Posts can be for rides to local shopping lab equipment may be placed on the DU carpooling and sharing rides to save money centers, home for breaks, or even for Classifieds, but should be approved first by and even to be a little greener. You have arranging carpool groups. Kathy Arnholt. been frustrated that no easy way existed to connect with others. That has now ended. Š‡ˆ—†‘‡•ǯ–•–‘’–Š‡”‡–Š‘—‰ŠǤ‡‹•‘ Feel free to post requests and place personal Denison has re-launched the Ride-Share has also re-launched its Classified Ads forum items in the Classifieds. Buyer beware. Posts board. Students, faculty, and staff can now page. will remain for two weeks or until you place a note on the Ride Board requesting remove them. The DU Classifieds is our own internal rides and/or offering rides. Craigslist. We all know that Craigslist has As with the Ride Board, the DU Classifieds can The Ride Board is part of the myDenison become an effective way to get rid of and be accessed in mybb or at the following web Bulletin Board and can be accessed by going find items on the cheap so why not have our address: http://forums.denison.edu/ to myDenison and clicking on the link for own? Both the Ride Board and the DU Classifieds are mybbȄbulletin board or by going to this The opportunities are endless with over a wonderful way to grow our community by web address: http://forums.denison.edu/ 2,900 members of the Denison community making Denison more open, engaging, and tuned inȄyour bound to find a home for the sustainable. item you no longer need. Remember the more we use theseȄthe more Of course there are a few stipulations. useful they become. Tell your colleagues and Most importantly, Denison-owned items tell your peers to start posting. may not be sold to anyone. Surplus consumables such as office supplies may be Please send comments or suggestions to posted to be given away. Denison [email protected]. I am sure that there will equipment such as furniture, electronics, and be some glitches so your feedback is critical.

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Volume 2, Issue 5 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator January, 2011 Important Dates RecycleMania 2011

JANUARYȄFEBRUARY The Waste Minimization Need a quick refresher on WET Challenge considers all materials and DRY recycling? RecycleMania Kickoff that leave our campus, trash and The competition runs Jan 23 recyclables, and counts these as WET for 10 weeks. ‘‡Ǥ‘• ‘”‡™‡ŽŽǡ™‡ǯŽŽ‡‡†–‘ MLK Events on –ǯ•–Šƒ––‹‡‘ˆ›‡ƒ”ƒ‰ƒ‹Ȅ try to reduce what we put into the Plastics #1 & #2 (empty) CampusȄMultiple Jan RecycleMania is upon us once trash, reuse all that we can, and Cans (aluminum & bi-metal) Locations 24 more. Last year, Denison recycle and compost anything Glass Bottles 11:30amȄ3:30pm finished 1st in Ohio and 43rd else that remains. Nationally for the amount of DRY To help us along, there will be a DCA Community material recycled per capita. number of campus-wide events Service Showcase Jan Considering it was our first year Office Paper Slayter Hall 2nd Floor 27 competing, I think we can safely and outreach campaigns related Posters 11:30amȄ1:00pm say that we were successful. to RecycleMania during the 10 week competition. Envelopes Vail Series Concert: The competition runs from Post-its & Index Cards February 7ȄTrash Sort and New Century Chamber Feb January 23 to April 2. Each week, Newspaper OrchestraȄSwasey 2+3 Recycling Tower ™‡ǯŽŽ„‡’‘•–‹‰‘—”• ‘”‡ǡƒ•™‡ŽŽ Magazines & Catalogues ChapelȄ7:00pm as, ranking on the sustainability February 24ȄZero Waste Day Paperboard (e.g. cereal boxes) website. Trash Sort & Recycling Cardboard March 8ȄYouTube Recycling TowerȄParking This year, as part of the Feb Video Contest Consult the Campus Recycling Garage Loading Dock ”‡•‹†‡–•ǯŽ‹ƒ–‡ and Slayter HallȄ 7 Guide to learn more about what Commitment, Denison will be March 27ȄRecycling Barn Open Event runs all day can be recycled on campus. competing in two separate House RecycleMania competitions. The http://www.denison.edu/about/c Environmental Venture Feb first is the Per Capita ClassicȄ ampus%20recycling%20guide% Fund Grants Due 7 which school can recycle the 20final.pdf most per person. The second is Human Rights Film Feb 8, the Waste Minimization Before you throw anything away FestivalȄSlayter 17+22 Challenge. In this competition, ask yourself three important AuditoriumȄ7:00pm ™‡ǯŽŽ„‡–”›‹‰–‘”‡†— ‡‘—” questions: Is it reusable? Is it Zero Waste Day: A day overall waste on campus by recyclable? Can it be Feb to promote recycling reducing our consumption and composted? 24 and reuse on campus use of materials.

They Said it First... "The ultimate test of man's con- ‡™DzŠƒ”‡‘—” †‡ƒ•dz‹”‡ƒ–‡† science may be his willingness to Over the holiday break, the Sustainability Office sacrifice something today for developed a new web component to allow all of you future generations whose words to share your ideas to better our sustainability efforts of thanks will not be heard." on campus. So many of you have great ideas and - Gaylord Nelson vision for what we could be doing on campus. It is going to take all of us working together to find the Dz‘——•–„‡–Š‡ Šƒ‰‡›‘— best pathȄ•‘†‘ǯ–„‡•Š›ǡ ‘–”‹„—–‡ǨǨǨŽŽˆ‘”•‘ˆ ™‹•Š–‘•‡‡‹–Š‡™‘”Ž†Ǥdz feedback are encouraged and you can remain anonymous if you wish. -Mahatma Ghandi http://www.denison.edu/sustainability/feedback.html PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5 Being Green in the New Year With the start of —•‹‰ ‘Ž†™ƒ–‡”ǡ Š‘‘•‡–Š‡Dz ‘Ž‘”•dz•‡––‹‰ additional vegetarian meal per week will not the New Year, on Denison washing machines. only benefit the environment, but is also a adhering to 2011 healthier option. resolutions should Break the plastic water bottle habit: be fresh in your According to the Earth Policy Institute, the Bring your own reusable bag for errands: mind. While still global consumption of bottled water has Over one million plastic bags are consumed motivated, think increased by 57 percent since 2004. The most worldwide every single minute. Billions of about also commonly used plastic for making water those end up in landfills and oceans. Instead, incorporating bottles is derived from crude oil; water bottle bring a cloth bag when going to the grocery or resolutions to production requires more than 17 million mall. Keep bags in your car so they are easier become more environmentally friendly in the barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel more to remember when running errands. New Year. Below is a list of 7 ways you can than 1 million U.S. cars for a year. This year, make small changes that will yield major use a REUSABLE bottle to save money and Buy local produce (2 pounds per week): environmental benefits over the course of a reduce your use of plastic. According to National Sustainable Agriculture year: Information Service, your produce travels an Limit showers to 5 minutes: A shorter average of 1,300 Ȃ 2,000 miles before you buy Unplug electronics when unused (e.g., shower not only saves water, but also saves it. Cut down your food miles and carbon chargers, lamps, electronics): Most on the energy used to heat that water. A emissions by purchasing fruits and veggies appliances keep pulling energy even when typical showerhead will spray over five that are designated as locally produced, or they are turned off. To eliminate your gallons per minute (GPM), so cutting your grown by nearby farmers. Dz’Šƒ–‘Ž‘ƒ†•ǡdz—’Ž—‰™Š‡‘–‹—•‡‘” shower from ten minutes to five will save 25 plug your electronics into a power cords that gallons of water. *Statistics and suggestions are from: http:// you can switch off when you are not using energizecorvallis.org/index/ them. Adopt no meat Mondays: Livestock is a primary contributor to greenhouse gases, Wash your clothes in cold water: According producing up to 40% of methane emissions. to the US Department of Energy, about 90% In addition, animals are often raised in of the energy used for washing clothes is for humanely and injected with hormones and heating water. To cut your energy use by other synthetic chemicals. Eating one

Q & A: Mail Overload Grants Available

Question: returning it unopened to the sender with Got a great idea to make campus more –Š‡™‘”†•Dz‡ˆ—•‡†ǡ‡–—”–‘‡†‡”dz sustainable? Want to turn that green idea into How can I get rid of unwanted mail like ™”‹––‡‘‹–•‘‡™Š‡”‡ǤŠ‹•‹•ǯ––Š‡ reality? Ever wonder what you could catalogues and credit card solicitations? most sustainable option, but, if it accomplish with a few hundred dollars of seed eliminates future solicitations then it is money? Response: worth it. The Campus Sustainability Committee is

accepting proposals for the Hunting I, like you, find that the majority of mail I The website: http://www.ecocycle.org/ Environmental Venture Fund Grants. Last receive both at work and at home is junk junkmail/index.cfm has a number of other ›‡ƒ”ǯ•’”‘Œ‡ –•‹ Ž—†‡†ǣ‡‹‘”’ƒ”–‡– mail. It is frustrating that so many useful tips and strategies for getting your Composting, Soles 4 Souls, Reusable Mugs at resources go into sending me catalogues name off of mailing lists. Whatever you do, the Bandersnatch, Water Bottles for the Dance ƒ†•‘Ž‹ ‹–ƒ–‹‘•ˆ‘”–Š‹‰• †‘ǯ–‡‡†‘” be sure to RECYCLE your mail!!! Department, Clothes Drying Racks, and a want. Thankfully, there are some easy Bike-Share program (due to start this Spring). steps that each of us can take to reduce unwanted mail. All students, faculty, and staff are eligible and encouraged to apply. Grants range from $100 1. Be very careful to identify whenever up to $2000. Applications and more possible that you do not want to information about the Venture Fund can be receive mail solicitations when filling downloaded at: out forms online. 2. If working with an office, consider http://www.denison.edu/sustainability/venture making one person the contact person %20fund%20application%202011.doc for all orders and develop a library of catalogues for everyone to share. Proposals are due Feb. 7. Please direct 3. If you know mail is junk, consider questions to [email protected]

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5 Sustainability Star Profile: Mark Springer Mark Springer, a Shift the appropriate container . game that must be played. Our last purchase Supervisor for Building of four tons of corn was at $6.09/bushel in Services, quietly goes In my own home, we take the time to sort December 2010. This is one penny per pound about making Denison from the trash items that are recyclable and cheaper than wood pellets and nearly a more sustainable bring them into the recycling barn. Our rural $2000.00 cheaper than our yearly propane bill campus. While Mark waste disposal service does not currently of four years ago. In this case, especially, ™‘—Ž†ǯ–‡ ‡••ƒ”‹Ž› have a recycling program. We also own a 5' X burning corn for heat makes not just cents but label himself as 8' trailer and do some scrapping, recycling all dollars. Dz„‡‹‰dz‰”‡‡Š‹•™‘” of our aluminum cans, of course. and personal life ‘—ǯ˜‡ƒŽ”‡ƒ†› ‘˜‹ ‡†‡–Šƒ– ‡‡†–‘ I heard that you heat your home with a get a pellet stove for my house. Can you tell certainly suggest that he cares about doing pellet stove fueled by cornȄis this true? his part. me what you would like to see Denison doing with respect to sustainability? Though Sustainability was not the core What are you doing here at Denison to motive for heating our home by burning What I'd like to see the idealistic community of make a difference in campus corn, for nearly four years now we have done sustainability? Denison University doing is 100% so. We purchased our used corn/pellet stove participation in Sustainability 100% of the As a Shift Supervisor of Building Services, we to offset the cost of heating our home with time. Looking at trash and evaluating reinforce the practices of recycling and the propane. Not only did we accomplish that recyclables should be everyone's responsibility handling of materials to be recycled through goal, we saw a decrease in electric bill as well all of the time. Due to staff shortages, our the program honed by Barb Burgess. Since and found that corn generated heat warmer Building Assistants do not have the time to my coming to DU in 2003, the recycling than that of the blown air propane furnace. sort through everyone's trash, distinguishing program has had tremendous growth and it The corn heats about 90% of our split level recycling material from waste. Just the other has been interesting to watch. We continue style home which is the great benefit of night, I filled in for staff and cover-cleaned a to stress to staff the importance of collecting gravity heating. My wife especially enjoys building, sorting paper from the trash when a recyclable material and its delivery to the the dry heat burning corn creates. recycling container was less than 12" away from the trash container. 100% Participation recycling barn for continued processing Initially, corn per bushel was about $2.50 and 100% of the time. Disappointingly, not a day goes by where we was cheaper than wood pellets. Trying to do not see trash containers with materials purchase product at the right time of the that should have been recycled; where an year when prices are low is the interesting individual did not take responsibility to sort

DU Classifieds and Ride Board Re-launched Many of you have indicated an interest in Looking for a slightly used dorm Feel free to post requests and place personal carpooling and sharing rides to save money refrigerator? Want to get rid of a box of items in the Classifieds. Buyer beware. Posts and even to be a little greener. You have office supplies? Selling your iPod Classic? will remain for two weeks or until you remove been frustrated that no easy way existed to Post it on the DU Classifieds. them. connect with others. That has now ended. Denison is re-launching its Ride-Share The DU Classifieds is our own internal As with the Ride Board, the DU Classifieds can board. Students, faculty, and staff can now Craigslist. Well all know that Craigslist has be accessed at: http://forums.denison.edu/ place a note on the Ride Board requesting become an effective way to get rid of and In order to post an item or respond to a request rides and/or offering rides. find items on the cheap so why not have our own? you will be prompted to sign-in with your The Ride Board is part of the myDenison username and password which are the same as Bulletin Board and can be accessed by going The opportunities are endless with over what you use for myDenison. to: http://forums.denison.edu/ 2,900 members of the Denison community tuned inȄyour bound to find a home for the Both the Ride Board and the DU Classifieds are Posts can be for rides to local shopping item you no longer need. a wonderful way to grow our community by centers, home for breaks, or even for making Denison more open, engaging, and arranging carpool groups. Postings to the Of course there are a few stipulations. sustainable. Ride Board will remain for four weeks or Most importantly, Denison-owned items Please send comments or suggestions to until the date the ride was needed has may not be sold to anyone. Surplus [email protected]. I am sure that there will expired. consumables such as office supplies may be posted to be given away. Denison be some glitches so your feedback is critical. Š‡ˆ—†‘‡•ǯ–•–‘’–Š‡”‡–Š‘—‰ŠǤ‡‹•‘ equipment such as furniture, electronics, and

is also re-launching its Classified Ads forum lab equipment may be placed on the DU page. Classifieds, but should be approved first by Kathy Arnholt.

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Volume 2, Issue 4 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator December, 2010 Important Dates Recycling Refresher Recycling has become one of As the new year approaches and All of these recyclables can be DECEMBER those behaviors that we tend to Denison ramps up to compete in placed in recycling bins around do more often when people are the National RecycleMania campus. Additionally each office Licking River watching because none of us ‘’‡–‹–‹‘ǡŽ‡–ǯ•ƒŽŽƒ‡ƒ‡™ on campus should have grey and Watershed Summit want to commit the faux-pas of ‡ƒ”ǯ•”‡•‘Ž—–‹‘–‘”‡ › Ž‡ black receptacles. The black one Dec Burton Morgan Hall being caught tossing that water moreȄboth on campus and in our is for trash and the grey one is 9 Welsh Hills Room bottle, the printed email, or the homes. for recyclables. 7:00pm cardboard box into the trash. ‘™†‘™‡„‡‰‹ǫ‡–ǯ•ˆ‹”•– If any of this is confusing to you, Environmental Studies The problem is: what we are remember what WET & DRY please take the time to consult Senior Project doing when people are not mean. the on-line guide to campus Dec PresentationsȄBarney watching us? The sad reality is recycling: 15 WET that we still recycle only about Davis Board Room Plastics #1 and #2 30% of what we could be http://www.denison.edu/about/ (Bottles & Containers) recycling on campus. This means campus%20recycling% Aluminum and Metal Cans Faculty & Staff Holiday that many of us are not paying 20guide%20final.pdf Aluminum Foil LuncheonȄBurton Dec attention to what we are doing Glass Bottles Morgan Atrium 15 with our waste items. I want to

11:30amȄ1:30pm believe and I have to believe that TAKE THE RECYCLING QUIZ DRY none of us are choosing not to (answers below) Mixed Office Paper recycle. 1. Where does wet paper go? (All Colors) 2. Where does an empty/dry So what is happening? I think the Newspaper water bottle go? majority of campus still does not Magazines/Catalogues 3. Can you recycle glossy completely understand our Paperboard paper from posters and recycling system of WET & DRY. (eg.Cereal Boxes) magazines? Thus, when confused ,we toss Cardboard 4. Can you recycle items with items into the trash hoping that Envelopes, Post-its, Index Cards food/liquids still in them?

someone, somewhere takes the

time to retrieve that item and No 4. 3.Yes; Recycling; 2.WET

They Said it First... then places it in the proper place. Recyling; DRY 1. Answers:

"The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is Residence Halls Reduce Water Use profitable." › —Ž‹ƒƒ‹•—Ǯ͙͚ capita with each resident using 21 gallons/day. - Confucius –—†‡–•ƒŽŽ‘˜‡”‡‹•‘ǯ• Water Wars seeks to encourage awareness of campus strived to be a little consumption as well as promoting environmentally "We are monumentally more environmentally conscious thinking in everyday activities. This year distracted by a pervasive conscious this November brought a change by shortening the competition technological culture that as they reduced their water from one month to a little over a week. By doing appears to have a life of its own, consumption in a competition called Water Wars. this, Green Team wanted the event to remain fresh one that insists on our full Residence halls and satellite houses worked toward ‹’‡‘’Ž‡ǯ•‹†•ƒ†–Š‡”‡ˆ‘”‡„”‹‰‘ƒ•–”‘‰‡” attention, continually seducing the goal of reducing their overall water use by 10% ‘‹–‡–ǤDzŠ‹•›‡ƒ”™ƒ•ƒ‰‘‘†–”ƒ•‹–‹‘›‡ƒ” us and pulling us away from the to win the grand prize: Š‹–ǯ• ”‘œ‡—•–ƒ”†. The from just going through the motions of the opportunity to experience results were successful with over half of the competition to transforming it into something more directly the true meaning of our residence halls and satellite houses decreasing their ”‡Ž‡˜ƒ––‘•–—†‡–•ǡdz ”‡‡‡ƒ ‘-president own lives." water consumption. Gilpatrick won the overall Nicki Jimenez commented. The Green Team hopes competition by surpassing the 10% mark and Curtis that with the changes made this year future -Al Gore West won the category of lowest water use per c ompetitions will continue to improve in numbers. PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 Q & A: Artificial vs. Live Trees

Question: ‡–ǯ•„”‡ƒ–Š‹•†‘™ƒ Artificial trees are the bit. A live tree other option to consider. As my family begins to celebrate the certainly evokes the They can be shipped right Holiday Season we are faced with either season with its to your door and don't buying a live tree or an artificial treeȄwhich pine-fresh smell, and need to be watered or is the more eco-friendly choice? families often enjoy pruned. The key things to the annual ritual of consider when deciding Response: picking out the perfect on an artificial tree tree. Before strapping that huge tree to your are whether you have Not everyone goes for pink One could make compelling arguments for car roof, however, you must consider the room to store it and if you can find a tree that or against either choice. As a child, my following: hasn't been shipped from overseas. family always had an artificial tree. There PROS PROS was a certain amount of comfort in the 1. Biodegradable 1. Can be used year after year traditions that surrounded putting the tree 2. Can be mulched, composted, or made into 2. Less expensive Dz–‘‰‡–Š‡”ǡdz•–”‹‰‹‰–Š‡Ž‹‰Š–•ǡƒ† wood chips 3. Don't dry out hanging the ornaments. By the time it was 3. Christmas trees trap more carbon dioxide 4. Good for urban dwellers all said and done our tree always looked than other tree forests 5. Can be put up earlier in the season Dz”‡ƒŽdzƒ†™‡™‡”‡Šƒ’’›™‹–Š‘—”ƒ”–‹ˆ‹ ‹ƒŽ 4. Renewable piece of the holidays. Then came the 5. Smell terrific CONS Charlie Brown Christmas Special - Damn him 6. Can buy a living tree, which can be 1. Made mostly of plastics and metals, for making me realize the true meaning of planted after the holiday season including lead, that are not biodegradable the Christmas. 2. Often shipped long distances overseas CONS 3. Need to be stored every year THIS I petitioned the 1. Very few truly organic trees exist 4. Not as aesthetically pleasing TREE family to start a 2. Trees can be loaded with pesticides 5. Typically cost 5 times more upfront than a NEEDS new tradition of 3. Trees might be shipped across the country, real tree

YOU cutting down a live adding to fuel costs and air pollution tree. Christmas 4. Need to be watered regularly The best option is to choose what makes the came and went 5. Shed needles that will need to be cleaned most sense to you. Some years the spirit each year with a Fraser Fur in our living up regularly moves me and I buy a live potted tree then room decked with blinking colored lights 6. Trees are not flame retardant plant it after the season, other years I bring out and tinsel. This was all good and the family 7. You will need to determine what to do the saw, and this year I have two artificial trees was happy until...we became with your tree after its use and likely decorating my house (both of which are environmentalists. We then faced the transport it yourself hand-me-downs). same dilemma you face now Artificial vs 8. Not every community provides recycling Adapted from: www.mahalo.com/how-to-have-a- Live. options (Granville does!!!) green-christmas ˜‹”‘‡–ƒŽ–—†‹‡•”‡•‡–•ǥǤ Eight Environmental Studies seniors have Comparison of nuclear energy strategies by France and the United States dedicated their fall semesters to intensive Internship with the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association certification program projects of their own creation, completing the Exploration of Native American spiritual identity rooted in nature: implications for environmentalism core requirement for their ENVS major. Each Development of sustainable business models for central Ohio companies will speak for about 10 minutes on his or her experience, and there will be time for Assessment of green washing practices and student perceptions questions at the end. ENVS is providing lunch Investigation of contingent valuation methods for pricing of environmental impacts for this event as well. The projects are as Research on financial aspects of solar installation opportunities at Denison follows: Evaluation of Hunting Venture Fund project efficacy and recommendations for the future

Making Your Home More Energy Efficient ‘™ǯ•–Š‡–‹‡‘ˆ›‡ƒ”–Šƒ–›‘—•Š‘—Ž†„‡Ž‘‘‹‰–‘™‹–‡”‹œ‡›‘—”Š‘‡–‘ƒ‡‹–™ƒ”‡”ƒ†‘”‡ efficient. Once you start the process you might as well continue to look at how you can make each room of ›‘—”Š‘‡‘”‡‡‡”‰›‡ˆˆ‹ ‹‡–Ǥ‡”‹ ƒŽ‡ –”‹ ‘™‡”ǯ•gridSMART Happy Home program helps you identify areas in your home that you can address by making technological upgrades and by simple changes in how you use various appliances. Check it out at: www.gridsmartohio.com/happyhome

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Volume 2, Issue 3 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator November, 2010 Important Dates Denison Earns a B+ for Sustainability ‡‹•‘‹˜‡”•‹–›ǯ•’Ž‡†‰‡–‘‡˜‹”‘‡–ƒŽ•—•–ƒ‹ƒ„‹Ž‹–›Šƒ•„‡‡”‡ ‘‰‹œ‡†„›–Š‡—•–ƒ‹ƒ„Ž‡ NOVEMBERȄDECEMBER Endowments Institute (SEI). In October the SEI released its College Sustainability Report Card for 2011, which examines the sustainable practices of the top 300 sustainable colleges across the United States Holiday Food DriveȂ Nov 1 and in eight Canadian provinces. Donations accepted in to Alumni Relations Dec ‘”–Š‡–Š‹”†›‡ƒ”‹ƒ”‘™ǡ‡‹•‘Šƒ•”ƒ‹•‡†‹–•‰”ƒ†‡ǤŠ‹•›‡ƒ”–Š‡‰”ƒ†‡‹•ƒήǡ—’ˆ”‘Žƒ•–›‡ƒ”ǯ•- Office & Annual Fund 10 ƒ†‡‹•‘ǯ•ƒ”’Žƒ ‡•‹–•‡ ‘†Š‹‰Š‡•–ƒ‘‰Š‹‘ǯ•͙͟‘•–•—•–ƒ‹ƒ„Ž‡ ƒ’—•‡•Ǥ‡ƒ”‡’”‘—† OfficeȄBurton Morgan of our accomplishments, but realize that there is still a lot of work to be done. CL Herrick Lecture: Dr. Robert MalcuitȂ Olin Nov 9 Hall 311Ȅ5:00pm Make Your Thanksgiving Green Reprinted with Permission from the Licking County Office of Recycling & Litter Prevention Goodspeed Lecture Series: David Loy Nov With Thanksgiving local economy. Approximately lights off at home to conserve Burton Morgan Lecture 11 coming up, many of 28 billion pounds of edible food energy. HallȂ 7:30pm us are already trying is wasted each year. Make sure Make inexpensive and earth- to decide which of to make the best use of your friendly festive decorations Philosophy Coffee with Nov ”ƒ†ƒǯ•’‹‡ leftovers by eating them in the out of items already in your Joe RecchieȂ Phil Dept. 12 recipes to try this following days or by donating house or yard. A little glue and Knapp HallȄ3:30pm year. When considering all of the them to a local soup kitchen or some acorns and dried leaves Vail Series Concert: facets of your Thanksgiving, we shelter. can be used to make napkin Nov Pacifica String Quartet encourage you to also consider Cut down on electricity use by rings, candle holders, 14 Swasey Ȅ4:00pm the following tips to make your playing a board game or placemats feast festive, delicious, and enjoying a game of touch or lace Denison University Art eco-friendly: football outside if the weather cards more Collective Empty Bowls is nice instead of watching TV festive. Nov When purchasing food for your Soup SaleȂ Burton all day. 17 meal, try buying local or Morgan Welsh Hills Cut down on emissions by organic. Your meal will not RoomȄ11:30am traveling short distances or only be healthier and even inviting local friends or family Technology & tastier, but by buying local over. If you must travel, turn Community Lecture: Dec items you can also help your down the thermostats and Jimmy WalesȄSwasey 8 ChapelȄ7:30pm Institutional Advancement & Sodexo Sponsor Food Drives They Said it First... Institutional Advancement is holding its Annual Food Drive from now until December 10th. Food and Dzƒ”•ƒ†‡Ž‡ –‹‘•ƒ”‡„‘–Š–‘‘ monetary donations can be made at either the Alumni Relations Office or the Annual Fund Office - big and too small to matter in ‘–ŠŽ‘ ƒ–‡†‹–Š‡—”–‘‘”‰ƒ ƒŽŽǤ ƒ††‹–‹‘ǡ ™‹ŽŽ„‡ˆƒ ‹Ž‹–ƒ–‹‰–Š‡DzDrop off your Donations the long run. The daily work Daydz‘‡ ‡„‡”͟–Šˆ”‘͟ǣ͛͘ƒ-9:30am in front of Burton Morgan. –Šƒ–‰‘‡•‘ǡ‹–ƒ††•—’Ǥdz ‘†‡š‘‹••’‘•‘”‹‰‹–•ƒ—ƒŽDz ‡Ž’‹‰ ƒ†• ”‘••‡”‹ ƒdzˆ‘‘††”‹˜‡Ǥ‘ƒ–‹‘•‘ˆˆ‘‘† ƒ„‡ - Barbara Kingsolver (Animal taken to either dining hall until Thanksgiving break. Dreams) Each of us in the Denison community should consider helping those in need by making donations to Dz‘‡–‹‡•–Š‡“—‡•–‹‘•ƒ”‡ either of these food drive events. complicated and the answers ƒ”‡•‹’Ž‡Ǥdz Get New ǯ•by Recycling Your Old Christmas Lights

-Dr. Suess The Home Depot will give you a $3 coupon to buy LED xmas lights for each old set of lights you have!!! PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 A Visit with Dick JensenȄFlying J Farms

›ŽŽ‡ —‰ƒ–‡Ǯ͙͙ maple sugar forest, and a vegetable garden. There are five miles of paths meandering through the woods, as well as a lake and swimming pond.

All food on the farm is organic; cows are fed hay grown in the pasture, manure is used as a natural fertilizer, and no chemicals or Š‘”‘‡•ƒ”‡ƒ††‡†Ǥ˜‡”Ǥ ‡•‡ǯ• tractor and truck run on biodiesel produced from Denison dining hall waste.

An organic dinner event amid the sunflowers An advocate of locally produced food, Mr. at Flying J Farm. Jensen sells most of his meat and vegetables Although student focus is often on through community-supported agriculture to sustainability issues at Denison, the Ž‘ ƒŽˆƒ”‡”•ƒ”‡–•ǡ„—–Š‡Dz’”‡ˆ‡”•–‘•‡ŽŽ surrounding rural landscape affords us many †‹”‡ –Ž›–‘–Š‡’‡‘’Ž‡dzǤ Denison students volunteers at Flying J Farm. unique opportunities for sustainable living. •™‘”†‘ˆ”Ǥ ‡•‡ǯ•ˆƒ”ƒ†‹–• Ranging from nearby nature preserves to welcoming community atmosphere spread, it Š‹•™‘”†•ǡDz‘”‰ƒ‹ ‹•Œ—•––Š‡™ƒ›–‘‰‘dzǤ apple orchards, there are great has become more than just a farm. Every opportunities for students to escape Denison year, he puts on several events, including a Mr. Jensen often receives assistance from and enjoy their environmental surroundings. fall festival, mushroom hunt, and in volunteers, and would love any help from An opportunity no student should miss is a February, a Maple Sugar Festival. Denison students. If you would like to work ˜‹•‹––‘‹  ‡•‡ǯ• Ž›‹‰  ƒ”Ǥ• †”‘˜‡ Maintaining such an expansive farm is a large on his farm, go to his website and send him an up the gravelly drive, I was greeted by a undertaking, but the hard work is email indicating your interest to help! panting golden retriever and a bustling farm. worthwhile. For Mr. Jensen, it is more than ‹–Š‘˜‡”͚͘͝ƒ ”‡•‘ˆŽƒ†ǡ”Ǥ ‡•‡ǯ• farming, its providing healthy and local food http://www.flyingjfarm.com farm includes wheat, soy, corn, beef cattle, a produced in a way harmonious with nature.

Q & A: Water Wars Competition Recycling Update

sponsor the competition. ƒ•–›‡ƒ”ǯ•™‹‹‰ This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to dorm, Taylor House, reduced its water use by ”‹†‡ƒ”‘—†™‹–Š ‘––ƒ””‡––ǡ‡‹•‘ǯ• 31% using 22,000 gallons less water than the new Recycling and Trash Collection previous month. Operator. Our morning started at 6:30am as we unloaded cardboard boxes collected the The main reasons behind water conservation previous day. As the morning progressed I and this competition are threefold: was pleased to see the level of enthusiasm and energy Scott has towards his new job. Economic Ȃ In the 2009-2010 school year In just one month, he has identified problem Question: areas on campus and modified his Denison used over 41 million gallons of water at a cost of $285,400. collections process to improve our overall What is Water Wars and how do I win? campus operations and recycling rate. Environmental Ȃ Clean water is a Response: valuable resource to both the local and Through the course of the morning, I saw global community. As the effects of that many of our residence halls are doing a Each year, during the Fall, Denison students climate change are realized, the demand good job of getting recyclables into the living in the residence halls & satellite for fresh water will increase and put a proper receptacles, however, some halls are housing participate in a friendly campus strain on both ecosystems and still struggling with where to put items. competition called Water Wars. This water communities. Admittedly, I was disappointed to see that conservation competition pits dorm vs. Personal Ȃ Learning about water the trash leaving our academic buildings dorm to see which can reduce its water use ‘•‡”˜ƒ–‹‘ƒ†‘‡ǯ•‹†‹˜‹†—ƒŽ contains mostly recyclable office paper. All the most. environmental impact is a critical step in of us need to step up our efforts and be making positive personal behavioral conscientious when it comes to separating The Green Team, a campus environmental changes that can benefit everyone. organization, and the Physical Plant out our recyclables from our trash.

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 Sustainability Star Profile: Jill Uland Psychology Administrative Assistant Jill It's been great to find a channel for our hills with grass near the city dump, I find in sad Uland never used to really think much about kitchen scraps and know that the finished to think that the hills are filled with garbage „‡‹‰Dz‰”‡‡Ǥdz˜‡”–Š‡Žƒ•–›‡ƒ”ǡŠ‡”Šƒ„‹–• product will improve our soil content next rather than the solid earth. have changed dramatically as she has spring. We recycle anything that "fits" the embraced sustainability both on campus and description and have reduced our weekly What would you like to see Denison doing to in her personal life. garbage by more than half. My recycle bin is address campus sustainability? now heavier than what goes in the garbage I would like to see Denison move to support tote! I have stopped buying "Ziplock" plastic So what have you done in your personal more locally grown food sources. We are containers and use the restaurant take out and or work life to be more sustainable? fortunate to have great resources in Ohio for plastic instead. We also re-use glass jars beef, poultry and dairy products. A dream Sustainability is evolving in my life. I have which I have found work much better as a would be a sustainable green house that gave been influenced by friends, Denison and container for re-heating in the microwave at us fresh tomatoes in January! travel abroad. All of these sources have work. Simple changes such as carrying our made me more conscientious about what we own bags to the store, reusing copy paper on How do you think we could get more are using and eating. Thanks to this both sides, taking a mug rather than people to participate in our efforts summer's gardening program through Styrofoam have become a habit. From a (recycling, reusing campus resources, Denison, we now compost at home. food perspective, we buy local as much as sharing equipment, etc.)? possible. This is an on-going process as a college and ǯ†•ƒ›–Šƒ–›‘—Šƒ˜‡ ‡”–ƒ‹Ž›–ƒ‡–Š‡ community. We should continue to find ways sustainability bull by the horns so-to-speak. to reduce our waste/costs from all sides looking at what needs to be improved and Last year's visits by Robert Kenner, director then working collaboratively to help make it of Food Inc. and Michael Pollan had a direct happen. It takes time to form new habits and impact on the way I looked at eating. During it also comes from continuous reinforcement. I the Farmer's Market this summer, we made know that through my involvement with very few trips to the grocery store. If you can Denison I have changed my habits and certain take the time to reduce, recycle and re-use, viewpoints. it's a step back from the consumption mode Jill Uland takes a look at jar of compost during that we are accustomed to living. When you Keep Being Green Jill & Thanks for the great the Backyard Composting workshop. drive through large cities and you see huge work you are doing at Denison.

ITSȄGreener Technology = A Greener Denison When asked what ‡‹•‘ǯ•‡‹‰Š„‘”•‹‡‡†Ǥ During the ITS is continually working on ways to be more Information Technology aftermath of Katrina, donations of retired sustainable and more cost-effective. Services has done with equipment from Denison ITS helped libraries regards to Sustainability, ITS in the south struggling to meet the online DzŠ‡‡ˆˆ‘”–•‘ˆ –‘”‡†— ‡‡‡”‰› Director Lisa Bazley replied, needs of displaced citizens. This Fall, with consumption is evident even in the use of Dz ‘”›‡ƒ”•ǡ–Š‡‡’Ž‘›‡‡•‘ˆ ˆ‘”ƒ–‹‘the blessing of senior staff, we hope to assist screen savers on desktops. Exploration into Technology Services have worked with each local Ohio school districts with their own 'virtual computer labs' could yield a reduction other and in dependently to be good ‘’—–‡”‡‡†•Ǥdz in the number of computers on campus or a stewards of our precious resources. This, shift to the use of thinner/leaner even before sustainability was in the lime- It should also be noted that when computers computers. There is no end game to good Ž‹‰Š–Ǥdz can not be donated or reused, ITS makes stewardship in our department. It just keeps sure that computers and computer evolving." says Bazley. Dz‡™‡”‡‡‡–‘–Š‡Š‘ƒ”†•‘ˆ’ƒ’‡”™ƒ•–‡ components are recycled responsibly. left behind at public printers and in 2008, we The Sustainability Office would also like to implemented a print management solu- Over the last few years, ITS has been give special thanks to the ITS staff for assisting tion. Since that time, consumption of paper purchasing computers and monitors that are in the development of the Sustainability at public printers has declined by over 25%, Dz EPEAT certified, meaning that they are the website and for the countless hours of time said Bazley. most environmentally-friendly computers on spent providing support to the market. http://www.epeat.net/ a the new Sustainability When asked about what they do with old Coordinator who was ‘’—–‡”•‹•ƒ”‡•’‘†‡†ǡDz‡•’‘•‹„Ž‡ These computers tend to use less resources struggling to learn the ins disposal or re-use of retired computers and in during the manufacturing process and are and outs of Denison their parts continues to be essential to our also more energy-efficient than non-EPEAT computingȄincluding how commitment to the environment and also to certified computers. to use a Mac.

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Volume 2, Issue 2 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator October, 2010 Important Dates How to Spend Your October Days

› —Ž‹ƒƒ‹•—Ǯ͙͚ baseball diamonds, benches, new costumes, go to a thrift OCTOBER picnic tables, soccer fields and store or vintage store and pick October is a access to Raccoon Creek. On out already used items to create Women Studies beautiful month your way there make sure to pick a unique piece. Or talk to friends Alumni Conference: An filled with Oct up a cup of coffee or cider from and come up with a design from Intergenerational changing leaves, 7-9 River Road Coffeehouse! clothing you already own. This Dialogue about Social cooling temperatures and hot ™ƒ››‘—™‘ǯ–„‡™ƒ•–‹‰ Change. apple cider. What better way to Pick Your Own Apples: Go on an resources and can guarantee enjoy it than to interact locally adventure with a group of friends Art for Climate Action a that nobody else will have your and make your autumnal and pick your own local apples 350.org Work Party Oct costume. activities more eco-friendly. and pumpkins. There are many Common Hour on the 7 Here are a few options for orchards available near Granville -Decorations: Instead of buying A-Quad sustainable fall festivities: that allow you to do this new plastic decorations, opt for including: natural items such as pumpkins Green Chemistry Get Outside: Enjoy the reds, Seminar by Dr. Emily and gourds to set around. After Oct oranges, browns and yellows of -Granville Orchard: 2770 ReichertȄOlin 114 Halloween is over, these can be 8 Š‹‘ǯ•ƒ—–—™‹–ŠƒŠ‹‡ Lancaster Road, Granville (One 4:30pm tossed in the compost pile to through nearby natural areas. A mile south of Granville) Open reduce waste. You can also few of the best and closest are: The Homestead Fall daily, 9 am to 6 pm make your own decorations out of old milk jugs and egg cartons Open HouseȄ The Oct -Spring Valley Nature Preserve: -Windy Hill Apple Farm: 1740 for a more creative green Homestead 4:00pmȄ 8 This gorgeous area of land Sportsman Club Road, Newark approach to the holiday. 7:00pm consists of 45 acres of property, (Go north on Route 661 about 6 Arbor Day in the Fall an open field and hiking trails. A miles) Open daily 9 am to 5 pm Oct Tree Planting Event short drive or walk from Denison, 14 -Branstool Orchard: 5895 A-QuadȄTime: TBA it is located at 1539 Columbus Rd., Granville. Johnstown-Utica Road, Utica. National Campus Open Mon-Sat 9 am to 6 pm and Sustainability DayȄ Oct -Raccoon Valley Park: About a 20 Sunday 10 am to 6 pm Campus-wide Events 20 minute walk from campus, (right down River Road) this Halloween: recreational park includes -Costumes: Rather than buying They Said it First... "When we tug at a single thing in Campus Struggles with Composting nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world." As most of you already know, composting. Denison and Sodexo implemented a So far the limited feedback we have received has - John Muir post-consumer composting been mixed. It is clear that we have not done a program this year. The program was developed in Dz ˆ™‡—•‡ˆ—‡Ž–‘‰‡–‘—”’‘™‡”ǡ good job educating everyone about the process or response to increased interest by the student body we are living on our capital and the benefits of composting on campus. exhausting it rapidly. This to find ways for Denison to be a more method is barbarous and environmentally sustainable institution. In the coming weeks expect to see more wantonly wasteful. A far better Both dining halls now have composting bins located information about campus composting and please consider taking the time to properly dispose of your way would be to avail ourselves next to the carts where students put their dirty food waste. After all, the compost is used on the of the sun's rays." dishes. These bins are labeled with what can and campus community garden and our athletic fields. If cannot be composted. The problem is that as a -Nikola Tesla you have suggestions, concerns, or ideas please whole, we are not really taking advantage of this contact Jeremy KingȄ[email protected] opportunity. Less than 5% of students are PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 Green Team Paints Bins Arbor Day in the Fall

Normally the last Friday in April is the day that we associate with Arbor Day. Denison is bucking that trend by creating its own Fall Arbor Day event. What better time to celebrate trees than in the Fall when their autumn glory is ‡„‡”•‘ˆ–Š‡ ”‡‡‡ƒǡ‡‹•‘ǯ••–—†‡–‡˜‹”‘‡–ƒŽ displayed for all of us to see group, spent the last two Fridays relabeling the recycling bins outside and enjoy? of the residence halls. On October 15th, Denison Over the past couple of years, the old labels on the bins had worn off will be planting some new ƒ†•–—†‡–•ƒŽŽƒ”‘—† ƒ’—•™‡”‡ ‘’Žƒ‹‹‰–Šƒ––Š‡›†‹†ǯ– trees on the Academic Quad know what to put where. The new painted labels make it fairly to replace some of the obvious what types of materials we can be recycling here on campus. larger trees that have graced campus for many decades Hopefully, you have also noticed that many of the other recycling but have recently „‹•ƒ”‘—† ƒ’—•Šƒ˜‡„‡‡Žƒ„‡Ž‡†™‹–Š™Šƒ–Dzdzƒ†Dzdz succumbed to mother mean. To give you a refresherȄdzdz”‡ › Ž‹‰‘ ƒ’—•‹ Ž—†‡•ǡ nature. One of the species cans, bottles, and plastics #1 & #2. Dry recycling includes cardboard, we hope to bring back to campus is the stately American Elm. office paper, envelops, paperboard, post-its, newspaper, and Decimated by Dutch Elm disease, this tree has seen a recent magazines. For a complete list of what we can and cannot recycle on resurgence in other areas around the country. campus please consult the campus guide to recycling: The Fall Arbor Day event is part of our overall program to become a

Tree Campus USA designate college through the Arbor Day http://www.denison.edu/about/campus%20recycling%20guide%20fi Foundation: http://www.arborday.org/programs/treeCampusUSA/ nal.pdf

ƬǣŠƒ–ǯ•Šƒ’’‡‹‰–‘‘—”–”‡‡• Campus Sustainability Day

Question: efforts. Denison will also be replacing every October 20th is National Campus cut tree with new trees. Sustainability Day. This is a time to ǯ˜‡‘–‹ ‡†ƒŽ‘–‘ˆ‘—”–”‡‡•„‡‹‰ —– celebrate all of our efforts that have helped down on campus latelyȄwhat is going on? To help Facilities and for that matter our to make Denison greener and more campus trees, a new Tree Committee has sustainable. It is also a Day to acknowledge Response: been created to ensure that the Denison what lies ahead of us in our efforts to push treescape is maintained and that we are forward as an institution committed to Old Man Winter was not kind last year and replanting species that are most suitable for environmental awareness and action. many of our beautiful campus trees took a this climate and that are native to Ohio. The dining halls will be offering a beating. Some of the cutting and pruning sustainable and locally-sourced menu on the you have seen on campus is in response to If you are interested in being part of this 20th and to encourage our faculty and staff winter damage and is part of a regular committee or if you have suggestions for the to join students in the dining halls, Sodexo maintenance program administered by the maintenance of our trees, please contact will be offering a free meal to Denison Campus Ground and Roads Department. Jeremy King in the Office of Sustainability. employees. To get your free meal ticket

›‘—ǯŽŽ‡‡†–‘•–‘’„›–Š‡ˆˆ‹ ‡‘ˆ However, the large majority of trees that Sustainability (Doane 304) on Monday the have been cut down in recent months is the 18thȄmore details to follow. result of a number of campus construction projects. Nobody likes to see healthy trees The Office of Sustainability will have an being cut, but sadly it is the result of the information table set-up outside of Slayter overall campus plan to provide the best –‘•Š‘™ ƒ•‡‡‹•‘ǯ• facilities and opportunities for students. In sustainability initiatives every case, the Facilities Department has and to answer questions worked with contractors to limit the num- about campus ber of trees affected by our construction sustainability at Denison.

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Dz Šƒ˜‡„‡‡ƒ‡„‡”‘ˆ–Š‡‡™ ”‹‡†• ‹›‹†Ǥdz Food Coop. Last year I organized discussions for the Life Local Granville lecture series by With respect to sustainability, what do you Simple Living from Columbus. At work I hope to see happening on campus? encourage people to think about the paper Dz ƒ”‡ƒŽŽ›Ž‘‘‹‰ˆ‘”™ƒ”†–‘–Š‡†ƒ›–Šƒ– consumption versus usefulness. I developed Denison and Sodexo use local foods. The the idea of bookmarks, for example, instead recycling is starting to take a foothold but of big programs for events. People rarely there are still mountains of recyclable material save programs so they are pretty much single ‰‘‹‰‹–‘–Š‡Žƒ†ˆ‹ŽŽǤdz -use unless the info contained is useful going forward. I make pdfs for programs to use for ƒ—”‹‡ǯ••’‹”‹–ƒ† ‘‹–‡––‘Š‡Ž’‹‰ their advertising, so even though they do Denison find a greener path for the future is print some posters, a part of their promotion uplifting to say the least. As the Sustainability ƒ„‡†‹‰‹–ƒŽǤdz Coordinator, I have had many opportunities to Laurie MacKenzie-”ƒ‡ǡ‡‹•‘ǯ• work directly with Laurie developing logos, Why do you do this? graphic design guru takes sustainability labels, and other materials for my efforts on seriously in both her work here at Denison DzŠ‡ ™ƒ•͚͘ǡ ˆ‘—†‘—–Š‘™— Š‰”ƒ‹ campus. She always has a smile on her face and in her personal life. She is the driving one beef cow eats compared to how many when I come into the office and I think that is force behind Office Services Freecycle area people it would feed. It started me thinking „‡ ƒ—•‡•Š‡‘™• ǯŽŽƒ•Š‡”–‘†‡•‹‰ in the basement of Doane. about my consumption, made me decide something that helps to educate our

against meat eating. Going to Kalamazoo in ‘—‹–›ƒ„‘—–‡‹•‘ǯ• ‘‹–‡––‘ What are you doing at Denison and at home the 70s meant being involved in social and environmental sustainability. to be more environmentally sustainable? political activism. That kind of conscious We are certainly making progress and it is in activism has been the basis of my community Dz ›Š‘‡ǡ –”›–‘„‡ƒ ‘• ‹‘—• large part to Sustainability Stars like Laurie. ‹˜‘Ž˜‡‡–Ǥdz consumer. I use cfls, turn lights off, eat Thanks for all that you do Laurie! vegetarian recycle everything I can, eat local, Dz‘†‘—„–ǡ„‡‹‰‹–Š‡„—•‹‡••‘ˆ—•‹‰ ƒ˜‘‹†„—›‹‰–Š‹‰• †‘ǯ–‡‡†Ǥ ‘—” ‘Ǧ ’ƒ’‡”ǡ’—–•›Dz”‡†— ‡ǡ”‡ › Ž‡ǡ”‡-—•‡dz–‘ -Sustainability Coordinator Jeremy King munity I try to connect people so they share –Š‡–‡•–Ǥ‡‹•‘ǯ• ‘‹–‡––‘—•‡ –Š‡‹””‡•‘—” ‡•Ǥdz recycled content paper has been a good step Building Services Greening Up & Cleaning Up Campus The Denison Building Services team are the and rags. They also are the front line for we produce on campus and ensuring that left- men and women behind the scenes that most of our recycling efforts on campus. over items either get recycled to given to those keep our campus clean, green, and inviting. When we put recyclables into containers on in need. Whether it is in the dorms, in academic campus it is usually Building Services that buildings or at campus eventsȄBuilding makes sure these are collected properly and So next time you see a member of the Building Services is constantly working to make sure kept out of the regular trash. Services staff express your gratitude for the that waste and recyclables are taken care of hard work they are doing and their continued and that the areas in which we work, study, During large campus events its Building efforts to make Denison a greener and cleaner and live are maintained as healthy and safe Services again that handles the logistics of place. environments. making sure we have recycling bins readily available. For many of you studentsȄ›‘—ǯŽŽ„‡•– identify with the Building Services staff as Most recently, the Building Services Team those friendly people who greet you in the partnered with the Purchasing Office to hallways and bathrooms of your dorm or ‘†— –‡‹•‘ǯ•—”’Ž—• ‘‘†•ƒŽ‡†‘™ possibly the people who stumble upon you at the Heating Plant. For two straight days during one of your late night study sessions they gathered and organized surplus in that remote corner of your favorite furniture and equipment so that these items secluded room on campus. could be donated to local charities and/or sold. This prevented thousands of pounds of So what are they doing to green up Denison? goods from being thrown into a landfill. For one, they use eco-friendly cleaning •—’’Ž‹‡•–Šƒ–†‘ǯ– ‘–ƒ‹–‘š‹  Š‡‹ ƒŽ• What else do they do? They are the driving and have switched to using microfiber mops force behind Operations Move-Out and Some of the thousands of items recovered during Move-In. Both aimed at reducing the waste the annual Operation Move-Out event.

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Volume 2, Issue 1 Jeremy King³Campus Sustainability Coordinator September, 2010 Important Dates While You Were Away...

SEPTEMBERȄOCTOBER As you begin menus. With food quality taking dry your clothes by checking out this academic center stage in the news as of clothes drying racks from the Summer Science year, you will Žƒ–‡ǡ‹–ǯ•‰‘‘†–‘‘™–Šƒ– Service Centers. Symposium Sept hopefully Sodexo is doing its part to provide Curtis Veggie Room 1 notice a healthy, high quality foods that –Š‡ ‘‹‰™‡‡•ǡ‡‹•‘ǯ• 11:00amȄ2:30pm number of support the local economy and first Bike Share program will be positive that are grown in ways that launched thanks to a Hunting Dz‡ Š‘Ž‘‰›Ƭ changes that took place on maintain the local environment. Environmental Venture Fund ‘—‹–›dz’‡‹‰ Sept campus during the summer to Look for signs and labels in the grant and the hard work of the Convocation Speaker 7 help make our campus more dining halls that describe these Bandersnatch. Steven Berlin Johnson environmentally sustainable. new foods and the farms from The Venture Fund also provided Swasey Chapel 8:00pm which they come. ‡ǯ˜‡•™‹– Š‡†–‘ ‘’Ž‡–‡Ž› resources to start a composting Summer Scholar –”ƒ›Ž‡••†‹‹‰ƒ†™‡ǯ˜‡ You may also have noticed new program in the Brownstones and Symposium Sept 9 implemented a comprehensive washers and dryers in the Sunsets which will make its Curtis Veggie Room composting program that residence halls. The Business debut in October. 11:30amȄ1:30pm includes most of the food waste Services Office at Denison made This summer Denison completed generated in both Curtis and the decision to replace the old Anderson Science its very first Greenhouse Gas Huffman dining halls. inefficient machines with Energy Lecture: Elizabeth Sept Inventory. You can view the Star and Water Wise certified LoftusȄSwasey Chapel 16 inventory results online at the To that end, Denison now has a products. These new machines 8:00pm following link: Class II composting license from use less water, energy, and Dz‡ Š‘Ž‘‰›Ƭ the Ohio EPA that allows us to detergent while still maintaining http://www.denison.edu/sustain ‘—‹–›dz‡ –—”‡ǣ compost this food waste and use Sept the ability to clean your clothesȄ ability/energy_and_water.html Hubert Dreyfus the rich organic material in our 20 even if you only wash them once Burton Morgan Lecture campus gardens and on our a month! Yes, it now costs an HallȄ8:00pm athletic fields. extra $.25/load, but you can cram in 40% more clothes in these Gardening Workshop The Sodexo team has worked ƒ Š‹‡••‘‹–ǯ•ƒ –—ƒŽŽ› Š‡ƒ’‡” Campus Gardens Sept very hard this summer to find than before. Even better, you can 5:00pm 21 more local and sustainably Ȃ †‘–Š‡Dz‰”‡‡dzƒ†ˆ”‡‡–Š‹‰–‘ sourced foods to include in their

They Said it First... "If it can't be reduced, reused, Operation Move-In A Success repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or With members of the DU Football Team helping out, composted, then it should be in-coming First-Year students moved into their new restricted, redesigned or †‹‰•™‹–Šˆ‡™’”‘„Ž‡•ǤŠƒ–ǯ•‘”‡ǡ–Š‡ƒŒ‘”‹–›‘ˆ removed from production." Denison students took advantage of the designated

- Berkeley Ecology Center cardboard recycling areas located next to the residence halls to discard their empty boxes and Dz‡ Š‘Ž‘‰‹ ƒŽ’”‘‰”‡••Šƒ• packages. It was refreshing to see piles of cardboard merely provided us with more vs. piles of trash in the dumpsters. A big thanks to all efficient means for going of you who chose to recycle your waste. „ƒ ™ƒ”†•ǤDz Gardening Workshop³Growing a Winter Crop -Aldous Huxley When: 5pm³6pm Tuesday September 21 Where: Campus Community Gardens PAGE 2 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies

Adapted from www.livescience.com of newsprint and booksȄ–Š‹Dz‹†Ž‡dz energy produced by fossil fuels. in flexible and foldable form. 3 Hydrogen fuel cell usage has been touted Š‹•›‡ƒ”ǯ• 9 CO2 Injection that will allow us to as a pollution-free alternative to using campus capture and store CO2 emissions in fossil fuels. They make water by theme is underground reservoirs thus keeping it combining hydrogen and oxygen. In the Technology & out of the atmosphere. process, they generate electricity. Community. 8 Bioremediation which has plants and 2 Desalination could be the solution to At first glance microbes cleaning up after us. global fresh water shortages. This it might be Essentially they take in toxins that we process removes the salt from seawater. difficult to leave behind and turn them into 1 Biodiesel/Bio Fuels. You can make oil draw an immediate connection between non-toxic molecules. from just about any carbon-based waste. Sustainability and Technology. However, as 7 Green Roofs. While not necessarily a From corn to animal waste it can all be we begin to think about technology and our Dz‡™dz–‡ Š‘Ž‘‰›ǡ”‘‘ˆ–‘’• ‘˜‡”‡† converted to fuel. The test will be finding use of it, it becomes quite clear that with plants absorb heat, taken in CO2, a starter material that is readily technology has not only had dramatic effects reduce storm water runoff, and reduce accessible and can create more energy on our sense of community, but has most the need to use air conditioning to cool than is used to make/process it. certainly had huge impacts, both positive buildings. and negative, on our environment. As we 6 Wave and Tide Power. With 70% of the Of course, as with any new technology, there address issues such as the Gulf oil spill and Earth covered by oceanȄit makes some will be societal and economic issues to global climate change, technology will sense to take advantage of waves and consider. I think it is safe to say that the ultimately play pivotal role. tides to generate electrical power. future is certainly going to be interesting. 5 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. Each The Top 10 list below will give you a day, oceans absorb enough heat from sampling of some environmental the sun to equal the thermal energy technologies that might take center stage in contained in 250 billion barrels of oil. the years to come. 4 Solar Power has been around for decades, however, the technology is just 10 Electronic Paper that will take the place now allowing solar to compete with

Q & A: CompostingȄŠƒ–ǯ•–Šƒ–ƒ„‘—– The Year Ahead

At Denison, this process is new and we want This year promises to be an exciting year as to take it slowly so that we can do it right and Denison continues to implement more do it in a way that makes the most sense sustainability-based initiatives. Here are logistically. some planned and current projects:

Our system is set-up in such a way that we Campus Bike-Share rely on natural processes and very little technological inputs. This means that it Senior Apartment Composting generally takes six months to a year to turn New Solar PV Array food scraps into enriched compost. In order to keep our system functioning properly we More Opportunities for Recycling Question: can only include certain easily compostable items. A New and Improved D.U.R.P. What can and cannot be composted in our new composting program? COMPOSTABLES Improvements to the Campus Community Garden Response: FRUITS, VEGETABLES, PASTAS, BREADS, Tree Campus USA Designation COFFEE GROUNDS, TEA BAGS, & NAPKINS Composting is the best way to deal with An Eco-Rep Program for Residence Halls food scraps. There are a number of ITEMS TO LEAVE OUT Over the course of this year there will be different ways to compost and a lot of differing opinions on what can and cannot many opportunities to participate in MEATS, DAIRY PRODUCTS, OILS, & DRINKS be composted. The one thing on which activities related to campus sustainability.

everyone does agree is that compost You are all encouraged to be a part of the Contact the Office of Sustainability or Sodexo if process. happens! you have any questions about composting.

Be a DU Sustainability Facebook fan: Go Green Big Red PAGE 3 THE G REENSHEET VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 Sustainability Star Profile: Nicki Jimenez I remember when I was in fourth grade and I ’ƒ”–‡”‡†™‹–Š‹„„› ”‡‡œ‡ȋǯ͙͘Ȍˆ‘”–Š‹• Œ—•– ‘—Ž†ǯ–™ƒ‹––‘„‡ƒ›‡ƒ”‘Ž†‡”„‡ ƒ—•‡ project and we developed it because this is the middle-schoolers could participate in a only place on campus that a lot of students do summer program at the organic farm in my their own cooking and produce food waste. We town. When I joined the program, we got to saw this as an opportunity to reduce waste and help with farm work and go on environ- contribute to the compost that will fuel the mental education field trips. I enjoyed this community garden. There was also already and thought the work was so important that I some student demand for composting in the stayed on to become an intern and farm staff senior apartments. This semester, I hope to during high school. My love for distribute the materials and get students environmental and sustainability issues composting! In the long run, I hope this project began here and I continue to devote my will allow students to develop sustainable energies to food/sustainable agriculture habits that will stay with them beyond issues. Denison. Denison President Dale Knobel(left) and Gilpatrick Center co-chairs Dr. Jim Pletcher (right) and Dr. Joan Can you tell us a little bit about the new What is one thing that you would like to see Krone (second from right) congratulate Nicole Jimenez '12 for winning the prestigious Udall ‰”‘—’›‘—ƒ†‹ ‘ƒ†‘Žˆ‹Ǯ͙͚•–ƒ”–‡† Denison do, that it currently isn't doing, with Scholarship. The Udall award honors future last year called PEAS? regards to sustainability? environmental leaders; Jimenez was one of just 17 Sophomores in the nation awarded the honor. PEAS was born from a vision that Nicco and I –Š‹–Šƒ–”‹‰Š–‘™‹–ǯ•‹’‘”–ƒ–ˆ‘” had about creating a way for students to Denison to be focusing on sustainability Junior Nicki Jimenez is a student-leader on directly experience sustainable farming and improvements that will pay back over time. environmental issues at Denison. She is an to draw on the wealth of knowledge about Investing in these kinds of measures will boost Environmental Studies major with minors in that subject that is already thriving in Central the positive view of sustainability as Chemistry and Music , is the Co-President of Ohio. something that is beneficial financially to the the Green Team and DURP, and is a founding institution and not just something we have to member of a new campus groupȄPeople You're spearheading the new Senior make sacrifices for and spend money on. For Endorsing Agricultural Sustainability (PEAS). Apartment Composting program can you this reason I think that investing in changes to tell us what prompted you to develop this the heating system, especially in the dorms, is What first got you interested in project? What do you hope to accomplish? something I would like to see Denison do. environmental and sustainability issues? Purchasing Puts Its Green Foot Forward Purchasing Guide to help other campus offices and departments make environmentally and socially responsible purchasing decisions.

http://www.denison.edu/sustainability/sustai nable%20%20purchasing%20policy.pdf

What you may not already know is that they The Denison Purchasing Office has been a also coordinate the reuse and repurposing of huge ally in the sustainability movement on Denison surplus furniture and equipment campus. An office of three, these dedicated ™Š‹ Š‡ƒ•™‡†‘ǯ–‡‡†–‘ƒ‡ƒ• Chemistry equipment from the Ebaugh employees of Denison work tirelessly to many new purchases. This ultimately saves Renovation Project donated to a local serve the campus community. the college money and reduces our public high school this summer . environmental footprint. Coordinating the majority of purchases schools and organizations and coordinated the made by the college is no easy task yet that The office also tries to donate items no donation of hundreds of pieces of scientific is exactly what Ronni Hintz, Kathy Arnholt longer needed by the college. This past equipment and electronic equipment that and Mary-Ann Ake do while also continually summer , there was an abundance of otherwise would have found its way to a exploring products that are sustainably outdated and unused items uncovered landfill. produced and companies that are socially during the renovation of both Fellows and responsible. We should also give props to Ronni Hintz for Ebaugh. The easy thing to do would have her ongoing efforts to improve campus food been to simply recycle what we could and to Over the course of the last few months operations by encouraging Sodexo to provide toss the rest in the trash. However, Purchasing helped to develop a Sustainable more sustainably sourced foods. Kathy Arnholt took the time to contact local

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