Third Edition

Your Guide to an Eco-Friendly Collegiate Lifestyle Welcome to Sustainable Stanford!

“Setting an example is not the main means of Certified as a business, Stanford has been in the highest influencing others; it is the only means.” tier for overall leadership in in North America four of the past five years (http://greenreportcard.org/). As we —Albert Einstein continue to seek innovative and lasting solutions to reduce our environmental footprint, we invite you, the most important elcome to Stanford—a campus that cares deeply stakeholder, to be an active part of that journey. Wabout responsible and sustainable resource use. We believe sustainability means meeting the needs of today This guide has been created by your fellow students with help in a manner that does not compromise the ability to meet from campus staff to provide you with some easy tips for an the needs of the future. eco-friendly lifestyle on the Farm. The actions your friends take and share with you as they welcome you to campus complement While Stanford researchers are uncovering policy and the efforts underway by administration and staff. In this guide technological solutions to , greener buildings, you will see examples of specific accomplishments in campus and , Stanford staff members are leading by sustainability, and things you can do deepen their impact. example and using environmental sustainability as a criterion in all aspects of university operations. With your enthusiasm, support, and creativity, we look forward to moving even closer to achieving a shared vision-—a truly sustainable Stanford University, your learning environment for the next few momentous years.

Stanford Office of Sustainability 327 Bonair Siding, 1st Floor Stanford, CA 94305 Office hours: every Monday, 3 – 5 PM

Visit us at http://sustainable.stanford.edu.

Fahmida Ahmed and Jiffy Vermylen, Office of Sustainability Contents

Welcome to Sustainable Stanford!. . . . Inside front cover

Beyond the Bubble ...... 4

Campus-Wide Sustainability Initiatives...... 6

Be Cardinal Green All Year...... 8

Sustainability Starts at Home...... 10

Working Hard or Hardly Working?...... 14

Sustainability must become a core value in everything Zero In on Waste...... 18 we do. As a community we are committed to developing our core campus in a sustainable fashion that preserves Eating Green...... 20 what we cherish, that demonstrates leadership in the university’s commitment to be a good environmental steward, and that safeguards the ability for future Getting Around the Green Way ...... 24 generations to thrive at Stanford. Shopping with an Environmental Conscience. . . . . 28 -John Hennessy, President, Stanford University Learn More and Stay Connected...... 32

Acknowledgments...... Inside back cover Beyond the Bubble

ampus Wa C ter a Stanford’s Resource Map Stanford Approximately 85% of University is not just Stanford’s irrigation water comes from an isolated system—our nonpotable lake water collected in two campus resource flows connect reservoirs. Most of Stanford’s potable water, like much us to the outer world. of California’s supply, comes from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Read on to find out where in the Sierras, near Yosemite National Park. Recently, Stanford your campus resources installed a new reclaimed-water plant, providing recycled water for originate and what they toilet flushing in the new Science and Engineering Quad, the GSB, aste/Camp W us us R support. and two School of Medicine buildings. Our water conservation p e PSSI makes c m y program is one of the most aggressive in the Bay Area. Between a c C about fifteen 40-mile trips per l i 2000 and 2010 Stanford reduced domestic water use on day to deliver waste materials to recycling, n g campus 21%, despite adding more than one million gross composting and landfill facilities in San Jose square feet (GSF) to the building portfolio. and the South Bay. In 2010, Stanford recycled or composted 14,350 tons of material and landfilled 8,100 itat Pro tons of trash, diverting 64% of its waste away from the ab te H ct io landfill. We have reduced the amount landfilled by 43% n us Ever wondered since 1998. This is a great achievement, but we can do amp Food C why “Lake” Lagunita is better. Two dozen waste audits reveal that 26% pus Energy Stanford Dining so dry? Stanford is protecting of our landfilled waste is recyclable and am C serves more than 4 million the habitat of the endangered Tiger another 28% is compostable. Stanford’s energy is meals each year––that’s a lot of Salamander—it is believed that the The university continues primarily generated right here at food! 38% of this food comes from last remaining population on the to work towards our own Cardinal Cogen power plant‑– within 150 miles, supporting 200 local San Francisco Peninsula lives on zero waste. located behind Y2E2 on campus. The plant farmers. While the rest is shipped in from campus land. produces electricity by burning natural gas and uses farther afield, Stanford makes every effort to the waste heat to produce steam and chilled water for procure organic food directly from its producers. campus heating and cooling needs. While cogen plants One example is the salmon served on campus—100% is are some of the cleanest power plants, Cardinal Cogen wild-caught Alaskan salmon purchased directly is nonetheless the source of 75% of Stanford’s carbon from a small family-owned business. emissions. Greening the energy supply is a key Stanford served 10,000 pounds of consideration in Stanford’s Energy this salmon last year. and Climate Plan.

4 5 Campus-Wide Sustainability Initiatives

a Stanford’s Energy and Climate Plan heating and cooling scheme, more greenhouse gas reductions may Stanford University is committed to reducing its environmental impact be possible through at all levels of operation. For many years Stanford has employed best the use of renewable practices on both the supply and the demand sides to reduce the cost and electricity and other environmental impact of energy used to support the university’s mission of energy management teaching, research, and public service. Stanford accepts the challenge of our technologies. time to go beyond these efforts and raise the bar in energy efficiency and the A new heat recovery development of innovative, clean, and renewable energy supplies. proposal, the most To this end, in 2009 Stanford developed an ambitious, long-range, $250 innovative element of million initiative to sharply reduce the university’s energy consumption and the Energy and Climate . Changes outlined in the Energy and Climate Plan Plan, represents the energy supply component of the university’s balanced could reduce the campus carbon impact by as much as 20% below 1990 approach. Stanford has a significant and simultaneous need for both levels by 2020. heating and cooling in its buildings throughout the year. Replacing the cogeneration plant with a heat recovery facility could enable the campus to The Energy and Climate Plan is one of the most ambitious carbon- recover up to 70% of the heat now discharged from the cooling towers to reduction programs at any major U.S. university. Its balanced approach meet at least 50% of simultaneous campus heating demands, significantly includes higher-than-required energy standards for new buildings, major reducing fossil fuel and water use in the process. retrofitting of existing buildings, a significant transformation of the campus energy plant, and “At Stanford, we’re taking steps to reduce greenhouse gases through programs to teach improved efficiency in both consumption and generation of energy,” said students, faculty, Stanford President John Hennessy. “Our goal is both to lower our energy and staff how to costs and to lower our carbon emissions, which is the right step for Stanford reduce energy and for our planet.” use. While the TO LEARN MORE: initial phases of Watch the video explaining Stanford’s climate plan at http://sustainable.stanford.edu/climate_action. the plan rely on aggressive energy A key component of Stanford’s Energy and Climate Plan is conservation and individual emission reductions. Read on to learn how you can major changes Be Cardinal Green and play a role in our campus-wide efforts to to the campus reduce our environmental impact.

6 7 Be Cardinal Green All Year

a Join a Cardinal Green Campaign February-March Intercollegiate Recyclemania Competition Recyclemania is an annual recycling and waste Throughout the year, Sustainable Stanford’s “Be Cardinal Green” reduction competition among more than 300 college campaigns promote sustainable individual actions and behavior change on campuses nationwide. Stanford competes over an campus. Each campaign engages the entire community via online pledges eight-week period in categories such as total waste and reports as well as specially designed incentives and prizes. Learn more diversion, total tons recycled, per-person recycling rates, about each campaign and how you can participate: and waste minimization.

October-November April-May Campus Sustainability Survey Campus Water Conservation Fill out the survey to help collect information about Stanford is continuously making an effort to reduce sustainable behaviors across campus. You can win both potable and nonpotable water use. See which prizes, and the information will greatly help the Office water conservation efforts you can take part in during of Sustainability improve its programs. this annual campaign.

October-November June-July Building-Level Sustainability Program Sustainable Purchasing Practices See which buildings are involved in the building-level Not only do purchases have financial impacts, but sustainability program to reduce energy consumption, all products and services procured at Stanford affect and support the team. the campus’s environmental footprint. Stanford’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Strategies December-January consider the lifetime environmental impact of various Energy Reductions for Winter Closure products. This campaign encourages sustainable Each year when students go home for winter break, purchasing through consuming less, consolidating faculty and staff take time off as well. During this orders, and selecting products that are reusable or have two-week period, Stanford attempts to scale back high recycled content. building heating, ventilation, and custodial services. You can participate by ensuring all electronics, TO LEARN MORE: Visit computers, and mini-fridges are off and unplugged http://sustainable.stanford.edu/be_cardinal_green. before you leave for vacation.

8 9 Sustainability Starts at Home

a Ways to Be Green Around the House Staying Cool or Warming Up • If you are using air conditioning or heating, make sure that your Your house, room, or apartment is the easiest place to begin making a windows are tightly shut. If you’re too hot while the heater is running, positive impact. Read on for simple ways to reduce your home’s turn it off (if you can). Opening the window will only cause the heater water and energy usage—and convince your peers to make eco-friendly to work harder, making your room even hotter. changes while you’re at it. • If your room is too cool for your comfort, opening the shade while the sun is out will warm it up. When the sun goes down, close the shades At Home: In Your Room for extra insulation. On the other hand, if your room is too warm, keep Lighting the windows and shades closed during the hot day to keep the heat out, then open them during the cool night to lower the temperature. Study in the daylight whenever you can! If you need light during the day, open up your shades before flipping the light switch. Do You Really Need Your Own Refrigerator? • If you bring any of your own lamps to school, be sure to buy • If you think you might want a fridge, wait to consult with your compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs). These not only use 75% less roommate. You may want energy than conventional bulbs, but last 10 times as long and are to share one. If you do buy much cheaper to operate. a fridge, select an Energy Star model. • It may seem obvious, but don’t forget to turn off the lights when you leave your room. • Instead of purchasing a new fridge that you will probably need to resell at the end of your time at Stanford, consider renting one. • Better yet, all on-campus houses have a house fridge located in the kitchenette that you can use for free. Just remember to label your food!

Student studying under natural daylight to save energy

10 11 At Home: In the Bathroom At Home: Doing Laundry

Showering Using the Washing Machines Stanford Fact: • Shorten your shower. Every minute less you spend in the shower • Only do laundry if you have a full load. If Water conservation efforts saves up to two gallons of water. Also think about lowering the water you don’t have enough laundry for a full have reduced daily domestic pressure using the sliding handle on many showers and using less hot load, combine loads with your roommate. water use from 2.7 million gallons water—a cool shower feels great after one of Stanford’s hot, sunny days. Not only will you conserve water and per day (mgd) to 2.1 mgd since energy, but you will also be saving a trip to 2001, despite more than 1 million Toilets and Sinks gross square feet of campus the laundry room. growth. • Use the dual-flush function available on many school toilets to • Consider washing with cold water on the reduce water usage—remember to check the lowflush direction. “bright colors” setting. • Turn off the faucet while you are brushing your • Use greener laundry detergents that are plant-based and free of teeth and doing dishes—people have probably phosphates. Remember to recycle your used laundry detergent bottle. been telling you this since you were five, but this is just a friendly reminder. • If a shirt is not stained or smelly, why throw it in the laundry bin? Fold it up and put it back in the drawer. Don’t worry, no one’s watching. • If you see a leaky faucet, let Housing know by filing a fixit request at • Contrary to popular belief, there’s no reason to separate your whites http://fixit.stanford.edu. and colors unless you’re washing in hot water. Just choose the “bright colors” setting and toss it all in there. • Remember to recycle your used shampoo, conditioner, hair spray, and spray gel bottles. What About Drying? Drying • Stanford has a lot of sunny, warm days—perfect for drying your clothes outside or on a clothesline. If your house doesn’t have a clothesline, • Buy a hand towel to dry your hands in the bathroom. Using disposable contact Housing to let them know you prefer line drying! paper towels is wasteful; a hand towel is way more comfy anyway. If • If it’s necessary for you to use a dryer, note that dryer capacity is much you must use a paper towel, try to take a smaller piece—it gets your larger than washer capacity at Stanford. You can easily combine hands just as dry! multiple wash loads in one drying cycle. Even if you need to run the Lighting dryer for an extra 15 minutes to accommodate those extra clothes, it • Turn off the lights when you leave the bathroom if no one else is will still use less energy and time than running a separate load. there. Many bathrooms have multiple light switches, so try to only • When using the dryer, set it for the shortest time that you think it will turn on one at night. In addition, some bathrooms have separate take for your clothes to dry. If you come back and they’re still damp, lights for the shower stalls—don’t forget to turn those off when you’re you can always just put them in for a few more minutes. on your way out. 12 13 Working Hard or Hardly Working?

• Many word processing programs set the default a Eco-Friendly Homework and Computing Tips Stanford Fact: margin size to 1.25”. Shrinking this down to Let’s face it: Stanford students work. A lot. But it turns out that there are Installing Stanford’s “Big 1” or smaller can save paper. quite a few ways to make your work environment more eco-friendly and Fix” power management tool on 24,000 campus computers • If you bring your own printer to school, perhaps increase your productivity at the same time! will save an estimated $400,000 be sure to refill your ink cartridges for a per year, as well as reduce few dollars at a local drug stores, rather Studying campus carbon emissions by 28,000 tons. than buying new ones each time you • Take advantage of Stanford’s beautiful, run out. sunny weather by studying under • If you do need to get rid of an old ink cartridge, natural daylight. Study outside, or if recycle it! To learn how, see Zero In on Waste. you prefer to not get sunburned, study in your room with the lights off and the Smart Strips: Good for You and the Planet window shades wide open. • Buy a Smart Strip. Your room will

• Save all the scratch paper you can get Student studying outdoors likely not have enough outlets for your hands on—you’ll need a lot of it all of your electronics. A smart when it comes time to do practice problems for exams. power strip increases the number of Quick Tips: outlets, provides surge protection, Printing What is a phantom or and eliminates electricity wasted by vampire load? Many • Despite having only 5% of the world’s phantom loads. Smart Strips are a electronics use small amounts of energy even population, the U.S. uses 30% of the Quick Tips: specific type of power strip that can when they are turned world’s paper. Do your part to drive that If your printer doesn’t sense when your computer goes to sleep off. Across the U.S., 6% automatically print double‐ number down. When possible, submit of our annual energy sided, don’t despair! Print or is turned off, and will automatically costs come from these papers and assignments electronically. If only the odd‐numbered turn off power to your computing “phantom” energy loads. you do need to print something, always pages, then put them back peripherals (such as your printer and To counter this, unplug print double-sided or on the back of in the paper tray upside scanner). Smart Strips are also great your electronics when you down and print the even‐ scratch paper. aren’t using them, or plug numbered pages on the for TV and audio equipment. They are them into a Smart Strip so • Try to print in “economy” mode; this other side. available at the student-run Green Store they are turned or online at popular saves ink and is usually just as legible as off automatically. the more wasteful ink settings. retail websites. • Preview your documents to eliminate excess white space and TO LEARN MORE: Visit dangling sentences. Make sure you do not have to print more http://sustainable.stanford.edu/buildings_initiatives. pages than necessary.

14 15 Computing How Much Energy Do Your Electronics Use? • Put your computer to sleep! Set your power settings to turn your monitor off after five minutes of inactivity and put your computer to sleep after 10, reducing your computer’s energy usage by about 95%. Watts used while… Better yet, shut your computer off when you don’t need it instead of Computer leaving it on 24/7. Hardware Awake/Active Sleep/Standby Hibernate Off • Turn off your screensaver. We love your fancy graphics and fun Desktop 60 3 2 2 pictures, but those screen savers typically use more energy than just Laptop 15 3 1 1 running your computer. Set your screensaver to “blank,” or better yet,

set your monitor to turn off. Once off, your monitor will turn on again Monitors Awake/Active Sleep/Standby Hibernate Off as soon as you move the mouse or hit a key. 17” LCD Flat Panel • Need a new computer? To minimize your environmental impact, buy Monitor 35 3 0 0 a laptop rather than a desktop computer, get a flatscreen monitor if you 17” CRT Monitor 80 2 0 0 need a monitor, and be sure that you buy products with the highest EPEAT rating available. All Stanford-recommended computers are Office Printers Printing Ready Sleep Off EPEAT Gold, and you can get them at a great discount. Learn more Laser BW, Inkjet about select models at www.epeat.net. Printer 380 10 0 0 Laser Color Printer 400 35 0 0 In Class

• Green your note-taking—try taking notes Quick Tips: Peripherals Awake/Active Sleep/Standby Hibernate Off electronically on your laptop (they’re Ever wonder if you should Speakers 15 15 n/a 3 much harder to lose)! If you need to buy turn off your computer or keep it on all night? notebooks, look for paper and other school Network Definitely turn it off. The supplies made from recycled materials. small surge in power to Printers/Copiers Printing Standby Power Save Off High-percentage post-consumer recycled boot up a computer is Network BW Laser content is best. significantly less than the Printer 550 27 7 1 energy needed to keep it Network Color • If you like to take notes on the lecture running all night. Turning Laser Printer 445 18 7 0 handouts, don’t print them! You can take it off won’t damage the Network Copier 1,600 290 120 4 notes electronically on PDFs of lecture computer, and in fact, it does some good by Network Copier/Printer 1,700 330 155 9 slides with programs like Microsoft resetting the system and OneNote or Adobe Acrobat (both are clearing out caches. Source: Sustainable IT, a division of Facilities Energy Management available through http://ess.stanford.edu).

16 17 Zero In on Waste

desks of larger residences and in various a The Many Ways to Recycle on Campus academic buildings around campus.

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What and Where • Don’t forget to reuse old items before sending them to the • Recycle all plastic containers, recycling center. Print rough aluminum cans, tin cans, drafts on the back of scratch aluminum foil, scrap metal, glass paper or see if others in bottles, milk/juice cartons and your house want to read a boxes, and soymilk containers magazine before you recycle inside the Plastics, Metals & it. Post larger items others Glass recycling bins. Styrofoam may want on networking is not recycled. Stanford’s new bin signage makes recycling easy on campus. sites like freecycle.org or • Recycle all corrugated Craigslist before sending Stanford competes annually in the Recyclemania competition among over 300 universities across the cardboard in the green dumpsters. them to the recycling center U.S. In 2011 Stanford placed second in the “Gorilla” • Recycle batteries in the battery recycling bin, usually found in your or landfill. Recycle clothing category for total tons recycled. hall’s computer cluster. and textbooks at Palo Alto Goodwill or SUpost.com. • Recycle printer cartridges, toner, cell phones, CDs, and consumer electronic devices in electronic waste bins, found in the housing front TO LEARN MORE: Visit http://recycling.stanford.edu.

18 19 Eating Green (and enjoying your food more!)

• Measured in dollars, 8% of food a Sustainable Dining on Campus and Beyond served at dining halls is USDA- Think about what you ate yesterday. Where did it come from? Who certified organic. At present 100% of fat-free milk, 50% of yogurt, made it? What chemicals were used in its production? In an ideal world, and 100% of hamburger patties you would know the answers to all those questions, but chances are you are USDA-certified organic. can answer one at most. How Stanford Dining also has a food is produced and distributed partnership with 27 local farms to impacts your health; the health supply organic produce. Student gardener Mattias Lanas at an and livelihoods of farmers and “Eat Local” dinner farm workers; animals; and our • The campus Community Farm and natural resources. smaller herb and vegetable gardens provide organic produce to dining halls and sell produce to campus Stanford aspires to be a leader community members at a weekly farm stand. in changing our country’s food system to one that is • Dining puts on an annual “Eat Local” week and monthly “Eat Local” healthy, community-based, dinners featuring seasonal food. Often during these dinners, local Ricker Dining’s organic garden provides herbs and farmers come to the dining halls to meet and eat with students. environmentally sound, vegetables for the dining hall. humane, and fair. • All dining halls now have compost bins for food scraps. In 2010, Stanford composted 1,320 tons of food. What’s Happening in Dining? • 10,000 gallons of waste oil from Certified as a green business in 2004, Stanford Dining has implemented a the dining halls are converted to variety of programs to educate the community and encourage sustainable biodiesel each year. food operations. • In 2008, Dining began a “Love Food, Hate Waste” campaign to Stanford Dining’s urge students to waste less food Sustainability Initiatives Stanford Fact: and compost what is left on • 40% of Stanford Dining’s produce 74% of Stanford Dining’s their plates. is organic or locally grown; some seafood is in the Best or • Leftover usable food from the dining halls is donated to homeless is even grown on campus at the Good category of the Seafood shelters through the student group SPOON, instead of going to waste. Community Farm and at more than Watch Card. Our goal is to 10 student-run vegetable and herb improve this to 100%. • Stanford’s “Dining in the Daylight” program leaves the lights in dining gardens around campus. halls off during the day to save energy and allow students to dine under natural daylight.

20 21 Actions You Can Take on Campus Beyond the Dining Halls: Making Sustainable In the Dining Halls Food Choices in the Real World • Go trayless! Forgoing dining hall trays not only saves the water used to Purchase Greener Foods clean them, but also helps to keep you from grabbing too much food. • Buy locally grown foods, directly if possible. Try to visit your local (Make sure to compost any leftovers you do have.) farmer’s market or join a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) • Minimize your dishes. Try not program, in which you receive a weekly box of seasonal produce. to grab a different plate for every • Buy organic. Organically grown foods are free of nasty herbicides and food item, and refill your cup! pesticides frequently found on conventionally grown produce. • Vote with your fork! Choose • Think before you eat. Meat production is very energy and water sustainable food options, intensive. If you prefer, eliminate meat from a single meal each week. including local, organic, Eat Well while Eating Out grass-fed, antibiotic/ hormone-free, cage-free, • Reduce, reuse, and save money by bringing your own water bottle, fair trade, and vegetarian/vegan. mug, plastic ware, utensils, and bag when you’re going out. Some campus cafés provide discounts for bringing your own mug. • Make your voice heard! Ask • Only order what you can eat, and take any leftovers home Students at Stanford’s Community Farm questions and give feedback to your chef and manager about the with you for a later meal. food they offer. • Ask about a restaurant’s practices, and support businesses that share your ideals and values. Consider: Grow Your Own Food 99 Seasonal, organic purchasing • There are many dining hall and house gardens on campus; become a student Quick Tips: 99 Relationships with farmers Quick Tips: gardener or start your own! You can make a Stanford has a produce 99 Humane meat and dairy difference! Due to • Take the hands-on “Local Sustainable stand at Y2E2/SEQ every the initiative of Stanford Friday from 12 to 4 99 Sustainable seafood Agriculture” class at the students, most during spring, summer, Community Farm and learn sustainable 99 Fair trade products (e.g., coffee, tea, on‐campus eateries have and fall quarters. Drop by agriculture techniques while growing switched from styrofoam to purchase fresh, organic, bananas, chocolate) to compostable plates organic produce. seasonal, and locally 99 Waste reduction efforts and utensils. • Learn to cook. Live in a co-op or your grown produce! own apartment, ask to help out in the 99 Labor standards for employees kitchen wherever you live, or participate TO LEARN MORE: Visit http://eatgreen.stanford.edu or contact in the Cardinal Cookoff sponsored by Stanford Dining. sustainable food coordinator Matt Rothe at [email protected]. 22 23 Getting Around the Green Way

Stanford’s Marguerite shuttle: The a Reducing Your Transportation Impact on the Environment Marguerite is FREE to everyone, and all The Stanford campus and the Bay Area are home to many sustainable buses are equipped with bicycle racks. transportation options. Take advantage of them! Read on for tips about • The Marguerite provides weekday how to get around while minimizing your costs and your carbon footprint. service to locations throughout campus, with connections to regional transit and Getting Around: On Campus off-campus dining and shopping. Walking: Stanford promotes pedestrian safety by designating “pedestrian • There is also evening and weekend zones” across most of the central campus. Vehicle access is restricted in Marguerite shuttle bus service to the following off-campus these areas. destinations during the academic year: Biking: Biking is one of the fastest and most common methods of getting Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto Transit around campus. In fact, 40% of students living off- campus commute by Center (Caltrain), and the San Antonio Stanford Fact: bike. Wear a helmet for every ride, and follow the rules of the road! Parking Shopping Center (Target, Safeway, Trader Stanford offers more & Transportation Services (P&TS) offers monthly bicycle safety workshops. Joe’s, Whole Foods, Sears, etc.). than 12,000 bike rack spaces and 11.7 miles of • Visit http://marguerite.stanford.edu for • In 2011, Stanford achieved the first and only platinum-level “Bicycle bike lanes. Friendly University” ranking more information. by the League of American Bicyclists. Getting Around: Bay Area and Beyond! • The Campus Bike Shop is a full-service shop, selling locks, Getting off campus is easier than you think. For information on getting to accessories, and tools, as well popular destinations near campus by bike or transit, check out “Thriving at as offering tune-ups and rentals. Stanford without a car,” http://transportation.stanford.edu/thriving. Visit www.campusbikeshop. Here are public transportation options that you might want to use: com to learn more. Outreach for BIke to Work Day • Caltrain runs between Gilroy • P&TS hosts a bike safety station and San Francisco. The Palo Alto in White Plaza almost every Friday from 11 am to 2 pm during the Caltrain station is near the edge academic year. Drop by to register your bike and to get answers to your of campus off of almP Drive. biking questions. Regional bike maps are available through P&TS. Visit Visit www.caltrain.com http://bike.stanford.edu to learn more. for more information. • Bikes can be taken on Marguerite shuttles, regional buses, and Caltrain. Palo Alto Caltrain Station

24 25 • SamTrans buses run throughout San Zimride is a carpooling program that can help you share a ride with Mateo County and north of campus to Quick Tips: Stanford affiliates. San Francisco. Visit www.samtrans.com Visit www.google.com/ • Find a ride to the grocery store, airport, for more information. transit to have your Bay and beyond, or offer to drive others next Area trip planned for you. • VTA buses run throughout Santa Clara time you are headed out! Just enter your starting and County and south of campus to San Jose, ending locations, and the • Register or log in instantly with your with connecting service to Santa Cruz and program will do the rest. Facebook account at http://zimride.stanford.edu. Monterey. Visit www.vta.org for more information. Enterprise Rent-A-Car • BART runs from Millbrae (connecting with Caltrain) north through • Enterprise’s campus location offers discounted rates for Stanford San Francisco and across the bay to Berkeley, Oakland, and other East affiliates and $10 weeknight rentals for Stanford residents (requires pre- Bay destinations. registration). Visit www.bart.gov for more information. • The campus Enterprise office rents to students age 18 and older. Visit • For more details about these and other transportation systems, such http://transportation.stanford.edu/enterprise to learn more. as the Altamont Commuter Express (ACE), Dumbarton Express, San Stanford Commute Club Francisco Muni buses, AC Transit, and Capitol Corridor/Amtrak, visit http://transportation.stanford.edu/transit. • If you live off campus and do not purchase a long-term Stanford parking permit, Stanford Fact: you can join the Commute Club and Stanford’s employee drive- Driving: You Don’t Have to Own a Car! receive hundreds of dollars a year in alone rate dropped from Clean Air Cash. 72% in 2002 to 48% in 2010, Zipcar is an on-demand carsharing program available 24/7 with 39 cars at and transit ridership has • Members also receive free hourly car 17 Stanford locations. Visit http://zipcar.stanford.edu to learn more. increased from rental vouchers, Zipcar driving credit, 8 to 25%. • Stanford faculty, staff, and and enrollment in Stanford’s Emergency students (age 18 and older) receive Ride Home program. $35 driving credit with a $35 • Visit http://commuteclub.stanford.edu. Zipcar membership. • Reserve online and pay as little as Commute Planning Assistance $8 an hour to drive a car (gas and • Parking & Transportation Services provides alternative transportation insurance included). planning assistance for Stanford affiliates. Students using one of Stanford’s zipcars Visit http://transportation.stanford.edu/commuteplanning/.

26 27 Shopping with an Environmental Conscience

• Buy rechargeable batteries to a Paper or Plastic? (Hint: The answer is reusable) reduce hazardous waste from Quick Tips: Next time you throw a party, use Every product you buy comes with a carbon footprint—an amount discarded batteries. recyclable “green cups” instead of of carbon emissions associated with its production and distribution. • For lighting, buy CFLs, which wasteful red plastic cups. Buy green In addition, many products have impacts on other aspects of the provide the same amount of cups at the ASSU Green Store— light as incandescent bulbs but environment, such as natural resources like water and trees. Here are they’ll even be delivered to your some tips for reducing the environmental impact of your purchases. require 75% less energy. residence! Visit • For clothing, look for http://greenstore.stanford.edu. BEFORE You Buy, Ask Yourself: organically grown fibers and • Do I really need it? (Reuse plastic containers to pack your lunch.) water-based dyes. • Can I upgrade an existing product? (Refurbish your PC, refill ink Don’t Discard: cartridges.) • At the end of each school year, Stanford’s dumpsters overflow with • Does it serve multiple items in great condition that students cannot keep. Stanford has started purposes? (All-in-one a new annual thrift store where students can donate their unwanted printer, copier, scanner items instead of throwing them out! Keep an eye out for the “Ditch combo) That Dumpster” campaign each spring quarter and look to the thrift • Can I find it used? store for great, inexpensive items in the fall. (Craigslist.org; SUpost. com; thrift stores: Palo Alto Goodwill, Savers, and Salvation Army) When You Do Buy Something, Buy Green: • Try to buy recycled, used, or durable goods. • When purchasing food or household goods, try to buy in bulk. This reduces wasteful packaging and is usually more cost-effective. • Look for eco-friendly cleaning products and detergents, for example, Seventh Generation, Clorox Greenworks, and Method products. • When purchasing appliances like microwaves or mini-fridges, look for items that are Energy Star rated. Students at the 2011 campus-wide thrift store

28 29 Read the Label! Fair trade certification of products like coffee, chocolate, and fruits • Many products claim to be “eco-friendly” or “sustainable” without ensures that the farmers and verification or documented positive environmental impact. producers of the food receive a • Look for accredited logos from third-party agencies, rather than generic reasonable payment for their goods. claims like “natural” or “green.” • Examples of some reliable logos are shown below: Wood products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council come USDA organic foods are grown from “well-managed” forests and without chemical pesticides and were harvested in a sustainable fertilizers. Organically raised manner. animals are fed hormone-free BPI-certified compostable products organic feed. are bio-plastics that have been Look for the CCOF organic logo tested to ensure they biodegrade at your local California farmer’s adequately in compost facilities. market. CCOF certifies all levels Look for this logo on products in of the food chain, including many campus eateries. farmers, processors, retailers, and restaurants. Labels to Avoid Energy Star appliances meet energy If you see any of the following phrases or claims, beware! efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and the U.S. Department of • “Free Range”: This term is only regulated for poultry (not eggs or beef) Energy. Buildings can also achieve and only requires chickens to have “access” to the outdoors for an Energy Star ratings. undefined amount of time. Seafood certified by the Marine • “Cruelty Free”: This is unregulated and not meaningful. Look instead Stewardship Council comes from a for a “Certified Humane” logo. sustainable fishery. • “Natural,” “Environmentally Friendly,” “Environmentally Preferable”: These claims are unverified and unregulated. Products bearing the WaterSense TO LEARN MORE: Visit Consumer Reports’ Eco-Label database at label are about 20% more efficient http://www.greenerchoices.org/eco-labels/. than typical fixtures and provide measurable water savings. Labels shown on this page are provided for informational purposes only, and inclusion herein does not represent Stanford’s endorsement of the certifying agencies or organizations. 30 31 Learn More and Stay Connected Acknowledgments

a Additional Resources for Sustainability on Campus We extend our sincere thanks to the following organizations for their support in the creation of this booklet: Stanford provides many opportunities to further explore an interest in • Associated Students of Stanford University the environment. For more information, as well as contact information for people involved in sustainability across the campus, visit Sustainable • Green Living Council Stanford online: http://sustainable.stanford.edu. • Environmental Health and Safety Academic Resources Stanford’s Environmental Portal: Learn about environmentally • Peninsula Sanitary Service, Inc. focused majors, environmental centers and institutes, environmental (recycling and waste management on campus) faculty and research, and environmental events on campus. http://environment.stanford.edu • Residential & Dining Enterprises Environmental Courses at Stanford: Find a comprehensive list of • Students for a Sustainable Stanford environmental courses offered at Stanford. http://pangea.stanford.edu/ESYS/courses • Sustainability and Energy Management Student Groups (home to the Office of Sustainability) To see a detailed list of organizations and resources, visit the environmental student group website: • Undergraduate Advising and Research http://sustainable.stanford.edu/student_groups. • University Communications Student Green Fund Grants A total of $30,000 is available each academic year to fund innovative, student-driven projects designed to create a more sustainable campus. To Photos: Linda Cicero, Stanford News Service–Pages: 2, 4-5, and 26; learn more about the application process and view past projects, visit: Fahmida Ahmed; Elsa Baez; Heather Benz; Erin Gaines; Scott Gould; http://sustainable.stanford.edu/green_fund. Lisa Kwiatkowski; Chester Manuel; Miles Keep Photography; John Mulrow; Sustainability Campaigns Cyrus Pinto; Stanford Green Fund; Stanford SWEP; and Jiffy Vermylen. Sustainable Stanford runs annual sustainability campaigns across campus to highlight opportunities for individual action. To learn more about each of these campaigns, visit: This booklet was prepared for you by student associates working http://sustainable.stanford.edu/be_cardinal_green. with the Office of Sustainability. Production and printing consulting, Pat Brito, Design & Print Services

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