Metro State is greening up.
With the wide success of the new single-stream recycling program on
campus, and the student vote last year to increase student fees for
renewable energy, the Auraria Campus is poised to reduce its carbon
footprint even more.
Already the state’s No. 1 and the country’s 17th largest
purchaser of renewable energy among the colleges and universities in
the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership, with 45
percent of the campus’s energy coming from wind power, Auraria is
slated to increase its power from renewable sources to 100 percent,
thanks to the increased fees. Also on tap is energy efficiency
improvement and reducing campus water usage.
All of which has prompted some members of the Metro State community
to wonder, what can I – or my department – do to be environmentally
helpful?
The Office of College Communications, for instance, has reduced
the amount of paper used in its weekly staff meetings.
“Previously, we'd print enough copies of our individual weekly reports
so that everyone had a copy to review what we’re all working on,” said
office manager Michael Zastrow. “Now we’re converting the compiled
weekly reports into an electronic form, which we project on a
screen. Everyone is still able to see it, but we save a lot
of paper.”
This Week @Metro is looking for stories about ways you or
your department are working to be more environmentally
conscious. Stories can be about efforts large or small, or even about
ideas that you have but haven’t yet implemented. Send your stories to atmetro@mscd.edu and we’ll share them in @Metro.
Who knows? Your idea might catch on and even change the world a little.
