| 2019-2020 Green Lab Incentives Fund Application | Academics, Climate Solutions, Energy, Operations, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water | Forms | The Green Lab Incentives Fund supports laboratories participating in the Green Labs at Emory Program by making funds available for implementing sustainable processes and procedures in Emory’s laboratories. Creative proposals are welcomed for initiatives that seek new knowledge, support new behavior patterns, and make sustainable practices feasible. Grants may be awarded up to $5,000. |
| 2019-2020 Green Office Incentives Fund Application | Buildings, Climate Solutions, Energy, Food & Dining, Operations, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water, Wellbeing | Forms | Download, fill out, and submit this application to greenoffices@emory.edu by September 29, 2019 to be considered for a Green Office grant. |
| Climate Action Plan for Emory University Rollins School of Public Health | Climate Solutions | Documents & Reports | |
| Emory community makes progress on ‘zero landfill waste’ goal | Waste | Documents & Reports | Emory makes significant progress on their goal to divert 95 percent of campus waste from municipal landfills by 2025. In 2018, Emory’s campus diverted 70 percent of its waste from landfills, an increase from 59 percent diverted during 2017, before implementation of the 2018 Waste Management Policy. |
| Emory Healthcare Sustainability Council Mission & Goals | All Initiatives | Documents & Reports | |
| Emory Sustainability Vision and Strategic Plan for 2015-2025 | All Initiatives | Documents & Reports | Our vision for Emory is to be a model of transformative practices and sustainable choices at every level. From the copy room to the operating room, from the class room to the residence hall—among academic units, healthcare units, and operational units—Emory will more deeply engage the challenges of sustainability and expand our leadership in higher education. |
| Emory University 2018 Waste Policy FAQs | Waste | Documents & Reports, Guides | The Emory Waste Policy was developed by Emory’s Waste Think Thank, made up of experts in a variety of Emory departments, and is supported by the President’s Leadership Council, the University Senate, and unit Deans. The policy is being jointly implemented by Campus Services and the Office of Sustainability Initiatives. |
| Emory University Climate Action Plan | All Initiatives | Documents & Reports | Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge to confront humanity in our lifetime, with the well-being of billions of people at risk. Emory University created a climate action plan adopted in 2011 to guide the University toward carbon reduction goals. |
| Energy Building Use 2015-2017 | Buildings, Energy | Documents & Reports | |
| Food Choices and Environmental Impact Info | Food & Dining, Purchasing | Documents & Reports | All food is ultimately “solar powered” in that its availability can be traced back to living beings’ ability to make use of the sun’s energy. But whether a particular food is more closely or more distantly related to the sun’s energy can make an enormous difference in how the consumption of that food affects the environment. |
| General Sustainability & Social Justice Incentives Fund Application, 2019-2020 | All Initiatives | Forms | The Office of Sustainability Initiatives Incentives Funds support research, campus-based projects, and the development of new rituals to promote sustainability on Emory's campuses. Creative proposals are welcomed that seek new knowledge, support new behavior patterns, and foster cultural change. Faculty, staff, and students from Emory University and Emory Healthcare are eligible to apply. Projects that are centered on the social justice facets of sustainability or highlight the social justice impacts of their project or research are encouraged to apply. Applications are now open and will be accepted until September 30, 2018, after which a committee will review submissions in October. |
| Green Labs at Emory One-Pager | Academics, Buildings, Climate Solutions, Energy, Operations, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water | Documents & Reports | Open and save or print this one-page information sheet about how to participate in the Green Labs at Emory program. |
| Green Labs Certification Checklist | All Initiatives | Forms | Learn what sustainable actions your lab can adopt, and tell us what you’re already doing, by filling out the Green Labs at Emory Checklist and consulting the companion Green Labs at Emory Guidance Document. |
| Green Labs Certification Guidance Document | Academics, Buildings, Climate Solutions, Energy, Operations, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water | Guides | Consulting this companion Green Labs at Emory Guidance Document when filling out your Green Labs Checklist for certification. This Guidance Document provides instruction for how to implement each action and justification for why each action is important. |
| Green Offices at Emory Certification Checklist | Buildings, Climate Solutions, Energy, Food & Dining, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water | Forms | Use this checklist to get certified through the Green Offices at Emory program. |
| Green Offices at Emory Certification Guidance Document | Buildings, Climate Solutions, Energy, Food & Dining, Operations, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water, Wellbeing | Guides | Use this Guidance document as a resource when filling out your Green Offices at Emory checklist. It provides information on how to achieve each action and justification for why each action is important. |
| Green Offices at Emory Fact Sheet | Buildings, Climate Solutions, Energy, Food & Dining, Operations, Purchasing, Social Justice, Transportation, Waste, Water, Wellbeing | Documents & Reports | |
| Green Offices At Emory Guidance Document | Buildings, Energy, Purchasing, Transportation, Waste, Water | Forms | Energy Efficiency, Conservation, Waste, Purchasing, Meetings & Events, Safe & Healthy Office Environments, Communications & Participation. |
| Health Benefits of Eating Sustainably Info | Food & Dining, Social Justice | Documents & Reports | According to Wang and Brownell at Yale, “animals are adept at regulating a very steady body weight until they are placed in a situation in which palatable, high-fat, high-sugar food is consistently accessible to them. Under these conditions, laboratory animals overeat and become far heavier than their normal body weight, even when nutritionally balanced food is available.” |
| Healthcare Sustainability: Why We Care | All Initiatives | Documents & Reports | |
| Idling Reduction Policy | Climate Solutions, Transportation | Documents & Reports | As part of Emory's Sustainability Initiatives, we have developed an idling reduction policy for Emory University that provides operating guidelines for Emory University vehicles and all service and delivery vehicles and freight carriers operating on Emory University property. |
| Nutrient Content and Sustainable Food Info | Food & Dining, Purchasing, Social Justice | Documents & Reports | There are a variety of reasons that people choose sustainably produced foods over conventional foods. Though organic foods are just one category of foods under the sustainability umbrella, a 2006 survey by the consumer research firm, Hartman Group, found that health reasons and nutritional needs are primary reasons that consumers choose to buy organic foods, but consumers also want to avoid pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics and genetically modified organisms. |
| Producer Guidelines for Food Suppliers | Food & Dining, Purchasing | Documents & Reports | As part of Emory University’s commitment to sustainability, it has established a goal that 75% of food served on campus be locally or sustainably grown by 2015. The Emory Sustainable Food Committee has clarified purchasing guidelines for local and sustainable definitions and goals. Here is a summary of the desired criteria. |
| Recycling and Composting at Emory University | Waste | Guides | Landfills have negative social, economic, and environmental impacts on neighboring lowerincome, historically disadvantaged communities. Landfills contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and can leak harmful toxins into the surrounding environment. Learn about recycling and composting at Emory with this helpful brochure! |
| State of Sustainability in Emory Healthcare | All Initiatives | | |
| Sustainable Healthcare at Emory University by Lauren Balotin | Wellbeing | Documents & Reports | James Wagner, who served as Emory University’s president from 2003 until 2016, recounts that during his time as president, he witnessed Emory accept sustainability as one of its core values:
"The agenda that presented itself was... to move [sustainability] from sort of a moral preference to a moral obligation—that is, to incorporate sustainability as one of the principles of the university… That was one of the accomplishments that I hope sticks around—moving sustainability from an aspiration to a commitment, if you will." |
