Green Offices Highlights
Emory’s sustainability goals rely on the commitment of its thousands of employees to choose sustainable behaviors while at work and getting around campus. Green Offices at Emory is a voluntary program designed to assist employees in improving the sustainability of Emory’s workspaces.
The program focuses on energy and water efficiency and conservation, recycling and waste reduction, procurement, sustainable events, a safe and healthy work environment, and creating a culture of office sustainability.
Hear from employees in certified Green Offices in our Green Office Documentary here.
Green Offices at Emory launched campus-wide in 2016 and advances Emory toward key sustainability goals including eliminating bottled water from events by 2025, exclusive use of zero landfill waste caterers, and reducing the total university campus energy use by 25 percent.
Green Offices Benefits
- Candler School of Theology converted six existing water fountains to bottle filling stations to assist in the transition away from plastic disposable water bottles at Candler events.
- Miller-Ward Alumni House saves energy with motion sensor lighting in public restrooms and reduces waste with a rechargeable battery system for the public A/V equipment and the busy alumni photographer’s camera.
- Student Digital Life improved recycling and composting equipment to complete a comprehensive Cox Hall landfill diversion program begun in January 2016.
How It Works
Step 1: Learn what sustainable actions your office can adopt, and tell us what you’re already doing, by filling out the Green Offices at Emory Checklist on Microsoft Forms and consulting both the companion Green Offices at Emory Guidance Document and the Checklist Word Document.
Step 2: Earn Recognition for taking action to make more sustainable choices in your office. The Green Offices at Emory Team will review your checklist and award your office with a certification level. Certified offices receive recognition and visible office signage to display.
Step 3: Apply for funding to implement the actions on your checklist and new innovations by submitting a Green Office Incentives Fund Application. Applications for 2023-2024 are now OPEN.
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Sustainable Events, Green Offices, and Green Labs certified in 2022
$5,000
awarded in FY 2022 for Green Office small grants