Trumpeter (1991)

ISSN: 0832-6193

How Green is your Campus?

Guy Dauncy
Trumpeter

Scoring: Yes = 2 Partly/We are discussing this = 1 No = 0

1. Does your campus regularly recycle its waste paper, cardboard, cans, and glass? (2/1/0)
2. Does our campus use recycled paper? (2/1/0)
3. Does your campus seek to avoid the use of disposable paper, plastic and styrofoam cups and plates? (2/1/0)
4. Has your campus eliminated the use of aerosol sprays and halon fire extinguishers that contain CFCs? (2/1/0)
5. Does your campus check its rooftop heat-exchange and air-conditioning units regularly for leaking freon? (2/1/0)
6. Does your campus check its freezers for leaking CFCs? (2/1/0)
7. Does your campus use environment-friendly cleaning liquids? (2/1/0)
8. Does your campus avoid the use of garden and household pesticides, and use environment-friendly alternatives instead? (2/1/0)
9. Does your campus have an active energy-reduction strategy to reduce its production of carbon dioxide? (2/1/0)
10. Does your campus encourage the use of bikes, car-sharing and public transport, and discourage car-use by staff and students? (2/1/0)
11. Does your campus kitchen offer a choice of healthy, vegetarian (preferably organic) food, and free-range eggs? (2/1/0)
12. Does your campus kitchen collect its food-waste to turn into compost, or to feed to pigs? (2/1/0)
13. Do your campus grounds provide a safe habitat for wildlife, and offer beauty and silence to students and staff? (2/1/0)
14. Do your campus chemistry laboratories reclaim all their chemical wastes, never allowing any to be poured down the drain? (2/1/0)
15. Does your campus have a set of guidelines relating to participation in animal experimentation? (2/1/0)
16. Does your campus have a set of guidelines relating to participation in military research contracts? (2/1/0)
17. Does your campus ensure that donations, pensions and other funds are invested in a socially and environmentally responsible manner? (2/1/0)
18. Does your campus library have a special section of books and magazines concerned with the world environmental crisis? (2/1/0)
19. Have your campus departments been encouraged to redesign their courses in the light of the world environmental crisis? (2/1/0)
20. Has your campus undertaken a full environmental audit of its various activities? (2/1/0)
21. Has your campus set up an inter-disciplinary environmental action team or committee to look into possibilities for action? (2/1/0)
22. Does your campus have an overall environmental policy to provide a framework for its various activities? (2/1/0)
23. Has your campus Students' Society raised motions relating to environmental issues at open meetings? (2/1/0)
24. Has your campus offered its services to the local community to assist with environmental problem-solving and policy-making? (2/1/0)
25. Does your campus have an interdisciplinary environmental studies program? (2/1/0)

Scoring:

• 45-50 You're doing great! Take a Green Medal.
• 30-44 You're doing well. How about making it the whole way?
• 15-29 You've made a start - but you're not a green campus yet.
• 1-14 Your campus has plenty of room for improvement. Must do better.

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