走向绿色需要一个整体的方法
It goes beyond recycling and energy conservation to ensure that every resource is carefully managed and developed across campus.
Commute Options
自行车的资源
Find bike racks, a repair station, and lockers to make your commute easy.
CapMetro巴士通行证
购买巴士优惠票.
Waze Carpool
开一辆拼车或加入一个.
Dining
我们的餐饮服务供应商, Bon Appétit践行社会责任. Learn about Bon appsamit对环境和社区的承诺. 在众多餐饮活动中, "Why Buy Local" underpins the 本地饮食挑战该活动每年在校园举行.
Bon Appétit encourages using reusable containers for to-go dining. Purchase a 可重用的抓斗 一次就可以全年重复使用. 他们甚至会帮你清洗!
Composting
野生盆地创意研究中心, Bon Appétit, and our Grounds, Maintenance, and Facilities departments have joined forces to bring composting to campus:
- The Grounds department takes lawn trimmings and composts them. This effort saves over 240 trips to the landfill and over $10,000 in landfill fees each year.
- The Grounds department also works with Bon Appétit and Jo's Coffee to 堆肥咖啡渣.
- In 2019, Bon Appétit partnered with Grub Tubs to compost food waste in Hunt Hall and South Congress Market. The bins are clearly marked so the university community knows what can and cannot be thrown into them.
- Wild Basin has composting toilets in the main buildings on site. These toilets are low-maintenance organic waste treatment systems that use biological decomposition to convert toilet waste into a small amount of safe, 稳定的最终产品. They use no water, whereas a normal toilet uses about 2,920 gallons per person, per year.
Recycling
单个流循环
单流回收箱遍布校园, and are designated as blue or green or have an identifying sticker. 塑料袋和披萨盒都不能回收. 不要把垃圾放入回收箱. Once the recycling bin contains any mixed trash, it can no longer be recycled.
电池和墨水/碳粉盒
Ink/toner cartridges and batteries can be sent to a recycling facility for free. 学习如何回收你的 这里是用过的子弹.
Batteries can be dropped off at the check-out desk at Munday Library.
Styrofoam
清洁并干燥聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料(无包装花生), sorry) can be dropped off in the collection box located in JBWN outside of room 120.
- 收集日期:每天
- 方便的下车地点在JBWN, 120房间外
- Remove all tape and labels - they will damage the styrofoam shredding machine
- No food cartons
- 无包装花生
如有疑问,请联络佐伊·斯凯尔顿(zskelton@sandybb.net - JBWN 127)或Lissette Curry (lcurry1@sandybb.net - JBWN 117).
Trash
Gray bins are for trash (including anything with food products). 任何玉米基塑料或生物塑料都要放进灰色的箱子里. 观看这个视频 了解更多关于什么和在哪里你可以在校园里回收.
Green IT
资讯科技署(OIT) ensures sustainability plays a role in every aspect of campus technology. 电源管理, 硬件旋转, computer imaging and technology recycling are the primary ways OIT accomplishes this goal.
Power Management
OIT explores many power management solutions to increase on-campus energy conservation while maintaining expected, reliable service. OIT also maintains a regular computer replacement cycle to benefit from industry advances in power efficiency.
设备更换
OIT continually evaluates existing technology to determine its useful life. Each year, OIT provides departments with an analysis of their current tech inventory and recommended replacement cycles. OIT maintains and updates equipment until the end of its useful life.
Recycling
据估计,每年有20%的校园技术被淘汰. Still-functioning computers too old to be useful on campus are donated to local school districts and/or nonprofit organizations. OIT与当地回收商合作, and these partners dispose of old technology and the associated hazardous chemicals in an environmentally-responsible manner. These partners are also accredited with industry certifications for the pickup and distribution of e-waste. 他们提供IT资产配置, 电子产品回收, CRT Recycling and Certified Data Destruction for the university while following environmental practices and standards.
节能
Facilities works to reduce the university's energy consumption. Facilities purchases electricity from clean, renewable energy sources from Austin Energy and continually invests to maximize use of existing physical plant and building mechanical systems rather than using unnecessary resources to build new ones. 一个由30多个学生组织组成的联盟 可持续发展学生 和学生政府组织 气候正义联盟 has been working with the university administration to take meaningful infrastructural changes to combat the current environmental climate crisis. The main objective is to decrease the university's purchase and consumption of dirty energy.
Most campus buildings are cooled using chilled water that is pumped throughout the campus to reduce pumping costs. A majority of academic buildings and residence halls have web-based heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control systems that allow monitoring and adjustment from Facilities.
See how 10 St. Edward's University buildings reduced their energy consumption during the university’s participation in 校园保育国民, the largest electricity reduction competition for colleges and universities around the world.
节约用水
Water is one of our most precious resources, especially in drought-prone Texas. St. Edward's devotes a significant portion of its resource conservation efforts to water. Existing buildings have been retrofitted with low flow water fixtures, and new buildings must comply with current water efficient plumbing requirements. Xeriscaping or planting predominantly native vegetation with low water requirements is another means to increase water conservation on campus. Visit our blog 浏览有关节约用水的最新消息.
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可持续发展政策
St. 爱德华大学就有几个 sustainability-related政策. 访问这些和所有的大学政策.