Home Climate Change Building Standards Communication Land Management Green Purchasing Campus Highlights Sustainability Metrics Sustainability Resources Steering Committee Forum Contact Us	Campus Highlights Cornell University Cornell has instituted a food scrap composting program as part of the Farm Services Department. It seeks to reduce the cost of disposing of cafeteria food waste by diverting it from landfills, while producing a valuable agricultural commodity. It composts more than 3500 tons of food waste annually. Harvard University Harvard's Green Campus Loan Fund provides capital for high performance campus design, operations, maintenance, and occupant behavior projects. Projects have included Massachusetts' first LEED Gold renovation project, an assessment of energy conservation opportunities in Harvard’s laboratories, renewable energy purchasing for students dorms, and behavioral change programs. Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University is in the process of undertaking a number of aggressive measures to reduce storm water runoff, including the addition of storm water bio-swales, the construction of a green “living” roof deck, a rainwater capture system for reuse in cage washing in laboratories, and an underground parking garage that will replace a water-impervious asphalt blacktop with an expanded green space. It is currently experimenting with waterless urinals, low-flow showerheads, and other water conserving products. Keene State College Keene is a beautiful, walkable, organically maintained campus. There are many faculty and student projects focusing on sustainable initiatives encompassing transportation and energy use that are in coordination with Office of Sustainability Programs. Tufts University Tufts has established the Green Roof Collaborative to provide a stronger scientific basis for the environmental benefits of green roofs. In order to investigate the benefits and cost-effectiveness of green roofs, this initiative brings together students and professors from the Biology, Environmental Studies and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering departments, in addition to the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut prides itself in involving students to drive much of its sustainability initiatives. Student interns and volunteers have been involved with a variety of projects of all magnitudes. Highlights include one of the first LEED Silver building policies for public institutions and the construction of the LEED silver certified Burton Family Football Complex & Shenkman Training Center, a biodiesel production lab, a highly efficient co-generation facility, and recycling program improvements. University of New Hampshire This academic year, UNH will begin to convert waste vegetable oil from dining areas into biodiesel to fuel off-road farm and landscaping equipment, and to heat greenhouse and farm buildings. It is partnering with MBP Bioenergy, a local company that designed the biodiesel microprocessor that the University will use. Much research has been conducted on campus in coordination with this project. Yale University Yale has been instrumental in founding an International Sustainability Student Exchange program to send and receive students as International Alliance of Research Universities Sustainability Fellows. In 2006, this group convened to collaborate on global sustainability standards and interinstitutional research on sustainability; its attendees saw the opportunity to encourage students to work in campus sustainability at member institutions and exchange observations and ideas. Yale and Australian National University developed a pilot program to exchange several students for four to six weeks to work at members' offices, and then to return to work at their home offices. This program has recently expanded to include Oxford and Copenhagen Universities, and will likely continue expansion to other universities.
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