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Increase use of green cleaning products
Target and date: Exclusive use of certified20 products when available and competitively priced Recommended strategies: • Designate Facilities Management as lead for policy development and implementation • Investigate sustainability attributes and use of BioPreferred21 products Metric: Adoption of policy/procedure Goals: S 6, 7
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Increase the percentage of paper products on campus that include post-consumer recycled content
Target and date: 75% of all annual paper products purchased22 will include at least 30% PCC by Jun e 2012. Recommended strategies: • Designate sustainability leaders in all departments and operational areas • Work with vendor to increase sustainability attributes of products • Sort products based on sustainability priorities • Work with Inter-University Council of Ohio to incorporate sustainability standards into paper contracts Metric: Total expenditures by all University Goals: S 6, 7 departments and programs ($)
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Assess endowment investment in sustainable corporations and entities and recommend strategies for increasing investment in these corporations and entities
Target and date: Annual assessment beginning in the academic year following sustainability plan adoption. Recommended strategies: • Seek disclosure on environmental profiles of entities in which we invest • Explore the potential creation of a committee on investor responsibility with multi-stakeholder representation • Conduct a negative screening23 of the entire investment pool according to, giving preference, where possible, to investments that align with criteria for environmental justice • Seek positive investments that promote sustainability including sustainability industries, businesses selected for exemplary sustainability performance, sustainability investment funds, community development financial institutions, socially responsible mutual funds with positive screens • Establish a student-managed socially responsible investment fund
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A certification from an accredited group such as Green Seal, EcoLogo or the EPA. 21 The BioPreferred Program is a program of the United States Department of Agriculture (http://www.biopreferred.gov/). 22 Including but not limited to office paper, bulk printing paper, paper napkins, paper towels, toilet tissue. 23 Responsible Endowment Coalition, a coalition working to build and unify the college and university-based responsible investment movement, describes negative screens as follows: “Negative screens exclude certain industries or products from investment portfolios. Screens are often applied by individual investors to one or more of the following sectors: tobacco, liquor, weapons, pornography, nuclear technologies, resource extraction (mining and drilling), and family planning products. Dozens of schools have screened out tobacco from their portfolios, and a handful of other schools – mostly religiously affiliated – have stricter screens.” The Responsible Endowment Coalition is concerned with both human rights issues and environmental issues. The screens applied are determined by the institution and can be catered to address environmental sustainability.
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Comment [o1]: Brief History: In September 2011, Concerns regarding this footnote were raised and brought to the attention of PACSP. Steve Golding, VP for Finance and Administration offered a foundation for discussion by providing support to PACSP. After consideration, PACSP determined that this was a matter of implementation and, therefore, must be deferred to EECC. Members of EECC were provided with recommendations made by the President’s Advisory Council on Sustainability Planning regarding proposed changes. In October 2011, EECC determined that definitions of positive and negative screening were unnecessary and that the removal of the entire footnote would be beneficial to the successful implementation of the Sustainability Plan. (It should be noted that, in the original Sustainability Plan document, the footnotes were incorrectly numbered. As such, this footnote was called “Footnote #22” despite its location as Footnote #23.)