UMASSD spring 2016 magazine

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Leading by Example

With the support of the Office of Campus Sustainability and Residential Initiatives and its Assistant Director Jamie Jacquart, UMassD will continue to work toward reducing our greenhouse gases by 80% in 2050, and becoming a Zero Waste campus by 2025. 2007

UMassD received its second Leading by Example Award from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for:

• on-campus energy generation

• doubling the recycling rate

• implementing a $40 million

energy project UMassD signed the American • adopting a voluntary Green Fee College and University Presidents’ to fund sustainability projects Climate Commitment pledging to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions

One of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. The Princeton Review’s Guide to 332 Green Colleges

466,586

plastic water bottles

have been kept out of landfills by 24 in-wall filter/ water bottle filling stations, saving the community nearly $700,000

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2014

energy efficient bulbs, lighting fixtures, and equipment installed

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million gallons of water

saved per year, by low-flow devices installed in campus bathrooms, equivalent to the annual usage of 730 people

50% reduction in garbage hauling contract

269 kW solar panels generated 291,845 kW hours in 2014, enough to power

27 average U.S. homes that year

% 25 of our lettuce

will be grown hydroponically on campus


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