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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
spring 2016 www.umassd.edu
24
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