Bloomington Campus Sustainability Report

Bloomington Campus Sustainability Report Year Four

Summer 2012 Indiana University Bloomington Student Sustainability Interns.

Indiana University Bloomington Office of Sustainability Campus Sustainability Report

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary 5 Background 7 Academic Initiatives 13 Curriculum 13 Research 15 Co-Curricular 17 Operational Initiatives 19 Energy and Built Environment 19 Resource Use and Recycling 25 Transportation 29 Sustainable Computing 31 Food 33 Environmental Quality and Land Use 35 Fiscal Impact 37 Progress and Goals for 2012 39 Appendix A. Campus Sustainability Advisory Board 41 B. Student Sustainability Council 47 C. Green Teams 49 D. Academic Year Interns 2011-2012 51 E. Summer Interns 2012 F. Academic Year Interns 2012-2013

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Campus Sustainability Report – Year Four The Indiana University Office of Sustainability (IUOS) completed its fourth year of operations on March 2, 2013. This report will outline IUOS progress in its fourth year in general, academic and operational campus sustainability initiatives at IU Bloomington. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The IU Office of Sustainability is a unique entity charged with catalyzing and coordinating sustainability initiatives across academic, research, operations and community realms for students, faculty, staff, and alumni. As a catalytic entity, we initiate collaborations with other academic and operations units and help the university move toward full integration of sustainability. Internship Program. Approximately half of the IUOS budget is dedicated to a dynamic staff of 18 temporary Sustainability Interns and this academic year’s group will bring to 176 the number of interns who have been directly involved in catalyzing significant change on the IU Bloomington campus. By employing interns, IUOS not only provides an excellent applied research experience and financial assistance for students, it enables the operations units they work with to make much greater progress on sustainability initiatives than they would otherwise accomplish with their own limited staff resources. IUOS internship alumni have proven the career building value of this internship, including four now employed by IUB in various departments. Governance. Over 200 volunteers are now directly engaged in IUOS governance and active initiatives, including faculty, staff, administrators, students and members of the community. IUOS governance and implementation framework consists of a 40-person Campus Sustainability Advisory Board with seven working groups, including; Academic Initiatives, Energy and Built Environment, Environmental Quality & Land Use, Food, Resource Use & Recycling, Sustainable Computing, and Transportation. This board is co-chaired by Michael Hamburger and Peggy Maschino. Each of these working groups have two co-chairs, one representing academics and one representing operations and their working groups consist of volunteers who teach or work in fields related to the working group mission. Each working group has assigned to them one or more Sustainability Interns. Academic and community engagement. Student leaders representing 23 student organizations make up our Student Sustainability Council that meets monthly. IUOS also encourages the continuing emergence of Green Teams in buildings and departments across campus and meet regularly with their representatives, providing them with a forum to share best practices and resources to amplify their localized efforts. IUOS Academic Initiatives Working Group plays an important supportive role in connecting academic programs to campus operations for mutual benefit. This function will be important to the success of the new Integrated Program in the Environment and other academic programs embracing sustainability.


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Financial return. Since the inception of IUOS, campus sustainability initiatives have generated over $3,000,000 in financial benefits for the university (see Fiscal Impact). The current IUOS annual fiscal budget is just over $329,000, including $150,000 for student internships and fee remissions. For every dollar spent on campus sustainability, at two dollars is returned. In addition, our interns have performed hundreds of hours of substantive work in support of full-time university faculty, staff and administrators while gaining valuable experience in applied sustainability. The potential overall savings from IU campus conservation programs for energy, water, transportation, waste, and materials resources could result in annual savings of well over $10 million, based on current utility, waste, fuel, and commodity prices. Outside consultants have shown these savings may be achieved with attractive levels of annual return on investment. IUOS will continue to identify, catalyze and support those efforts with initiatives in all of those areas of opportunity. A 2020 Vision of Leadership. In 2009, the Campus Sustainability Advisory Board endorsed a vision for the next ten years of campus sustainability that recognizes this opportunity. The IUOS 2020 Vision states: Indiana University is an international campus sustainability leader recognized for innovation and excellence in academic programs, research, campus environmental quality, campus operations and community outreach that facilitate and demonstrate the path to a more sustainable future. This year, we have demonstrated again that investing in campus sustainability has immediate and long-term returns that far exceed the initial investment and pay dividends for generations. Each year, we plan to build on this foundation, to accelerate and amplify the academic and fiscal payback, and continue to catalyze progress towards the outcome of Indiana University receiving deserved recognition as an international leader in campus sustainability. In 2012, Indiana University Bloomington was ranked 45th in the UI Greenmetric World University Ranking, in our first report to this metric. In January 2011, IU Bloomington became the seventh charter participant to report under the new Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS). Our initial report achieved the “silver” level of certification and our goal for 2020 is the highest “platinum” level (with one level, “gold,” between). To date, over 200 institutions have reported and all of these reports are publicly available, along with tools for analysis at https://stars.aashe.org/. The University of Michigan is the latest Big Ten peer to report. When IUB started down this path, we were also filling out sustainability surveys from the Princeton Review, the Sustainable Endowment’s Institute and the Sierra Club. Earlier this year, all three other surveys of agreed to collaborate with AASHE and use the common STARS data collector for their publications. The Sustainable Endowment Institute, which had published the Green Schools Report Card for five years, announced March 30 that it was immediately discontinuing its survey. Clearly, with over 400 registered schools, STARS will be the metric going forward for measuring success in campus sustainability. Director Brown was elected to the Board of Directors of AASHE in January of 2012 and he also served on the STARS Steering Committee. He was elected to serve on the executive committee of the board as secretary in November of 2012.


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BACKGROUND Among the core recommendations of the Task Force on Campus Sustainability’s 2008 Campus Sustainability Report was the creation of an Office of Sustainability, which would provide administrative leadership and coordination for campus-wide programs on sustainability. “This office would serve as a central administration and advocacy unit with sufficient resources to help catalyze and coordinate the large-scale university changes in academic programs and operations that are proposed in this report.” According to the report, the primary functions of the Office of Sustainability would be to:

(1) Initiate, support, coordinate, and evaluate campus operational and academic issues related to sustainability; (2) Work with key campus administrators (President, Provost, V.P. for Administration, and academic deans) on sustainability issues; (3) Advise and collaborate with operational units to implement sustainability best practices; (4) Act as advocate, clearing house, and coordinator for academic initiatives related to new degree programs, course offerings, minors, research projects, etc.; and (5) Participate in strategic planning with top-level administrators to infuse sustainability focus into operations, academics, building, and land-use for the campus.

The report went on to propose that the Office would serve to coordinate sustainability efforts between campus, community, university, state, and peer institutions and to communicate with both internal and external stakeholders on sustainability issues facing the campus. The Office would also coordinate student involvement in sustainability issues, in collaboration with other campus groups. The Director of Sustainability, according to the job description: Develops a coherent, campus-wide sustainability program by coordinating academic, research, operations, and student sustainability activities. Fosters a culture of sustainability among students, faculty, and staff; identifies and prioritizes areas for institutional sustainability efforts; plans and develops long- and short-range programs; and engages with institutional leaders to foster sustainability broadly across campus units. Coordinates with the academic community to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. Serves as a point person for all sustainability activities on campus, annual reporting requirements and other University policies related to sustainability; coordinates and consults with other IU campuses; facilitates communications as the campus spokesperson on sustainability issues; receives guidance from and supports the activities of the Sustainability Advisory Committee; and represents the University at national professional conferences. In addition, the Director has development responsibility for grant funding, corporate partnerships, and programs that promote campus sustainability efforts. Works in a collaborative manner to develop productive relationships with campus and external constituencies. The Director is responsible for the design, implementation, and evaluation of efforts undertaken. In its first week of operations, IUOS established an on-campus office in the Geology Building and began to establish the governance and implementation structure currently in place to catalyze sustainability across the curriculum and across campus. IUOS began its fourth year in a new headquarters at E-House, a demonstration project for state-of-the art energy efficiency and renewable energy.


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The graphic above represents the typical evolution of campus sustainability programs, which tend to start at the grass roots level. Full integration of sustainability principles in academics, operations and administration is the goal. No institution has yet fully achieved that state of integration. Some are close.

GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK Campus Sustainability Advisory Board Significant continuity was maintained from the former Task Force to the new Campus Sustainability Advisory Board, from the co-chairs, Michael Hamburger and Paul Sullivan, to many members of the board, working groups, committees and intern mentors. Michael Hamburger stepped aside in 2011 to go on sabbatical and was replaced by Jeff White as The Campus Sustainability Advisory Board (CSAB) co-chair. This year, Michael Hamburger returned as co-chair of CSAB and Paul Sullivan stepped down with Peggy Maschino taking his role representing the operational side of the board. CSAB has 38 members representing a broad cross section of the campus and community representing faculty, staff, administration, students and members of the community. This large group meets once per semester (see a listing of CSAB members in the Appendix). Jeff White was recently named director of the new Integrated Program in the Environment and he asked Hamburger and Brown to be on his advisory council.


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Working Groups There are seven Working Groups of the Campus Sustainability Advisory Board that are co-chaired by board members, and these groups meet independently and more frequently. Each working group has one co-chair from the academic realm and another from the operations side of the university. Working Group members, currently 63 people, are selected by the Working Group co-chairs from volunteer experts and may consist of faculty, staff, students and community members. In most cases, working group co-chairs and their members have positions in the university that directly relate to the mission of the working group. This allows for a natural progression from ideation to implementation and blurs the lines between what is an IUOS initiative and what is an initiative of an academic or operations unit. This hybrid has proven to be a rich, dynamic, creative and productive implementation structure where everybody wins and initiatives can start with IUOS or with the Working Groups. Each Working Group typically has one or more Sustainability Interns assigned to facilitate research and implementation. Working Group Academic Co-Chair Operations Co-Chair Academic Initiatives Lisa Sideris, Religious Studies Rob Meyer, IMU Energy & Built Environment Rebecca Barthelme, Geography Peggy Maschino, Physical Plant Environmental Quality & Land Use Peggy Schultz, Biology Mike Jenson, Env. Health & Safety Food Jeanne Sept, Anthropology Sandra Fowler, RPS Dining Services Resource Use & Recycling Steven Kreft, Kelley School Tom Fallwell, Building Services Sustainable Computing Victor Borden, School of Education Kim Milford, UITS Transportation Hans Ibold, Journalism Perry Maull, Transportation Services (see a complete list of working groups and their members in the Appendix) Student Sustainability Council Although student leaders serve on the Campus Sustainability Advisory Board and Working Groups, we also wanted to involve the leadership of campus student organizations in a more direct way and also establish a way for them to work together as a super-organization devoted to promoting campus sustainability. To that end, IUOS Sustainability Program Coordinator Emilie Rex brought together leaders from 14 student organizations, in 2009, and they formed a new campus student organization, with its own charter and constitution, sponsored by IUOS. This student organization meets monthly and is called the Student Sustainability Council (SSC). SSC has grown to include 23 student organizations. Most major student groups are represented on this council as well as smaller groups focused on particular environmental or social issues. SSC was successful in their attempt to gather over 11,000 student signatures to get a voluntary check-off box on registration forms for a $5 donation to campus sustainability. SSC leadership will work with the IUOS working groups to determine how to distribute funds from this IU Sustainability Fund. Over $12,000 has been collected so far and the SSC is preparing to release funds for their first project before the end of this semester, which will be a lighting/controls upgrade in the stairwells of Ballantine Hall in collaboration with UAO and Physical Plant.


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Green Teams Some campus units, such as the IU Foundation, Wells Library, IU Alumni Association and the Registrar’s office had ad hoc “green teams” prior to the existence of the Office of Sustainability. IUOS brought them together in monthly meetings called the Green Bag Luncheon Series so that they can share best practices and inspire their counterparts in other campus units to follow their lead. We have assigned a sustainability intern to facilitate new green teams and act as resource for existing green teams. There are now 33 Green Teams and a tiered, online “Green Office” self-rating system is in place to guide teams to higher levels of achievement. Already, the IU Foundation Green Team has achieved the third level of certification and Environmental Health and Safety has reached the highest level. We hope to have 40 Green Teams by the end of this year, start a Green Teams Advisory Council, and a have a Green Team in every major campus building by 2020. Internship Program in Sustainability The Internship Program in Sustainability uses campus as a living-learning lab, enlisting students as researchers in investigating important questions facing our community, such as: How do the ways in which our campus operates and consumes resources affect the social, environmental and economic well being of our community? Or, how is our campus’ impact connected to more complicated global issues like climate change, resource scarcity and poverty? Through internships co-mentored by staff in operations and faculty members, interns conduct research and develop programming focused on general sustainability outreach and education or in specific topic areas such as food, transportation or resource use. To date, 176 interns have been employed by the program. Since its inception in 2007, the Internship Program in Sustainability has become a national leader in the student engagement in sustainability-related program development and research. To measure program improvement, IUOS staff set measurement objectives and goals in the following program areas: internship project development, recruitment, hiring, support and accountability, evaluation and documentation, recognition, and alumni development. IUOS uses the national conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) as a venue for benchmarking the program against peer institutions. The IUOS program has emerged as the most comprehensive, well-executed model for student leadership and engagement, ensuring interns gain hands-on experience integrated with classroom study that measurably enhances their skill sets, critical thinking abilities and marketability as IU graduates.


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Accelerating Engagement and Outreach Currently, over 200 people are directly engaged in IUOS initiatives and plans are to grow this number by several orders of magnitude through grass roots Green Teams, student groups, direct engagement with the IU departments, and outreach to 500,000 living alumni through the IU Alumni Association. IUOS has established a relationship with IU Athletics, who is sponsoring IUOS sustainability interns, and IUOS is working with them on a comprehensive collaboration called “Greening Cream and Crimson.” IU Alumni Association provided a summer sustainability intern and they are excited about the possibilities of engaging younger alumni who tend to be more service oriented. Vice Provost David Johnson has initiated a challenge to all of his departments in the Office of Enrollment Management to integrate sustainability into all they do. IUOS is working with all of their departments to identify areas of engagement. This year we established a consulting relationship with the IU Health Center called “Greening the IU Health Center” and devoted an internship to the initiative. IUOS has also been working with the Office of First Year Experience to develop programs to introduce incoming students to campus sustainability issues and solutions as they begin their journey of discovery here. Over 8,000 incoming freshman read a four-page description of campus sustainability at IUB and discussed the topic with advisors when they arrived on campus. Last Fall, IUOS worked with FYE to green their events and introduced a Green Dorm Room online certification system similar to the Green Office Certification System. IUOS also gives several presentations per week about IUB Sustainability to classes, community organizations, professional groups, trade conventions, other campuses, and peer groups as part of our outreach efforts. The addition of videoconference facilities to E-House has facilitated greater interaction with other IU campuses, including a meeting with the Sustainability Committee at IU Northwest and regular on-line meetings with sustainability officers at IUPUI and IU South Bend. IUOS maintains a web portal (www.indiana.edu/~sustain) and multiple listservs, a Facebook page, Twitter account, blogs, and podcasts. The IUOS Sustainability Clearinghouse is a community service that lists over 600 local organizations involved in some aspect of sustainability. IUOS is in the second year of a monthly electronic newsletter, Catalyst, and publishes This Week in Sustainability every week. We are in the final stages of a complete reworking of our web site with IU Communications. The new site will launch in January 2013. IUOS continues to develop more opportunities for collaboration with campus units such as IU Athletics, IU Office of Enrollment Management, IU Student Foundation, IU Alumni Association, IU Health Center, IU Physical Plant, and the Indiana Memorial Union and Union Board. The story of Indiana University Bloomington campus sustainability is one that will arc from Grass Roots to full Integration as our beloved university nears 200 years of sustainability as an institution in the year 2020. IUOS has made considerable progress in four years building networks, coalitions, collaborations and teams to successfully complete projects and initiatives at the least cost. A credible business case for campus sustainability has been demonstrated. Now it is time to elevate to Visionary Leadership to weave sustainability into the fabric of this great institution by 2020.


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Academic Initiatives CURRICULUM

Current Initiatives

Increasing Access to Sustainability Coursework: The Sustainability-Related and Sustainability-Focused Course Designations

Over the last two years, the Academic Initiatives Working Group has modified the previous catch-all “SU” designation for sustainability-related coursework to mirror the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) system designating courses as “sustainability focused” and “sustainability related.” The new system provides better guidance for students interested in taking courses, as well as more recognition for faculty interested in submitting their course for designation. The AIWG student sustainability intern converted the IUOS page listing these courses into a searchable format with the intention of making them more accessible to students.

Supporting New Sustainability Course Development: The Sustainability Course Development Fellowships

With support from IU's College of Arts and Sciences and the IU Office of Sustainability, the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs awarded three Sustainability Course Development Fellowships to Indiana University Bloomington faculty. This year’s recipients were Meriem Chida, Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design; Lisa Sideris, Religious Studies; and Jiangmei Wu, Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design. Applications are currently being solicited for this summer’s fellowship program.

Supporting New Degree Programs in Sustainability and the Environment: The Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Integrated Program in the Environment Initiatives

A interdisciplinary degree program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ES&S) has recently been developed as a result of a specific recommendation of the President’s New Academic Directions Committee. The committee that developed this degree represented SPEA, the College and the School of Public Health with several members of the IUOS Campus Sustainability Advisory Board (CSAB) participating. A proposed introductory course and series of concentration courses across departments are just the start of an envisioned new future set of course offerings, drawing largely on coursework in the humanities and social sciences. Former IUOS CSAB co-chair Jeff White has been named to direct the Integrated Program in the Environment, which will tap more than 60 scientists spanning no fewer than seven academic departments and multiple schools.


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Expansion of Sustainability Course Development and Creation of a Sustainability Community of Practice: Faculty Course Development Workshops

The sustainability program at IUB can point to a large number of faculty teaching substantive courses that address major environmental and sustainability topics. The VPFAA has supported the Sustainability Course Development Fellowship program for the past four years. The initiative has been successful in creating a series of innovative, new sustainability-related courses. At the same time, we believe that the program has yet to fully realize its potential for major impact on undergraduate education at Indiana University. At present the sustainability curriculum currently lacks coordination across the various programs, leading both to inefficiencies and frequent ‘reinvention of the wheel’, whereby faculty independently develop teaching approaches that are not always ideally suited to the multi-disciplinary challenges at the core of sustainability science. The timing is right to cultivate such a campus-based community network of sustainability faculty that can address these challenges. The establishment of the Environmental & Sustainability Studies degree program under the direction of the Integrated Program in the Environment will also require curriculum development support. As the next stage in sustainability program development, the IUOS Academic Initiatives Working Group recently proposed the development of a Faculty Community of Practice in Sustainability. This will be a collaborative initiative of the IU Office of Sustainability, the Integrated Program in the Environment and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. This program would build on the successful experience of IU's Center on Innovative Teaching and Learning, the Freshman Learning Project, and the History Learning Project. Many of our peer institutions have supported emerging communities of sustainability faculty through the establishment of sustainability course development workshops. These activities are designed to facilitate cross-department interaction and coordination through discussions of sustainability learning principles. Faculty attendees share results with a wide audience, including instructors of sustainability courses, general education courses, departments, and instructors in many fields who teach similar kinds of thinking, such as the use of data and consideration of the viewpoint of another person. This Community of Practice concept is designed to provide instructors a place to connect with and support efforts working on the academic side of sustainability. This collaborative initiative will benefit from a recent Ostrom Grants Program award of $4000.


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RESEARCH

Current Initiatives

Raise Awareness Regarding Existing Sustainability Research: Sustainability Research Clearinghouse

In an effort to highlight existing sustainability-related research at IUB, the AIWG created the Sustainability Research Clearinghouse. The site profiles eight researchers, displaying a photograph and biography of relevant research projects. Additionally, 53 researchers are listed in a searchable format with links to their faculty homepages. Each is designated as conducting sustainability focused or sustainability related research.

Supporting Development of New Sustainability Research: The Sustainability Research Development Grants Program

The Sustainability Research Development Grant program, jointly sponsored by the University Graduate School, the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, the Center for Research on Energy & the Environment, the Center for Research in Environmental Sciences and the IU Office of Sustainability, provides opportunities for faculty members and students to develop externally funded research related to environmental sustainability. Projects and researchers selected for the 2011-12 academic year awards include:

"Developing an Urban Site Index (USI) for Sustainable Urban Tree Planting Programs" -- Burnell Fischer, clinical professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, along with SPEA graduate students Jessica M. Vogt and Matt Patterson, will study the effectiveness of the Urban Site Index, a rapid site assessment tool used for analysis of tree planting strategies for urban areas. The USI


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scores a potential street tree planting site on four soil parameters and four street parameters. The team plans to perform detailed soil analyses and monitor mortality and growth rates of recently planted trees to determine how well the USI identifies suitable planting sites -- and in turn, its effectiveness as an urban sustainability planning tool. "Bloomington, Indiana, PCB Oral History Project" -- Associate professor Phaedra Pezzullo of the Department of Communication and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences, together with Communication and Culture graduate students Joshua Barnett, James McGuffey and Jacquelyn Shannon, will work to establish a public, digital archive of oral histories from people who have been most directly involved in the use, disposal, remediation and political controversies related to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Bloomington. The collected personal histories of local residents involved in the PCB history will shed light on national and international discussions about toxic pollution and sustainability in ways that make evident the intertwined fates of environmental, economic and social equity relations.

Next Steps

Increased Effectiveness of Sustainability Research Development Grant Program: Sustainability Research Leadership Grants

In its current form, the SRDG program provides seed funding, typically in the amount of $10,000 to $15,000, for new research projects in sustainability. One such grant award of $25,000 to the Food Studies Program was instrumental in expanding the degree and facilitating several workshops critical to increased faculty support. For the first time, this year’s grant program will support graduate student research and $40,000 has been dedicated by IUOS, University Graduate School, the School of Public Health, and the Integrated Program in the Environment. The establishment of the Integrated Program in the Environment offers new opportunities for collaboration to grow this program in the future.

Comprehensive Listing of Sustainability Research at IUB

With 53 researchers on the IUB campus pursuing either sustainability related or sustainability focused projects, IUOS feels it is necessary to begin cataloguing these efforts for the purpose of better understanding the breath, quantity and funding potential of this faculty community. Research funding is not currently flagged by topic. Our quest is to get an idea of the total financial impact of sustainability research proposals on campus, as it may be in the university’s interest to encourage increased research in sustainability through a formalized initiative similar to the effort to increase research and development in life sciences.


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CO-CURRICULAR SUPPORT

Current Initiatives Supporting Extracurricular Student Engagement in Sustainability: Mentorship of the Student Sustainability Council

With over 20 member student organizations involved in sustainability programming, the Student Sustainability Council is the hub for extracurricular engagement in sustainability. This year the organization became the first in IU’s history to be invited to join the Dean’s Student Advisory Board, and was also recently appointed as one of seven organizations to the university wide Student Transportation Board. IUOS staff support informed and purposeful student engagement in this umbrella organization, connecting students to faculty and operational staff working in the trenches.

Creating Hands-on Work Experiences in Sustainability Research and Program Development: The Internship Program in Sustainability

In its first six months of existence, the IU Task Force on Sustainability established the Internship Program in Sustainability. The program utilizes campus as a living-learning laboratory, enlisting undergraduate and graduate students in research and implementation projects mentored by faculty in academic areas and staff in operations. Now in its 12th season, the program has funded 176 internship experiences.

Fostering a Campus Community Engaged in Service in Sustainability: Growing Volunteer Engagement

IUOS provides volunteer engagement opportunities in a number of its education and outreach programs, including but not limited to: the Campus Garden Initiative, Greening Cream and Crimson, the Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale, RecycleMania, the Energy Challenge, campus waste audits, the Bicycle Friendly Campus Initiative, Tree Campus USA and Arbor Day tree plantings, and the Big Red Eats Green Food Festival. As IUOS attempts to reach a larger portion of the campus population through meaningful experiences in sustainability service, we have improved the volunteer infrastructure to include educational components connecting volunteers with the social, environmental and economic impetus surrounding the sustainability initiative. Additionally, interns are encouraged to brainstorm new opportunities for volunteer education within each of their projects.

Developing General Sustainability Education Programming to Facilitate Academic and Co-Curricular Engagement Among Students: The Sustainability and the First Year Experience and Living Sustainably Off-Campus Programs

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and programming designed to help students live, learn, work and engage sustainably as they move into residence halls and subsequently transition to off-campus housing. These partnerships have yielded rich educational workshops, materials and other programming; volunteer engagement opportunities; increased access to sustainability-related services such as recycling and local food procurement; and more.

Next Steps Providing Access to Basic Lessons in Sustainability Among All Student Populations: The Sustainability Educators Program

While Indiana University (IU), through the Office of Sustainability (IUOS) and numerous other campus stakeholders, has made significant strides in simultaneously greening its operations and providing increased education and outreach surrounding sustainability, there remains a gap in access to basic information and subsequent engagement. A recent study led by two service-learning courses through IU’s LAMP program concluded that nearly 50% of students had not heard of IUOS despite rigorous marketing through traditional and social media outlets. IU needs a vehicle for creatively translating the message of sustainability and in a form that is both relevant and engaging students, faculty and staff with little to no previous exposure to environmental issues. A Sustainability Educators Program, often referred to at peer institutions as Eco-Rep Programs, is designed to provide increased access to basic sustainability education through peer-developed and faculty supported lessons in sustainability. Under the guidance of a program coordinator, the Student Sustainability Educators would target students with little or no previous exposure to sustainability by providing hands-on and engaging student-centered mini-lessons in basic sustainability education (climate change 101, sustainability 101, and resource use 101) to student organizations, Greek houses, courses, and staff and faculty support organizations with no known previous contact with IUOS. The lessons will be designed to develop foundational knowledge in sustainability concepts, while motivating participants to take tangible steps toward reducing their ecological footprint, engaging in campus sustainability programming, and/or becoming an advocate of sustainable policy.

Areas of Focus for Year Five:

1. Expand Sustainability Curriculum Development and create a Community of Practice 2. Expand Support for Sustainability Research 3. Expand Co-Curricular Opportunities on Campus, connect academic programs with

operations and student life on and off campus 4. Establish a Student Sustainability Educators Program


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OPERATIONAL INITIATIVES As with the academic programs, IUOS collaborates with operational units to achieve results and we have developed close working relationships with many operational units for mutual benefit. None of these initiatives occurred without engagement of IU employees outside IUOS and many originated within those units. The business case for conservation in these operational areas is strong. Conservation has a proven high direct return on investment, but the educational, research, engagement, retention, and marketing benefits of using the campus as sustainability learning lab are often underappreciated.

Energy and Built Environment Energy effectiveness is a keystone of campus sustainability. Conservation of energy is the most cost-effective way to combat climate change and the adverse environmental and health effects of burning fossil fuels. Buildings account for the vast majority of campus fossil fuel emissions, water use, and waste. Buildings and the infrastructure that serves them offer the greatest opportunity for cost-effective conservation, as detailed in the Campus Master Plan and the Integrated Energy Master Plan. Unlike many of our peer institutions, IUB does not have an Energy Manager who oversees all energy conservation programs across campus. This working group provides the leadership to fill that void.

E-House – Net-Zero-Energy Demonstration Project (and IUOS Office)

As the IUOS vision statement says, we intend to “facilitate and demonstrate the path to a more sustainable future.” One important new tool for facilitation and demonstration was added in December as IUOS moved into new offices at 704 E 10th St. The E in E-House stands for Energy, Environment, Economics and Education. Using gift money from the Duke Energy Foundation and individual donors, IUOS was able to fit E-House with a 4kW solar photovoltaic system, vertical-bore geothermal heating and cooling system, storm windows, additional insulation and a building energy dashboard system. E-House takes advantage of net metering to sell excess renewable energy back to the grid at the retail rate. Over a year’s time, on-site production of renewable energy should exceed the energy used in the building and any purchased energy will be offset by renewable energy certificate purchases. That will make E-House the second net-zero-energy building in Indiana and the first to utilize an existing historic building. Funding from Duke allowed for the installation of a detailed building energy dashboard that has a live presence in the building (it is also our videoconference system) and the dashboard is also available on the web. IU student researchers and classes have already used this technology in Business, Physics and SPEA.


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In addition to providing a demonstration of renewable energy technologies for campus and community, E-House provides a very valuable meeting and teaching space for our 18 interns, 7 working groups, 40 green teams and student groups, including the Student Sustainability Council, which represents 23 student organizations. In addition, several community groups related to sustainability meet at E-House and it has already hosted campus and community workshops, seminars and classes. E-House also provides office space in a convenient location on 10th Street, which sees over 16,000 cars per day and hundreds of pedestrians. For the first time, people walk in to get involved, without having to search for our office. E-House has been a tremendous asset to campus and community.

Green Buildings – Expediting LEED Certification

Director Brown is an architect, LEED Accredited Professional, and former chair of the Indiana USGBC who specialized in sustainable design. He frequently attends University Architect’s Office design and project team meetings to assess progress on LEED design and certification and consult with university architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors. The new LEED online database will make it easier for our architects and project managers to expedite LEED certification by providing standard documentation from past IU LEED projects in a manner that is easily accessible by all team members. The system is designed to save everyone time spent looking through past projects for commonly used credits and standard documentation. Several current LEED projects are tracking as Gold level projects and it is likely IU will certify at least three LEED Gold Projects within months. A new summer intern, Kayleen Glaser, a law student, will assist this summer with efforts to incorporate LEED best practices into IU Standards and Contract Documents.


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Integrated Energy Master Plan

IUOS assigned an intern to assist UAO with documentation of building energy metrics in preparation for the Integrated Energy Master Plan (IEMP) and Qualified Energy Savings Projects (QESP). Director Brown assisted with evaluation of consultant proposals and served on the IEMP steering committee. The consultant hired for the IEMP, 8760 Engineering, met with the Energy and Built Environment Working Group and student groups. Students were also hired to assist with gathering lighting data in buildings. When completely implemented, these initiatives will reduce annual energy costs over $9M per year, and will reduce carbon emission due to energy use by over 50%, with a payback on investment of less than ten years. The IEMP was recently approved by the Board of Trustees. IUOS will assist with marketing, education, and outreach; establishment of empathic occupant dashboards; conservation behavior change; and annual reviews.

Qualified Energy Savings Projects

IUOS sustainability interns have assisted with data gathering in preparation for Qualified Energy Savings Projects on the IUB campus. Over 20 campus buildings will be evaluated in detail for specific energy conservation measures as the first phase of this long-term project. Examples of the types of projects that will be evaluated include HVAC system improvements, variable frequency drives on motors, upgraded lighting, occupancy sensors for lighting and HVAC control, water savings through new fixtures and aerators, upgraded temperature control systems, and re-programming controls for night setback and unoccupied hours. The projects, when aggregated, must achieve a 10-year or less payback. The campus will borrow the money for the project to be repaid from the energy savings.

Energy Challenge and Campus Conservation Nationals

This four-week water and energy conservation competition grows each year. To date 4,022,359 kilowatt-hours of electricity, 8,023,839 gallons of water, 6,050,477 pounds of CO2

and $425,612.00 have been saved during 30 weeks of competition since 2007. The Fall Energy Challenge was added in 2010 to determine the persistence of conservation behavior beyond the event. Meter readings in the months after the Fall Energy Challenge revealed a rather dramatic persistence of conservation behavior that rivaled readings during the competition, where several buildings saved over 20% of the typical energy and water bills. The savings from this persistence of behavior was revealed to be $1.1 million in a 2011 study conducted by the IU Office of Utility Information with sustainability intern, Nolan Hendon. Energy Challenge 7, complete last November, was the largest ever, with over 82 campus buildings and their occupants competing. In spring of 2012, IUB competed in a national energy and water competition called Campus Conservation Nationals, in 100 colleges and universities saved over 2 gigawatts of electricity. IUB saved more water during the competition than all other colleges and universities combined and accounted for 20% of the national total of electricity savings. This Spring’s Energy Challenge/Campus Conservation Nationals was just completed with Read saving over 13% of its typical electricity use and Eigenmann saving over 25% of its typical water consumption.


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Utility Metering & Dashboard Development

The automated meter reading system, which is just about complete, will allow the Utility Department staff to remotely read all electric, water, chilled water, and condensate meters from one location. In addition, meters can be read on any frequency desired, making future energy challenges more effective with less labor. The opportunity to gather large volumes of energy and utility data on a routine basis is the first step in distributing accurate energy use data to building occupants. Fully-automated metering provides an opportunity to create occupant feedback on consumption in near real time, which has been shown to be an effective behavior modification tool.

The dashboard for E-House shows that it is producing more solar power than it is using and should receive a credit from Duke Energy instead of a bill for April. What if all campus buildings had public dashboards?

Renewable Energy Systems

In addition to the efforts of the Residential Programs and Services Department to fund satellite chilled water facilities to serve the campus, RPS has also included several renewable energy systems on two recent renovation projects. Both the Briscoe Quad (solar photovoltaic) and Tulip Tree Apartment Renovations (solar hot water heating and solar photovoltaic) have included renewable energy systems on the roofs of those buildings. Rose Residence Hall design features a significant solar hot water heating system. These are important demonstration projects that will help IU staff understand how renewable energy


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systems work, and provide educational opportunities for students and faculty. Renewable energy is also being purchased to support up to 35% the electric needs of the buildings attempting to gain LEED certification. Total installed renewable energy on campus currently exceeds 46 kilowatts, up from 0 kilowatts last year at this time.

Campus Sustainability and Energy Dashboards

Building on the experience of Energy Challenge, which has saved over $1.1 million by changing occupant behavior using dashboards, IUOS is working with Physical Plant on developing permanent, year-round, near-real-time energy and general campus sustainability dashboards. Sustainability intern and Informatics PhD candidate David Roedl is assisting in the conceptual design of a Campus Sustainability Dashboard that will provide a broad snapshot of progress in campus sustainability metrics. IUOS is also assisting in the development of an energy dashboard that will take advantage of the vast amount of data provided by IUB’s new radio-read building metering system. Our Energy and Built Environment Working Group has coordinated with several classes and capstone projects to connect coursework with the challenge of creating empathic dashboards that can change end user behavior.

Utilities Sustainability Intern Nolan Hendon worked with the Utilities Information Group to develop detailed monthly consumption metrics with trending analysis to nineteen academic buildings and twelve residence halls. These reports, which show trending data for three past years, are posted and archived on the IUOS web site and distributed directly to building representatives.


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Peak Demand Alert Response System

An area of research for the EBEWG and IUOS is the creation of an early warning system for peak demand which would leverage social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, to automatically distribute information for end users to take action to shave electric load and avoid peak demand charges, which amount to approximately half of IUB’s electric bill.

Water Conservation Emergency water restrictions imposed due to extended drought in the summer of 2012 offered an opportunity to test our ability to communicate and catalyze behavior change with the Million Gallon Challenge, in which we challenged IUB students, faculty and staff to save a million gallons of water in September, compared to the use the previous September. Lessons learned during this effort may result in considerable savings in the future as water rates continue to rise rapidly.


1. Implement the Comprehensive Energy and Water Dashboard for occupant behavior change. 2. Develop a Peak Demand Early Response System leveraging social media and dashboards. 3. Help implement the Integrated Energy Master Plan leveraging education, communications

and behavior change expertise. 4. Continue to assist with the Qualified Energy Savings Projects and other conservation efforts

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Resource Use and Recycling Working Group Unlike many of our peer institutions, IUB does not have a Waste and Recycling Manager who oversees all waste management programs across campus. This working group provides the leadership to fill that void.

Campus Waste Minimization and Recycling Initiatives

Unlike most peer institutions of our size, IUB waste management system has no single point of authority that could enforce a common system across all units with consistent, clear, convenient, coherent, and comprehensive recycling indoors and out. The Resource Use and Recycling Working Group, in collaboration with key stakeholders at Building Services, Residential Programs and Services, the Indiana Memorial Union, Campus Division, University Architects Office and IU Athletics, has been filling that role and considerable progress has been made. An area of concern is the lack of good data from our waste management vendor. Purchasing is collaborating with the working group on specific contract language to correct this and other deficiencies.

Comprehensive Recycling

Considerable progress has been made this year providing comprehensive recycling, including all plastics and glass, on all major buildings on campus. Thousands of new blue paper recycling and container recycling bins have been put in place. A NOWASTE web site explains these systems and the working group has designed labeling for the new bins to increase their effective use. Mark Milby, an IUOS Sustainability Intern, is leading an effort to conduct audits of the waste stream, map locations of containers and generally optimize the recycling systems in place.

Compost Pilot Study

In collaboration with IDEM, RPS Dining Services, EHS, IUOS and the Local Grower's Guild this working group hopes to conduct a pilot study for a potential strategy to deal with food waste, which makes up a substantial portion of total campus waste weight and cost.

Outdoor Recycling

Prior to this year, there were no outdoor recycling containers on campus. Now there are 18 new co-located trash and recycling stations with plans to grow that number. These attractive units encourage responsible behavior and assist in creating a litter-free campus. The IU Student Association recently passed a resolution, with 86% of the vote, recommending that all outdoor trash receptacles on campus be paired with recycling bins. This work is far from complete as solo trash receptacles are still common on campus.


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RecycleMania

Steve Akers, RPS Environmental Services Director, has championed Indiana University’s third entry in this ten-week national competition to see which institution can divert the most waste from the landfill. RecycleMania involves 510 schools in 50 states. Compared to peers like Purdue, IU has lower waste per student but also a much lower rate of recycling. In fact, this year, IU Bloomington finished last among Big Ten schools in recycling rate. Along with improved recycling systems, the Resource Use and Recycling Working Group plans to bolster efforts to educate and motivate students, faculty and staff to prior to the next round of competition.

Keep IU Beautiful

Each morning Campus Division crews pick up approximately 1500 pounds of litter from campus grounds. A conservative estimate indicates that over 15,000 individual acts of littering are evident in 1500 pounds of collected litter. Analysis of this litter stream indicates that over 90% of the litter is recyclable. The IUOS Keep IU Beautiful task forced has investigated the causes and the potential cures for litter over the past semester and is producing a plan for implementation this summer that will aim to make IUB a Litter Free Campus.

Greening Cream and Crimson

As part of a comprehensive effort to green IU Athletics, IUOS sustainability intern Erik Schneider worked with Chris Reynolds and others in IU Athletics to reduce waste and increase the recycling rate at athletic events, especially football games. Some progress has been made. In fact, IU was first in the Big Ten in the EPA Game Day Challenge in recycling per capita and avoided emissions per capita in 2011. For 2012, student volunteers provided more education of fans, self-serve trash and recycling bag stations, provided bags at gates, provided mobile bag distribution wagons and increased the number of game-day volunteers. One effort that did not particularly successful was collaboration with Greek organizations to police their own tailgate area. A policy change to require all chapters to clear their areas or lose them was promised, but not fully implemented, in spite of the provision of dozens of recycling and trash bins and additional dumpsters in their tailgate area by student volunteers. We feel a complete and comprehensive solution will require involvement of stakeholders at higher levels in the administration as this office lacks the authority to enforce policy and the money to provide adequate infrastructure and labor to solve the problem. Hundreds of student volunteers have made a valiant effort, but the infrastructure, policies, and enforcement are are not yet in place to allow IUB to match its peer institutions in terms of game day waste management.


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Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale - Move Out/Move In Waste Management

IUOS held its third and most successful sale with over 200 volunteers of various campus and community organizations to collect food, furniture, clothing, books and appliances typically discarded by students at move-out during May through August and resell items at the Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale. Over $28,000 was raised for United Way and Habitat for Humanity in last year’s sale and 35 tons of move-out waste was diverted from the landfill. This year’s sale occurred again at Gladstein Fieldhouse. Over 2,500 shoppers descended on this year’s sale, which was 200% more popular than the first year. This sale is coordinated with the City of Bloomington and dozens of campus and community organizations. This event originated as an IUOS sustainability intern’s idea and continues to be spearheaded by an IUOS sustainability intern. Erica Bramlet, who is mentored by Steve Akers of RPS and Jacqui Bauer, Sustainability Director for the City of Bloomington, served as the latest H2H intern.


1. Continue outdoor recycling implementation and such that all trash bins are paired with recycling bins.

2. Coordinate recycling education blitz in residence hall dining facilities first couple of weeks of Fall semester with student peer volunteers.

3. Promote and coordinate classroom stewardship program. 4. Assist with Request for Proposals for a unified waste management contract that will assure

accurate metrics for all waste on campus and certify that recycling is recycled. 5. Work with Greeks, Athletics, Physical Plant, IUPD, Dean of Students and other stakeholders to

establish a new norm for personal responsibility for waste management at football tailgates. 6. Work with IDEM and the Local Growers Guild on a pilot to study the feasibility of a campus

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Transportation Working Group Unlike many of our peer institutions, IUB does not have a Transportation Department or a Transportation Manager who oversees all four types of transportation (automobile, bus, pedestrian and bicycle) across campus. This working group attempts to fill that critical void to improve the quality and beauty of campus life, reduce traffic, reduce demand for surface parking, reduce pollution and improve student and employee health.

Bicycle Friendly University

IU was among the first 20 universities in the nation to be named a Bicycle Friendly University the League of American Bicyclists on the basis of an application submitted by the Office of Sustainability, which included responses to 93 in-depth questions evaluating five categories of bicycle friendliness: engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluation and planning. Questions ranged from quantitative details, such as how many bicycle parking spaces are provided compared to the university population, to more expansive themes. In response to a question about signature bicycling events, IU provided information about the annual Little 500 bicycle race. As a result of completing the research for the application, the IU Office of Sustainability has gained more recognition of cycling-related campus shortcomings. It is working on quantifying the bike-ability of roads on and near campus and on prioritizing needs based on the areas most in need of attention. The gap analysis of our application by the League of American Bicyclists noted the lack of a Campus Bicycle Plan and the lack of a group or administrator responsible for bicycle transportation on campus. As a result, sustainability interns Amy O’Shea, Rachel Abrahams and Hannah Hunt established a Bicycle Steering Committee and a Student Bike Club. Bicycle self-service repair stations have been added near Wells Library and the Indiana Memorial Union and all parking garages now have bike repair kits in the attendant booths. In addition, IUSA has offered to fund a Campus Bike Sharing program with 50 electronically controlled “Ubikes.” The Transportation Working Group is collaborating with the City of Bloomington to enhance bike routes to campus. Outstanding needs are for a Campus Bike Plan, as recommended by the Campus Master Plan, which would provide better marking of bike routes on campus and dedicated bike paths in some locations to relieve pedestrian-bicycle conflicts. When that is in place IUB should be able to move to a Silver Bicycle Friendly University classification or beyond.

Bike Sharing

The Transportation Working Group has been collaborating with IUSA to try to find a viable, affordable, convenient bike rental or bike sharing program to reduce the demand for cars on campus. This study is continuing with the IUSA representation, which has agreed to fund start-up costs. A current sticking point is identifying what unit on campus will be responsible for the program after the initial purchase of the bikes and confirmation of a long-term viable business model.


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Transportation Demand Management Study

The Campus Master Plan calls out potential locations for future parking structures, which may need to be constructed to replace surface lots eliminated by new construction. It also states that “these locations should only be considered after implementation of Transportation Demand Management strategies and as demand justifies their construction.” While there’s nothing in the TDM plan that would negate the need for the next parking structure being considered as replacement parking for the Well’s Library lot, it may prevent future parking structures and reduce traffic congestion over time. The Transportation Working Group and the Transportation Policy Advisory Committee worked with consultants last year to complete IUB’s first Transportation Demand Management Plan to reduce the need for new parking on campus by encouraging the use of alternative transportation modes and carpooling. While the $130,000 TDM plan has been complete since last Fall, implementation has yet to occur. The Transportation Demand Management Plan could potentially save IUB millions in reduced costs for parking facilities and health costs while also making the campus more beautiful, walkable, bikable and pedestrian friendly. Costs to implement the program could be paid for from a 4% increase in parking rates, which are currently among the lowest in the Big Ten. The Transportation Working Group voted in favor of a recommendation to Administration to implement the TDM plan in 2012. A motion was made to the full Campus Sustainability Advisory Board to recommend implementation of the TDM plan.


1. Implement the Transportation Demand Management Plan, with or without Parking Monetization.

2. Create a Bike and Pedestrian Plan per the Campus Master Plan in anticipation of the completion of the city’s 7th Street Bicycle Boulevard that will traverse the city and run through the heart of campus this year.

3. Launch the IUSA/IUOS/Outdoor Adventures bike sharing/leasing program, which was suggested in the Campus Master Plan.

4. Reapply to the League of American Bicyclists Bicycle Friendly University rating when a bike sharing program and a bike master plan are in place to elevate IUB’s current bronze designation to silver or gold.


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Sustainable Computing Working Group

Computers consume energy, but they can also save energy by offering alternatives to energy intensive activities like printing, document management, and travel. Computer technology can also be used to enhance other sustainability initiatives. Computerized dashboards, for example, can aid efforts to conserve energy and water. Electronic waste is a growing problem that this working group addresses with responsible collection, reuse and recycling programs.

Document and Print Reduction Campaign

Indiana University uses 160 million sheets of copy/print paper per year and 70% of it is virgin paper with no recycled content, according to a study by Madoka Yoshino, a former Sustainability Intern working with IU Purchasing. This stack of paper would be 10.6 miles high. This working group has mentored multiple IUOS Sustainability Interns to research document retention policies and investigating how to digitize millions of records currently requiring paper forms. Intern Jon Moberly has been researching document management and barriers to technology integration in academics.

Green Data Center Consolidation and Virtualization

Consolidation of servers and use of virtualization is underway to decrease the amount of energy consumed by distributed server rooms and their demanding cooling requirements. This will also free up floor space for other uses in buildings across campus. UITS is continuing to consolidate servers and is piloting IUanyWARE cloud-based computing. This type of consolidation results in significant energy savings in buildings that may have required special HVAC considerations due to server rooms. It also frees up space in campus buildings.

Computer Energy Savings Programs

A 2010 pilot study showed that automatic power-down software could save about 48% of desktop computer energy and could result in $500,000 annual savings if scaled up to include all desktop computers on campus. IUOS is continuing to assist with computer energy optimization through our Green Teams initiative. UITS is encouraging the use of energy reduction settings on all desktop computers and working with departments to modify service procedures to allow equipment to be turned off completely at night or when not in use.

E-Waste Days

A free electronic waste collection event was originally conceived by former Sustainability Intern and UITS Graduate Assistant, Kristin Hanks, who mentored Sustainability Intern, Laura Knudsen, who then passed the torch to Susan Coleman Morse (now employed by UITS). The last four year’s events have diverted over two million pounds of campus and community e-waste from the landfill. This service, which involves over $250,000 in Apple


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Inc. staff time and transportation costs, is provided to the university for free in order for Apple Inc. to fulfill its national percentage goals for recycling. This project has been so successful that there appears to be much less e-waste available locally and this May’s event will likely be the last large public event. The Sustainable Computing Working Group is directing a Human Biology B300 class service learning this spring, focused on researching e-waste habits for students and making recommendations for improvement in collection efforts as well as communicating e-waste opportunities.

Dashboard Development

This working group is assisting in the development of online electronic dashboards for campus energy and water use and also for general sustainability metrics. As Energy Challenge has shown, end users respond positively when they have useful and timely data about their consumption trends. They are working with Daniel Kinn, an intern associated with Physical Plant and David Roedl, IUOS sustainability intern, on the design of dashboards that can take information coming from meters on campus and turn it into empathic dashboards that can inform positive behavior change. IUOS will continue to collaborate with Physical Plant, RPS, related courses and other entities on campus to bring these important tools for behavior change to fruition. Academic Year 2012-2013 internships include Alexandra Aznar, metrics and dashboard with an emphasis on STARs and other reporting standards.

UI GreenMetric World University Ranking Alexandra Aznar also coordinated IUB’s first application to achieve a ranking for IU in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, placing 45th in the world. IUB received some key press about the ranking, which is important in a time when 26% of incoming students look at campus sustainability as a primary selection criterion.

Green Purchasing Computers, servers and computer peripherals that use less energy and material will be among the recommendations for Green Purchasing that this working group will assist IU Purchasing to develop. An IUOS sustainability intern, Anthony Marletta, is working on Green Purchasing Guidelines, mentored by Tim Rice.


1. Support digitization and paper reduction initiatives in academic departments, offices, labs and classrooms using standardized methodologies to reduce duplication of efforts.

2. Support the Print Management Initiative underway that seeks to move printing from being a personal function or even a departmental function, to be more like a utility.

3. Continue to develop energy reduction strategies or desktop computers and other electronic devices.

4. Develop a comprehensive, centralized Green Purchasing Policy. 5. Develop dashboards for general campus sustainability and for energy and water

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Food Working Group Designing an Edible Campus Project

Sustainability intern Stephanie Hopkins, led a series of design workshops called “Designing an Edible Campus” in 2011 with an eclectic mix of students, faculty, staff and volunteers. That effort grew into the Campus Garden Initiative. Stephanie established of an on‐campus pilot garden at the Bryan House, designed to highlight sustainable food products, feature heirloom vegetables and demonstrate the viability of a student-run campus garden. The success of those efforts led to the establishment of a much larger campus garden at Hilltop, collaborating with Hilltop manager, Lea Woodard, a former student sustainability intern. The produce from this garden has been served in RPS and IMU dining services. Sara Swan and her successor Francis Einterz have continued to grow the Edible Campus Project with hundreds of faculty, staff, students and citizens involved. Linkages to academic programs are a major emphasis as this program develops and it is expected to be an important lab for the Collins Living Learning Center, the Food Studies Program, the School of Public Health, and the Integrated Program in the Environment. A food composting pilot at Union Street Dining Center provides Hilltop with free organic matter to enhance the soils in the campus garden.

Sourcing Local Foods in Campus Dining Services

The Food working group continues to explore ways to improve sourcing of local foods for the IU, Residence Halls, and Athletic Dept. A key challenge is finding a centralized way to distribute the food in a convenient fashion so Residence Halls do not have to deal with multiple vendors, inconvenient drop‐offs, etc., and a way to process food in summer so that it is available throughout the year. The working group collaborated with a group of MBA students who did market research to help determine a delivery model. They also looked into various educational projects, on the assumption that if students demand local food, it will be easier to convince university food providers to supply it. The Food Working Group continues to explore new opportunities to analyze RPS dining trends and promote student awareness of the consequences of their food choices.

Big Red Eats Green Awareness Program: Where Your Food Comes From and Why It Matters

The Food Working Group is designing an awareness program: Big Red Eats Green: Where Your Food Comes From and Why it Matters. The first Big Red Eats Green Harvest festival was held September 14, 2011, in Alumni Hall to bring students, faculty and staff together with local area growers, food vendors and restaurants. It was a huge success among attendees and vendors. Last year’s BREG was moved to the outdoor space in front of the IU Art Museum. A website that helps students learn how to shop and cook, highlighting local markets, co�ops, and other sustainable options. How to design a menu, build a shopping list, and buy good food in bulk.


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Testing/Teaching Kitchen

A testing and teaching kitchen on campus would not only support RPS food services, but also host IU classes in Food Studies offered by faculty in Anthropology, Geography, Nutritional Sciences, Cognitive Science, and allied disciplines.

Reuse Rewards Program

RPS Dining Services is promoting the use of reusable food and beverage containers and offering incentives for their use to reduce the amount of waste related to disposable take-out food containers. They also offer tray-less dining in Reed and Collins with plans to expand that by offering “tray-less Tuesdays in Gresham and Wright.

2014 Themester: Food

The Food Working group is looking forward to designing new initiatives to coordinate with the Fall 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Themester that will focus on food.

Areas of Focus for Year Five: 1. Support the utilization of a testing/teaching kitchen on campus. 2. Continue to grow the Big Red Eats Green Festival and enhance its academic impact. 3. Increase the percentage of local and sustainable foods used in dining facilities and events

on campus. 4. Continue to strengthen connections among academic programs and Edible Campus and

Campus Garden initiatives. Several classes already utilize the garden as a lab or service learning opportunity. A major academic collaboration with the Collins Living Learning Center may come to reality in 2013.

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Environmental Quality and Land Use Working Group

Conserving Natural and Cultural Heritage in Dunn's Woods

Sustainability Intern Hayley Prihoda has been working with a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff, students, and Bloomington community partners to increase awareness about the cultural and natural heritage of the campus's historic Dunn's Woods. Working with mentor Heather Reynolds, Hayley continues to lead volunteer efforts to remove exotic invasive plants and restore native wildflowers to the woods, assist with historical and ecological research, and help to promote the woods as a learning center for the campus and community.

Yard Waste/Food Waste Composting

Building on a sustainability intern’s study of composting with Campus Division, this initiative looks at how landscape and pre-consumer food waste may be processed on campus to make new soil amendment and while reducing waste removal costs. Collaboration with the Local Growers Guild has been explored as a possible solution to dealing with food waste on campus as there is a high demand for compost among area growers.

Fume Hoods/Labs 21

IUOS sustainability intern Sara Dille researched best practices in fume hood specifications and management to provide safety while also reducing energy use. A single fume hood uses the equivalent energy of three or four average houses and IU Bloomington has over 700 of them in service. All now feature educational messages and behavior prompts for safe and efficient use.

Integrated Pest Management

Five separate entities on campus have five different integrated pest management policies. The Environmental Quality and Land Use Working Group is working to create one IU IPM policy and support it with training, certification classes and standards for purchasing and contracting with outside vendors. This effort promises to improve the safety and cost effectiveness of our disparate policies indoors and out.

Drinking Water Enhancement Pilot Study

Concerns about the quality and/or taste of water from drinking fountains in IUB buildings leads many faculty, staff, and students to bottled water, which contributes significantly to our waste stream and litter problem. This pilot study will research this topic to learn more about water quality, perception, education and the cost of broader implementation of drinking water fountains that encourage their use.


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Tree Canopy Enhancement

Working closely with Indiana University’s Tree Campus USA Steering Committee, University Architects Office, Campus Division and IU researchers, the Environmental Quality and Land Use Working Group will continue to assist in the restoration and development of a healthy tree canopy and investigate what is needed to achieve the Campus Master Plan Goal of “doubling the tree canopy on campus.” IUOS has had success in rallying volunteer support among faculty, staff, alumni and community organizations for mass tree plantings on campus.


1. Create a comprehensive Integrated Pest Management plan applicable across all units. 2. Continue to attack invasive species in Dunn’s Woods in a way that educates and informs. 3. Assist with efforts to restore the Jordan River per the Campus Master Plan. 4. Expand food composting to all dining facilities. 5. Develop a consistent campus-wide green cleaning policy. 6. Assist with campus reforestation and get more students involved in campus tree planting

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FISCAL IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT The IU Office of Sustainability is a lean organization with two full-time employees. By leveraging the brains and brawn of student interns and hundreds of faculty, staff and community volunteers, it has been able to substantially grow IUB’s campus sustainability efforts with low cost and high return. In its first four years of existence, the Indiana University Office of Sustainability has catalyzed over $3.5 million in direct savings, in-kind services, or grants for the university and our interns have performed hundreds of hours of substantive paid work in support of full-time university faculty, staff and administrators while gaining valuable education and experience in applied sustainability. The current IUOS annual fiscal budget is just over $329,000, including $150,000 for student internships and fee remissions. For every dollar spent on campus sustainability efforts, two dollars is returned. Initiatives like E-Waste Days, which leverage over $250,000 per year in in-kind services from Apple, Inc., benefit the statewide Indiana University system and the communities within which they operate. Sustainability intern Kristin Hanks proposed an idea for automatically shutting down computers when not in use using special software. The IT team at the School of Education, led by Larry Riss, took on that challenge and Hanks helped them measure energy savings in a pilot study that revealed potential savings of 48%, which would amount to an estimated $500,000 in annual savings if scaled up to all desktop computers on campus. That process is nearly complete. To date Energy Challenge has saved 4,022,359 kilowatt-hours of electricity, 8,023,839 gallons of water, 6,050,477 pounds of CO2 , and $425,612 have been saved during 30 weeks of competition since 2007. When combined with the savings seen throughout the year as a result of behaviors learned during the challenges, IU has saved more than $1.5 million in utility costs and has avoided emitting more than 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Monthly measurements after the Fall Energy Challenge indicate the conservation behaviors learned during Energy Challenge persist for months after the challenge, meaning there is potential for significant continuous savings through behavior change alone. IUOS continues to assist in developing a system of near-real-time feedback from these meters in a compelling manner that will provide continuous positive feedback reinforcement for conservation behavior. The Integrated Energy Master Plan outlines the potential for over $9 million annual savings from conservation programs for energy alone. IUOS has developed special expertise in changing faculty, staff and student conservation behavior, which is mentioned as one of the strategies for the success of the IEMP. IUOS doesn’t stop at energy and water conservation. IUOS is also pursuing dramatic savings with reasonable paybacks in waste management, purchasing, transportation and operations. IUOS also coordinates and supports numerous academic programs, service learning, co-curricular events and a host of other services to the rest of campus as no-fee consulting services. IUOS will play an important role in linking courses in the new Integrated Program in the Environment undergraduate degree in environmental and sustainability studies to the rest of the campus community for service learning and co-curricular activities.


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A growing number of prospective students rank campus sustainability as one of their most important selection criteria. Over 12,000 respondents to The Princeton Review 2011 College Hopes & Worries Survey were asked, “If you (your child) had a way to compare colleges based on their commitment to environmental issues (from academic offerings to practices concerning energy use, recycling, etc.), how much would this contribute to your (your child’s) decision to apply to or attend a school?” Nearly two thirds (65%) answered either “somewhat,” “very much,” or “strongly.” Over a quarter of students (28%) felt this information would influence their college selection “very much” or “strongly.” IUOS is collaborating with Vice Provost for Enrollment Management, David Johnson, and his staff to elevate the prominence of sustainability in enrollment, first year experience and admissions programs. What the Princeton Review study and other research (see Aramark study below) reveal is that the primary financial benefit of investing in campus sustainability may be the potential for Indiana University to be recognized as an international leader in a field of endeavor deemed by many potential students and faculty to be of the utmost importance and relevance to their future. This year, we have demonstrated that investing in campus sustainability has immediate and long-term returns that far exceed the initial investment. IUOS hopes to build on that foundation to accelerate and amplify the academic and fiscal payback and begin to position Indiana University as an international leader in campus sustainability.


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VISION, PROGRESS, GOALS FOR 2012 Indiana University Office of Sustainability 2020 Vision (2010) Indiana Univers i ty i s an internat ional campus sustainabi l i ty l eader recognized for innovat ion and exce l l ence in academic programs, research, campus environmental qual i ty , campus operat ions and community outreach that fac i l i tate and demonstrate the path to a more sustainable future . 20 Goals We Aspire to Achieve by 2020 – Bloomington Campus Leadership

1. Continuously increase the quantity, quality, and diversity of participation in campus sustainability initiatives.

2. Infuse sustainability into the culture, core values and administrative decision-making process. 3. Achieve the Platinum rating on the national Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System

(STARS). Academic Programs

4. Provide degree programs in environmental and sustainability studies at undergraduate, graduate & doctoral levels.

5. Make sustainability literacy and engagement a component of the educational experience for all IU graduates.

Energy, Atmosphere and Built Environment 6. Reduce overall campus greenhouse gas emissions by 30%. 7. Reduce energy consumption in campus buildings by 20%. 8. Reduce campus potable water use by 40%. 9. Create a plan to phase out coal combustion on campus. 10. Derive 15% of total energy use from renewable sources. 11. Fully meter all buildings with smart meters. Make utility information available to users. 12. Implement an internal audit/recommissioning team to provide for continuous improvement in

building energy and resource effectiveness. 13. Certify at least 20 existing buildings using the USGBC LEED for Existing Buildings.

Transportation 14. Reduce demand for single occupancy vehicles on campus by 20%.

Food 15. Purchase 20% of food served in university-owned facilities from local growers/producers that

embody sustainable practices in food production. Environmental Quality

16. Reduce campus solid waste by 40%. 17. Plant 12,000 trees and provide the funding, manpower, expertise and equipment necessary to

maintain the health and beauty of campus forests. 18. Restore the Jordan River as described in the Campus Master Plan.

Funding 19. Raise $10 million for sustainability projects through events, grants and donations. 20. Develop sustainable funding for the Office of Sustainability and its programs and internships.


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IUOS Goals for 2012 (percent complete)

1. General a. Create a comprehensive Campus Sustainability Dashboard on the web to measure and

publicly display key indicators of success. (99%) b. Green Teams in 40 buildings/units that are active and engaged. (95%) c. Collaborate with Student Sustainability Council for implementation and distribution of their

voluntary student Sustainability Fund. (99%) d. Completely revamp the IUOS web site. (99%) e. Launch a Campus Sustainability Awards Program. (100%)

2. Academic Initiatives a. Catalogue and promote sustainability focused and sustainability related courses, sustainability

co-curricular activities, and sustainability research. (99%) b. Support the creation of at least one new degree in sustainability. (95%) c. Develop a sustainability curriculum development “learning community.” (90%) d. Develop an expanded initiative to promote IU sustainability research. (85%)

3. Energy and the Built Environment a. Make building metering data available to users in an empathic dashboard form that enhances

conservation behavior. (95%) b. Complete a LEED Resource Database and certify three more LEED Buildings, at least one

at the Gold level. (99%) c. Support implementation of the Integrated Energy Master Plan. (99%) d. Support implementation of Qualified Energy Savings Projects. (99%) e. Assist in the development of a Peak Demand Alert and Response network. (75%)

4. Environmental Quality and Land Use a. Develop policy for consistent Integrated Pest Management across all units. (95%) b. Develop a pilot study of drinking water quality enhancement in at least one building on

campus. (75%) 5. Food

a. Expand the Big Red Eats Green Fall Food Festival in quality and quantity. (100%) b. Grow the campus garden and edible campus programs. (100%) c. Assist in the development of a campus testing and teaching kitchen. (85%) d. Increase the use of local, sustainable food choices in campus dining. (85%)

6. Resource Use and Recycling a. Optimize a comprehensive, convenient, cost-effective, and consistent campus waste

reduction and recycling system. (95%) b. Initiate a Litter Free IU campaign to reduce waste and litter while increasing campus recycling

rates. (95%) c. Increase the Hoosier-to-Hoosier Community Sale proceeds by 50%. (100+%)

7. Transportation a. Assist in completion of the Transportation Demand Management study. (100%) b. Submit grant for ten new campus hybrid buses to replace a portion of our aging fleet.

(100%) c. Complete a Campus Bike Master Plan. (0%) d. Collaborate with IUSA on the implementation of a campus bike rental system and campus

bike repair shop. (75%) 8. Sustainable Computing

a. Fully implement the computer energy conservation pilot (Go Green Gadget). (95%) b. Save another 20 million sheets of paper through digitization and other paper reduction

strategies and establish an accurate system for tracking paper use. (100%) c. Divert 300,000 pounds of electronic waste from the landfill and improve systems for resale

and recycling of retired equipment. (120%)


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APPENDIX Appendix A. Campus Sustainability Advisory Board Board Member Dept/School Email Michael Hamburger, Co-Chair Geology hamburg Peggy Maschino, Co-Chair Physical Plant pmaschin Steve Akers RPS spakers Laura Appelt SSC lappelt Matt Auer Hutton Honors College, SPEA mauer Michael Baker AFSCME, Phys. Plant mebaker Rebecca Barthelmie* Geography rbarthel Jacqui Bauer City Sustainability Coordinator [email protected] Jacob Bower-Bir GPSO, Political Science, SPEA jbowerbi Victor Borden* Institutional Research and Reporting, Education vborden John Cash CWA, Libraries jcash Dennis Cromwell OVPIT dcromwel Paul Edwards DEMA pdedward Alex Elias IUSA ajelias Tom Evans* Geography evans Tom Fallwell* Building Services tfallwel Kristine Fowler Athletics kfowler2 Sandra Fowler* RPS sfowler Tom Gieryn VPFAA Gieryn Noriko Hara BFC nhara Patty Hollingsworth Health Engagement pwhollin Hans Ibold* Journalism hibold Bruce Jacobs IMU jacobsb Mike Jenson* EHS mjenson Gillian Johnston BPC gijohnst Jeff Kaden Engineering Services jkaden Rebecca Keith IUAA rekeith Steven Kreft* Business skreft Perry Maull* Transportation pjmaull Kim Milford* UITS kmilford Cindy Miller PAGR cynmmill Rob Meyer* IMU robemeye Mike Noth Libraries mnoth Bob Rathbun FYE/VPOEM rtrathbu Tim Rice Purchasing trice Chris Ritrievi IUF critriev Mary Roper RHA mkroper Nicole Schonemann Service Learning nschonem Peggy Schultz* Biology pschultz Jeanne Sept* Anthropology sept Lisa Sideris Religious Studies lsideris Sonya Stephens Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education sonsteph Jeff White IPE whitej Mia Williams University Architects Office miawilli

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Working Groups

Academic Initiatives

Working Group Member Title Email @indiana.edu Lisa Sideris Co-Chair, Faculty (Geography) lsideris Rob Meyer Co-Chair, Assistant Director (IMU) robemeye Eli Blevis Faculty (IUOS); Graduate Student (SPEA) eblevis Jacob Bower-Bir Graduate Student (Political Science/SPEA) jbowerbi Sanya Carley Faculty (SPEA) scarley Melissa Clark Faculty (SPEA) mlaney Burney Fischer Faculty (SPEA) bufische John Galuska Faculty (Folklore/Ethnomusicology); Director

(Foster International Living-Learning Center) ggaluska

Alexi Lamm Graduate Student (SPEA) alamm John Maxwell Faculty (Kelley) jwmax Jessica Plassman Graduate Student (Communication and Culture) jnplassm Oren Pizmony-Levy Graduate Student (Sociology), Intern (IUOS) opizmony Emilie Rex Assistant Director (IUOS) ekrex Michael Sauer Sr. Research Analyst (Registrar) mjsauer

Energy and Built Environment

Working Group Member Title Email @indiana.edu Rebecca Barthelmie Co-Chair, Geography Faculty rbarthel Peggy Maschino Co-Chair, Associate Director (Physical Plant) pmaschin Michael Baker Staff (Physical Plant) mebaker Ben Brabson Faculty (Physics) brabson Dan Derhemier Environmental Manager (EHS) dderheim Kevin Ellett Geophysicist (Indiana Geological Survey) kmellett Mike Jenson Director (EHS) mjenson Jeff Kaden Engineer (Engineering Services) jkaden Lauren Kastner Undergraduate Student (Journalism) lakastne Patrick Kitchens Graduate Student (Business) pkitchen Charles Matson Engineer (Physical Plant) cmatson Nicholas McKay Undergraduate Student nrmckay Mark Menefee Assistant Director (Utilities) mmenefee Patty Moser Environmental Health Specialist (EHS) pmmoser Eric Ost Faculty (Astronomy) emo Misty Theodore Program Manager (Psychological and Brain

Sciences) mtheodor

Jonathan Racek Faculty (Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design)

jonracek

Terry Usrey Faculty (SPEA) usrey Lee Walters Director (UIG) lewalter


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Environmental Quality and Land Use

Working Group Member Title Email (@indiana.edu)

Mike Jenson Co-Chair, EHS mjenson Peggy Schultz Co-Chair, Faculty (Biology) pschultz Gil Agarwal Senior Mechanical Engineer (UAO) gagarwal Chris Craft Faculty (SPEA) ccraft Michael Dorsett Environmental Health and Safety Specialist (EHS) mjdorset Brent Emerick Golf Course Superintendent (Athletics) bemerick Burnell Fischer Faulty and Director of Undergraduate Programs (SPEA) bufische Diane Henshel Faculty (SPEA) dhenshel Rex Howard Environmental Health and Safety Specialist (EHS) rehoward Bill Jones Faculty (SPEA) joneswi Chris Kohler Laboratory Safety Manager (EHS) cekohler Mark Lame Faculty (SPEA) mlame Heather Reynolds Faculty (Biology) hlreynol Mike Schrader Staff (Physical Plant) mschrade Mia Williams Director of Landscape Architecture (UAO) miawilli

Food

Working Group Member Title Email (@indiana.edu) Sandra Fowler Co-Chair, Director of Dining Services (RPS) sfowler Jeanne Sept Co-Chair, Faculty (Anthropology) sept Ancil Drake Executive Chef (RPS) addrake Stephanie Hopkins Graduate Student, Intern (IUOS) stehopki Jeff Mease Founder and Co-Owner (One World Enterprises) [email protected] Sara Minard Graduate Student, Former Intern (IUOS) sminard Mitchell Rice Staff (Creative Services) mcrice Alan Simmerman Prepared Foods Manager (Bloomingfoods Coop) [email protected] Steve Mangan General Manager (Sodexo Food Services) smmangan Peter Todd Faculty (Cognitive Science, Informatics, and

Psychology) pmtodd

Marcia Veldman Market Coordinator (City of Bloomington Parks & Rec)

[email protected]

Katie Zukof Assistant Director (Local Growers Guild) [email protected]


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Resource Use and Recycling

Working Group Member Title Email (@indiana.edu) Tom Fallwell Coordinator (Building Services) tfallwel Steven Kreft Faculty (Business) skreft Steve Akers Associate Director of Environmental Operations (RPS) spakers Phil Cole Purchasing pcole Erica Bramlet Undergraduate Student, Intern (IUOS) bramlete Meredith Dowling Graduate Student, No Waste Coordinator (IUOS) medowlin Julie James Faculty (Applied Health Services) julajame Alexi Lamm Graduate Student, Intern (IUOS) alamm Mark Milby Graduate Student, Intern (IUOS) momilby Tim Rice Contract Manager (Purchasing) trice Steve Riggins Property Manager (IU Real Estate) seriggin

Sustainable Computing

Working Group Member Title Email (@indiana.edu) Victor Borden Co-Chair, Professor of Educational Leadership and

Policy Studies vborden

Kim Milford Co-Chair, Interim University Information Policy Officer

[email protected]

Pete Bucklin Director of Facilities and Learning Technologies (Informatics)

pete

Beth Cate Faculty, School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Adjunct Associate General Counsel, IUB

becate

Susan Coleman Morse UITS Graduate Assistant for Sustainability, Graduate Student (Informatics)

colemans

Dennis Cromwell Associate Vice President (Enterprise Infrastructure) dcromwel Matthew Decker STC IUB Printing masdecke Michelle Dugger Contract Manager (Purchasing) mldugger Harold Evans Faculty (Physics) hgevans Loretta K. Hutchison VP and Chief Administrative Officer (Service Building) lohutchi Joowon Kim Undergraduate Student, Intern (IUOS) Joowkim Patricia McManus Faculty, Director of Graduate Studies (Sociology) pmcmanus Mark Niswander Enterprise Operations Planner (UITS) mniswand Larry Riss Director Technology Services (School of Ed.) lriss Davie Roedl Graduate Student, Intern (IUOS) droedl Nathan Smith Contract Manger (Purchasing) nathans Ellen Spurgeon Undergraduate Student, Director of Sustainability (IUSA) ellspurg


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Transportation

Working Group Member Title Email (@indiana.edu) Perry Maull Co-Chair; Operat ions Manager (Campus Bus

Service) pjmaull

Hans Ibold Faculty (Journalism) hibold Colin Allen Faculty (History and Philosophy of Science) colallen Lynn Allen Faculty (Second Language Studies) lynallen Jacqui Bauer Sustainability Coordinator (City of Bloomington) [email protected] Bill Brown Director of Sustainability (IUOS) brownwm Buff Brown B-TOP [email protected] Vince Caristo Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator (City of

Boomington) [email protected]

Patrick Courtney Undergraduate Student pcourtne Tom Evans Faculty (Geography) evans Rob Fischman Faculty (Law) rfischma David Good Faculty (SPEA) good Mike Hardesty Motor Pool mhardest Hannah Hunt Undergraduate Student, Intern (IUOS) hehunt Lou Malcomb Faculty (Libraries) malcomb Kent McDaniel Auxilliary Business Services kemcdani Doug Porter Parking Operations porterjd Emilie Rex Asst. Director of Sustainability (IUOS) ekrex Dustin Smucker Program Coordinator (Outdoor Adventures) dsmucker Paul Sullivan Deputy Vice President CPF psulliva Danielle Thoe Undergraduate Student dthoe Elliott Trosky Undergraduate Student ejtrosky Raymond Vanlanot Graduate Student rvanlano


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Appendix B: Student Sustainability Council

Alpha Phi Omega (APO) American Cetacean Society Student Coalition (ACSSC) Building Tomorrow Coal Free IU E-Force Environmental Law Society (ELS) Environmental Management Association (EMA) Global Village LLC Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO) Greeks Go Green (GGG) Indiana Public Research Interest Group (INPIRG) IU Oxfam IU Student Association (IUSA) IU Student Foundation (IUSF) Kelley Energy Club

Residence Hall Association (RHA) Revitalizing Animal Well-Being (RAW) Slow Food on Campus SPEA USA Students Producing Organics Under the Sun (SPROUTS) Sustainable Development Association (SDA) Veg IU Volunteers in Sustainability (ViS)


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Appendix C: Green Teams Green Team Main Contact(s) IU Username Alumni Association Rebecca Keith rekeith Art Museum Jeanne Leimkuhler jleimkuh Athletics Chris Reynolds rcreynol Biology Melody Inabinette mjschell Call Center Services Sandy Cunningham scunning Career Center Katie Lloyd lloydk Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning Nicole Schonemann nschonem Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies John Kroondyk jkroondy Chemistry Kate Reck creck Chinese Flagship Program Bradley Good brgood School of Education Cary Buzzelli cbuzzell Office of Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Rick Peterson peterson

Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands Kaitlyn Salb ksalb Folklore/Ethnomusicology Michelle Melhouse mmelhous IU Foundation Jessica Parry jjparry Geological Sciences Michael Hamburger hamburg Geological Survey Marni Karaffa mldickso Health, Physical Education & Recreation (HPER) Bernadette deLeon deleon School of Informatics and Computing Rebecca Lowe mrslowe Indiana Memorial Union Gary Chrzastowski gchrzast Kelley School of Business-Undergraduate Program Kathleen Robbins kammeyer Kelley School of Business – Graduate Program Tracy Smith tracys Kinsey Jenny Bass jbass Libraries Vern Wilkins vwilkens Mathers Museum/Glenn Black Laboratory Kelly Wherley kwherley Physics and Astronomy (Swain West) Ben Brabson & Eric Ost brabson & emo Political Science Jacob Bower-Bir jbowerbi Registrar John Scully jscully Residential Programs and Services Steve Akers spakers Office of Student Financial Assistance Caitlin Homenda codya Overseas Studies Rachelle Bennett ralbenne School of Public and Environmental Affairs Katie Sewell katsew Sociology Mike Vasseur mvasseur Theater & Drama Paul Brunner pbrunner University Information Technology Services (UITS) Susan Coleman Morse colemans Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Emily Castle efcastle


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Appendix D: Academic Year Interns – Fall 2011-Spring 2012

PROJECTS MENTORED THROUGH THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY Amy Allen, Green Teams Program Amy is a SPEA undergraduate majoring in Environmental Management. Before enrolling at IU, Amy spent eight years in private sector management. Her interests include urban agriculture and the development of sustainable communities. This year, Amy will continue to coordinate the Green Teams Program, with a special focus on member recruitment and Green Team network development. Shannon Beatty, Keep IU Beautiful Task Force Shannon is a Kelley undergraduate majoring in Business Economics and Public Policy with minors in Sociology and Psychology. She has volunteered her time to further sustainability on IU’s campus with her involvement in several leadership positions: Vice President of Environmental Affairs of McNutt Residential Housing, Vice President of Treasury of Greeks Go Green, and Sustainability chair for Gamma Phi Beta. This semester Shannon will work with a diverse group of campus and community stakeholders to identify strategies for reducing litter on the IUB campus. Bridget Flynn, Sustainability and the First Year Experience Bridget is an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing majors in Environmental Ethics (through the Individualized Major Program) and Religious Studies with a minor in Sociology. She has interned with Mercy For Animals, a non-profit animal advocacy organization, and she currently writes and edits for Indy Vegans. This summer, as an IUOS intern, Bridget coordinated the first sustainability IUBeginnings trip and helped with greening New Student Orientation. This fall she is promoting and maintaining the Green Dorm Certification Program and creating resources for first-year students interested in sustainability. John Hageman, Greening the Athletics Department. John is an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Environmental Stewardship and Sociology. When John was a freshman he formed the Campus Improvement Alliance, a student organization aimed at improving the relationship between humans and the natural environment by cleaning up trash on campus. Since then, he has remained active in the IU community by serving as a member of Greeks Go Green and as Philanthropy Chair for his Fraternity. This year, John will work to integrate green principles into the operations and administration of Athletics Department events and programming. Benjamin Inskeep, Sustainability Reporting and Metrics Ben is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a Master of Public Affairs and Master of Science in Environmental Science joint degree with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management. Ben graduated from IU in 2009 with a B.S. in Psychology and a certificate in the Liberal Arts and Management Program. This fall Ben will work with the Office of Sustainability on evaluating IU's progress toward sustainability, which will involve improving reporting methods and database development to facilitate completion of campus sustainability rating systems. Rachel Irvine, Living Sustainably Off-Campus Rachel is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Science through the College of Arts and Sciences and SPEA. She has previously served as the Environmental Director for Collins Living Learning Center on IU’s campus. She has also interned with the Water Task Force under the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability, for which she focused on water conservation issues, culminating in a public rain-barrel-making workshop last spring. This year, she will collaborate with IUOS and the City of Bloomington’s Sustainability Coordinator to continue previous interns’ work in implementing sustainable living resources and opportunities for IU’s off-campus residents.


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PROJECTS MENTORED THROUGH THE CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD Erica Bramlet, Resource Use and Recycling Working Group: Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale Erica is an undergraduate student in SPEA and the Kelley School of Business, pursuing a major in environmental management and a certificate in Business Foundations. Erica works as a copy editor at the Indiana Daily Student and a teaching assistant through SPEA, with career plans that include reducing humans’ impacts on the environment. This year she will coordinate the third annual Hoosier to Hoosier Community sale, diverting reusable goods from landfills while also benefitting community organizations and integrating educational aspects into the program such as service learning classes. Sara Dille, Environmental Quality and Land Use Working Group: Fume Hood and Labs 21 Pilot Sara is pursuing a Master of Environmental Science and a Masters of Public Affairs with concentrations in Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology, and Risk Assessment and Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management. Sara graduated from Wheeling Jesuit University in 2010 with a B.S. in Chemistry. This academic year, Sara will be expanding the “shut the sash” campaign, which is aimed at reducing electricity when fume hood sashes are left open. She will be developing educational outreach materials as well as an incentive program for laboratories interested in conservation. Nolan Hendon, Energy and Built Environment Working Group: Utilities Conservation Project Nolan is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a Master of Public Affairs and a Master of Science in Environmental Science with concentrations in Sustainable Development and Energy. In 2006, he graduated from Indiana University Southeast with majors in International Studies and Spanish. This school year, his work will include creating monthly utility usage reports for many of the academic and residential buildings on campus, helping in the coordination and preparation of the fall and spring Energy Challenges, and promoting water and energy conservation on campus. Stephanie Hopkins, Food Working Group: IUB Campus Garden Initiative. Stephanie is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs and a Master of Science in Environmental Science with concentrations in sustainable development and applied ecology. Stephanie graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2010 with a B.S. in biology and a B.S. in anthropology. This year, she will be administering the Edible Campus Steering Committee and preparing for the first growing season at the Initiative's central campus garden. Hannah Hunt, Transportation Working Group: Bicycle Friendly Campus Initiatives Hannah is an undergraduate studying Political Science and Environmental Affairs. During the past summer, she worked as a research assistant for the University of Louisville's Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods (SUN) in Louisville, Kentucky. As the intern for Bike Friendly initiatives at IU, Hannah will work to improve bicycle access by increasing alternative transportation resources, hosting educational events, and fostering a bike-friendly culture. Joowon Kim, Sustainable Computing Working Group: Document Management Joowon is an undergraduate studying Economic Consulting, Public Policy, and International Business in the Kelley School of Business is a member of the Consulting Workshop. As the co-founder of World Access United, Joowon has been working with socially-minded business students from Europe and North America to establish an international network where students around the world can discuss various global issues. This year, she will be collaborating with the Sustainable Computing Working Group to effectively implement strategies to reduce paper creation and retention and promote paper reduction strategies to faculty, staff and students.


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Alexi Lamm, Academic Initiatives Working Group: Sustainability Academic Programs and Research Clearinghouse Alexi is a SPEA graduate student, pursuing a Master of Public Affairs at SPEA. Alexi graduated from Arkansas State University with a B.F.A. in graphic design and subsequently served as a Peace Corps health education volunteer in Albania. Last year Alexi served as the IUOS intern/coordinator of the Hoosier-to-Hoosier Community Sale. She continues to work for IUOS as an intern with the Academic Initiatives Workgroup where she will build upon previous interns' work to create an accessible and accurate information source about sustainability-related research, courses, organizations, and activities on campus. Mary Liang: Energy and Built Environment Working Group: LEED Documentation and Evaluation Mary is pursuing a Master of Science in Environmental Science and a Master of Public Affairs, focusing on energy and sustainable development. She graduated in 2010 from Franklin and Marshall College with a BA in environmental science, and has worked with the Lower East Side Ecology Center in NYC to increase sustainability in small businesses. This fall, Mary will work to streamline the process of meeting the silver LEED requirement for new IU buildings. Will McHenry, Energy and Built Environment Working Group: Energy Challenge Program Will is an undergraduate studying French Literature in the College of Arts in Sciences. Will previously served Indiana University as the Director of Environmental Affairs for the Residence Hall Association. This year, he will continue his summer work of piloting, evaluating and revising a new promotional campaign for the Energy Challenge program. This campaign is intended to increase awareness of and participation in the challenge among residence halls and the academic buildings. Mark Milby, Resource Use and Recycling Working Group: Campus Waste Audit Program Mark is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs in SPEA, concentrating in sustainable development. Before moving to Indiana, he was an environmental educator at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in central Georgia. As an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, he worked for their Office of Sustainability and graduated with a B.S. in Ecology. This year, Mark will coordinate waste audits in several buildings across campus. Using data from the audits, he will help implement new strategies for increasing user education and participation with the goal of increasing waste diversion at IU. David Roedl, Sustainable Computing Working Group: Measurement Analysis and Campus Sustainability Dashboard Development David is a PhD student studying Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Informatics and Computing. He earned a B.S and a M.S from IU and recently worked as a user experience designer for Opower, an energy-efficiency software company. This year, he will be designing strategies for leveraging campus utility and other sustainability-related data to encourage sustainable behaviors. Sara Swan, Academic Initiatives Working Group: New Review of Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Sustainability Sara is an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing degrees in French and Sustainable Food Security (through the Individualized Major Program) and a certificate in Nonprofit Management. She serves as president of Slow Food IU, volunteers in Mother Hubbard Cupboard's gardens, and has interned with Growing Places Indy, an urban gardening nonprofit. This year, I will be conducting research about peer institutions’ development and implementation of sustainability-related degree programs, as well as inclusive and comprehensive curriculum in sustainability studies well suited to students with varying academic backgrounds and career interests.


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Appendix E: Summer Interns – 2012

PROJECTS MENTORED THROUGH THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Sharlene Fish, Green Teams Coordination Shar is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a Master of Public Affairs and Master of Science in Environmental Science joint degree with a concentration in Nonprofit Management and Applied Ecology. Before enrolling at IU, Shar spent eight years as a manager and fund development officer in the nonprofit and for-profit sector. Her interests include sustainable agriculture and animal wellness, and she is a Certified Master Gardener. This summer, Shar will continue working with faculty and staff to coordinate the Green Teams Program across the IUB campus, with a special focus on Green Team resource and network development. Shar was recently hired by the IU Kinsey Institute.

Rachel Irvine, Living Sustainably Off-campus Rachel is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Science through the College of Arts and Sciences and SPEA. Her work in this internship over the 2011-2012 academic year resulted in weatherization workshops for students and a green renters’ checklist guide for students seeking sustainable off-campus living. This summer, she will continue collaboration with IUOS and the City of Bloomington’s Sustainability Coordinator to implement sustainable living resources and opportunities for IU’s off-campus residents. She has previously served as the Environmental Director for Collins Living Learning Center on IU’s campus, and she also interned with the Water Task Force under the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability.

Haley Long, Sustainability and the First Year Experience Haley is an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a General Studies degree with a professional focus in Sustainability and a minor in Religious Studies. In the past she has interned with Mother Hubbard's Cupboard food pantry and community garden, and has volunteered extensively with American Cancer Society. Through her work with Mother Hubbard's Cupboard she has worked with youth organizations in the community to teach the youth of Bloomington about organic gardening and food security. This summer, Haley will coordinate the second sustainability IUBeginnings trip. She will also work to further green the New Student Orientation and create resources for incoming freshman interested in sustainability.

Jessica Plassman, Green Events Coordination Jessica is a Communications and Culture doctoral student pursuing her PhD in Rhetoric and Public Culture. Her specific research interests are at the intersection of rhetoric, sustainability, and fashion. In addition, Jessica is an Associate Instructor for the department teaching courses in public speaking, rhetoric, and sustainability. In the spring of 2011, Jessica graduated with an MA in Communication at the University of Cincinnati with an emphasis in environmental communication. Jessica will be building upon previous interns’ work to update and promote an implementation plan for green events at IUB.

Oral Saulters, Green Purchasing Oral is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a PhD focused on Environmental Policy, Public Management, and Native American & Indigenous Studies. Oral is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Kansas State University with degrees in Engineering and Environmental Science. He has environmental management experience with research, military, and regulatory organizations. This summer Oral will work with the Office of Sustainability on enhancing green purchasing strategies, methods, and plans. In particular, life cycle tools and comprehensive environmental ratings approaches will be investigated to support IU's procurement of greener technology products.


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Erik Schneider, Greening of the Athletic Department Erik is pursuing a Master in Public Affairs with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management. Before attending SPEA, Erik worked as an organizer with the Environmental Law and Policy Center and interned in Illinois state government by assisting a State Senator with environmental legislation. This summer, he will work to continue the Athletic Department's recycling efforts and enhance their sustainable practices.

PROJECTS MENTORED THROUGH THE CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD

Erica Bramlet, Hoosier-to-Hoosier Community Sale - Resource Use and Recycling Working Group Erica is an undergraduate student in SPEA and the Kelley School of Business, pursuing a major in environmental management and a certificate in Business Foundations. Erica works as a copy editor at the Indiana Daily Student and a teaching assistant through SPEA, with career plans that include reducing humans' impacts on the environment. This summer she will continue to coordinate the third annual Hoosier to Hoosier Community sale, diverting reusable goods from landfills while also benefitting community organizations and integrating educational aspects into the program such as service learning classes.

Andrew Bushnell, Qualified Energy Savings Project Planning - Energy and Built Environment Working Group Andrew is an undergraduate student at SPEA pursuing a major in Environmental Management and a minor in Spanish. He is currently interning at Sycamore Land Trust in Bloomington and works as an undergraduate teaching assistant through SPEA. This summer, Andrew will be working on the qualified energy savings program, which will include collection of energy consumption data and also evaluation of energy payback calculations.

Fred Diego, Document and Paper Management - Sustainable Computing Working Group Fred is an undergraduate studying Cognitive Science with concentrations in Computer Science and Cognition. He will graduate in 2014 with a B.S. in Cognitive Science. His research interests include environmental injustice, community psychology, and agency and hopes to investigate them through the context of under-served communities along the U.S. Mexico border. Fred will collaborate with the Sustainable Computing Working Group to help draft policy and design and implement an education and awareness campaign to reduce paper use and document retention among faculty, staff, and students.

Meredith Dowling, No Waste Program Coordination - Resource Use and Recycling Working Group Meredith is a SPEA graduate student and Service Corps Fellow pursuing a MS Environmental Science and a Master of Public Affairs. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College, with minors in Geology and Gender Studies. Upon graduating from Oberlin, Meredith served a year-long appointment as the Assistant Sustainability Coordinator for the Oberlin College Office of Environmental Sustainability. This summer, Meredith will continue her past work coordinating waste minimization efforts of the No Waste initiative and supporting the Resource Use and Recycling Working Group.

Frances Einterz, Big Red Eats Green Fall Festival - Food Working Group Frannie is an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a degree in Biology and minors in French and Chemistry. She previously served an intern at Hilltop Garden and Nature Center where she planted a garden focused around edible and native weeds and flowers. She will be organizing Big Red Eats Green, a Fall Harvest Festival that connects the IU campus to the sources of local Bloomington food. One of the main goals of the festival is to raise consumer awareness of the sustainability and the importance of local food.


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Mark Milby, Keep Indiana University Beautiful - Resource Use and Recycling Working Group Mark is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs in SPEA, concentrating in sustainable development. Before moving to Indiana, he was an environmental educator at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in central Georgia. As an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, he worked for their Office of Sustainability and graduated with a B.S. in Ecology. This summer, Mark will continue previous intern work to develop a diverse group of campus and community stakeholders to identify and implement strategies for reducing litter on the IUB campus.

Aliya Mood, Sustainability Academic Programs and Research Clearinghouse - Academic Initiatives Working Group Aliya is a undergraduate majoring in journalism and art history. She spent last summer in London working with non-profit sustainable initiatives company and has previously been involved in the Sierra Club and Sierra Student Coalition's Coal Free IU campaign. This summer, she will build upon previous interns' work to create an accessible and accurate information source about sustainability-related research, courses, organizations, and activities on campus.

Hayley Prihoda, Conserving Natural and Cultural Heritage in Dunn's Woods - Environmental Quality and Land Use Working Group Hayley is an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, pursing a major in History and a minor in Art History. She has served as a director for the Art Museum Student Organization and recently interned at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This summer Hayley will work with a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff, students, and Bloomington community partners to increase awareness about the cultural and natural heritage of the campus's historic Dunn's Woods. Hayley will lead volunteer efforts to remove exotic invasive plants and restore native wildflowers to the woods, assist with historical and ecological research, and help to promote the woods as a learning center for the campus and community.

Carolyn Raider, Utility Conservation in Academic Buildings - Energy and Built Environment Working Group Carolyn is a dual masters candidate of environmental science and public affairs at SPEA with concentrations in energy and sustainable development. After graduating from Skidmore College with a BA in Environmental Science, she went on to teach both photography with National Geographic Student Expeditions and English to high school students in Northern Italy. This summer, she will be responsible for analyzing IU's energy consumption and determining methods of conservation and sustainable behavior. She will also be responsible for coordinating the fall 2012 Energy Challenge.

David Roedl, Measurement Analysis and Campus Sustainability Dashboard Development - Sustainable Computing Working Group David is a PhD student studying Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Informatics and Computing. He earned a B.S and a M.S from IU and recently worked as a user experience designer for Opower, an energy-efficiency software company. This summer, he will continue his work to design strategies for leveraging campus utility and other sustainability-related data to encourage sustainable behaviors.

Kevin Sonoff, Bicycle Friendly Campus Initiatives - Transportation Working Group Kevin is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a Master of Public Affairs with concentrations in Sustainable Development and Public Management. He is a SPEA Service Corps fellow and works on alternative transportation policy at the Monroe County Planning Department. In 2008, he graduated from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon with a B.A. in Business Administration. This summer, he will help to improve bicycle access and safety for the IU Bloomington campus through the implementation of cycling recommendations from the forthcoming IU Transportation Demand Management Study and the development of an IU comprehensive bicycle transportation plan.


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Sara Swan, IUB Campus Garden Initiative - Food Working Group Sara is an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing degrees in French and Sustainable Food Security (through the Individualized Major Program) and a certificate in Nonprofit Management. She serves as president of Slow Food IU, volunteers in Mother Hubbard Cupboard's gardens, and has interned with Growing Places Indy, an urban gardening nonprofit. This summer, she will be administering the Edible Campus Steering Committee and managing the first growing season at the Initiative's central campus garden.


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Appendix F: Academic Year 2012-2013 Interns

PROJECTS MENTORED THROUGH THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Daniel Edelson, Sustainability and the Greek Community Daniel is a SPEA undergraduate majoring in Management with a Business Certificate and a Hebrew minor. He has spent past summers working for the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, as well as various green startups in his hometown of Detroit, MI. Daniel is highly involved in the IUSA Sustainability Committee and the Kelley Net Impact-Sustainable Business Club. This year, Daniel will work to incorporate a Sustainability Chair position for each Greek executive board, as well as develop the infrastructure for a recycling program.

Sharlene Fish, Green Teams Coordination Shar is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a Master of Public Affairs and Master of Science in Environmental Science joint degree with a concentration in Nonprofit Management and Applied Ecology. Before enrolling at IU, Shar spent eight years as a manager and fund development officer in the nonprofit and for-profit sector. Her interests include sustainable agriculture and animal wellness, and she is a Certified Master Gardener. This year, Shar will continue working with faculty and staff to coordinate the Green Teams Program across the IUB campus, with a special focus on Green Team resource and network development.

Tim Gates, Greening of the Health Center Tim is a SPEA graduate student pursuing a Masters in Public Affairs with concentrations in Policy Analysis and Sustainable Development. He graduated from The Evergreen State College in 2011 with a B.A. in Environmental Policy, while earning L.E.E.D. AP status. After graduating, Tim worked on public policy while serving as a legislative aide for a Washington State Senator who chaired the Energy and Natural Resource committee. This year, he will collaborate with the IU Health Center Sustainability Committee to research and implement sustainability measures unique to a health care setting, conduct a strategic planning exercise, and develop an implementation plan for projects which include: waste analysis, water conservation, site and landscape issues, sustainability policies for staff, and energy efficiency upgrades.

Haley Long, Sustainability and the First Year Experience Haley is an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a General Studies degree with a professional focus in Sustainability and a minor in Religious Studies. In the past she has interned with Mother Hubbard's Cupboard food pantry and community garden, and has volunteered extensively with American Cancer Society. Through her work with Mother Hubbard's Cupboard she has worked with youth organizations in the community to teach the youth of Bloomington about organic gardening and food security. This year, Haley will coordinate the first Greenest Floor Challenge. She will also be working to incorporate sustainability into the New Student Orientation and to create resources for incoming freshman interested in sustainability.

Anthony Marletta, Sustainable Purchasing Anthony is an undergraduate in the School of Public Health majoring in Safety Science with a minor in Environmental Management from SPEA. This summer he interned for a newspaper company in New York doing training on Environmental Safety and Health Practices, as well as analysis for proper environmental management techniques and implementation. He currently holds a position at a safety consulting firm where he works with managing the procurement of equipment and supplies for field and office operations. This year, Anthony will be facilitating projects and conducting research in conjunction with the Office of Procurement Services looking to create more affordable and sustainably sourced purchasing options for campus activities.


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Patricia Peng, Living Sustainably Off-Campus Currently, Patricia is a SPEA graduate student working towards a Masters in Public Affairs. She graduated from Purdue University this past Spring where she studied Natural Resources & Environmental Science. During her undergraduate experience, Patricia worked as an intern for Purdue's Office of Sustainability serving as the student coordinator for RecycleMania 2012 to promote recycling and responsible resource use. Patricia will work with IUOS and the City of Bloomington's Sustainability Coordinator to provide students with more sustainable options and resources specific to living off-campus.

Erik Schneider, Greening of the Athletic Department Erik is pursuing a Master in Public Affairs with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management. Before attending SPEA, Erik worked as an organizer with the Environmental Law and Policy Center and interned in Illinois state government by assisting a State Senator with environmental legislation. This year, he will work to continue the Athletic Department's recycling efforts and enhance their sustainable practices.

PROJECTS MENTORED THROUGH THE CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD

Alexandra Aznar, Energy and Built Environment: Utility Reporting Dashboard Alexandra is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs at SPEA with a concentration in sustainability and energy. In 2008, she graduated with a degree in government from Claremont McKenna College. This year, she will be further developing the IU Office of Sustainability dashboard and identifying data sources to be used in ongoing and future sustainability assessment programs.

Karina Cardella, Energy and Built Environment: Utility Data Analyst Karina is currently pursing a dual degree in Environmental Science and Spanish through SPEA and the College of Arts and Sciences. She is also pursing a certificate in management through the Liberal Arts Management Program offered through the College of Arts and Sciences. She will be working with the IUB Physical Plant Utilities Information Project task committee as a data analyst to identify data anomalies and produce reports.

Tim Clark, Transportation: Bicycle Friendly Campus Initiatives Tim is a first year graduate student at SPEA focusing on urban ecology and sustainability. He is a veteran of the Pacific Northwest, raised on a tree farm in the coastal mountain range of Oregon. He attended Portland State University, graduating in 2011 with a degree in Environmental Sciences. His enchantment with bicycles began in Portland, OR when he bought his father's Falcon and realized the versatility and simple fun intrinsic to cycling. This upcoming year, Tim will be working towards implementing a campus bicycle share program, improving ridership and safety, strengthening available online resources, and proving Indiana University is a Bicycle Friendly Campus.

Frances Einterz, Food: IUB Campus Garden Initiative Frannie is an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a degree in Biology and minors in French and Chemistry. She previously served an intern at Hilltop Garden and Nature Center where she planted a garden focused around edible and native weeds and flowers. This past summer, Frannie was the Big Red Eats Green Festival coordinator. This year, she will be managing the Campus Garden Initiative and coordinating the Edible Campus Steering Committee.


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Mark Milby, Resource Use and Recycling: No Waste Program Coordination Mark is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs in SPEA, concentrating in sustainable development. Before moving to Indiana, he was an environmental educator at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in central Georgia. As an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, he worked for their Office of Sustainability and graduated with a B.S. in Ecology. This year, Mark will continue previous waste minimization efforts of the No Waste initiative and supporting the Resource Use and Recycling Working Group.

Jon Moberly, Sustainable Computing: Document Management, Paper Usage, and Reduction Jon is an undergraduate senior studying Economic Consulting and Public Policy Analysis at the Kelley School of Business. He currently serves as the president of a fraternity and hopes to pursue a career in consulting after graduation. Last semester, Jon was an intern at a market research firm where he identified public sector initiatives to improve infrastructure efficiencies. This year, he will be working with professors and students to identify document usage habits and the ways in which electronic resources can be used to replace paper.

Hayley Prihoda, Environmental Quality and Land Use: Conserving the Natural and Cultural Heritage of Dunn's Woods Hayley is an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, pursing a major in History and a minor in Art History. She has served as a director for the Art Museum Student Organization and recently interned at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This year, Hayley will work with a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff, students, and Bloomington community partners to increase awareness about the cultural and natural heritage of the campus's historic Dunn's Woods. Hayley will lead volunteer efforts to remove exotic invasive plants and restore native wildflowers to the woods, assist with historical and ecological research, and help to promote the woods as a learning center for the campus and community.

Carolyn Raider, Energy and Built Environment: Utility Conservation in Academic Buildings Carolyn is a dual masters candidate of environmental science and public affairs at SPEA with concentrations in energy and sustainable development. After graduating from Skidmore College with a BA in Environmental Science, she went on to teach both photography with National Geographic Student Expeditions and English to high school students in Northern Italy. This year, she will be responsible for analyzing IU's energy consumption and determining methods of conservation and sustainable behavior. She will also be responsible for coordinating the fall 2012 Energy Challenge.

Skyler Roeshot, Resource Use and Recycling: Hoosier-to-Hoosier Community Sale Skyler is a masters candidate in SPEA, pursuing a dual MSEA/MPA degree with a concentration in Energy Policy. Previously, Skyler was the president of the student organization "Greeks Go Green." She now works as a research assistant in SPEA and serves as the Director of Membership and Publicity for the Student Sustainability Council. This year she will coordinate the fourth annual Hoosier-to-Hoosier Community sale, diverting reusable goods from landfills while also benefitting community organizations and transient students.

Emilce Sanchez, Academic Initiatives: Sustainability Academic Programs and Research Clearinghouse Emilce is an undergraduate studying Public Policy Analysis and International Relations. She has served her community through the AmeriCorps program and by her work as a Community Educator, promoting diversity in all respects. During the summer she spent her time in Indianapolis’s food desserts and conducted an evaluation of gardening education programs. This year she will contribute to Academic Initiatives by promoting communication and improved relations between sustainability-focused organizations on and off campus. She will also support the establishment of an environmental program that provides frameworks beyond science and policy for students interested in other aspects of sustainability.