Employee Feedback from “Unveiling the SPA”
All Faculty/Staff Suggestions
Re: Sustainability Plan of Action (SPA) from January 6th, 2011 Duty Day
Information/Transparency
- Publicize cost and energy savings
- “What are the true costs and savings of the hallway lamp retrofits? Cost of new lamps? Cost of disposing old lamps? Costs to install? What about aesthetic considerations-fixture design and lighting quality? Transparency-who decided this change?”
- “Cost savings vs. cosmetic”
- “Fluid ways to reduce computer copy paper”
- “Does keeping things plugged in-does that use energy-ex. Not shutting off monitors”
- “Where do leaves, grass clippings go” Are they mulched/composted?”
- “Styrofoam shredder-newer version”
- “Environmental Technology Certificate (in progress)”
- “Data on campus closing over holiday-related to energy savings”
Finance
- “Optional fee for green initiatives”
- “Use Department of Energy grants”
Building/Energy efficiency
- “Concentrate classes required for programs to reduce miles per time on campus”
- “1-2° warmer temp in summer-less AC costs”
- “Climate control”
- “Control of how we are heating/cooling bldg?”
- “Windows that open in south facing rooms and fans”
- “Get involved in Duluth Energy Efficiency Program (DEEP)”
- “Look at reclaiming energy losses-buildings”
- “Capture heat from kilns in the art building”
- “Capture heat from ceramic kilns for art building heat”
- “Capture heat loss from art bldg.”
- “Heat recovery for existing air handling units (reclaimed from exhaust air)”
- “Capture electricity in fitness equipment-pedal power”
- “Overhead lighting throughout campus-greater efficiency and more “natural” light if possible”
- “Media Studies: studio lighting energy and cost saving with compact fluorescents and common work light fixtures”
- “Start solar and seed planting now”
- “Solar panels-snow/reflectivity”
- “Solar energy for the building”
- “Solar panels”
- “Solar and wind power”
- “4 day work weeks”
- “4 day work week”
- “4 day work week starting summer 2011”
- “4 day week M-Th”
- “4 day week (no classes scheduled)”
- “4 day work week in summer especially”
- “4 day work weeks-10 hr days”
- “Reduce work week in summer (especially)”
- “Close campus on Fridays (summer or winter)”
- “Limit weekend classes or only open sections needed in building”
- “Close campus 3 out or 4 Saturdays”
- “Eliminate individual fridges, coffee pots, heaters, etc.”
- “Turn off unnecessary power and computers”
- “Locker room shower efficiency”
- “Green rooftops”
- “Garden roof, grow herbs and vegetables”
- “Wasted flushes from electric eye toilets (ex. 2nd floor East building women’s restroom)”
- “More efficient automatic flushes (flushes a lot-wastes water)”
- “Dual flush toilets”
- “Hand driers (amt of paper) electronic versus paper”
- “Utilize hand dryers in all washrooms-cost of elec less than paper, easier cleaning, less work to dump garbage”
- “Increase use of light sensors in buildings”
- “Motion sensing lights”
- “Motion sensor-what point turn on lights?”
- “Decrease office and campus lighting”
- “Decrease energy use by machines”
- “Wind turbine 2027? HOW ABOUT SOONER?”
- “Add a wind turbine before 2027 (by ~2015)- or geothermal”
- “Wind turbines”
- “Roof wind turbines”
- “Maintain wind energy systems”
- “Sell back [energy] to Excel Energy, Hartley Nature Center”
- “Recycling bins should replace ALL garbage cans”
- “Recycle Machine Technology coolant”
- “Use of Ronald McDonald cardboard boxes for pop-can tops to help children at the Ronald McDonald House”
Technology
- “Eliminate disposable electronics
- “Electronic filing system, portals, etc.”
- “Eliminate excess electronic equipment/outdated tech”
- “Electronic communication options”
- “Turn off computers”
- ““Don’t print this” on all emails”
- “Video conferencing”
- “Make equip be up to date for decreasing energy cost including computers”
- “Increase use of recycled office paper”
- “Need for better quality printers in classrooms that would handle double-sided printing would save tremendous amt of paper in lab classes”
Employee Training
- “Educate faculty/staff on tech use”
- “Offer faculty an incentive to reduce paper usage (copies, paper handouts)”
- “D2L training to show students and faculty how to use IMS to reduce paper use”
- “Maintenance-safety/environmental training”
- “Foundation participation in sustainability”
Landscape
- “More rain gardens to beautify campus-more trees and landscaping”
- “Planting more trees on campus”
- “Bulk trees from DNR”
- “Rain barrels to water existing landscaping”
- “Picnic tables”
- “Better outdoor gathering areas”
- “Green space for sports/recreation on hilltop behind science building”
- “New approach to landscaping”
- “Native prairie grass seed study to make seed and see what grows well here (make vegetative swales between parking lots)”
- “Reduce mowing-more natural planting”
- “Quit mowing entirely-let the “true native” grasses grow”
- “Natural herbicide to get rid of weeds in rocks”
- “Planting differently to reduce mowing”
Campus Access/Commuting
- “Add LSC as a voice in support of the cross-town connector trail between the Lakewalk to Munger Trail”
- “Partnership w/ city for biking ability in all weather i.e snow
- “Sidewalks and accessibility”
- “Sidewalks!”
- “Crosswalk”
- “Safety for peds/bike use”
- “Move defined entrances/exits biking areas to access to campus-how do we promote this?”
- “College shuttle to the DTA hub downtown”
- “Better bussing to outlying areas – Park & Ride East, West, Superior, Hermantown…”
- “Duluth-Downtown public transit”
- “Shuttle-Downtown”
- “Better bus service generally”
- “More of bus service, less reliance on personal transport”
- “Provide more frequent bussing-Saturday, evenings, early morning”
- “Beef up the bus service
- “Continue free bus passes”
- “Help city identify and develop bike paths that end at LSC”
- “Facilitate rideshare board”
- “Carpool board-electronic/online”
- “Carpool incentives (zip codes)”
- “Duluth carpooling incentives”
- “Database-travel routes”
- “Carpool parking spaces in first row”
- “A carpool/bike to school day once a quarter (with donuts)”
- “Safe bike lock-up areas”
- “Schedule faculty to commute less”
- “Schedule 2/3 days wk”
- “Allow employees to work from home-even part-time
- “Common meeting time”
- “Parking fee incentive”
- “Have bikes on campus
Education/Curriculum
- “Solar and wind power-made here by students in construction and electronics”
- “Increase the number of courses offered in “hybrid” mode”
- “Hybrid courses-all syllabi, assignments, etc online”
- “Offer more courses online”
- “All paper should be online or involved with hybrid class”
- “Web streaming of classes to students”
- “Citrix access-secure site for working at home”
- “D2L training to show students and faculty how to use IMS to reduce paper use”
- “Expand use of D2L”
- “Grading papers through drop box-no papers handed in”
- “Encourage e-text use”
- “Electronic books
- “E-books for students”
- “Less PowerPoint packets to the bookstore, more online for student print choice”
- “Incorporate sustainability into courses such as writing topics etc.”
- “Establish a Sustainability Program to train people for the future -probably could get grants for all the necessary equipment”
- “Lorie Doering as guest speaker on sustainability cooperatives and their work with 3rd world countries”
- “Native prairie grass seed study to make seed and see what grows well here (make vegetative swales between parking lots)”
- “Greenhouse, community garden”
- “Greenhouse/community garden”
- “Carpooling activity in class as ice-breaker for students, put them into “geographic” groups”
- “Carpools w/in class”
- “Community Ed classes”
- “Green Week”
- “Create a Sustainability Program”
Cafeteria
- “Grow food to serve in cafeteria on campus”
- “Plant planters w/ vegetables, herbs, peas.”
ERTC
- “We have posted signs above light switches to remind folks to turn them off.”
- “Put Rigs (Truck Drive tractors) inside, instead of plugging them in”
- “We need at bus stop at ERTC! (lots of our students live in the college areas for UMD and CSS)”
- “We could explore using “Dirty Propane” in the Large Aircraft simulator”
- “Shuttle from LSC to ERTC and back”
- “Bike lock-ups”
Suggestions compiled by: Kristi Heintz k.heintz@lsc.edu (January 10, 2011)
Posted in: Uncategorized
Leave a Comment (0) →