EcoAmbassadors

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Eco-Ambassadors

• Creating change
• Saving money
• Protecting the environment

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2008 Eco-Ambassadors

• Amanda Parker - Prospect Research Management
• Andrea Carlino - Center for Interdisciplinary
  Studies
• Anita Robbins - Feinstein International Center
• James Dolan - Prospect Research Management
• Janet Silvano - Geology
• Jeanne Eisenhaure - Office of the Vice Provost
• Joanie Tobin - University Photography
• Laurie Sabol - Tisch Library
• Lori Jackson - Department of Education
• Susan Storm - Institutional Research Evaluation
  
• Kate Chroust - Student Services, Fletcher School
• Elizabeth DeWan A09
• Marissa Timothy A11
• Neema Chaiban A11
• Sarah Ullman A10

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Goals

• Increase knowledge base on campus
• Community building
• Spread green thinking on campus
• Create office representatives

• The Office of Sustainability seeks to create
• Leadership
• Reduction (in risk, costs, problems fines)
• Integration

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Format

• 6 meetings (total of 13 hrs)
• Rotating meeting locations
• Field trip and workshop
• Blackboard
• Background reading
• Communication
• Assignments
• Additional events (open to all of Tufts)
• Student help
• Projects
• Group formation activities woven throughout

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Learning
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Session 1

• History of sustainability at Tufts
• Introduction to Recycling

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Session 2 Field trip!
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Session 3 Energy
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Session 4 - Communication

• Social marketing rubric
• Identify your target audience
• Identify the target behavior change
• What is your message?
• How will you market your idea?
• How will you evaluate the success of your
  initiative?

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Session 5 - Opportunities
COMPUTERS AND ENERGY
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Benefits

• Diverse group
• Hearing about others experiences
• Meeting others interested in same thing
• Knowledge about actions we can take

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Action
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Anita Robbins Feinstein International Center

• Recycle paper cans use recycled paper
• All printing set to double-sided
• Low-energy computer screens
• Installed light sensors
• Installed programmable thermostats
• Established use of filtered tap water
  (no more bottled water!)

200 Boston Ave.
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Anita Robbins Feinstein International Center

• Staff uses own cups, plates, utensils, etc.
• Reduced carbon footprint by implementing phone
  video conferencing
• Environmentally friendly staff (walk and cycle to
  work, center owns one bicycle)

200 Boston Ave.
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Bottled Water Delivery

• Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
• Education Department
• Institutional Research and Evaluation
• Arts Sciences
• Purchasing

Tufts spends 129,000 a year on Poland Springs
delivery
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Future
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Eco-Ambassador Projects

• Bottled water
• Staff meetings
• Cost-savings teams
• Commuting
• Tip of the month
• Increase recycling awareness
• Reusable mugs and dishes

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OOS Outreach

• 1 hour workshops on greening your office
• Monthly conservation tip
• Follow up EA meetings next semester
• How to form a conservation team
• Mentoring
• Office checklists
• Boston and Grafton
• Policies

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The real work of planet-saving will be small,
humble and humbling, and pleasing and
rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count,
too many to report, too many to be publicly
noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone
rich or famous.
Wendell Berry, 1991