Campus Sustainability:

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Campus Sustainability Leading from the ground
up!
Winter 2008 campaign The Paper Reduction
Challenge

• PCC Sustainability Initiative Team
• Noelle Studer (District)
• Alliyah Mirza (Sylvania)
• Rosie Sweetman (Cascade)
• Yvonne Norman (Rock Creek)

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Todays Topics

• What is sustainability?
• Why sustainability now?
• How you can start implementing sustainability at
  your college right in your own office or
  classrooom.
• Paper reduction campaign, how, why, what next
• Resources

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PCCs Sustainable Use of Resources Policy
Portland Community College is committed
to becoming a leader in academic programs and
operational practices that model the sustainable
use of resources, so that the needs of current
generations are met without impairing the
ability of future generations to meet their own
needs."
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Why sustainability now?
Global Perspective
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Global Transition

• To
• Sun, wind, wave powered
• Cyclical production
• Living off natures income
• Market as servant

• From
• Fossil powered
• Take, make, waste
• Living off natures capital
• Market as master

Sources Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, U.S. EPA
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Getting started Pick one project that impacts
everyone
More paper, Anyone?
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Paper 101

• Whats the big deal about paper?
• The life of a ream
• Health impacts
• Ecosystem impacts
• How to reduce
• How to purchase cleaner paper
• Role of Paper Reduction Team
• Tools Resources

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Paper 101
http//earthtrends.wri.org/text/forests-grasslands
-drylands/feature-19.html
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Paper 101
Plantation Chipper Pulp Mill User
Materials Recycling Facility (Far West Fibers)
Arlington Landfill

• Sold to India or China
• Cardboard Box
• US
• Recycled
• Cardboard Box

De-inking Mill Pulp Mill User

• De-inking Mill
• Pulp Mill
• User
• Repeat 5x

Arlington Landfill
The Life of Paper
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Paper 101 Ecological Impacts of 40 cases of paper


www.environmentaldefense.org/papercalculator/
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Paper 101 - Dioxin

• According to the U.S. EPA,
• the top three sources of dioxin are
• municipal waste
• hospital incinerators and
• backyard burn barrels.
• Additional sources include
• chemical processing facilities that use chlorine
  to make products such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
  and pesticides and
• pulp mills that use chlorine to bleach wood pulp
  to make paper white.  

http//www.chemicalbodyburden.org/cs_dioxin.htmdi
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What to do?!
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PCC Paper Reduction Challenge

• Goals
• raise awareness
• develop leadership within Divisions
• Move toward continuous improvement
• Have fun!
• Measure success.

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How to encourage healthier choices

• What new healthy habit do you want co-workers to
  adopt?
• Identify barriers to adopting the new habit
• Remove barriers making desired behavior easier
• Encourage new habits through reminders prompts
• Give feedback
• Reward Celebrate success

From Fostering Sustainable Behavior an intro to
community-based social marketing by Doug
MacKenzie-Mohr
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Buying better paper Vague Labeling
     
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Buying better paper Good Labeling
     
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Role of Paper Reduction Gurus

• Educate yourself about paper reduction
• Recruit a few more people to join you to
• Set up basic infrastructure in your Division
• Encourage everyone to take an online paper survey
• Spread the Word
• Receive e-tips on paper conservation distribute
  to Division
• Receive signs that can be posted in lunchrooms,
  on copiers printers
• Report on paper conservation efforts at Division
  meetings

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Tools Resources

• Website www.pcc.edu/sustain
• Poster for copy/print areas
• Brochures
• Web Survey http//moodle.pcc.edu/
• Weekly Tips
• Resource Conservation speaker can come to your
  Division meeting
• Extra help/support working out infrastructure
  issues

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Paper Conservation
Keeley DeBargrade 3 Buckman Elementary School

• IN THE OFFICE
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• Capture second chance paper in a box near the
  copier.
• Set your computers default margins to 0.7 in
  MSWord page setup.
• Stock the fax machine with second chance
  paper.
• Stock one copier drawer with second chance
  paper and use it often.
• Request post-consumer recycled content paper for
  your print jobs and bulk purchases 30 50
  100
• Set all copiers, printers, and computers to
  print double-sided by default.

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Paper Conservation

• IN THE CLASSROOM
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• Accept return student papers in electronic
  format.
• Encourage students to print double-sided and use
  second chance paper on assignments.
• Use MyPCC Course Tools to refer students to
  online sources rather than distributing handouts.
• Take second chance paper to class for student
  reuse.
• Print quizzes on half or quarter sheets of
  paper. 
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What about the Cost?
     
Office Depot
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Resources

• http//www.conservatree.org/
• http//www.chemicalbodyburden.org/cs_dioxin.htm
• www.papercalculator.org
• http//www.seattle.gov/papercuts/
• www.heasc.net
• www.aashe.net

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Thank You!

• More information
• www.pcc.edu/sustain or email paper_at_pcc.edu.
• You can also contact an AmeriCorps waste
  reduction specialist directly
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• Alliyah Mirza (Sylvania) 503-977-8581,
  alliyah.mirza_at_pcc.edu
• Rosie Sweetman (Cascade) 503-978-5225,
  rosie.sweetman_at_pcc.edu
• Yvonne Norman (Rock Creek) yvonne.norman_at_pcc.edu
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