NRH Ballroom A

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• NRH Ballroom A
• March 16, 2006

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• SCE progress report

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what is rethink mcgill?

• McGill environmental policy implementation
• Sub-Committee on Environment
• Resource for McGill faculty, staff and students
• Liaison with community groups
• reduce re-use recycle rethink!

Presented by the Sub-Committee on Environment,
working group of the Senate Committee on
Physical Development
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not just the right thing to do

• Prior commitments
• Talloires Agreement, Halifax Declaration
• Environmental policy/actions (2001-02)
• Regulations proactivity
• UN Decade
• Ratification of Kyoto Accord
• Provincial/municipal regulations

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what has been done since 2001?

• Creation of SCE
• Environmental review
• Website
• Cessation of (aesthetic) pesticide use
• Recycling system (glass-metal-plastic)
• Environmentally benign cleaning products

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2003

• Purchasing contracts
• Eco-Logo, 100 PCW paper
• Environmental Officer
• Credit for change
• Waste/energy audits
• Composting feasibility study
• Ecosystem services

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Also in 2003

• Macdonald Campus bicycle loan system
• Frosh mugs
• HostSYC Sustainable Campuses Conference
• Institutional Coalition Partner of Sustainable
  Campuses Project
• Gault Nature Reserve
• official designation received

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2004

• Energy Day
• Canada Green Building Council membership
• Workshop March 11, 2004
• Simulation by Facilities staff platinum project,
  on budget, on time!
• Washroom improvement project
• TDM project allégo!
• International Car Free Day
• McTavish closed to traffic

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2005

• Inter-residence energy competition
• Battery collection programme
• Clean and Green Phase I / II
• Online e-waste pick-up request form
• Consumption
• McGill Marketplace
• MOARDS

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More in 2005

• International Car Free Day
• Paper policy ratified (Recto-Verso)
• e-billing
• online pay stubs
• Course packs, exams
• Energy infrastructure upgrades
• Conferences
• BSU

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2006

• Recycling
• VERRR2008 promotional campaign
• Recyc-Quebec grant
• System overhaul assessment
• ACFAS ØØ
• Green building practices
• Revision to Environmental Policy actions

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2006 and beyond

• Composting
• Alternative transportation studies
• EMS
• SMP
• EcoCampus?
• Integration into long-term planning
• Master plan

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Taking action

• Strategy support from above/below
• Multidirectional message flow b/t
  inter/intradepartmental units
• More efficient resource use
• Rethink daily habits consumption, transportation
• Environmental/ paper use policy
• MOARDs/McGill MarketPlace
• Energy consumption

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Full transparency working together

• Questions? Comments? Problems? Suggestions?
• Call 398-6247
• E-mail rethink_at_mcgill.ca
• RETHINKFORUM LISTSERV
• Online www.mcgill.ca/rethink

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If not now, then when? If not us, then who?
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