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7/29/2019 natural awareness campaign crown capital eco management-Belmont Goes Green Launched

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In March 2007, those efforts took on a more

public face when Belmont launched "BelmontGoes Green" to encourage greater environmentalawareness on campus. Belmont President Dr.Bob Fisher signed the Talloires Declaration of the

Association of University Leaders for a

Sustainable Future (USLF). In signing thedeclaration, the university presidents agreed toincrease awareness of environmentallysustainable development, create an institutional

culture of sustainability and educate forenvironmentally responsible citizenship, amongother efforts.


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Since the declaration, Belmont has worked to

implement more eco-friendly initiatives. TheBelmont Environmental Initiative Council wascreated to coordinate environmental efforts oncampus. Religion professor Dr. Judy Skeen,

founder and director of the BEI Council, said,"My goal for the future is that everyone whoworks and studies on Belmont's campus willlearn how to care for the earth, conserveresources, consume responsibly and live in

sustainable ways. Belmont's community practicesare the best way to gain visibility and beginbehavior change."


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Current Belmont Goes Greenendeavors:

The Randall and Sadie Baskin Center is LEED-certified at the Gold level.Click here to read more.

BLINK Level 2 Wall Mount charging stations in the Curb and NorthGarages. The electric vehicle chargers are free and open to the public.Click here to read more.

Belmont puts "green roof" on McWhorter Hall: The only large extensivegreen roof on an educational facility in Nashville, the green roof servesseveral purposes including a reduction in the "heat island effect," whichrefers to the trend of generally higher temperatures in urban areas asopposed to more suburban areas. The green roof lowers air temperatureswhich helps reduce that effect. Green roofs also provide natural habitatsfor wildlife (birds, insects, etc.) and reduce pollution by holding pollutants

rather than washing into groundwater, sewer or drainage systems. Inaddition, the green roof can retain some rainwater for irrigation and canreduce the heating/cooling costs by providing lower temperatures aroundair intake systems. McWhorter Hall is the Project Innovations 2011 MeritWinner for New Construction.


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ila D. Bunch Library boiler system upgraded to CREST CondensingBoiler for an average monthly fuel savings of 24.5 percent

Belmont University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) developeda business plan for the nonprofit Spring Back Recycling, whichemployees homeless and former convicts to recycle mattresses.In the first six months, more than 1,700 mattresses weredisassembled and recycled. Read more or view the WKRN-TVreport.

Sustainability Task Force formed in 2010, bringing togetherstudent, faculty, staff and administrative leaders to implementnew initiatives to make Belmont a more green, sustainableinstitution.

Reduced electricity usage by 9% over last year across campus

Recycling of office paper across campusRemoval of bottled water on campus

Composting all Belmont yard waste

Community garden initiative


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Use of green cleaning products in Plant Ops

Sodexho's discontinuing use of trays in cafeteria ( for water conservation) andending use of non-recyclable plastics

New construction will include greener heating/cooling temperature control methodsand improved water conservation

Meters installed in all dorms to track electricity usage

Belmont was a lead university in Environmental Protection Agency effort to identifyand remediate potential sources of environmental problems on campus.Environmental Management System (EMS) program instituted on campus. (This maybe Belmont's single most important initiative in reducing long-term environmentaldamage.)

In partnership with Blessed Earth.org, we have hosted several Christian FaithDevelopment convocations on how to be good stewards of the Creation.

Additional recycling bins placed in Belmont apartment complexes; residents areencouraged to take advantage of this and dramatically increase their volume ofrecycling.

New student organization Slow Food Belmont formed to practice and educate abouturban gardening and so much more! See Slow Food Belmont's Facebook page formore info.

Residence Life sold about $15,000 worth of energy star products to students. Theyare looking to expand the product offering in the future.

Lights in vending machines have been turned off.

Belmont was published in the Green Awakenings report on sustainability at Christianuniversities. The report was done by the nonprofit grassroots organization Renewal,and the Belmont ONE Club wrote the section on Belmont.

WeCars are available for students to use. They are located in the parking spacesbetween the Curb Event Center and Maddox/Wright Residence Halls.

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