Other Initiatives

• SU President Janet Dudley-Eshbach was honored with the Newton Marasco Foundation’s inaugural award for Leading Environmental Stewardship, which recognizes individuals and organizations that are taking practical yet innovative sustainable action in their local communities.
• By signing the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, SU President Janet Dudley-Eshbach joined more than 400 other college and university presidents nationwide in the fight against global warming by pledging to move SU toward climate neutrality.
• SU recently contracted with Tandus, a Georgia-based floor covering company, to re-carpet Blackwell Library. Carpet removed from Blackwell was recycled into other Tandus products, and the library’s new carpet was made partially from recycled carpet from other facilities. This type of recycling is now standard in all of SU’s carpeting Requests For Proposals.
• During a recent renovation project in Fulton Hall, SU piloted a program using non-volatile organic compound paint, which provides better air quality when compared to paints used in the past.
• In summer 2008, SU’s Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art battled high energy use by implementing a program through which energy cost savings over the same period in 2007 were transferred into shared bonuses for staff members. In its initial month alone, energy use decreased by one-third.
• Paper purchased for office use is made of 30 percent recycled materials and then recycled itself.
• SU is investigating replacing the boilers in Maggs Physical Activity Center with  high-efficiency boilers. To support the new boilers, variable frequency pump drives and associated control valve replacement, the Maggs Center would need approximately $400,000 in HVAC upgrades.