Our goal for the Bloomberg School is sustainability. We must reduce our ecological footprint, and in service of that goal we strive to meet these objectives: - consume cleaner energy, and less of it
- purchase and use more ecologically friendly food and products
- reuse and recycle our resources
The 2008 Baltimore Green Living Guide The 5-Year Greenhouse Gas Inventory ( with 91K slideshow) Join us in the Courtyard for "green" happy hour! The next one is scheduled for November 14, 2008. Checklist for hosting green events (coming soon) Here are some of our most recent accomplishments. - For Q3 our recycling rate is at about 33 percent.
- In FY08 we effected a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 6 to 7 percent from FY07.
- We reduced electricity consumption significantly (1,400,00 kWh) as a result of energy conservation measures that include a lighting retrofit and overall reduction in use.
- We instituted a new MPH concentration in Global Environmental Sustainability and Health.
- We negotiated a University-wide deal with Office Depot to purchase "green top" paper (35 percent recycled content) at the same price as "red top" paper (virgin paper made from trees).
- Coming in January 2009: hardware recycling.
Click here to read about more of the ESC's achievements. ESC members work closely with Bloomberg School programs and centers dedicated to advancing and promoting sustainability worldwide. Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF)
CLF's mission is to promote research and to develop and communicate information about the complex interrelationships among diet, food production, environment and human health; to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public; and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment and the ability to sustain life for future generations. Johns Hopkins Program on Global Sustainability and Health (PGSH)
PGSH is dedicated to public health research, education, practice and policy as it relates to examination of the drivers, consequences and implications of global environmental change and the challenges and obstacles to achieving a more sustainable future. Students in the MPH, MHS, DrPH and PhD programs are encouraged to participate in the activities of the program.
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