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1. Title Page
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2. Table of Contents
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3. Executive Summary
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a. Importance of Green Research
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b. Green Buildings Overview
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c. Community Outreach Overview
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d. Interviews Overview
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4. Research and Data Gathered
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a. Green Buildings
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i. Mechanical Engineering Building
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ii. Schleman Hall
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b. Community Outreach Efforts
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i. Recycling
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ii. Energy
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iii. Storm Water Management
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iv. Purdue Green Week
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v. University of Vermont
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Team Green Bean Page 2
c. Interviews
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5. Works Cited
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6. Annotated Bibliography
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Executive Summary
Importance of Green and other nonrenewable resources,
“going green” and “sustainability”
Research apply to those who want to help the
Around the world, “going green” andworld continue to be a habitable and
“sustainability” are key words thathospitable place. Alternative
are heard often. But what do theytransportation, green roofs, recycling,
mean? In short, humanity is at aand other community-based efforts
crossroads. What with globalpave the way for a brighter, greener,
warming, the scarcity and price of oilsustainable future. The members of
Team Green Bean Page 3
Team Green Bean have looked into
the efforts Purdue has made thus farCommunity Outreach
in securing itself as a green
university. They have also looked into
Overview
the future regarding how Purdue canThe only way for Purdue to be totally
make a more lasting impact on itsgreen is to have the community
campus and the community around it.within and surrounding it be green as
Researchers have put many hourswell. Team Green Bean has
into this field of study, and theirresearched the strides made by such
efforts and ideas will be summarizedorganizations as the Boiler Green
herein. To focus this discussion,Initiative (BGI) and the University of
Team Green Bean chose three mainVermont in capturing the attention of
points of interest: Purdue’s greenthe community and getting help in
buildings, community outreachthe effort to go green. Recycling and
efforts, and interviews withenergy awareness are just a few of
researchers and teachers ofthe topics that are important to the
sustainability. sustainability of Purdue and of the
community, and those, among others,
will be covered, as well as how Purdue
Green Buildingscan continue to maintain the
Overview community’s support in its endeavors.
In 2011, Purdue will open its first
certified green building. The Roger B.Interviews
Gatewood Addition to the MechanicalResearchers and teachers of
Engineering building will add spacesustainability at Purdue are vital
and sustainability to part of Purdue’sbecause they can share their
Campus, and Team Green Beanknowledge with students, the
looked into the particulars. The greencommunity, and university officials
roof of Schleman Hall and otheralike. Team Green Bean conducted
possible green building projects weretwo interviews with staff members
also analyzed. The importance ofintegral to the green movement at
green buildings is not to bePurdue, Dr. Fu Zhao and Dr. Robin
understated. Buildings account forRidgeway. These interviews shed
48% of the total energy consumptionlight on what is like to teach
in the United States and it issustainability and how being green is
imperative that this energy either beimportant to the university.
reduced or put to better use than it is
now.
Green Buildings
measurable green building
Mechanical Engineering
In 2011 Purdue University will
open its first green building, thedesign, construction, operations and
Roger B. Gatewood Addition to themaintenance solutions.”1
Mechanical Engineering building. The LEED essentially is a points
$33 million addition will add just oversystem for construction engineers and
40,000 square feet to the building, orarchitects which allows building
about 55 percent more room. Alongcreators to tally up the positive green
with the new laboratories, classrooms,design decisions to achieve one of the
and student areas, the building willfour different LEED levels – Certified,
also bring a first to Purdue’s campus –Silver, Gold, or Platinum. For The
a certified green building. Roger B. Gatewood Addition to be
The Roger B. Gatewood AdditionLEED v2.2 Certified, it must achieve
will the first building on Purdue’s26 of a possible 69 points. To achieve
campus to be constructed to thethese points, Purdue is implementing
standards of the U.S. Green Buildingseveral items including a higher solar
Council, a non-profit organizationreflectance roof, low-flow plumbing
which focuses on cost-efficient andfixtures, construction materials with
energy-saving practices for greenrecycled content, Green Label Plus
buildings. The U.S. Green Buildingcarpet, wood certified by the Forest
Council (USGBC) has created anStewardship Council, and paint and
internationally recognizedsealants certified to reduce indoor air
certification system called LEED whichpollutants.
was designed to improve several Though the Mechanical
environmental metrics includingEngineering building’s addition will be
energy savings, water usage, carbon
dioxide emissions, improvement of1http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.a
spx?CMSPageID=1988
indoor environmental quality and the
Team Green Bean Page 5
the first certified green building at
Purdue, there have recently been
other green construction projects on
campus.
Schleman Hall
The green roof atop Schleman is
a plant-covered surface designed to
both retain water from rain and
insulate the building and is the result
of a $68,700 grant from State Farm
Insurance2. As a side effect of the
Interviews
Paraphrased Interview Transcript
Interviewer: Josh McKinney
Topic: Sustainability in Teaching
Date: 10-08-09
Guest: Dr. Fu Zhao
Boiler Green Initiative. Purdue University, 2009. Web. October 15, 2009.
This article describes Purdue’s 2009 Green week and its activities. We will
use this information in our White Paper to show the activities Purdue is
making available to students and the community to support their green
initiatives. This is a good resource because it provides necessary
information to the community about how to get involved in going green and
emphasizes the efforts Purdue is making to achieve its goals.
Pollack, Noah, Eileen Horn, Robert Costanza, and Matt Sayre. “Envisioning
helps promote sustainability in academia: A case study at the University of
Vermont.” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 10.4
(2009): 343-53. Print.