presentation priya darshini & deepika

Green Audit of Educational Campuses

Priyadarshini Karve, Deepika Singh

Samuchit Enviro Techand

Institute for Community Organization Research

The Unsustainability Trap

Crux of the Problem: Urbanisation

• At the beginning of 20th century, urban population was 20% of the total human population.

• In 2010, 50% human population was living in urban area.

• The number of urban residents is growing by nearly 60 million every year.

• If urbanisation is an environmental problem, urban citizens need to take the lead in solving it!

HIGH CONSUMPTION

HIGH POPULATION DENSITY

UNSUSTAINABLE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

EXCESSIVE ENERGY

CONSUMPTION

RUNAWAY CLIMATE CHANGE

URBANISATION

Modern Urban Ecosystem

Inputs Outputs

Positive

Negative

• Assess environmental sustainability of existing activities and systems.

• Identify action points for improving the environmental sustainability of individual components.

• Take action!

• What is Environmental sustainability? – Input resources required to keep an ecosystem up and running

should be either renewable/recyclable, or inexhaustible. – The lifecycle of any resource inputting into the ecosystem should

be highly efficient and produce minimal ‘waste’ and pollution.

How to achieve urban sustainability?

• Educational institutes is an important component of urban ecosystems in India.

• It is the logical place to start if we want to inculcate the value of environmental sustainability among educated youth of urban India.

• Practice what we preach.

• Purely selfish motive: Financial saving through optimisation of resource utilisation!

The road starts from educational institutes

ICOR – Samuchit Green Audit Toolkit: Focus Areas

• Energy management • Water management • Material management – consumables • Waste management • Travel and transport management• Ecology management • Knowledge management • Disaster preparedness • Pollution management

Focus Areas: Details

Overall Process• Data collection from administrative and financial records, surveys,

interviews, photographs, etc.

• Data analysis to understand the current status of sustainability in each focus area.

• Identifying action points.

• Action plan in the form of clearly defined activities, estimated budgets, timelines, and clearly identified responsibilities.

• Tracking implementation of action plan and its outcomes.

Overall Process

Sample Data

Sample RecommendationsAll the lighting elements

need to be eventually converted to CFL or LED fixtures. The changeover can be done in a phased

manner.

Separate waste bins can be set up for different types of waste. Proper segregation and composting is a must and this should be done

efficiently and also made participatory. The garden

staff needs to be motivated and trained for this.

We recommend awareness programmes

on climate change and its potential impacts in a

coastal ecosystem where the college is located.

GREEN AUDIT: The process….

Team Orientation..

Staff Orientation…..

Green Audit (II): Staff Orientation

Data collection process…

….discussion on missing data

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Climate Change

Education

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Climate Change

Education

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Inculcate the value of environmental sustainability among educated youth of

urban India.

Educational Institutes: An important component of urban ecosystems in India


Workshops...

Workshops...


Climate Change Educationwith Collage Youth…

Social Responsibility Program (SRP)

Climate Change Educationwith Collage Youth…

Social Responsibility Program (SRP)


Community visit…...

Community visit…...

Sustainable Slum Development Programs

Triratna Prerna Mandal….

Sustainable Slum Development Programs

Triratna Prerna Mandal….


Community Work:SNDT Interns & Social Responsibility

Program (SRP)


Program (SRP)



Program (SRP)


Program (SRP)


““We are still in need of a We are still in need of a change of heartchange of heart. . We need to confront our inner resistances and We need to confront our inner resistances and Cast a grateful look on creation, Cast a grateful look on creation, letting our heart letting our heart be touchedbe touched by its wounded reality and by its wounded reality and making a strongmaking a strongpersonal and communal commitmentpersonal and communal commitment to healing it.” to healing it.” – – from from Healing a Healing a

Broken WorldBroken World


Bain storming

……AOE core team

The care of the environment …touches the core of our faith in and love for God (# D3, 32)


Exploring possibilities of addressing climate change impacts, adaption & mitigation through MGNREGEA /SRI etc..….

(Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chatisgad & AP)

The Foundations of Our Commitment


The care of the environment ……. touches the core of our faith in and love for God (# D3, 32)

For more information:

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