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Suggestions and Strategies for
Creating and Growing
Green Labs Programs
I2SL Conference San Diego 2015
Kathryn A. Ramirez-Aguilar, Ph.D.
Green Labs Program Manager
University of Colorado Boulder
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
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Strategy: Personal Outreach to Start
PERSONAL TOUCH!
Eco-Leaders =
engaged insiders
What do they want to
address?
Leadership from the
inside
Truth is… there are many lab members that
care about their consumption.
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Strategy: Use
positive, public recognition
2015 CU Green Labs
Award Recipients
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
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Strategy: Posters,
Contests, Meetings
Modified graphic from
Univ. of Toronto
Sustainability Office
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Our most effective place to hang posters
Also in bathroom
stalls.
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
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Strategy: Win-win opportunities
EH&S: BSCs,
freezer inventory,
fume hood sashes
Fac. Management:
fume hoods, equip.
placement, doors
closed
VC of Research:
shared
instrumentation site
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Strategy: Regular check-ins with
stakeholders to build partnerships
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
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Strategy: Find needs and fill them
ULT failure help
Mobile freezers
Property disposal
Research efficient
equipment
Give scientists a voice
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Strategy: Listen to what lab members
want to address
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their
energy, water, trash, and space use
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Strategy: Connect depts w/ consumption
Began FY ’12-13
27 operating units
‘10-’11 electrical static
baseline
Saved $870,000 FY ’12-
13 (8.35 GWh)
Saved $1,000,000
FY’13-’14
Ele
ctr
icit
y
Ele
ctr
icit
y
Occupants
receive $
savings
Occupants pay $
difference
(starting 2014-2015)
Resource: Chuck Frost, UC-Berkeley Utilities
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Up to 5 yrs of energy or
water savings:
Equipment
replacements
New equipment
Strategy: Purchasing Incentives
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Low Temp Environmental Chamber: 5.5⁰C and Lighting
66% reduction in electricity
$3252 incentive= 5 yrs electricity savings
33.2 kWh/day 11.2 kWh/day
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
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Strategy: Reach out & collaborate with
Green Labs Community
International Institute for Sustainable Labs (I2SL)
Green Labs Planning Google Group
Safe, Successful, Sustainable Labs
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
7. Justify funding with metrics
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Strategy: Use Consumption Data
Already Available
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Strategy: Incremental, shared budget
growth
Environmental Center
Facilities Management
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
7. Justify funding with metrics
8. Leverage additional funding sources
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Strategy: Green or revolving fund
Sustainable CU Grants:
Freezer Challenge
Green Chem Fund
Solvent distiller
Collection containers
for recycling
Flammable freezer
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
7. Justify funding with metrics
8. Leverage additional funding sources
9. Catch people when they first arrive on campus
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Strategy: Graduate student orientations
and welcome person for new hires
Welcome New Graduate Students
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Suggestions
1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
7. Justify funding with metrics
8. Leverage additional funding sources
9. Catch people when they first arrive on campus
10.Pilot before doing a campus-wide launch
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Strategy: Pilot in engaged, flexible
labs/depts that can handle bumps
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Suggestions 1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
7. Justify funding with metrics
8. Leverage additional funding sources
9. Catch people when they first arrive on campus
10.Pilot before doing a campus-wide launch
11.Hire leadership that understands lab culture &
dynamics
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Strategy: Choose a program manager
that has experience as a lab scientist
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Suggestions 1. Find champion scientists & build from there
2. Raise awareness
3. Include & collaborate with other stakeholders
4. Be a resource to labs
5. Connect occupants financially with their energy,
water, trash, and space use
6. Utilize national/international groups & resources
7. Justify funding with metrics
8. Leverage additional funding sources
9. Catch people when they first arrive on campus
10.Pilot before doing a campus launch
11.Hire leadership that understands lab culture &
dynamics
12.Allow others to lead
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Strategy: Hire Grad Students to Lead
Passionate insiders
Important department
members
Have chair support
~5 hours per month
Influential voices
Great on a resume
GREEN LABS TEAM LEAD
paid grad student leading Eco-Leaders & working on efforts
within his/her own department or building
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Lily A. Robertson,1 Jacqueline M. Richardson,1 Kathryn A. Ramirez-Aguilar,2 Mark Lapham3
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2Facilities Management/Environmental Center, 3Environmental Health and Safety, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Poster by Chemistry Team Lead
2015 ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering Conf.
Building a culture of sustainability in an
academic chemistry department:
Formulation and implementation of green
chemistry practices on a broad scale