These market-based incentives support and encourage the development of large-scale renewable energy projects.
What are Renewable Energy Credits (REC's).
100
Student fees support these weekend benefits.
What are the Night Owl Intercity Transit runs from downtown Olympia to Campus on Friday and Saturday nights.
100
This practice used in the Greenery has been demonstrated to reduce food waste on campuses across the country.
What is trayless dining?
100
Three locations on campus utilize this practice to mitigate storm water flows and reduce potable water demands.
What is rainwater catchment at Seminar II, the CAB, and the Mulch MOD?
100
Though not reserved, these parking spaces are designed for alternative- powered vehicles.
What are the electric vehicle charging stations or bike racks?
200
This is currently Evergreen’s largest renewable energy installation.
What is the Solar Photo-voltaic array on the Library Building?
200
The LEED Gold Seminar II building requires users to use these tools to adjust energy usage, airflow and building temperature.
What are motion sensitive/infrared light controls, trickle vents, open windows, and hall radiators?
200
These containers reduce waste by providing a sanitary alternative to disposable food containers.
What are re-usable to-go containers available in the Greenery?
200
This green building design used on Seminar II and the Library Building slows down rain runoff and provides insulation from the sun.
What are green roofs?
200
Local building codes required the college to add parking spaces when the Seminar II building was constructed in 2004. Those spaces were built with a specific design feature to reduce water run-off issues.
What are permeable surfaces?
300
This student fee pays for Renewable Energy Credits for 100% of Evergreen’s purchased electricity, and disburses thousands of dollars in grants for resource conservation projects on campus each year.
What is the Clean Energy Fee?
300
Doing this will save electricity by stopping “phantom loads” when your appliances and electronics are powered down.
What is plugging them into a power strip and turning off the strip when electronics are not in use?
300
This student-run enterprise was started as a student activities group and now provides a unique service on campus.
What is The Flaming Eggplant?
300
These challenging goals, set in 2007, are requiring the college to make some fundamental changes to our habits and practices.
What are Carbon Neutrality and Zero Waste by 2020?
300
This resource provides alternative travel guidance from Olympia to Portland or Seattle.
What is the transit map at the Library Loop bus stop (or Google maps bicycle trail mapping, walking, or bus/transit functions)?
400
This on-campus practice is responsible for roughly one-third of the college’s greenhouse gas emissions.
What is combustion of natural gas for heat?
400
This light option offers more lumens per kilowatt than Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs, has no mercury in it, lasts 8 times longer than CFLs, and can be found in the streetlights at the college entrance.
What are Light Emitting Diode (LED) bulbs?
400
Though only available in key locations, this campus practice diverts thousands of pounds of waste from the landfill each month.
What is organic waste composting?
400
Eleven (11) campus fleet vehicles run on this different fuel.
What is electricity?
400
This student-initiated project, funded by a grant from the Clean Energy Committee, provides a free transportation alternative to students living on campus.
What is the Bike Share program in the Residence Halls?
500
This innovative heating project is used at a demonstration Modular Housing unit (MOD) to test viability for future use elsewhere.
What is the wood chip pile composting hot water project?
500
Sorting these materials from the waste stream diverts re-usable resources from the landfill.
What are single stream recyclables (paper, plastic, and metal), glass, and organic, compostable waste?
500
Chosen specifically for campus dining services, these Eco-ware products are designed to be composted.
What are cups, plates, utensils, straws, and napkins?
500
This installation, funded by a grant from the Clean Energy Committee, provides critical information for irrigation regulation.
What is the solar-powered weather station?
500
These on campus resources are freely available to bicyclists.
What are the bicycle pump stations, free storage lockers and free bike lock check-out from Parking Services, as well as bike racks, free showers at the CRC and free repair/tuning facilities at The Bike Shop?