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Taking Steps Toward a Smaller Footprint

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

New Addition
Check out the 2008 Baltimore Green Living Guide.

Highlights
Here are some of our most recent accomplishments.

  • For Q2 our recycling rate is up from about 10 percent to 33.8 percent.
  • In FY07 we effected a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 5 percent from the previous year.
  • 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 this fall: hardware recycling.

Click here to read about more of the ESC's achievements.

Affiliations at the School

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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