Year |
Actions and initiatives |
2007 |
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2009 |
- First Climate Action Plan created.
- Bottled water use restricted at campus-at-large events.
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2010 |
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2013 |
- Solar thermal installed at Charles River Apartments.
- First electric car-charging stations installed.
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2015 |
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2016 |
- Dining hall compost program launched.
- Sustainability starts being included in new-employee orientation.
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2017 |
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2018 |
- Short-term carbon reduction goal exceeded.
- Skyline residence hall built with campus' first geothermal system.
- First in region to install electric car-charging stations from Electrify America.
- Reusable takeout boxes launched at the Faculty Club.
- Campus-wide switch to 30% recycled content paper.
- Green Office Certification program launched.
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2019 |
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2020 |
- Plastic Waste Reduction Initiative removes plastic bags and reduces straws and bottled water on campus.
- Climate Action Plan rewritten to include climate resilience planning.
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2021 |
- President announces several additional goals and initiatives based on revised climate action plan.
- Brandeis joins the Cool Food Pledge.
- Brandeis wins the 2021 Campus Sustainability Achievement Award for our advances in sustainable dining.
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2022 |
- Brandeis commissions its first decarbonization action plan.
- Launch of the Year of Climate Action.
- First-ever pilot of organic land management practices.
- We publish all of the recent and current energy conservation projects on the GRITS public library, a platform for tracking and sharing energy, financial, and carbon project data.
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