GROUP+15-+THE+GREENIFICATION

BORA YUN, FANDAH KALBONEH, CAROLINE FASUYI, MARIYA YOUNAS



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__ GOAL __
== Our goal is to encourage students, Tim Horton’s, and eventually all coffee vendors at UTM, to help mitigate this issue and to promote the sale and purchase of reusable mugs. Like Starbucks, we aim to have at least 15% of UTM students purchase a Tim Hortons mug by the end of next year. ==

== (1) Alert UTM to our presence as a new student group; (2) generate volunteers (3) raise awareness through events about the impact of a multitude of non-recyclable coffee cups on campus, and (4) present the benefits of purchasing reusable mugs or containers instead (5) increased purchase of recyclable coffee cups. ==

** Introduction ** Imagine sleeping peacefully under a puffy comforter. When all of a sudden a captivating force of bright green light pulls you up into the air. You open your eyes out of shock and you find yourself sitting among a spaceship full of orange-fleshed aliens.  “Hello earthling.” One of them greets. “We are your friends. We have come to show you something strange.” He says. The spaceship starts to spin around like a dreidel, shooting up above the sky faster than you can imagine. You peek outside the wide oval window of the spaceship and spot the beautiful blue planet earth, just like you’d seen in satellite images. “Put these glasses on.” Says the alien, passing you a pair of strange looking sparkly goggles. You put them on, and the lenses magnify into the planet. Through the glasses, you spot streams of dense brown fluids drifting into the ocean from the continents, thousands of tall trees being cut down from the forests, dead animals and sea creatures, and the human civilization ill with diseases. You look on the other side of the planet to find out why all of this is happening. You find millions of cars running freely on the road, factories of corporations emitting toxic gasses in the air, millions of things being thrown out in the dumpster by people like yourself, and light bulbs shining in homes and buildings even in broad day light or unattended. “Earthling, your planet is coming to an end. Your kind think nature is separate from society, and treat it like it is an endless commodity. The earth is getting too hot. The arctic will melt, seas will become still, good soil will become deserts, and floods will erode cities. Keep doing this, Earthlings, and your Earth will turn into a planet like Venus… Venus rains sulfuric acids. Earthlings will become extinct”3. The orange alien speaks calmly. The other alien opens his mouth. “Earthling, we like earth. Earth is a miracle. We don’t want earth to die. But earthlings don’t care. The hope, is you.” The aliens gather around you in a circle and all place their hands on your shoulder and speak. “Good luck earthling!” The spaceship starts to spin again, this time downwards, and you are carried out by the glowing green rays. Your body plops gently back onto your bed. The spaceship then spins out your window, far away into the sky. The next morning, you head outside of your house to go to school. After taking the usual public transit, you arrive at your destination. Under the infinite blue sky bright with the golden sun sways a canopy of tall trees lined up along the side of a cement road. The cement road then leads to a broad, endless sea of automobiles, parked neatly in their arranged spots. The vast surface filled with multiple different automobiles stretch across the landscape two storeys’ high. This is University of Toronto in Mississauga. You follow the road past the parking lot towards UTM library to do some work. Every sight seems terrifying after your experience last night; you spot students throwing away recyclables in the garbage, lights and computers being left on when they are not used, elevators being used for unnecessary purposes, and handicapped buttons being used by able-bodied students. These are the same students who will be leading the next generation. It is time for a change. This is where it starts. This is Project Greenification. ** This is a total waste of waste! ** To make any sort of change in the world, there needs to be a focused beginning; hence this research paper will focus not on the entirety of UTM (although the ultimate goal is to make UTM greener), but on the UTM library, the most commonly visited locale on campus. Before the Mist Theatre in CCIT building at University of Toronto Mississauga stands a tall tree made out of paper coffee cups. It reads: 370 cups = 1 Tree [Figure 1]. Figure 1.

A panel displayed next to the tree plainly states, “370 coffee cups are consumed at UTM per hour” – a single sentence, but evidently meant to pack a punch. However, students continue to walk by willy-nilly without much more than a single questioning glance. What the coffee-cup-tree says is true: the coffee shop consumers are killing a tree every hour at UTM alone. One may then wonder what a tree can do for us anyways aside from looking pretty. Let alone the fact that trees provide fresh oxygen, it can hold about 57,000 gallons of water [1]. This means that in case of a flood, trees can save the civilization from drowning and further damage. However, forests are being wiped out in order to provide the society with products such as paper cups, which are most often only used for a single serving of beverage- and then thrown out. With the sheer amount of waste collecting at UTM from coffee cups alone (note: only Tim Hortons cups are shown here- waste from other shops on campus such as Starbucks and Second Cup have not yet even been accounted for) one can only imagine how many more trees are sacrificed globally for the sake of paper cups, utensils that can easily be replaced with reusable ones. Deforestation, a legitimate concern worldwide, takes away nutrients from the soil, and when done en masse, trees can rarely grow back healthily after such devastation.2

What makes things worse is what the students do with the recyclable paper and plastic cups in the library after consumption. Rarely are they ever recycled: in a survey conducted on UTM students who visit the Hazel McCallion Learning Center frequently, 8 out of 10 students admitted to regularly throwing out recyclables into basic garbage bins due to being unable to locate a close enough recycling bin [i]. There are two main causes of this problem; student ignorance, and the design of the library itself. In the design aspect, there is a large lack of the number of recycling bins as compared to garbage bins in the library. For example, in the silent study area, there are no recycling bins at all. Furthermore, another point of interest is the ease of use. When recycling bins are available, they are separated into different bins for different materials- reasonably, to assist in recycling the correct product. However, in the attempt to ‘educate’ the user about which product goes in which bin using generalized compact shapes, students admit the difficulty fitting their waste into each slot leads them to simply dumping all the contents into the largest opening: the waste bin. Clearly, the designs of the bins do not take into account that the waste being recycled may not fit the opening of the bin. See Figure 2.

Figure 2.

As stated above, many students reported inconvenience in using the enclosed bins. As a result, the average waste bags taken out of library garbage bins at night look like this [Figure 3]: Figure 3.



This is a photo taken of a garbage bag that the janitorial staff collected at the UTM library in a single evening. Cups, cups, and more cups. The solution, in other words, is becoming clear: UTM is in desperate need to raise awareness about how much harm is done through improper recycling and waste management at the individual level – the student. Their perspectives must change, from looking at a cup as something to use and toss, to looking at it as a complex issue that must be mitigated. A tree that protects life, gives fresh oxygen, protects cities from floods, renews nutrients in soil- each of those trees are killed every hour by the irresponsible and highly wasteful attitudes of UTM students alone. One main solution is to reiterate and encourage the usage of reusable paper cups, as well as recycling correctly. To implement this change, one immediate solution would be to contact the school board to request the installation of more recycling bins. Another is to ensure that the bins are easily accessible- and, equally importantly, that they are convenient for use.

** Computers & TVs ** After some research we found out that there are approximately 254 computers in the library, 14 televisions and one ticker. These elements run continuously through the night and day. These Computers (like others around campus) are rebooted at about 3 am everyday for maintenance. The problem with this is that they leave these energy sucking technologies on, and it is wasting energy. University of Toronto, claims that UtM is the greenest campus out of all the 3 campuses. But when you look closely at this idea you will notice that we are not very green at all. I have found out through the Apple store, that the 21.5 – inch iMacs release a total of 1240 kg of CO2e greenhouse gases. According to the Apple I store online 21.5 – inch iMacs consume very little energy and leave minimal carbon footprints [2] (refer to ‘Power consumption for 21.5 –inch iMac’).

Power Consumption for 21.5-inch iMac

 * ===Mode === || ===100V === || ===115V === || ===230V === ||
 * ===Off === || ===0.32W === || ===0.32W === || ===0.31W === ||
 * ===Sleep === || ===1.54W === || ===1.53W === || ===1.48W === ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Idle—Display off/on === || ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">35.0W/93.4W === || ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">35.8W/93.9W === || ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">34.7W/92.8W === ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Power supply efficiency === || ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">87% === || ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">88% === || ===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">87% === ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">(inc, 2010)
But when you multiply this by roughly the 40 iMacs on the main floor (that are actually seen and are not in offices), you get 49600 kg of CO2e of greenhouse gases. This leaves only 214 dell computers. There was no information on the dell computers but in this research assignment we will be discovering how much of energy used by purchasing a Belkin Conserve Insight, this product gets plugged into the wall and then it tells us how much money we are paying for that device. This product will also tell us how we are wasting in watts, dollars and carbon dioxide. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">With the iMacs we become the criminals of our own society, because we do not conserve energy. But there is a way to fix this, it’s called just turn it off. But because the computer server goes through multiple system updates, the board says they cannot be turned off. But these same computers are restart to install updates every day at 3 am. The question is if that is possible then why can’t the system updater turn the computers on from the central unit and update them then turn them off? Or turn all the computers off in the night then have the updates load when they come on? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">We have 14 LCD televisions. These televisions consume large amounts of energy because they are not as current as the televisions out now. The amount of energy they consume is a lot and will be discovered through the Belkin Conserve Insight. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">With this info we hope to make the youth more aware of turning off the computers after they finish using them and the library is closing. While also helping the establishment turn off the televisions in the night when they are leaving to save energy. Hopefully that will catapult us forward to be more energy efficient and aware.

** Lights ** ** Issues ** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1) A lot of light energy used during daylight with big windows is pointless. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2) A large number of light bulbs in a small room are also of no use. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3) Additional lights cost more.

** Observation ** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">We have constructed a survey for librarians and UTM students to observe what they think about the environmental issues about the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre and analyze their behaviour through these results. From the survey, the staff of the library claimed that: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1) They do not have the lights turned off when the library is closed. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2) They do not have the computers turned off when the library is closed. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3) They do not have the televisions turned off when the library is closed. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">4) They always have their electricity turned on all the time, except during long breaks like Christmas.

From the survey, the students of UTM claimed that: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1) 93.8% care about being environmentally friendly. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2) 30% complained about the light energy being wasted and the rest were about recyclables and other electronic equipment. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3) One responded, “Lots of lights that waste energy (at the library). There should be light sensors in the reference collection isles.” <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">4) Another student said, “Motion sensor lights at Robarts Library great for efficiency. Use of fluorescent lights to save energy.” The reference collection isles at Robarts library have light motion sensors. So when a person enters any isle it lights up and when the person leaves it turns off. Thus saves energy. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">5) Another student answered, “Lights in the areas surrounded by large windows should be set to a minimum power output until daylight becomes unreliable in the evening.” This could be seasonal. This is because in the winter, the light bulbs used produce heat and when dim the library will require additional heaters.

** Solution ** 1) Coat the windows in reflective paint. It cuts down on air conditioning in the summer, which uses energy. The sunrays are unable to pass through the windows and do not heat up the room. That is why the architectural designers coat business-building windows in tint paint to save money in the summer. This will decrease electricity bill payment. Here is a photo (Fig. 5) of RBC Headquarters, Downtown Toronto. Their windows are gold tinted which bounces back sunlight to avoid heating up the rooms in the summer. During winter, heaters are required.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 5

2) Instead of using hundreds of light bulbs, the library can use 8 big sources for light. Here is a photo (Fig. 6)of Convocation Hall at UofT St George campus. It still provides you with enough light to read or write notes. The lights planning of the Convocation Hall also looks appealing and yet efficient.

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3) The motion sensor lights at Robarts Library at UofT saves up a huge amount of energy. Whereas (Fig. 7) the lights are always turned on even when no one is there. This increase in electricity bills instead. Here is a photo of one of the reference collection isle of the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre at the fourth floor.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 7

Fig. 8: This is an image of the gap between the Collaboration/Study zone and the reference collection isles. Couple of large sources of light are hanging on the ceiling that are of no use and thus waste energy.

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4) There are about 91 lights bulbs switched on during the daytime at the Garden View Reading Area, which is approximately 1700 square feet.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 9

Fig. 9: Light bulbs on the ceiling, Dr. Ignat & Didi Kaneff, Garden View Reading Area.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 10

Fig. 10: More lights at the isle between the Silent Zone and the Garden View Reading Area <span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 11

Fig. 11: Couches with garden view at daylight with light bulbs turned on, Dr. Ignat & Didi Kaneff, Garden View Reading Area

Fig. 12: The library can provide desks with the option to turn on a lamp or not instead of using multiple light bulbs that are switched on 24/7. Here is a photo of one of the desks at Gerstein Library, UofT St. George Campus

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 12 <span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;"> 5) The library can also provide a controller that turns the lights off when not needed. This prevents over charging and also when a person plugs in a plug. It wastes energy even if the user is not charging anything. So when there are multiple chargers not plugged in, the library wastes lots of energy. Example, when you plug in your camera charger to charge your camera. Once it is done charging, you unplug it from the camera but it is still plugged into the wall socket even though it is not plugged into the camera, it still uses energy. So when you have a lot of these chargers not plugged in, you still waste energy. That wall socket allows you to turn off the outlet and thus saves energy. Here is an image of Belkin Conserve Switch (Fig. 13) This type of product conserves energy.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Fig. 13

** Conclusion: Student body passivity ** While UTM students have proven a deplorable tendency to neglect care for the environment on the individual level, they are far from a lost cause as a whole. In the same survey conducted above, 98% of students answered yes when asked if they care about the environment [ii]. UTM is an excellent example of a university geared towards a greener, more environmentally-friendly building system- one of the top of its kind in the world- and can serve to facilitate a revival of student environmental awareness. The Hazel McCallion Learning Facility “is certified to the LEED silver level, and is the first University of Toronto LEED certified building.” [iii] This means that according to the U.S. Green Building Council, the LEED certification is a nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings [iv].

Other than the above mentioned efforts to maintain UTM’s known green reputation, the university has also been constructing two new buildings on campus, both of which will undergo similar ‘greenification’ strategies, including a particularly interesting renovation of the South Building Complex. In this renovation, plans include innovative features such as skylights to allow natural light to filter in through the roof, and sensors placed in specific areas that will deactivate lights when the vicinity is empty of people. These new features are an excellent idea because not only are they relatively low cost as compared to the expenses paid annually due to perpetually leaving lights on, but that they can also be used in any and all of UTM’s buildings- such as, specifically, the Hazel McCallion Learning Center.

What needs to be done, in other words, is raise awareness in the students: simply, making students //care// about placing waste in the correct bin, for example, and ending their passivity once and for all. Although it may seem like a tall order, with the right amount of motivation, the perfect merger between excellent green building facilities and efficient eco-friendly attitudes among students can propel UTM to being one of the top greenest universities in the world. To do so, awareness can be raised through select groups who have made it their purpose to do just that: Campus Roots, which “focuses on renaturalization efforts on the campus through activities and grant exploration.” [v] Campus Roots frequently reaches out to students through their website as well as Facebook page, two great communication strategies. Another excellent medium to reach out to the student body is through //UTM/TV**[vi]**//, the official University of Toronto Mississauga television channel, which encourages the unification of the student body under the common interest of sharing and promoting student life and events through digital media.

[1] // The 11th Hour //. Dir. Leila Conners and Nadia Conners. Prod. Leonardo DiCaprio. Perf. 2 Ibid. 3 Stephen Hawking, Andy Lipkis. Warner Independent Pictures, 2007. //Top Documentary Films//. TDF. Web.

[2] inc, A. (2010 йил 27-July). //21.5-inch iMac.// Retrieved 2011 йил 1-March from apple: http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/21.5inch_iMac_Product_Environmental_Report_20100727.pdf

[i] "Survey: Hazel McCallion Library (UTM)." //Survey Monkey//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. <www.surveymonkey.com/s/LKZ626C/>.

[ii] "Survey: Hazel McCallion Library (UTM)." //Survey Monkey//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. <www.surveymonkey.com/s/LKZ626C/>.

[iii] “University of Toronto at Mississauga: Green Building." //University of Toronto Mississauga//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. <http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/index.php?id=10371>.

[iv] “FAQ: LEED Green Building Certification System." //USGBC: U.S. Green Building Council//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. <http://www.usgbc.org/>.

[v] "University of Toronto at Mississauga: Grow Smart, Grow Green." //University of Toronto Mississauga//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. <http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/green.0.html>.

[vi] “UTM/TV - Student Television @ the University of Toronto Mississauga ." //UTM/TV - Student Television @ the University of Toronto Mississauga// . N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. <http://www.utmtv.ca/>.

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(RESEARCH, NOT PART OF ESSAY)

__ SURVEY FANDAH AND MARIYA MADE FOR LIBRARIAN TO FILL OUT: (and they actually filled out the answers italicized) __ // "?" // // "No" // // "No" // // "No" // // "All the time! Maybe only during times school is closed (like x-mas)." //
 * -Does the library use compact fluorescent light bulbs? What kinds of bulbs do they use? **
 * -Are the lights turned off when the library is closed? **
 * -Are the computers turned off when the library is closed? **
 * -Are the TV’s turned off when the library is closed? **
 * -How often are the TVs / computers / lights on? Why? **

SURVEY FANDAH AND MARIYA MADE ON TUESDAY: Please make all your friends at UTM fill it out!! []

__** [ Results: ] **__

1) Do you care about being environmentally friendly?
 * Yes: 94.3%
 * No: 6.7%

2) How often do you use the library elevator to go up/down ONE flight?
 * All the time: 20%
 * Only when I'm carrying a heavy weight: 41%
 * Never: 40%

3) How often do you take the stairs in the library?
 * All the time: 73.3%
 * It's too much work: 27.7%
 * Never: 0%

4) Do you ever take the stairs to get to the 4th floor of the library?
 * Most of the time: 67.7%
 * Very rarely: 33.3%

5) When in the library, have you ever found yourself searching for recycle bins, didn’t find some, and ended up throwing out recyclables in the waste bin instead?
 * Yes: 80%
 * No: 21%

6) Any complaints about the library's waste/recycle bins?
 * I can never find them, and the design is so neutral that the bins don't stand out.
 * the fact that in some areas there are 4 pins together... coffee cups. waste, paper, etc..
 * Theres more waste bins then recycle bins. So i usually end up throwing my garbage in a waste bin (even water bottles) if I cant spot a recycle bin.
 * hard to find
 * Too scarce
 * Not really, lots of waste bins around the library at almost every section on each level, but the recycle bins are either on one end or outside the actual library.

7) Any complaints about the library elevators?
 * I often feel guilty using them, they take up so much electricity for just one person using them at a time.
 * People are not aware of how much energy is being wasted when they only take the lift to one floor whereas they can just use the stairs even though they are not carrying any heavy things.
 * Depending on which library.. UTM. i've heard one of the elevators gets stuck on the 4th floor, but thats only a rumour
 * Too slow. Too much waiting time. Elevators in 20-store buildings are faster than our elevatrors.
 * Very slow if required
 * useless
 * ELEVATORS ARE TOO SLOW! WE NEED TELEPORTATION DEVICES!!! (No.)
 * painfully slow

8) Any other complaints about waste/recycling/energy efficiency in the library?
 * -Lights in the areas surrounded by large windows should be set to a minimum power output until daylight becomes unreliable in the evening.
 * -Not enough recycling efficiency
 * -Others should learn to recycle. I don't see it often, but there are times when I spot recyclables in the garbage when there's CLEARLY a recycle bin right beside it.
 * -motion sensor lights at Robarts Library great for efficiency. use of fluorescent lights to save energy
 * -Lots of lights that waste energy. There should be light sensors in the reference collection isles.
 * Really cold in the library, chance that the air condition is still on. It doesn't look like a proper use of energy.


 * Fandah**: Group Meeting - UTM Library at 12pm (Sunday feb 27)


 * Caroline**: We really need to talk about what we are doing. Cause i went to lecture on thursday our time and he gave me some good information and hints and stuff.


 * Fandah: Should we run surveys w/ rez? I think that would help to start our research.**

[|Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre]
The Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre is certified to the [|LEED silver level], and is the first University of Toronto LEED certified building. The building incorporates several environmentally-friendly features, such as: //Guys the site doesn't say anything about any attempts to reduce the energy used for electricity - lighting, computers, etc.//
 * It was built over the site of an existing parking lot, so no green space was eliminated to construct it
 * A rooftop garden, which is not only aesthetically pleasing, it also helps to reduce the “urban heat island” effect
 * The building used a significant amount of regionally-sourced and recycled building materials
 * A green cleaning program operates in the building, significantly improving indoor air quality
 * Low-flow plumbing fixtures, to reduce water use in the facility
 * Low-emitting building materials, significantly improving indoor air quality.

LIGHTING QUESTIONS TO ASK: -Do they use compact fluorescent light bulbs? What kinds of bulbs do they use? -How many bulbs/ lamps are //necessary// per square foot? How many does the library use anyway? -Do they turn off the lights of the library when it's closed? -Do they turn off all the computers when the library is closed? -Do they turn off all the TV's when the library is closed? -How often do they leave the TVs / computers / lights on? Why?

ELEVATOR QUESTIONS TO ASK: -How many people fit on the elevator? -How many people take the elevator every 10 minutes? -How many people take the stairs every 10 minutes? -How many people who take the elevator are only going up/down one flight? -Have there been any complaints about the elevator - not coming frequently enough, not holding enough people, etc? -Does the elevator ever get stuck? Complications of any kind? -



[|Campus Energy Website]

 * Gives details on UTM's energy use and conservation (past energy conservation projects, energy saving tips, and UTM's alternative energy options)
 * "//A comprehensive Energy Plan for UTM is currently under development. This plan will provide a clear path for UTM to follow in the next 5 years to improve the efficiency and environmental sustainability of UTM’s energy use, as well as cut costs. The plan will include a series of projects that will be implemented to reduce energy and water use, targets for energy use reduction, and a financing plan.//"

[|UTM's Past & Future Energy Projects in detail]
[|Past:] [|Future]:
 * In 2006, UTM’s main chiller (which creates chilled water which is used for cooling campus buildings) was replaced with 2 new chillers. The old chiller was 40 years old and extremely inefficient. The new chillers are high-efficiency, and use significantly less electricity to provide the same amount of cooling.
 * South Building Phase 1 Renovation:
 * Skylights that will let in natural light, minimizing the need for artificial lighting and improving occupant well-being
 * Sensors in certain areas will shut off lights automatically when the area is unoccupied
 * Instructional Center Complex

[|UTM's Ecological Footprint 2008-2009]
> //For information on energy generated on‐campus and off‐campus, Chelsea Dalton, UTM Environmental/Energy Inventories Coordinator provided the latest numbers. Allow for 2‐4// //weeks for her to collect this data from her sources and offer to assist with data collection. For 2009, electricity produced by the Solar Array was not provided by Chelsea because it is not metered. Contact Anil Vyas (anil.vyas@utoronto.ca) at the Technology Resource Centre (referred to by Aubrey Iwaniw) for the most recent 12 months of UTM photovoltaics (Solar Array) readings. Anil Vyas could not be reached at this time.//"
 * "//ENERGY://
 * Where can we find UTM's ecological footprint from 2009-2010?

__**[|UTM's Alternative Energies]**__
> Ground-Source Heat Pump > Photovoltaic Array > Fuel Cells
 * Microturbine