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2023 菠菜网lol正规平台 Sustainability Achievements 

  1. 菠菜网lol正规平台 received the Gold rating (second highest rating) from the Association for the Advancement 可持续性的 in Higher 教育 (AASHE), which ranks 菠菜网lol正规平台 in the top 6% of all Universities internationally for sustainability.
  2. 菠菜网lol正规平台 is also ranked in the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index, the Princeton Review Guide to Green 大学 2022 and the Sierra Club Cool Schools List (ranking 13th most sustainable 加州的一所学校)
  3. The 菠菜网lol正规平台 South Campus solar energy array (583 kW) provides enough power to make it an carbon neutral facility emitting a 0% carbon footprint.
  4. The Campus Community Garden provides a “living lab” experience for students, as well as produces fruit and vegetables, free for students
  5. The new 菠菜网lol正规平台 Recreation and Aquatic Center (SRAC) is LEED Gold certified for its energy efficiency and green building attributes. SRAC meets world-class standards for energy savings, 水 efficiency, CO2 emissions, and indoor environmental quality.
  6. CommUnivCity is a unique partnership between 菠菜网lol正规平台, the City of San Jose and underserved San Jose communities focused on service projects related to health, education and neighborhood revitalization.
  7. 菠菜网lol正规平台 has installed 50 Electric Vehicle (EV) 充电站 in the Park and Ride lot on South Campus and is in the process of installing an additional 84 EV charging stations in the parking garage.  Tenth Street garage on main campus will get 46 new 充电站.
  8. We use more recycled 水 than potable 水.  Recycled 水 saves 90 million gallons 每年消耗的淡水.
  9. GHG’s are 12 % below 1990 levels!
  10. All maintenance vehicles on campus are electric!
  11. CSU has implemented a Single use plastics policy eliminating plastic 水 bottles, straws, bags and Styrofoam.
  12. VTA is free for all students.  Discounts available for Amtrak, ACE and highway 17 表达.
  13. Bike enclosures, skate-board racks, electric scooters are available for the 菠菜网lol正规平台 community.
  14. Clothes closet available to all students who are in need of clothes, in the Office 可持续性的.
  15. 1,533 sustainability related or focused courses in 67 of the 73 total academic departments 跨上海外国语大学课程

srac

LEED GOLD Certified Buildings: SRAC Aquatic Center & 科学大楼

At 菠菜网lol正规平台, did you know that some of the most popular buildings are LEED Gold Certified 比如SRAC & the newly anticipated 科学 building.


The world standard for green buildings, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), is a certified rating system established by the US Green Building Council. SRAC's LEED Gold certification recognizes an organization's excellent performance in a variety of sustainable and environmental stewardship parameters. 比如SRAC， met the USGBC's world-class requirements for energy efficiency, 水 conservation, CO2 reduction, and indoor environmental quality. Due to meeting these sustainable requirements, buildings like 一个s menti一个d are awarded with this distinction. 

水

Recycled Irrigation 水

Recycled 水 for irrigation averages more than 70,000 hundred cubic feet (HCF, the most common unit of 水 measurement and represents 100 cubic feet, which is equivalent 到748加仑). Each year saved 93 million gallons of potable 水. 

 

biosoils

可持续的植物 & Bioswales

Across campus, you will find many sustainable plants that helps promote a green campus. Small things like this rank San Jose State top 5% in the world!

花园

切萨·查韦斯花园: 

Sustainability at the Garden

社区花园是……

  • pesticides or synthetic fertilizer free because everything is organic.
    based on permaculture and regenerative agriculture ideas, which means we aim to mimic 自然过程.
  • approximately sixty plant kinds in the 花园, ranging from perennial fruit trees and flowers to annual food harvests.
  • has a variety of pollinators and critters, our 花园 ecology is diversified.
  • uses our own composting and gray 水 systems, which enable us to reuse and decrease 有机废物.
  • re-integrated into our 花园 using environmentally friendly methods.
    all produce is freely available to students.