Green-Grinnell Principles
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Develop environmental awareness & responsibility

• make institutional decisions that consider environmental impacts as well as educational and economic ones

• educate the college community (students, faculty, staff, administrators) and our broader community about environmental sustainability

• lead by example, and form partnerships in environmental stewardship with our local and global community

• communicate our successes

Reduce inputs of energy and materials

• conserve energy and consumable resources (e.g., paper, water)

• employ energy- and material-efficient buildings, appliances, tools, vehicles, etc.

Acquire energy and materials from sustainable sources

• acquire natural resources in ways that leave them available for future generations, in environmentally sound, socially just, ethically acceptable ways

Recycle

• adaptively re-use and recycle materials

Cultivate biological diversity

• share the campus landscape with a diversity of organisms appropriate to our location


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