PROPOSED/INITIAL, ONGOING, AND
COMPLETED
(Curriculum, Teaching and Research not Included)
Statewide
Proposed/Initial Stage
1. Joint recycled paper purchasing project
2. Sustainability brochure for the Freshman Orientation
package for new students at all New Jersey institutions of
higher Education
3. Proposal to EPA Region II for the Pollution Prevention
Initiative in States (PPIS) grant for inventory control and
exchange of chemicals between participating institutions
Ongoing
1. Website development with extensive linking and
reference capabilities
Completed
1. Development of the New Jersey Higher Education
Partnership for Sustainability, Campus Sustainability:
Selected Indicators Snapshot and Guide
Bergen Community College
Proposed/Initial Stages
1. Photovoltaic cell to power a computer in the
Industrial Technology Building
Ongoing
1. New Environmental Technology Program
Frost Valley Environmental Education Center
Proposed/Initial Stages
K-12 education focusing on the Newark watershed
collaborating with Newark schools, Newark agencies sending
young people to Frost Valley and the Newark Museum which has
a new thrust and funding in the sciences
Completed
1. Howard Quirk Lodge- state of the art sustainability
features in energy production and conservation and solid
waste disposal as well as a 14 computer Geographic
Information Service laboratory and staff expertise
2. Comprehensive composting facility including dining hall
waste
Kean University
Proposed
1. Revised solid waste management policy and
contract
2. Revised food service contract
3. Campus landscaping plan including greenhouse and
butterfly garden to meet the qualifications of arboretum
status
Ongoing
1. Fall and Spring Earth Days tree and shrub
plantings
2. Recycling
3. SEAK --Sustainable Environment at Kean (Campus-wide
committee of faculty, administration, staff and
students)
4. Environmental Inventory
Completed
1. Cogeneration plant
2. Complete lighting retrofit
3. Center for Academic Success - going for LEED Gold, with Photovoltaics and Green Roof
Montclair State University
Proposed/Initial Stages
1. Extensive Environmental Inventory conducted with
student participation
Ongoing
2. Recycling
Completed
1. New Academic Building - going for LEED Gold
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Proposed/Initial Stages
1. Motion-sensitive light switch project
2. Campus police on bicycles: bicycle purchase and training
of officers
Ongoing
1.Health and Safety Committee
2. Recycling
Completed
Ecoliteracy Curriculum and Faculty Development Project
funded by FIPSE
(Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education)
Rutgers University
1. Green Procurement Manual --- for use statewide
2. Video on Rutgers waste stream (fifteen minutes)
3. Website development
4. Biodiversity Center Project in Colombia
5. America Works, a federally funded HUD project will train
Camden residents from the Welfare to Work Program as
landscapers for the workforce and Camden beautification
6. Recycle paper purchasing project Using undergraduate
students to speak to departments about their paper use needs
and preferences (tuition reduction for students)
7. Government subsidies for green purchases when there is a
minority or woman-owned supplier
8. Corporate participation in a sustainability purchase
initiative-- Coca Cola at Rutgers - Camden
9. Proposal to EPA (not yet funded to train K-12 teachers
about environmental management at their schools
Ongoing
1. Native species medicinal her garden developed by Dr.
Katrina Hazzard-Donald at Rutgers-Camden. Working on a
cookbook featuring herbs in recipes in the university dining
rooms and feature articles in the campus newspaper
2. Work of four Law School Professors on Environmental
Justice Issues in Camden
3. Two hydroponic greenhouses modeled after the hydroponic
greenhouse for raising tomatoes at the Ecocomplex in
Burlington are under construction in retirement homes to be
partially maintained by the retirement home residents
4. Recycling
Completed
Seniors planted trees at Rutgers- Cook College one day
during Senior Week, May 1999
Stevens Institute of Technology
Proposed/Initial Stages
Revision of the four year engineering curriculum to
infuse sustainability as a major strand throughout the
curriculum
Completed
Bar-coding all chemicals for life-cycle control, use
reduction and cost savings
