Carnegie Mellon University
EN-4: Outreach Materials and Publications

Carnegie Mellon University offers an online portal for environmental sustainability information, Environment at CMU (link below). This site includes links to a variety of the institution's environmental sustainability efforts: energy and water; recycling and waste management; campus design; transportation, and our campus environmental commitments. One of the links on the website above connects to CMU's Steinbrenner Institute for Education and Research. This Institute seeks to facilitate connections and coordinate environmental sustainability research initiatives, to promote and build the strengths of Carnegie Mellon University's environmental research centers, and to advance emerging and interdisciplinary interests in environmental education and research. The website provides information about campus-wide initiatives and findings of student and faculty groups, sustainability research, and other publications. This website is created and maintained under the direction of CMU's Environmental Coordinator, one of the Chairs of the campus Green Practices Committee (GPC). The GPC is comprised of staff, faculty and students and seeks to address and continue improving environmental sustainability at CMU, including campus operations, planning, research and education. In 2018, the GPC re-established annual goals for committee work to address campus resource use and building metering, wastewater reclamation and reuse, further increases in recycling and composting to reduce landfill volume, renovate the Sustainability Room in CMU's University Center, and improved campus-wide communications about and awareness of environmental sustainability. With respect to the broader range of sustainability goals and topics, there are links and references throughout this submittal. See, for example, PA-13.

The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, mentioned above, publishes a newsletter to inform the University community about sustainability efforts around and outside of the campus. As described in EN-9 and PA-13, there are additional newsletters to address a range of sustainability topics, such as health and wellbeing, diversity, and gender equity. Consistent with general publishing trends and with CMU's focus on reduced paper consumption, many campus newsletters are now online publications, announced via email and accessible on the campus web.

As indicated in AC-1 and AC-9, the majority of academic departments at CMU address sustainability in their course offerings and research and all of these departments circulate information through multiple platforms, e.g, Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In. In addition, students use a host of social media platforms. Although we have not addressed the range of sustainability topics here, we provide a link below to the Facebook site for the most active undergraduate student group addressing environmental sustainability, Sustainable Earth. Students also use weebly website to share environmental sustainability information. http://cmusustainability.weebly.com/

The Steinbrenner Institute for Education and Research publishes and disseminates student research from their Doctoral Fellowship Student and Seed Grant programs.

Each building that is LEED rated have USGBC plaques mounted in a prominent locations.

Carnegie Mellon University Dining Services vendor posts on Instagram, twitter and Facebook and has signage in the dining venues that offers information about purchases from local farms and vendors to tips on healthy sustainable lifestyle. They also provide healthy dining, exercise, and lifestyle tips for students throughout the year. Please see OP-9 for more detail.

We do, however, offer a this information on the web at the Sustainable Landscapes link below.

CMU's Green Practices Committee and the Steinbrenner Institute created a Campus Environmental Walking Tour map that guides visitors through the campus's environmentally significant and sustainability-related sites. The tour includes, but is not limited to, LEED resident halls and academic buildings, green roofs, environmental research centers, the Recycling Education Center, and the central chiller plant. The map is linked to the website shown below.

Carnegie Mellon University Parking & Transportation Services offers "Transportation OPTIONS". The "Transportation OPTIONS" informs the Carnegie Mellon community about alternative methods of travel to campus. Information includes biking, busing, carpooling, Zipcar, shuttle/escort service, van-pooling or walking.

CMU is a Bike University USA award-winning campus. The website below contains a Google map that shows where bike racks are located, how many, and if under cover. In addition, CMU has a Bicycle/Wheeled Transportation Policy. The purpose of this policy is to provide regulations for a safe and convenient environment for bicycles and other wheeled transportation permitted on campus walkways (e.g., skateboards, in-line skates and motorized carts), while at the same time providing for the safety of all members of the campus community. The regulations do not apply to transportation for persons with disabilities (e.g., wheelchairs). See http://www.cmu.edu/student-affairs/theword/comm_standards/bicycle.html

WEF-GULF ISCN 2018 Report: Educating with Purpose Universities around the world share best practices and this report includes a case study about Carnegie Mellon's Sustainability Weekend.