努力实现可持续发展

维护美丽校园

From the ground we walk on to the air we breathe, St. 365比分网电竞 works tirelessly to maintain the campus environment. 请看下面.

校园操作

2003年，校董会批准了 2003校园景观总体规划 to provide the university with guidance for planting more trees to help clean the air and prevent soil erosion, 种植更多本地植物以节约用水, creating a more pedestrian campus to reduce vehicle traffic on campus, and creating a more inviting campus so that students, 教师, and staff can enjoy the outdoors as meeting and recreational spaces.

2011年5月，校董会批准了 2011校园总体规划 提供了St。. 爱德华的 campus with building sustainability guidelines to ensure that building performance is consistent with campus-wide sustainability goals.

2017年，董事会批准了 2018校园总体规划 to integrate stewardship of the natural and built environment into the future of the University. The 2018校园总体规划 seeks to reflect the University's mission and values while keeping with the strategic plan. 

维护

设施使用网上工作单系统, allowing 教师 and staff to efficiently notify 设施 of maintenance issues. This enables maintenance staff to address issues quickly, thereby decreasing waste. Student needs are addressed through both Student Life and 居住生活 办公室. 设施 conducts preventive maintenance at varying intervals to inspect plumbing, 冷冻水和电气系统. The reporting and tracking features of the system allows 设施 to monitor and analyze maintenance issues throughout campus and quickly find and correct ongoing problems.

管家

管家 plays a major role in collecting recycled materials from buildings across campus. They also assist in composting by ensuring that the contents of the green plastic bags in the bathrooms are disposed of properly.

Groundskeeping

我们校园的签名, the beautiful grounds and landscape play a large role in our effort to be environmentally conscientious. 自1999年以来, 设施 has planted native plants and over 900 trees to conserve water and provide natural shading. 除了, 设施 has installed four water meters that provide water to our irrigation system; water-wise controllers are tied to on-site weather stations, and are using micro-irrigation for all landscape beds and trees. All grass clippings are mulched and returned directly to the ground. Tree branches and fall leaves are chipped on site and composted for later use in the landscaping.

In recognition of our dedication to our campus trees, we have been recognized as a 美国树校园 连续五年; 2015-2019.

温室气体清单

The 温室气体清单 tracks the total annual greenhouse gas emissions at St. 365比分网电竞, providing Hilltoppers with a better understanding of the sources and trends in the university's Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG) in an effort to improve current sustainability practices.

This inventory began in 2009 as an undergraduate research project and continues today.

• 2018-2019年温室气体总结 
• 2015-2016年温室气体总结
• 2014-2015年温室气体总结
• 2013-2014年温室气体总结*
• ​2012-2013年温室气体概述
• 2015 MSEM Final Paper: Comparison of Carbon Sequestration Methodologies for Use by Academic Institutions in Texas by Suzzanne Gamboa, Erica Joelson, and Christina Mcglew, MSEM Cohort 3

*The offsets from Wild Basin have been updated to carbon storage per year, whereas previous reports are in the total value of carbon storage with no time stamp. 这是一种更准确的测量偏移量的方法, but does cause the net emissions to be much higher than previous reports.

环境管理制度

环境管理体系(EMS) encourages the university to realize its environmental goals and continuously improve its environmental performance through consistent controls of its operations. The EMS operates in a repeating cycle, beginning with a 政策声明 that is turned into a plan that is implemented, evaluated and revised. The cycle repeats, and continuous improvement occurs. 了解更多有关 St. 爱德华的EMS.

可持续发展委员会

圣. 365比分网电竞 可持续发展委员会's purpose is to integrate new and existing efforts to maximize success and awareness, support sustainability-related policy development when needed, and to increase community outreach by informing community members to increase awareness and work with students groups to promote messages and commitment to the university.

The 可持续发展委员会 is represented by the following groups: