Lloyd Estates is Keen on
Green
• Why Green Output Reduction?
• Initiate Green Plan for Output Reduction
• Share resources available to Green
Teams
• Articulate ideas for networking &
reallocating output devices
• Explore strategies to encourage
process & culture changes
What Is The Carbon Footprint
of an Output Device?
5%
Printers, Copiers or Paper?
• Fact: To kill a tree only takes the equivalent of 2
cases of paper or 20 reams
– A standard ream of paper (8 1/2 x 11) weighs 5 pounds. For
every two cases of paper, we literally have killed a tree
– 100 pounds of paper ( 2 cases) = 1 Tree 40 feet tall and 8
inches in diameter
• Fact: in 2007-2008 SBBC bought 86,000 cases of
paper. That equals 43,000 trees
• To Go Green - we need to stop using so much
paper!
The Real Problem – Think Before
You Print or Copy!!!
? Do I really need to print out
this email?
? Do I really need to print out
this attachment?
? Did I already print this
document? I’m not sure, I’ll
just print it again….
? Whose document is this
mixed in with my stuff?
1 out of 5 pages is
discarded unread.
1 of 6 Print “jobs”
never picked up at
the printer
The Solutions
? Do I really need to print out
this email?
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? Do I really need to print out
this attachment?
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? Did I already print this
document? I’m not sure, I’ll
just print it again….
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? Whose document is this
mixed in with my stuff?
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No, CAB allows users to create
folders and file email - up to
32,000 emails per person
No, only print what you need
today - you’ll most likely
misplace it before you need it
Take a walk to the printer and
look - you could use the
exercise
Set-up mailboxes or security
codes on shared devices
Green Document Creation
Tips
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Less Color
Less Shading
Fewer Borders
Multi-up Printing
Print in Draft mode
Print black/white
• Eliminate the
“quotes” on your
Email signatures
• One page forms
• Memos &
attachments that fit
on one page
Why Go Green in Schools?
• Fact: Twenty percent of the American population spends their
days in school buildings.
– Saving Earth won't happen in a laboratory. It'll happen in a
classroom, where educators like you are teaching and modeling a
new way of life that's practical, passionate, and positively
awesome.
– Green schools are also a great teaching tool. If we want children to
learn that human beings have a responsibility to be good stewards
of the environment, we have to teach them by example.
• Fact: Green schools protect the environment by reducing
energy consumption an average of 33 percent. Over the lifespan
of a school, this adds up to a lot of carbon emissions - and
money.
Go Green Program for Output
Reduction
• Go Green Program
– Plan Development
– Governing Principles
• Green Teams
– All stakeholders represented
• Go Green Website
– http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/green/index.htm
• Promotional Campaign for Lexmark Printer
Output Management Program
• MarkVision Output Management Tool
– Web-based application that recognizes all networked
devices, including printers and copiers
– TLCs taught to run MarkVision reports monthly to monitor
usage - give reports to administration for data-based
decision making
– Can automatically reduce toner settings to save $$ and set
defaults for duplexing
– Assists with ordering toner supplies and inventory of output
devices
– See ETS Network Integration Training calendar for courses
Lexmark Printer Options
• Confidential Print - excellent for shared
printers
• MFP - Fax Forwarding to CAB FAX
Conference
– Saves on paper
– Increases accountability
– Ensures confidentiality
Canon & Toshiba Copiers
• Establish user ID’s and set limits
• Configure copiers with Address Groups and
Mailboxes
• Configure copiers to send email notification to select
staff when copiers jam, out of paper or need supplies
• Storage hard-drives for frequently used documents
• Right-size equipment - monthly minimums and
pricing
– See Copier Comparison Chart
– http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/green/video/Canon_
Copier.m4v
Green Strategies - Toner
• Purchase Manufacturer Certified Remanufactured
Toner Cartridges
• Limit purchase of Toner/Ink supplies to High
Yield Toner Cartridges to obtain best cost per page
• Recycling Toner Cartridges
– Printer Recycling Memo
Reduce Toner Cartridge
Consumption
• Use high-yield cartridges to obtain best cost per page
and reduce waste
– New printers shipping with 32,000 page cartridges (6k + 25k)
• Lower default settings on toner for printers - (tested
successfully at 5-6)
– Extends the life of cartridges 15-20%
• Buy Remanufactured toner cartridges
– (Average savings of 33% )
• Lexmark Recycling Program
– End User Loyalty Rebate - returns $$$,$$$ to district
reduce
Recycling Toner
recycle
reuse
• Lexmark End User Loyalty Agreement
– Purchase & Recycling toner cartridges results in
$$$,$$$$ returned to the District
– Remanufactured Cartridges - Saves 33% in cost
• Toshiba Recycling:
– Close the loop by recycling Toshiba Copier toner
cartridges
– http://www.toshibamedia.com/video/ecyclevideo.ht
ml
Eliminating/Reducing Fax
Technology
• Fax Forwarding to CAB Conferences
– Request CAB Administrator to establish a site Fax
Conference via email
– Establish Conference Controller and back-up
– Distribute incoming faxes to appropriate staff via
email
– Delete junk faxes
• Scan-to-email
Phase III - Process Change
• Let’s look at what others are doing in
their efforts to GO GREEN
• Make it a fun & engage everyone on
staff
• Our School, our classroom, our
lunchroom
• Teachers, Students & Parents
BCPS Goes Green
•Website support
–http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/green/index.htm
•Local Schools Go Green
–http://www.quia.com/pages/amarousky/greeningno
va
•NBC 6 Contest Design A Greener Future
–http://www.nbcgreenerfuturecontest.com/
•Changing the Culture
–http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/green/Training_Resou
rces.htm
Faculty Eco-conscious Lounge
Lounge a little
• First, stock the coffee pot with Fair Trade coffee for a
jolt of eco-consciousness.
http://www.fairtradecoffee.org/fair-trade-coffeecrusade/
• Then, toss out the disposable cups and replace them
with mugs. (Check out the provocative "global warming
mug" from Uncommon Goods. It features a map of the
Earth on its sides. Pour in hot coffee and watch the
oceans rise.) http://www.uncommongoods.com
• And don't forget a stash of Fair Trade chocolate for
planning periods.
• You can contribute to a good cause, raise funds for
your school while enjoying your daily brew…..
Cool Schools Challenge
• Let's see….you drove a few miles to school this morning,
stopped in the lounge to pour a cup of coffee and toss out your
junk mail, then flipped on the fluorescents and heard the
welcoming buzz of your classroom computers.
• Ready for the kids? Because they're here, and they have a
message for you:
• "Stop consuming so much energy!”
• Cool School Challenge aims to help teachers step more lightly
on the Earth.
• The kids also remind staff to turn off lights during planning
periods or sunny days, switch to reusable cups and water
bottles, and recycle.
http://www.coolschoolschallenge.org/resources.aspx
Pack a Better Lunch
• Start with an insulated Bazura bag, made by a women's co-op in
the Philippines from recycled juice boxes-$19.95 at
www.reusablebags.com and pair it with a reusable water
bottle.
• Then, go to the farmer's market. An apple a day will taste good,
help the local economy, and cut down on the energy costs of
shipping. To find a market or co-op near you, go to
www.eatwellguide.com.
• Keep in mind that meat production accounts for nearly one-fifth
of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations
Climate-Change Panel.
• How about taking note of that fact with Meatless Mondays?
Instead of ham and Swiss, slap together a PB&J.
Waste-Free Lunch
• We have a Waste-Free Wednesday program at our school.
• Every Wednesday we wear our green t-shirts (which we sold in
order to purchase recycling bins for every room in the school).
• Every child and staff member is encouraged to pack a wastefree lunch.
• Volunteers wash the plastic lunch trays so that we don't have to
use styrofoam.
• This year I started having the students save and collect their
Capri-Sun drink pouches because through terra-cycle you can
recycle them and they will give you 2 cents for every pouch
Plant a Tree
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Why plant a tree?
Trees absorb carbon, which means they clean the air that you breathe.
They also conserve soil and water.
Plus, all produce food for local insects, birds, or mammals.
Results
• The real difference adds up when the staff goes
home and the kids grow up
• We really want the everyone to understand that the
things they do in their lifetime have a real carbon
consequence
• Once they leave school they will then go out and
educate their families and friends to make changes in
their homes
• The multiplier effect is really huge-and that's the real
benefit
Environmental Education
Week
• Add to your Go Green Plan Activities
• Earth Hour:
– Turn out your lights for one hour
– http://www.earthhourus.org/
• Join millions of teachers and students in a week of
educational preparation for Earth Day
• Environmental Education Week
http://www.eeweek.org/
• Earth Day
– http://www.earthday.net/earthday2009
Summarize Green Team
Training
• ETS Support & Training
• Teach Technology Support Center - Go
Green Training for Teachers
– Digital Classrooms
– Web Technology - paperless
• We want to follow your Green Teams
and highlight your success stories on
the web
Here’s the plan,
Stan!
5th Grade
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Mr. Gehalo’s team goes to Schick, M. Stein, Davis
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Mrs. Assad's team pick up 5th grade Science, Schipani, and
Louvaris. Then out to Music, Spanish
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Mr. Piehler's team pick up Art, old teachers lounge, then out to
Itinerant staff (926c), Byrd
4th Grade
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take your own recycling to dumpster and then head out to
Kindergarten building.
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3rd Grade
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take your own recycling to dumpster
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Ms. Rivera's Recyclers pick up Lewis, Robinson, Reidy, Moore
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Mrs. Walters' Recyclers pick up Main office (Govoni, Brideau,
Holdren/J, Wheeler)
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Mrs. Charles' Recyclers pick up Media
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Ms. Weinhaus' Recyclers pick up Cassell, Hall, Hurley
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Mr. Striggles' Recyclers pick up Palonka, Gomez, Plastini
2nd Grade
• take your own recycling to dumpster
• Mr. Gehalo will attend to the new teacher lounge recycling.
It isn't enough that we recycle the papers, plastics, and metals. Here in
Florida, FRESH WATER is highly valued, too. Please remind students
to turn off sink faucets when brushing teeth, and washing hands.