Green Office Checklist Challenge

Help make Franklin and Marshall College a more sustainable and environmentally friendly campus - join the Green Office Checklist Challenge!

Our goal is to make each department within the college limit its intake and energy use, increase recycling, and simply practice a greater degree of sustainability. We have developed a Green Office Checklist that covers a vast area of everyday office life (energy use, waste reduction, purchases, transportation etc.) and offers sustainable alternatives to common practices.  Offices can earn Bronze, Silver, and Gold Leaf Certifications for voluntary compliance in a number of tasks.  With your help, we can make the world more sustainable, bit by bit.

Bronze Leaf Certification: Achieve 10 tasks
Silver Leaf Certification: Achieve 20 tasks
Gold Leaf Certification: Achieve 30 tasks

For each level, your department or office will get a certificate to display, recognition on the F&M website and Center facebook page, and a campus Shout Out.  Departments who earn a Silver Leaf Certification will also receive a box of organic, fair trade chocolates to share. Departments who earn a Gold Leaf Certification will also receive organic, fair trade teas and coffees to share.  The person who makes the most individual difference towards “greening” their office, as nominated by their office and voted on by the Sustainability Committee, will get $200 towards a LFFC CSA share of their choice.

Offices who have achieved certification include: 
Gold:

• The President's Office
• The Ware Institute for Civic Engagement 
• The Office of College Grants
• The Center for the Sustainable Environment
• Facilities and Operations
• Earth and Environment Department

Silver:

• The Business Office
• Dining Services
• Department of Non-Western Languages 
• The Admissions Office
• The College Libraries
• Math & Computer Science Department
• Philosophy Department
• Klehr Center for Jewish Life

Bronze:

• Communications Department
• Sports Medicine Office
• The Other Room Theater
   

Green Event Certification

The Center for the Sustainable Environment is happy to announce a  Green Event Certification checklist for all F&M event organizers! If you would like to make your event environmentally-friendly and Green Certified, you may access the list in form format from the room reservations page.  Alternatively, you can access the checklist online here.  If you complete the checklist as a form or email it to Sarah Dawson at sdawson@fandm.edu, your club or department will be recognized on the F&M website and CSE Facebook page.  Additionally, if the checklist is completed in advance to the event, the CSE can provide a "Certified Green Event" sign to post during the event. Thank you for your interest and commitment to sustainability in the F&M community!