LAGCC Sustainability Council
Overview
LaGuardia’s developed sustainability council as a product of the CUNY sustainability task force, dedicated to reducing our institutional impact on the environment while facilitating a long-term sustainable change on campus. The Sustainability council consists of faculty, staff, and students that came together with different ideas and views on environmentally ethical topics to make our campus eco-friendlier and more sustainable to present and future generations.
Mission
Our mission is to develop and implement initiatives, events and campus amenities which promote conservation of natural resources, energy efficiency, recycling and carbon footprint reduction through education and activities both inside and outside the classroom.
Our Goal are aligned with the CUNY Sustainability Mission.
Accomplishments
- Adding water refilling stations across campus to divert over 500,000 plastic water bottles
- Installation of efficient free faucets in our public restrooms to help reduce water usage as well as the flow of water
- Installation of slow flow urinals to help consume less water per flush
- Converted Fluorescent light fixtures to LED to help save on electricity consumption
- Installed Occupancy sensors in office, classrooms, and bathrooms that will help control the timing of light in a room as well as help reduce cost of energy
- Upgrade our Energy Management System that will help control the amount of air and heating that enters a room, saving us hundreds of kilowatts of electricity per hour and years
- Installed solar window films that will help repel UV rays, heat, and glare but still allow natural light into our building
- Our Food Service Vendor has converted 70% of plastic products to biodegradable
- Upgrade our C-Building Facade to help improve our insulative value as well as our energy consumption
- Converted our boiler from Oil to Gas to help reduce the amount of CO2 emission.
How to get involved?
We always encourage students to take initative to get involved in making our environment eco-friendly and sustainable. LaGuardia has incorporated an Environmental Justice Club that discusses different issues, and is the forefront towards taking actions needed to make our campus and community environmentally friendly.
If you are interested in joining the Environmental Justice Club, please contact Professor Leslie Aarons at Laarons@lagc.cuny.edu
We are open to ideas and views from our campus community, If you have any ideas or would like to become a member of the sustainability council, Please email sustainabilitycouncil@lagcc.cuny.edu.