George Brown College: Unique Sustainability Process and Activities

George brown is one of the top colleges of Canada located at downtown Toronto offering a variety of colleges and university programs and George Brown College is also one of the highest rated college for being getting success with regards to environmental sustainability.

The sustainability activities of George Brown are handles and taken care by a group called green team. Which is a group of members within the college from various departments which aim is to work towards reducing the school’s ecological footprint through sustainable practices. They have set long term strategy called “green plan” which has two phases. The first phase which aim, at expanding the efficiency, lessening waste and preserve resources and sets target in various areas including policies, practices and operations. The green team also encourages and motivates everyone towards greening of schools and curriculum. And in the second phase they just revised the first green plan and added new targets of cutting down the colleges’ impact on environment.

The most noticeable step taken by George Brown College is its award-winning “green” Waterfront Campus, which was opened in September 2012, of which More than 90 percent of the associated construction waste of Waterfront campus was diverted from landfill, and regionally sourced materials with recycled content were used to build the new structure. The campus includes eco-friendly elements such as a green roof, special glass to minimize bird collisions, storage for more than 300 bicycles, 16 carpooling spots and 10 charging stations for electric cars. Inside, the building features promote the kind of healthy environment that is proven to increase learning and staff productivity.

Some of the act towards sustainability at George brown college are the Go Green campaign, a monthly subject for how students and employees can diminish their ecological footprint (i.e. turning off classroom lights, using reusable water bottles/coffee cups, etc.) they have also small waste containers located in each individual office for recycle waste.

Sustainable transportation meaning that at George brown more preferences are given to public transports, bicycling and carpooling in order to support energy efficient transportation and additionally in order to reduce water consumption within the college premises they have installed sensors on faucets and toilets. George Brown College uses 90% Eco-friendly cleaning products in the college.

Late night cleaning is totally eliminated in order to save electricity by turning off the lights and a complete reusing framework at all of its grounds areas is set up, which incorporates battery reusing through the Call2Recycle program. Staff and students can drop off their utilized family batteries and cellphones at Call2Recycle encloses the school's First Aid workplaces. George Brown tracks its month to month waste and reusing for an assortment of items including scrap metal, utilized electronic hardware, printer toner cartridges, they also have set targets to redirect their waste form landfills.