[SustainableNC] New DENR Sustainability Policy & Rollout Contest

[Sharron Rogers]

See how DENR is doing a no budget rollout of its new Sustainability Policy
by connecting it with an internal Earth Day Contest.  Still continuing to
hope that all of our good sustainability efforts will be increasingly
recognized as real and permanent government efficiency.


 


Contest is for DENR employees only, but you can send me your successes to
share on statewide sustainability website any day or post them to this list
at:  sustainablenc at lists.p2pays.org <mailto:sustainablenc at lists.p2pays.org>



 


EARTH DAY 2002 


DENR SUSTAINABILITY CONTEST


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Contest starts March 1, 2002 


Last entries accepted April 12, 2002

 

Attention DENR employees: Learn more about the department's Sustainability
Policy and Procedures to show your environmental commitment just in time for
Earth Day, April 22, 2002.  

 

To find out more, please view the DENR Sustainability Committee Web site at
<http://www.sustainablenc.org/DENR> http://www.sustainablenc.org/DENR. Under
"Quick Links," click on the Sustainability Contest link to read the new DENR
Sustainability policy. Then, using the electronic contest entry form found
on the contest page, enter the contest with a sustainability story or
sustainability tip. 

 

Three prizes will be awarded. 

·        One prize will be for the best-judged sustainability story that
prevents wastes and/or minimizes any negative environmental impact. 

·        Another prize will be for the best-judged sustainability tip for
preventing waste and/or minimizing any negative environmental impact. 

·        And for a third prize, all contest entries will be entered into a
general drawing.

Sustainability stories and tips will be used by DENR's Sustainability
Liaisons Team for sustainability education, and to showcase ways that DENR
employees are already involved with sustainability. 

 

Sustainability is much more than recycling paper and cans. By incorporating
sustainability in how things are done at the office and in the field, DENR
employees not only prevent negative environmental impacts, but also save
time and resources. DENR employees, using sustainable thinking in large and
small ways, have the potential to save millions over the coming years.  

·        For example, the Museum of Natural Sciences recently changed the
adhesive it uses to put program posters on core board. This allowed hundreds
of dollars worth of core board to be reused again and again, instead of
being land filled. 

·        In another example, the Division of Air Quality saved a $10,000
connection cost, and a monthly electric bill for one of its state air
sampling stations, by spending just $300 for a solar panel, a boat battery,
and a connector device. That single solar set-up saves a small amount of air
pollution from power plants every year. 

 

We need your sustainability related stories and sustainability tips, so
enter the contest today, at  <http://www.sustainablenc.org/DENR>
http://www.sustainablenc.org/DENR.

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