Climate Action & Sustainability Plan • EPA Ranks JHU Green Power Partner |
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As cool weather arrives, we have several hot topics to share with you! October was an exciting month for Johns Hopkins sustainability work. We held a celebration of the new JHU Climate Action & Sustainability Plan, the EPA announced JHU as a top-ranking university in their Green Power Partnership program, and two of JHU’s Green Labs received international recognition. The Office of Sustainability also announced that we are officially now the Office of Climate and Sustainability!
We hope you find this edition of the Blue Jay’s Green Guide inspiring and that as holiday events approach in the coming months you are able to utilize recommendations in the “Ask the Green Guide” section!
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JHU Celebrates New Climate Action and Sustainability Plan |
Environmental advocates from across Johns Hopkins University gathered together on Friday, Oct. 11, in the Glass Pavilion to unveil the university's new Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. The plan, which outlines institutional goals to mitigate the university's environmental impact and enhance education and research related to fighting climate change, comes after two years of discussion, evaluation, and community input.
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EPA Ranks JHU #4 in Green Power Partnership |
Johns Hopkins University has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as one of the nation's leading colleges and universities in the utilization of energy from renewable sources.
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JHU Green Labs Receive International Recognition in 2024 Freezer Challenge |
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Two JHU Certified Green Labs received recognition in this year’s . From 3,100 participating labs across 35 countries, the JHU School of Medicine’s GI-Oncology Lab was awarded “Lab Winning Streak” in the Academic category and the JHU School of Medicine’s King-Wai Yau Lab received the “Small Lab Award” in the Academic category. The GI-Oncology and Yau Labs, in addition to Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Townsend Lab, were all top performers at JHU, each earning $5,000 for their commitment to freezer efficiency. Sign up your lab for the 2025 Freezer Challenge to join JHU researchers fostering a culture of sustainability in their labs.
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JHU Institute for Planetary Health Seeks Input on Strategic Plan |
Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health’s (JHIPH) draft strategic plan is now open for comments. As a brand-new University-wide Institute, JHIPH warmly welcomes all JHU community members to participate in the open comment process.
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BSPH Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2024 Edition is devoted to Planetary Health, featuring over a dozen articles on climate change, its human impacts, and innovative solutions.
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Explore the Ecological Design Collective’s Opportunities Forum |
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Explore the EDC's new Opportunities Forum, a place for members to share expertise, opportunities for collaboration, job openings, and more. Originally based in Baltimore, the EDC has evolved into a worldwide platform for radical ecological imagination and collaboration, a space to host workshops and book talks, explore events, share articles, projects, and ideas, and experiment in “learning the world otherwise”. Join to connect with multi-disciplinary ecological design projects in Baltimore and beyond.
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Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum at the Baltimore Museum of Art |
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Emergent, by Cannupa Hanska Luger
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More than just an exhibit, Preoccupied is a BMA-wide initiative for cultural repair, interrogating the museum's historic role in Native erasure and exploitation. Developed through a community-based and Native-led curation process, artworks explore themes of indigenous resilience, generational trauma, cultural memory, ecological interdependence and stewardship, and more. Preoccupied also features several pieces from the Piscataway Conoy tribe, native to the Chesapeake Bay.
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| Greater Baltimore Climate Summit
With Morgan State University, Baltimore Green Space, the HBCU Environmental Justice Technical Collaborative, and more
NOV 12 | All Day | Rita Rossi Colwell Center
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Surveying Baltimore's Trees and Soils |
This summer, graduate student Sam Votzke and undergraduate Olivia Bond conducted a field work campaign across Baltimore City to survey urban trees and soils. The field campaign was part of the research efforts of the Vegetation, Soils, and Ecosystems team within the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC).
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“To be able to say every single day that you are making a tangible improvement in other people’s lives because you are defending the environment is inspirational.” - Olivia Bond
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In many cities, tree planting has been used as a strategy to address climate change and stormwater runoff, and Baltimore is “investing heavily” in such projects.
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Thus, this understanding of Baltimore’s trees and soils is critical to informing tree planting decisions and achieving the city’s goals of increasing canopy cover across Baltimore.
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I just started a new student organization; how do I navigate composting and recycling at our events? |
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As new student organizations think about planning events, the Office of Sustainability has resources to make the organizing process easier and cheaper. While managing waste is a huge part of hosting green events, we encourage event planners to think of other avenues for sustainability, from the caterers they choose to the decor they use. Here are the essential four steps for planning a Green Event:
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