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From 2023-2024 澳门葡京网赌送彩金 will be collecting data to submit our first STARS report!

The 可持续性 Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. Categories include academics, operations, engagement, planning & 管理与创新 & 领导. As such, data collection will extend across colleges, campuses, and departments. 

Coming Soon: LEED Building Certification for the County Materials Complex & Sonnentag Fieldhouse

LEED certified buildings save money, 提高效率, lower carbon emissions and create healthier places for people. They are a critical part of addressing climate change and meeting ESG goals, 提高韧性, and supporting more equitable communities.

获得LEED认证, a project earns points by adhering to prerequisites and credits that address carbon, 能源, 水, 浪费, 运输, 材料, health and indoor environmental quality. Projects go through a verification and review process by GBCI and are awarded points that correspond to a level of LEED certification: Certified (40-49 points), 银牌(50-59分), Gold (60-79 points) and Platinum (80+ points).

Committed to carbon Neutrality by 2050:

In 2007 Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, establishing the goal of net zero campus carbon emissions.

Since our first carbon footprint report in 2008, UW-Eau克莱尔 has reported the campus carbon footprint to Second Nature reporting while working towards this goal. In 2018 we published our first climate action plan. 

Tree Campus USA: 

Tree Campus Higher Education was founded in 2008 to foster that tradition of excellence. 该计划提供了 简单的框架 for colleges and universities to grow their community forests, 获得国家认可, and create a campus their students and staff are proud of.

To maintain our Tree Campus USA certification 澳门葡京网赌送彩金's landscape architect runs a committee, works with students completing service learning to track tree growth, and submits an annual report. In 2022:

- 75% of trees on campus where native to Wisconsin

- Campus trees sequestered 25 tons annually of carbon Dioxide: that is equivalent to removing 2,540 Gasoline powered automobiles driven for one year!

Princeton Review's Guide to Green 大学:

UW-Eau克莱尔 is among hundreds of colleges and universities in the U.S. that the well-known education services company included in the 2023 Guide to Green 大学, which highlights schools that are committed to the environment and sustainability. 

认证一级植物园: 

ArbNet offers an 植物园 认证 Program which requires a set of standards including strategic planning for campus trees, a minimum number of 25 species of trees, 公共访问, 还有其他标准. 

The most common tree species on campus are Pine, 橡木, 和枫, which together compose 43% of trees on campus.

澳门葡京网赌送彩金 is also participating in a National Science Foundation funded research project studying the adaptiveness of tree species in varied climates. 

National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat:

In 2022 澳门葡京网赌送彩金's main campus became a Certified Wildlife Habitat. 我们的校园, 包括普特南径, 提供食物(浆果), 花蜜, 坚果, sap, 花粉, 和更多), 水, 覆盖(树木繁茂的地区), 常青树, 梅多斯, 等.), and places to raise young (mature trees, meadow, dense shrubs/thickets, 等.).
We also complete sustainable practices such as capturing roof runoff, 病虫害综合治理, elimination of chemical fertilizers, 使用本地植物, 还有其他策略. 

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每年秋季, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the United States and Canada to mountains in central Mexico where they wait out the winter until conditions favor a return flight in the spring. Monarch Waystations are places that provide resources necessary for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain their migration.

At 澳门葡京网赌送彩金 we have numerous 花蜜 plants which support Monarchs, 包括马利筋植物, 香蜂, 黑眼苏珊, 紫罗兰, 和更多的. 
We also complete sustainable management practices such as using natural fertilizers, removing dead stalks before the next growing season, and mulching around plans to reduce weeds and 水 use.