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Sustainability Quiz

Please take a moment to take the Evergreen Sustainability Quiz.

Fill out the questions below and click submit.

Energy

How many balloons would every Evergreen community member need to carry to hold our college’s greenhouse gas emissions?
If every household in the United States lowered their thermostat 1-degree Fahrenheit during the winter, how much oil would the nation avoid burning?
By what year has The Evergreen State College pledged to go carbon neutral?
Evergreen’s Seminar II Building received widespread acclaim and recognition because it was the first publicly funded building in the state of Washington to receive what level of LEED certification?

Food

What percentage of Evergreen’s food purchases are from local and organic sources?

Waste

According to a recent Campus-wide Waste Audit, how much of Evergreen’s landfilled waste can either be composted or recycled?
On average, about how much waste does the Evergreen community send to landfills each year?
At the beginning of fall quarter 2008, Evergreen implemented the Food Plus Recycling program in the Campus Activities Building (CAB). Under this new program, which of the following items cannot be composted?

Transportation

How much of Evergreen’s carbon footprint is associated with commuting back and forth to campus?
Approximately what percentage of Evergreen students commute by bus?