Everyone knows the Ducks have been kicking the Beavers up and down the football
field for the past few years, but how do they compare in sustainability? According
to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), a program
of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education that
includes current data from 222 universities, OSU scored a Gold rating this year, the
second highest rating. UO participated in STARS but chose not to make its score
available to the public, earning it a “reporter” status. UO did make all of its data
available, so while we can’t directly compare the two universities’ scores, we can
show how they fare on individual, self-reported data points. Now, here’s to a Civil
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UO
OSU
NUMBER OF
UNDERGRAD
SUSTAINABILITY
COURSES
18
69
NUMBER OF COURSES
OFFERED THAT
INCLUDE
SUSTAINABILITY
114
100
NUMBER OF FACULTY
ENGAGED IN
SUSTAINABILITY
RESEARCH
102
253
GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS FROM
STATIONARY
COMBUSTION
(POWER PLANTS,
HEATING PLANTS,
ETC.)
23,677 metric tons
37,895.5 metric tons
TOTAL BUILDING
ENERGY
CONSUMPTION
655,208 MMBtu
(million British
thermal units)
1,089,619 MMBtu
(million British
thermal units)
LEED ENERGY
CENTER RANKING
Platinum
Platinum
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
& Cinema Pacific present
S CHNITZER C INEMA
AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
BIKE FRIENDLY
UNIVERSITY
CERTIFICATION
Silver
Silver
MATERIALS
RECYCLED
1,363 tons
1,064 tons
(Part One)
FALL 2014 ■ Free admission & refreshments!
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Free Radicals: A History of
Experimental Film
October 8, 7 p.m.
MATERIALS
DISPOSED IN A SOLID
WASTE LANDFILL OR
INCINERATOR
MATERIALS
COMPOSTED
1,570 tons
126 tons
2,858 tons
1,325 tons
Harry Smith’s Heaven and
Earth Magic
Expanded Cinema Version
projected by Dennis Nyback!
November 5, 7 p.m.
The Video Art of Julia Oldham
November 19, 7 p.m.
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