Year in Review

Beach Cleanups

Fall 2023

• 12 lb. at the Holland State Park Cleanup
• 50+ participants in the Found Art 2023 KAM project

Spring 2024

• 145 lb. at the Holland State Park Cleanups

Events

• Conservation Competition – 348,532.39gallons of water and 20,592.29 kW (= about two cottages for a year)
• Over 60 Research Projects awarded Sustainability Green Ribbons at CURCA
• 73 “Caught Being Green” tickets submitted at April's Earth Jam

Campus Compost

20,500 lb. from Phelps Dining Hall collected and diverted from landfills to be composted into soil via industrial composting program

• 1,437 lb. — 2023 spring semester
• 1,621 lb. — 2023 fall semester
• 96 lb. – 2023 summer
• ~700 lb. — Kletz and Cup & Chaucer

Tree Plantings

• Fall 2023 — Eastern White Pine in honor of the classes of 2003 and 2013 for Campus Sustainability Month
• Spring 2024 — Crimson Sunset Maple on Earth Day and a Chinkapin Oak on Arbor Day by the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts

Bees and Greens

• Roughly 7 gallons of honey was spun from the fall 2023 harvest, which was then bottled and sold in the Bookstore or used by Dining Services in recipes.
• 18 additional bottles of honey were sold at the Maker’s Market. All funds generated through honey sales go to the Hope College Green Revolving Fund.
• Bit-Farms Indoor Garden in Phelps Dining Hall grew 200 pounds of herbs and micro-greens for their food.

Recycling

1,200 pop cans donated during April’s can drive

Move-In Recycling

• 125 lb. styrofoam
• 184 lb. plastic wrap
• 3,240 lb. cardboard

Other Recycling

• 300 clothing items rehomed through Green Hope’s thrift store event
• 2.55 lb. of Halloween candy wrappers collected for Rubicon

Food Recovery Network

• 1,804 lb. of food recovered and donated to Community Action House during spring 2024 semester. (Partnership with Dine at Hope)

Green Revolving Fund

• Supported energy retrofit of Kleinheksel Cottage – analyzing future cottages
• $58k lighting project at Schaap: $12,000/yr savings
  • 90,000 kWh/yr (8-9 homes’ electric usage)
  • 50 tons/yr of CO2 emissions reduced

Green Revolving Fund Members

• Dr. Jeff Christians
• Owen Aarberg
• Amy Drelicharz
• Ellie Haak
• Mark Kurdy
• Peter Lillich

Campus Sustainability Groups

• Green Team
• Hope Sustains (Alumni Sustainability Affinity Group)
• Green Hope

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